MORE TAXES-LESS TRADE. HOW MONEY IS DIVERTED FROM
- INDUSTRY.
Eren in a nation so famed as ours for its political com sense and sell governing capacity there are probably nly few thousand thinkers who contribute much towards what is called y public opinion, states A Financial Cheerver," in the Daily Mail
'11⁄2 - I were asked' tử” select the reform mosk drtain to save us from rain and etors as to prosperity, it would be the nversion of our few thousand Active on political thinkers to right views economy, uail especially to a clear per ception not only of the limited good bat seth nalimited harm that a Gor
narut eau do.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 1925
THE RIVER'S MUSIC-HALL.
FALSE NIGHTINGALE AND
MOCK CUCKOO.
Father Thames, the oldest Londoner of us all, believes in noying with the times. To-day people insist on annusement. Very well: then Father Thanies will
KIUNGO
It is
But his entertainment--those quaint glimpses of merriment and gaiety in the green freshness of the river country has one hilvantage over our music-halls in the crowded hears of, the city.. free. You have just to use your eyes, as you journey up the plaid river frog Richmond to Oxford, to enjoy the
turns of Father Thames" "music-hall
You will see them everywhere along the quiet valley as the river steamers plough their way westward.
Any, fiovernment gan ruin a country,
THE ACROBAT OF THE BOAT. Su Government had the power by an
First you may see Bert Loo. pally rapid process to rebuild the pro
Bert Lee is the funny fellow who per rity it has destroyed. The first duties! a Government are to maintain pease forms amazing stunts in a heat off Ee ad and scurity at home aml to take Pie Island. Ile will stand on his head are that all the necessary services in the host and rock it from side to side hare, police, education, mads, public with his bands whilst so doing! He will health, and so on-roadministered with sine of the strangest tricks, and
ficiency and economy, "
It sounds very simple; but in practice "nothing is more difficult. Every public department naturally wants to spend as teh piliție money as possible. A vust army of public servants is always press ing for less work and mere pay. Out- ile the fortunate class is a crowd why want to be admitted into the happy cirela, of privilege and pension.
AT THE STATE'S EXPENSE. Thu there are the philanthropists,, each of whom runs his own special hobby for relying distress at the public ex- pense. There are employers who wa
subsidy at the expense of the tax- pagers And last, there is Labour, which sks the State to raise wages and shorten boars, forgetting that the State cannot compel any employer to enrry on at hiss or to pay higher wages than he ran afford.
achieve the queerest antics, that you ever saw a man do with a skiff.
Shouki you chance to pass a regatta on the river as yeni journey onward, you may see this elever son of a noted race of watermei amusing the gay crowd,
At Molesey Lock comes the nest of Father Thames music-hall tarns.
As you sit on the steamer, waiting patiently for the water to rise or fall you suddenly hear, as frotien tree chuse by, the beautiful song of a nightingale!
PERFECT MIMICRY.
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You sit entranced by the glorious aictody. You gaze up into the Mealy branches of the riverside trees, hoping to catch a glimpse of the stagston
He
BOXING THEN AND NOW. REMINISCENCES OF A VETERAN OF THE RING.
When the referee of a thousand fights. sets out to tell sportsmen what is wrong with British boxing to-day, besers and their backers would do, well to pander his criticism."
it
The referee is Mr. Bergaru Joha Angle, whose naine for many years was almost synonymous with that of the National Sporting Club. He was boxer himself before he was a referee. He dates his first connection with the ring from the time when, at the age of right. he shook hands with the redoubtable Tom Sayers: and he speaks from experi- !
enters
as well as observation when he feclares that the no less famous Jea Mace was the cleverest man of any weight that ever fought in a ring, either I have with gloves er bare knuckles. boxed with him, so I ought to know." From Sagers to Dempsey and from Mace to Carpentier, who was never a really great boxer be has seen thei all in the ring. He certaing ought to
know.
Thut of his memories of famous boxers and other sportsmen Mr. Angl: has unde a book Out of his long experi
her he is competent to compare the boxer of to-day with the earlier cham- pions of the prize ring, and the cow- Parison is not favourable to the former; who, with his hackers, comes in. For some hard hitting. I am not a worshipper of the modern hoxer. With a few ex- veptions he does not know his business as he ought to know it," declares the bold referee, who finds the fundamental cause of the deterioration of the boxer in the big paPMP.
And again, Mr. Angle, with his mories of the days when hard hitting was more the fashion, ought to know what he is talking about when he says tersely that the average modern boxer
The big purse, he says, has brought thousands of patrons to the game who hardly know the difference between a But it isn't a nightingale. It is a man boxing glove and a bar of soap. The re- who stands close to the trunku tree, sult is that nearly everything has to be made subservient to the ignorance, of imicking the nightingale's song. does it perfectly,, Even I, who have these people and their appetite for sen- heard the bird so ruzny times, was de-ation. The referee who disqualified a man to-day. unless for a very obvious Lerived, until I saw the man on the bank. In short, everyone sees his own dutenä-
The serballe turn lakes place at Sun foul. would very likely meet with a tage in State aid and ignores the disory. The stern authorities have issued hostile reception." advantages and sufferings which State notices forbidding anyone to clinh on the aid for him will cause to others. You minders of the bridge near the lock: but vrease the numbers employed by the the boys of Sunbury take no head of public authorities, and you diminish by authorities. You will see them standing a corresponding increase of taxes and in their heads on the narrow ledge; with rates the volume of private employment. the chilly water just bebow, while a com
Yea may continue the process inderade ashore collects the pennies you
throw, finitely until the crash comes. It comes when the hurden of taxes and rates be- enmes insupportable, and it may take the form of a violent revolution. {Unable to]
At Marlow Bridge you will hear his extract a sufficient revenue by taxes, the
if the month is Government is forced either to dismissnocking note-even its servants or to borrow. When borrow August or September. But, like the ing fails i resorts to paper mojej. Pri-píghtingale, he is a fraud. The cuckoo, vate property invested in public arenrin private life, is a blind old man who ities is confiscated. Tubile bankrupte sits under a tree on the Marlow side of follows. In the last ten years we have the bridge, and can imic the call o seen this process begun and completed in many, birds, Russia, German, Austria, and Hunguy. It is more than halfway through in
· several others. „
Britain has escapes the worst, but we have esenged only by the skin of ma teeth and we have not learnt the less The present conditions of trade the backwned slip siner Christmas- warning that we have not recovered and. what is worse, that we are not regsver ing from the war.
DRAINING BUSINESS DRY.
THE VECKOO "WHO ISN'T.""
... Ald then comes the cuckoo,
will not learn how to hit.
v
..... In
his opinion the best way to wield the
padded human st in boxing is by sucans of wild swings and hooks, thereby The courting damage to the hands. straight left-oron of "nothing. as we termed it--and good footwork have practically vanished."
Another point on which Mr. Angle criticises modern ring practice is the tency of the boxer to go to his cara with a tralu of attendants
··· Two ITAL to rach principal are quite suficient for all practical pir- But perhaps the must thrilling and surprising turn on the river is provided, no matter what may be at stake,
and if we also allow an adviser, or
by the young and daring Etoninus, ousandger, to each contestant-it seems in boats between Windsor and Monk that the modern boxer cannot rely on his Island. They compete Berecly for the own wits to tell him what to do-we honour of passing the closest across the have right men all told in the ring, how of your steamer in a way that annoys which is, to say the beast of it, asking: the captain, thrills the passengers, upsets for confusion. At a recent contest one of nervous inlies, and makes all the other the principals had six seconds and Eton varsmen within sight laugh joyfully.
THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
May I prove my "broil conclusion by SEX"DANGER AT FRESHWATER BAY. simple arithmetic and logic 1
1.The number of unemployed in Great Britain is much larger, and the volume of cur
exports and ports is much smaller, than before the wILF,
2.-These two facts are obviously con- sected and they must be due to spine new and unfavourable conditions.
Inhabitants of the fall of Wight may wake up our morning" to find that part of the island has beru inundated and
advisor in his corner perfectly absurd arrangement, and one, I feel Sure, that eostributed to this boxer's un- doing."
Fashions change in boxing as in every- thing else: but the old boxer does not easily change with them-K.
My Sporting Memories By Ber- nard John Angle. Wolfen. s. al
OF
cut off from the rest. The sea threatens to break through at Freshwater Bay and
OLD VAUXHALL MEMORIES. join up with the river flowing into the Salent, cutting of the western portion
HALE AND HEARTY PEER of the island, rates the Belly Express
NINETY ONE. When the lampshire Archeological 31 15913 the "British Government took out of the pockets of the people Association visited the spot recently, Mr.
shall be riding in the Row again and spent on Army, Navy, Debt. Civii George Colenult. EG.S., of Ryde, who Services, and so on. rather less than has made a special study of coast, erosion next month, but at present the weather £200,000,000 sterling This year the locally, said that the possibility of the is too infernally cold." So Lord Henry Fitzwartine Chichester, who is aged sea breaking through was not Pruote ! British Government has provided for an
ninety-one, and looks on the right side Expenditure of Esc0,000,000. After all if a southerly gale was accompany seventy, declared when discussing with lowing lay the decreased purchasing high tide.
If the sen broke through," bila,hording Post representative recently power of the , we are still confronted with the fact that Taxation is nearly the fall of the land and the differs the changes that he had seen in London in the height of the water in the Chan-and its ways in the last seven decaden, three times as heavy. The total amint of local rates, which was £70.000,000 be- nel and Solent would "cause a huge in- mush of sew inundating the whole valley fore. the war, has risen to £161,009,000.
and involving publié water and sewer No precise method exists "for deter mining the total national income out of age works, railway and much private which rates and taxes have to be paid, property. But we shall probably be minimising the change if we assume that the proportion
The rapid "advance of the sea is due to the wicked folly, of the invera of his income which & British citizen ment eventy years ago in removing pays in taxes and rates has risen (on an large quantities of the natural shing
barrier for building forts at the entrance average): from 10 per cent. in 1913 to 28 per cent. this year.
to the Solent, thus exposing the soft bed of the foreshore, to the action of the waves.
4-The total expenditure on pensions. doles, and-"poor rates" in enormously 3arger than in 1913.
6-Many tariffs, including that of India, bave been raised against. British manufactures.
6-Owing to an enormous increase of war debt the public credit has declined, In 1813 the average price of Consols was about 73. In May of this year it was Labout 561, n.
The concrete esplanade has been almost completely demolished by the waves during the past five years, and only, a narrow strip of shingle now Local authorities holds back the sea. have appealed to the Government for help to erect protective works, "but with
out result?
These seem to be the important factors which have changed since 1913. If The home market is impoverished by these must be the causes of bad trade taxes. Overseas markets are obstructed and unemployinent.
by tariffs and prohibitions which did not
I shall have to get another horse," he went on. 1 have just given mine way to my granddaughter. The Row is nupalling nowadays; too much stocking scarcely what it was The women are showing during the day, and too much ali round in the evenings. And ther saoke too much. I lectured some of thei en dress recently. They assured me that in these tirees there is no such thing made
a flannel petticoat.
11.
"The young women don's mean any harm, though, and London is no worse than when I knew it us n had in my twenties
1
The Haymarket was open ull night ther, to were all the public-houses; there were Vauxhall Gardens to go to, and
up till breakfast time. I wonder what Plenty of places to dance and hear music the young fellows of to-day would say lo kite-flying matches in the Green Pork?"
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· (Continued, at foot of next Calumni) 'Don't bet. I lost 250 this afternoon."
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