For long, dreary days the Reichstag had listened, sometimes restlessly, to a deadly debate on taxation. The Deputies, bored to the verge of unconsciousness, became alert on the instant when Socialist Herr Braun accused Communist Herr Rosenberg of praising Caesar Augustus. What had Caesar to do with German taxation? Everybody was wide awake. Herr Braun reminded the Reichstag that Caesar Augustus had enforced capitalistic taxation, which he compared to the tax measures under monotonous discussion. "It was," said he, "out of place for a Communist to render homage to Caesar."
Herr...
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