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newspaper information in other ways; i For instance, it does not allow newspapers to -be sold on the streets; therefore the newsboy is unknown in Vienna. .(And there is a stamp duty of nearly, a cent, upon ;each copy of a newspaper s issue. Every American paper that reaches me has a stamp upon it, which has been pasted there in the post-office or downstairs in the hotel office ; but no matter who put it there> ; I have to pay for it, and that is the main thing. Sometimes friends send me so many papers that it takes all I can earn that week to keep this government going.
I must take passing notice of another point in the Everybody says it does not like to see any individual attain to commanding influence in the country,. since such a man can become a disturber and an incon venience. We have as much talent as the other nations," says the citizen, resignedly, and without bitterness, "but for the sake of the general good of the country we, are discouraged from making it over- conspicuous; and not only discouraged, but t^ct- fully and skillfully prevented from doing it, if we show too much persistence. Consequently ; we have no. renowned men; in centuries we have seldom pro duced one that is, seldom allowed one to produce himself. We can say to-day What no other nation of first importance in the family of Christian civili zations can say: that there exists no; Austrian who has made an enduring name for himself which > is if a- miliar all around the globe."
Another helper toward tranquillity is- the army. It is as pervasive as the atmosphere. -It is evfery-
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