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19, Queen's Road, Central.
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Miller
THREATENED BAN.
SHOW.
THE CHINA MAIL,
MAKING HIM PAY. [trative difficulties1 Mr. Churchill's
MOTORISTS AND POPLARISM.
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SHIFTING BURDENS.
Budget does not touch this scandal. Rates are high because local authorities are extravagant, because they don't keep their ac- counts properly, and because they are elected by a majority which calls for more and more expendi- ture on assistance, on education, and on sanitation.
TO KEEP THE RATES DOWN.
The Finance Bill, popularly known as the Budget, has been read a second time, and from the debate recently it may be .sur- These may all be excellent mised that no serious or substan, things, but the people who receive tial amendments will be carried them do not pay their fair pro- in Committee.
portion of the cost. The way to It does not, however, follow keep the rates down is not to feed that the act will ever be opora- their extravagance by making tive, either wholly or partially, the petrol users pay another any more than Mr. Lloyd George's £20,000,000, but to compel the famous Finance Act of 1910, of local authorities to be more which the land taxes were drop-economical and less corrupt by ped as unworkable and un-the stricter supervision of in- remunerative. Mr. Churchill's dependent auditors, by reducing ingenious plan for filling the gap the amounts of the grants from in the rates by shifting the de- the Exchequer, and by restoring ficit on to petrol cannot take effect to property its proportionate elec- before October, 1929, and by that toral power. Thirty years ago an time who can say what sort of occupier, whether an individual Government will be in power?jor a company, had one vote for The extra petrol duty is to be every £50 rating in the guardians" levied at once, and the money to elections. Why not restore the be carried to a suspense account. plural vote to the big ratepayers, But who can say what, the next instead of shuffling the Government may choose to do quences of incompetent and dis- with the money?
honest administration on to the: innocent motorista?
GOSCHEN'S BEER DUTIES.
consc-
I shall be told that "no taxation I remember Goschen carrying without representation" is satis- some new beer duties in 1888, fied by giving the chief taxpayers which were to be earmarked for a nominal and derisory represen- the buying up of public-house tation, which is swamped by licences, so us to reduce their masses of dole-receivera, highly number. But Goschen proposed paid municipal employees, school and "the trade" disposed, for the teachers and police. Anyway, I new duties were ultimately divert-Ishall be reminded that the phrase ed into a grant for education! is an eighteenth-century slogan, Seeing that it is uncertain good enough for Burke and the whether Mr. Churchill's new taxa-American colonists, but not good tion will ever be devoted to its enough for twentieth-century present purpose, it is not uninter- England. To restore plurality of esting to examine the principles votes to property, if only in that underlie the Budget, and Mr. municipal elections, and to re- Chamberlain's Bills for revalua-move paupers from the register, tion and a change in the Poor would be "contrary to the prin Law. They must all be taken to-fciples of democracy." gether; and their objects seem
to be the diminution of unemploy- ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL. ment by relieving agriculture, I dare say it would be; but manufacture, and railways of a what are the principles of demo- portion of the burthen of rates; cracy? Is robbing Peter, the and, secondly, to prevent the cor- pétrol user, to pay Paul, the muni- ruption and demoralisation of cipal waster, one of the principles outdoor relief by transferring the of democracy? Because, if so, duties of the guardians to the modern democracy will have as county and borough councils. brief a reign as its predecessors in With regard to unemployment, history, the cancellation of debts. it cannot be too often repeated at the expense of the land-owning that it is no greater than it was and moneyed classes being the during the years immediately stock-in-trade of all demagogues. preceding the war, only it is I have shown, or tried to show, more accurately registered, and that there is no common measure more vocal, having found organs for trade depression, unemploy-{ of its own. Indeed, the numberment, and exorbitant rates. of unemployed, in spite of the un-Trade depression in the heavy deniable depression in the coal, export industries is due to the iron and cotton trades, would be nine months' strike in 1926, much reduced were it not for which gave away market after two contributory causes to which market to our foreign competi no political party dares to allude. tors. Unemployment is due to MEN REPLACED BY WOMEN. the loss of foreign markets, the new competition of women in the The first of these causes, is the labour market, and the artificial sudden invasion of the labour wages maintained by the trade market by women. I am not re- unions. High-rates are the re- ferring to the factory and mill aults of local indebtedness and hands of the Midlands and the bad administration, encouraged North. I am speaking of the dis- by vote-catching politicians and covery, made since the munition recent laws. If our Governments works of the war, that there are have not the courage to grasp the a great many jobs, formerly be-municipal nettle firmly, at least lieved to be possible only for men, let them adopt the just principle, that can be done, if not as well, making the whole community at least well enough, by women pay for Poplarism. To select a for lower wages. The exorbitant small class like the consumers of rates of wages that have been petrol to make good the losses of forced upon employers by the the farmers, the railway com- trade unions and the cost of living panies, and the ratepayers cannot have compelled them to replace be sound finance, though it may men, where they can, by women, serve the turn of the next elec- Who, for instance, would have tion, because it will not have be- thought ten years ago of the head gun to work until after the polls. clerk in a stockbroker's office be-
ing a woman? In city offices, GOVERNMENT'S REAL DUTY. restaurants, shops, clubs and hos- The only thing needful, "porro pitals, women have pushed men unum. necessarium," 03. the out.
Romans say, for all Governments
I record these facts merely to is to reduce the income tax and show that there is a great deal the death duties. It is in the of unemployment which cannot highest interests of the State MOTOR FIRMS AT UNOFFICIAL be cured, and will not even be that the intelligent, industrious, touched, by a remission of agri- and money-making minority cultural rates, or by shifting a should not be bled white in order Important motor vehicle manu- portion of urban rates from to purchase votes for Mr. Bald- facturers are threatened with ex-manufacturers and railways to win, or Mr. Lloyd George, or Mr. clusion from the London Paris, era and employers want is more in the world where the ablest consumers of petrol. What farm MacDonald There is no country Brussels, Berlin, and New York efficient labour at lower wages, instruments of prosperity are so motor shows, it is stated in "The No politician dares to say so; but penally taxed as Great Britain. Motor." The number concerned is the abolition of minimum wages An inland revenue return of 1921 and hours Acts would do more to shows that the number of in- stated to be about 40, and they ex help the national industry than comes exceeding £500 is 563,000, hibited at a non-approved motor any juggling with the rates.
show at Brunn, in Czecho-Slovakia.
SOCIALIST COUNCILS.
whose owners pay an income tax. of £375,191,802. Last year's re turn tells us that the number of supertaxers, ie, whose incomes
"The Bureau Permanent held a mecting in Paris recently at which To abolish the guardians and the matter was discussed." It is hand over the administration of exceed £2,000, is 97,000. What is stated, "and this mecting was at out-relief to the borough and the effect of taking from this tended by delegates from England, county councile will do no good as minority from 25 to 50 per cent.
Geared-To-The-Road. France, Germany, Austria, Belong as you leave on the electoral of their incomes and an equival-
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glum, the United States, and roll those who receive assistance ent amount from their estates at Czecho-Slovakia.
Spare from: (the rates. In many death? "The show at Brunn was not ap and the provinces, the rate ex- especially amongst the higher parishes, both in the metropolis Saving, as a national habit, proved by the Bureau Permanent, ceeds the rack rent in many more ranks of the mercantile and pro and a strict application of the rules it equals it. The reason is almost fessional classes, has almost dis- was urged by the Czecho invariably found to be a Secialist appeared. Who will save for the Slovakian delegates. This would Council or Board, elected openly maw of Somerset House? It was have meant that all the firma would on the ticket of generous public not by such habits and under such. have been shut out from Inter-assistance. Even in the best ad-laws that England accumulated, national motor shows for one ministered parishes or boroughs the capital that enabled her to {year,"
The Motor further points out rent.
the rates are half as much as the save Europe from Napoleon in that this might severely affect the All this is not denied, yet It will not be by the habits and is not denied, vet 1816 and from the Kaiser in 1915. success of all the principal inter when the Government was press-under the laws of 1928 that Eng national motor shows tand, Bled to include in the new Bill for land will be enabled to save her stated, suggestion was acceted adding five million women to the self from the terrifying wealth that the offenders should be all register a clause for the disfrans of America or to compete with od, to repurchase their rights by chisement of paupers, enfran- the untiring Industry of Ger the payment of substantial fines Chised by Lord Ullswater, it drew many "A. A. B. in the "Even- There the matter rests.
back in fear, and pleaded adminis Ing Standard."
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