In other once-was-news, from the London Evening Standard:
Spain
Madrid, . — At a meeting of five thousand shopkeepers and other persons engaged in trade, held here , resolutions were adopted without a dissentient voice, expressing confidence in the tradesmen’s syndicate, and pledging all present to offer a passive resistance to the collection of the new license tax, and even in the last resort to allow their goods to be distrained rather than pay the dues.
The Minister of Finance, however, persists in exacting the immediate payment of the new impost.
