his machinery; what is necessary is a change of heart.

The expression "starving Austria" is a propaganda phrase. She may
starve, she probably will, but the time is not yet. Individual classes
of workers starve until they get their wages raised. There have been
many moments of struggle between the time when the tram-conductor
earned forty crowns a week to the time when he earned several thousand.
Ten-thousand-crown notes are not uncommon among the working classes,
and 10,000 crowns will purchase more than you could buy in England for
five pounds, or in America for thirty dollars. A working-man's dinner
with a glass of beer costs about a hundred crowns, a city man's lunch
of three courses, a hundred and twenty. The working class is accused
of constantly holding up the community for money by means of strikes.
The truth is that here the organization of Labour and the strike-weapon
proved a highly convenient method for getting level with the
money-printing press. Labour has been more fortunate than the
professional and clerical classes, who, not being organized, have been
left badly in the background. There are now many professors at the
University of Vienna earning less than one-third of the wages of
skilled artisans. There are teachers, clerks, doctors, journalists,
and the like, in a most pitiable plight because they have not the means
of forcing the community to pay them higher salaries as the crown
depreciates. As for the condition of pensioned teachers and professors
and officers, of the half-pay widows and the incapacitated of the war,
it is a shame to all European ideals. When the Government halves the
value of the crown overnight by printing double the number in
circulation--it robs first of all the educated class and the
pensioners. It is among these that one must search for the
heart-burning sorrows of Vienna--and these are not paraded on the
streets.

The most characteristic places of Vienna to-day are the new
_Wechselstuben_ or exchange offices, which have sprung up everywhere.
Here are such crowds waiting to change their money that you have to
wait in a line for your turn. Some of the large banks give a much
better exchange than the little ones--and the better the exchange given
the longer the queue. The large banks stop public business at
half-past twelve, and after that hour is the opportunity of the
bucket-shop. If you have little time, or if you lose patience, you run
into one of the greedy