Germans Revolt At Taxes.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 28, 1913:
Government Flooded with Angry Protests Against Increased Imposts.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, June 27. — The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent telegraphs that Germany’s new increased taxes, necessitated by the extraordinary increased annual army expenditure, and now certain to become law, are arousing a great storm of protest all over the empire, especially those on the income of property and inheritance.
    Enormous public meetings are being held everywhere. Opposition is daily growing, especially in the agrarian centres. Already no fewer than 118 petitions protesting against the imposts have been received by the Government from powerful associations of all kinds in every part of the country. Such a number of petitions on one subject has never before been known in Germany, and the agitation is only beginning.