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The Hidden Past

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CAN THE SPIRIT OF A DEAD KING INFLUENCE A MODERN GIRL?.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1982.

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the Government who lost their heads-the mercantile community, the working classes.. and the people generally, all were carried Away. The whole of us were in the same boat. Now we have awakened to the reality, and An immediate and substantial reduction we have got to face it. Sir Erie Geldes in the high rate of income-tax, which bears realized it. He worked like a veritable too bardly on the individual and is ser. slave during the six months that the Com- iously damaging industry, so further mittee was in session to get the Govern. economies in national expenditure wereinet out of their difficulties. It has been insisted upon by an unanimous vote at al that he was a spendthirft during the Perlu h was, but then we rowded and representativa meeting of war.

ANTIC to win, and when you are business men and taxpayers held at the were Mausion House on April 24th by the Indime war money doesn't count; it runs out like water between the fingers, Taxpayers' Association.

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battles, not to save money. Fast August that the only hope of reducing taxation the Government launched the National was to be found in a drastic reduction of Expenditure Committee on its voyage of dis national expenditure. The Government

covery with Erie na skippor, and with had whittled down the considered recoiling orders to arrive at a cat of 100 mil- mendations of the Geddes Committee by lions. The task of avigating the ship to SHANGHAI 30 per cent. It was up to the entire nation barbour WALK 110 to insist upon drastic reluctions in public skipper Inada willing crew, but a good expenditure. If they allowed this vital deal of head wind was enuntered, and issue of economy to be male the football All hands on deck" and "Hout ship". eitber of party politics or of departmental were frequently the orders of the day. HAIPHONU pride and intrigue, they were done.

After a hard beat we at last reached port.

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He was supported by Sir Willian Tre-When our logok, with its chronicle of our BORNEO r. Sir Willi H. Davison, H. F., deliberations and conclusions, was handes Colonel Byrne, M.P., Lord Dies, and in to the Chaticellor we were assured oar Sir Henry Buckingham, and the enthusi-labours would not have been in vain, asm with which the resolution was carried

The Government, however, having got TIENTSIN clearly indicate the letermination of our report,whittled down 1937 business men in the City of London tolered recominetulations by 80 per cent BANGKDY compel the Government to comply with The question is, are you, and is the their demand.

conatry, willing that this vital issue of

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Loto Ixchcare, who was loudly cherel economy should be made the football on rising to open the proceedings; said: — either of party politics or E Depart Some 10 months ago I agreed, with mental pride and intrigue? It is up to you, reluctance because I was otherwise fully it is ap to the entire nation, to press for scrupied to accept the position of pre-and to insist upon drastic reductions in sident of the Income Taxpayers' Society. I public expenditure. (Hear, hear.)" If you nrcepted, because I felt that direct taxation, don't, if you sestrick this matter, ar treat it as of secondary nemment, then, in in the shape of income-tax, super-tax, cor- poration tax, and death duties, which werey judgment, you are done. being levied to pay for the expenditure of :

KILLING THRIST,

the country, was gradually and certainly The wealth of the country does not, be- supping our accumulated resources. (Heur; long to the Government. It is the property hear.) I felt that, if expenditure and of the people, of these who have worked taxation were not reduced, we should land and sared, either for themselves or for ourselves ja national and individual bank those who are to come after them. It is ruptcy. For five or six years I have sometimes, will no man, has a right to leave tretched this ou many platforms and in the anything behind him that everything he House of Lords, as well as in the Press. leaves should go to the State. That is As a penalty for giving expression to pretty well what is happening now, owing my views, I was commandeered, in August to direct taxation dud death duties. If we la, to serve on the Geddes Committee, go on as we are going, we shall become a which, after six months of strenuous work, Communist xiety, and all incentive to suggested,cozomies of 87 millions in the individual effort, and individual frugality public spending departments, and told his will be killed. It will be a use of "Eet us Majesty's Government that another 13 eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we millions could be saved, without difficulty, de, and our widows and children must and without impairing the practical efficiency be left to look after themselves. Such would of the defence and administration of the len rake's progress. I hope, in this old

ountry. (Cheers.)

country of ours, no doctrine of the kind will be allowed to gain ground. If it lowes we which come to me fan it is difficult to revi I try to read the pinphlets are finisliet. them all. One, which I read the other day, contained a threatening extract from a week. ly paper--I won't mention its name. The extrict said Platocracy, triumphant as it appears at this moment, is por ser very fruly on its seat, and the ditemit to destory the standarts of a civilized life will inevitably hasten its downfall."" Now, you 't want to destroy the standards" of civilized life. Quite the contrary.

JCOGLING WITH FIGURES.

What has resulted: The heads of the sponding departments and their officials have apparently succeeded in peranading the Cabinet to abopt reactions of one 64 instead of 100 millions. (Shame.) So we go on, and, as far as can be seen, the revenue for the current year,

at the present rate

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tion, will not be equal to the expenditure, By juggling with figures and bringing into revenue, realizations from sales of surplus stores and ships, and by annesing the Past Office surplus, which ought to be devoted to want to maintain them, and I suggest to cherpening communications by letter, tele- you that the first line of a country's defence, phone, and telegram (cheers), the Govern- and of the defence of civilized "life, ment may be able to present a balanced solvency. If a man's expenditur exceeds Budget, but what will happen in 1993-4 his income, if he is wise, he reluces his ex- when they won't have the proceeds of salexpenditure. If he is foolish, che gues E of war materials to help them and when three years of low average of income-tax will materially reduce the returns from that

source no one knows,

banded over

them for his loans, until he can borrow the spending, and borrows on his assets pledging longer, and then be is ruined. We are at the parting of the ways. We ainst redece our expenditure and cease borrowing or we will come to grief.

I haven't the slightest objection to a reasonable amount of direct taxation,

SIR WILLIAM H. Davisoș, M.P, pro- but if practically the whole results of individual effort, hard work, and fru.posed the following res lution gality are be

to

That this represent utive meeting, of tn the spending departments, then I say taxpayers called by the "Income Taxpayers and I am sure you will agree with me Society is envinced that the present, Bigh bears too hardly all incentive to saving disappears. (Cheers.) rate of income-tax One of the most extraordinary anomalies of on the individual and is seriously damag- these taxes is that we pay super-ras ou ining industry by increasing the come that never reaches 28. (Hear, her production, thereby preventing British merchants and manufacturers from engag Take, 29 an instance, the case of Judge.

are

cost of

On

COLONEL BURN; M.P., seconded the motion which was carried unnimously,

In this country, we are prouding accessfully in foreign trade, of our judiciary. They are free and which the prosperity of this country so independent; they the custodians largely depends, and that it is vital that of our liberties; they have the con- there should be an immediate and sub fidence of the Empire, and, as inrorrustantial reaction in the rate of income-tax tible holders of the scales of justice, they and further economies in national expendi- are respected throughout the world. Their ture. That copies of this resolation be salaries have not been increased, they sent to the Prime Minister, the chancellor of have had no war bocca. 1 have never the Exchequer, and members of both seen a world of complaint in the press Houses of Parliament. from one of them. Take a Judge with 26,000 a year. He may, by lard work at the bar for 30 years and by thrift have accumulated certain amount of capital. If he has, his 40,000 a year is reduced; in the first place, by £1,800 for income-tar, and on this £1,800, which he never sees," he is mulcted again in some- thing like £400, thus reducing his salary as & Judge to £3,800. I was discussing the situation with a Law Lord not long ago He said, quite philsophically, the mistake. cepted the Chancellorship. He said the he made when he was at the Bar was that he "scorned delights and lived laborious days," and now, in his old age, the product Six James Barrie, in the course of his

of his youthful self-denial was being eaten up by superfluous functionaries. (Her, ber.) The Judge's case is typical of what is going on all over the country,

تو کہ

ECONOMY (ABUN VITAL."

We have incurred a debt of about 8,000 millions. The interest on that must be puid; unless we are to default. We bave war pensions to pay, to which we are committed, and we have other obligations, which we must in honour discharge. In the boom of 1919 we added considerably to old-age allowances; we increased pay and allotted pensions without actuarial advice and without counting the cont; we thought timt, - have won the war, we were in for an era of unbroken prosperity. I think it is only fair to say thût it was not only the House of Commons and

"A WORD OF FAREWELL."

CAPT. SCOTT'S LAST MESSAGES.

Sir James Barrie was installed Rector of St. Andrew's recently with the usual tumultuous enthusiasm. Earl Haig

Empire was never in greater need, of men than to-day.

inaugural address

00 the subject of Courage," which he described as hip first and last public speech, read a hitherto unpublished letter which Captain Scott wrote to him from the Antarctic as he lay dring:

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