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Why? Because there is no ethical purpose
to be served by taxing matches, seeing that only a madman would give
himself the guilty pleasure of either drinking or smoking them. In
short, these English reason after the fashion of paranoiacs--logically,
but from a wrong premise. Not that I dislike their women. . . ."
The action of the quick-tempered Apostle can now be appraised in its
full enormity. A local tobacconist is a person in authority, a State
official, and the nation safeguards the interests and the fair name of
those who serve it faithfully. When it is remembered that according to
sect 43 of the 16th Section of their Penal Code any person speaking
disrespectfully to, or of, a Government official renders himself liable
to a term of cellular confinement not exceeding thirty-one years, ten
lunar months and eighteen days, it may be imagined what penalties are
applicable to the crime of actual personal violence towards such a
sacrosanct individual--a crime of which the Russian was unquestionably
guilty.


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