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Have you made public schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war-budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy?
This, for the first time, has had to appear as an item in War-Budget 1759: and it fails in no following, but expands more and more. Ephraim is the pair of tongs, the hand, and the unlovely job, are a royal man's. Alas, yes.
Direct attacks. Jacqueries, effective confiscations and proclamation of the socialist creed. Indirect attacks. Bad administration of the public funds. Transformation of taxation and insignificance of the returns. Increased expenditures. The War-budget and subsistence after 1793. Paper money. Enormous issues of it. Credit of the Assignats run down.
The economies of the old King sufficed to support the extravagant expenditure of his successor with only an occasional appeal to the purses of the Commons. It was only the necessities of a war-budget that involved such an appeal, so that none took place between 1514 and 1523.
In spite of the enormous expenditure on display, his mastery of detail prevented mere waste; and until the pressing necessities of a war-budget arose in 1523, enough money was found by tapping the sources to which Henry VII. had applied, supplemented by the ample hoards which that monarch had left behind.
"Destroying a balloon is not a great achievement in itself. Of course, it's so much equipment gone, so much expense added to the German war-budget. That is something. But the effect on the infantrymen is the important thing. Boche soldiers, thousands of them, will see one of their balloons coming down in flame.
During the burning no man is allowed to step across the fire, but must always walk around it in the direction of the sun. When they spy the enemy, and the attack is to be made, the war-budget is opened. Each man takes out his budget, or totem, and fastens it to his body. After the fight, each man again returns his totem to the leader.
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