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1920.

RACING AND. MORALS.

SCOTTISH WAR `MEMORIAL

WAR LEVY DEAD.

AFTER-THOUGUTS OF ASCOT.

SCHEME WITH GOVERN- MENT SUPPORT.

WHY.

Locksley Hall, writes in the Daily Chronicles

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CHANCELLOR-ON REASONS

At the Royal Scols Corporation. By 244 votes to M, the Hanss Hall recently meeting re-jof Commons recently endorsed "Not many years ago,” said a presentative of London Scotsmen the Government policy which fellow church member on learn-and Scotswomen was held under refuses to countenance a levy od ing that I had been to Ascot the auspices of the Federated war wealth.

| races, "you would have incurred Council of Scottish Associations

However that might have been, no sense of having committed an unpardonable sin, no stabbings of conscience, followed my daring adventure. I did not even lose my umbrella, or have my pockets picked.

The subject arose on the motion

a pastoral rebuke, and in your in London in support of the of Mr. Clynes, "That this House, father's time it would have meant Scottish National War Memorial [realising the serious effects upon excommunication.”

Mr. John Douglas, chairman of the trade and industry of the the Federated Council, presided, nation of the enormous financial and among those present were the burdens resulting from the war, Dake of Abell, Mr. R. Munro regrets the decision of the Govern- Secretary for Scotland), Lordment not to impose special taxa- Balfour of Burleigh, Sir John tion upon fortunes made as a Struthers, Sir James Dodds, Col.result of the national emergency, Sir A. Sprot, M.P., and SirGeorge and declares that in order to meet; Ther, on the whole, I was not W. Paton.

the present financial burdens and in the worst of company. Hesile The Duke of Athall detailed assist in liquidating the Nations! me on the stand sat a prominent the circumstances which had Debt further measures should be member of the S.PA., who given rise to the proposal to dopted for raising revenue from waxed wroth on catching sight establish the memorial in Edin-accumulated wealth.".

He referred to the finding of the of a white heron's feather in a burgh Castle. Instead of th lady's hat; yet, by all traditions, suggested national memorial i-Committes that inquired into the the matter that excluding those whose not horse-racing a cruel Hyde Park. he though! [sport? Had I not heard heart-people of Scotland would wish to post-war wealth did not exceed Was 3 Sum of rending tales of persecuted stable commemorate their own dead by £5,000 there

on £2.845,000,000 in the bands of boys But there were other hard putting jobs beginning with S: what of Scottish soil with Scottish hands some349,000 persons, representing seamstresses, sailors, and slavies and with Scottish mɔney.

the aggregate increase of their wealth during the war.

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ON SCOTLAND'S HEART.

He asserted that if the direct The Rock and Castle of | volent old fellow who had, in his Edinburgh was a site upon which issue of a levy on war wealth 30 years ase of them, worn all the all Scotland could agree, for the was submitted to the popular will | Japan off his big field glasses. interior of the building could be it would receive the world have tanked on his moturned into a raskes for their approval of the nation. Hear, ality and gentlene, set from national history and trophies, bear. He hoped the Chancellor be contented with the Puritan standpoint he was while mom could also be found would not

contintance of the Or- | hopeles-ly outside the pale for a shrine. Nut one stane oi

Ladies of the taste and artistic the ancient fabric was to be diary methods of taxation. Our financial difficulties were brought temperament were about us, en touched. but ali eyesores, such as josing the whole proceelings-kitchens and sanitary buildings, about by extraordinary causes, especially the luncheon basscis-would be removed and better and they must be met by extra- Jordinary means. We unhesitat- with sweet maiden innotetve.. buildings put up in their stead. There

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aimed at wealth to escape, and that no There was one side of the £250,000 altogether, ba: were clear distinctias was possible racing shield that i would fain endeavouring to ge: £150,000 to between increased wealth due to have obliterated from the moral carry out the main scheme. increased earnings and increased point of view no: by any means

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As an expedient for redaring Nothing was more intriguing, a5 | Munro, said that Scotland should| the novelists say. than the have national war memorial, the Floating Debt the Committee

Ha said nocorner of the country cajolery of the tipsters and the and tha: this particular proposal had shown that the war lere was

[should be withoa: kommɔorg Kaina - credulity of their dupes. It was a worthy and fitting one, he a broken reed. i would pro-

tion to support the Laboat party, would hardly have surprised me thought most of them would saree bably take three years to raise

"CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

Ent h: move l that the to here texts of seppure poted and few would dispute. He fl£350,000.00 of the £300,000,000

BY THE WORKERS.".

- contribution of the flisted in favour of the purchase of tipe certain it was, a scheme that contemplated. As a

Delegates to the Labour party's bodies, throughout the country An expert cout's moral elevation would grip the imagination and pedient the levy, was a failure. s lite less than sublime, while warm the hearts of Scotsman The Exchequer would be the congress met in the Olympia should be increased from 21. to his is entertaining to the land

Scotaxomen in

loser by exchanging the Excess Hall at Scarborough recently 31 per momber.

an official welcome This was agreed to. to receive corner of the halatable globe as Dats for the war lavy. "I have just been listening."being one which did hitting and

There was no doubt as to the from the myor. and then to Discussion took place in the shouts one of the favourite turf reverent homage to the dead, and position of the people who had to plunge at once into the con-idera-selection of Labour candidates,

The whole world of ion of a heavy agenda.

and Mr. George Ebury, of the advisers," "to a man who says which would also prove to be a pay the tax. the has been a jockey. He weighs great inpiration to the living.

banking, commence, finance, and Mr. W. H. Hutchinson, A.SE. | National Socialist Party.dsolared 16st. if an outre. There are medi The scheme hat commanded trade, rouch as they disliked the was chosen as chairman of the they would never win by-elections with the weak-kneed candidates here offering to sell you inside the interest of His Majesty's Excess Profits Duty, preferred congress.

In his presidential address, Mr. they put forward. kanwledge who'll be knocking at Government, the original Com the evil that they knew to the

"What we want,” he said. "are my dear next winter for a job to mittee having been appointed by less preciso sad. iberefore, more Hutchinson said that, in the

industrial world peace was further|candidates prepared to use the sweep away the snow. Don't himself with the direct sanction of terrible erit of a capitallery. you believe a man who says he the Government, while the appeal No ROYAL ROAD TO READYERY.laway than ever: in the social political weapon to promote the has backed his own tips for that was being made also had the

world, society was hardly put to revolutionary class struggle, the The world of finance and com-it to hold together, and politically ultimate overthrow of capitalism, thou-ands. No, just look at his sanction of the Government

stee was rot in a profoundly

gaver in a and the establishment of the of uncertainty, dictatorship of the proletarist.

soles ought to be!"

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He could conceive no schemosi Traders had stretched their

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boots, in the place where the SHOULD APPEAL TO ALL SCOTS.stable condition. Hear. hear the country was

GOOD WORKING' TAKTNERS. in commemoration of the capital to the utmost. Bankers misunderstanding, and difficulty. We do not want middle class At this grave and dificult candidates who will be nothing This by the hong and funny sacrifices made by the great dead. had len: as much as they ought period Labour looked round and more than the left-wing of the patter enough i profitable, too, for and the great deliverance to lend, and even more. That was took stock. And what did Liberal party.” the preacher, whose curate goes wrought by them, which was not a situation in which we could Labour Bad?

LABOUR'S WAR MEMORIAL. round with the bag, lapping up more likely to command their lightly undertake hazardous ex- It WAS 18 months since Mr. Ramsay Macdonald report- half-eroxos. Brag and bag are reads assent and bring forth the periments. One false step produc-hostilities ceased, but despite all ed that about £12,000 hal been good working partners, but to fall measure of their generosity.ing one serious bankruptcy might their hopes, there were still few contributed towards the Labour only on the racecourse rostrum. He hoped the appeal would meet bring on a whole train of evils. enough signs of the coming of party's war memorial, although All this levity of mine, where with saccess in London as it had extent and duration of which no real pesce in Europe, or of the £100,000 was required. He begged there should be stern denuncia- elsewhere.

one could measure. There was reconstruction of our social and the organisations to send along tion or superior silence suggests Lord Balloor of Burleigh said need for caution. A levy would economic system which we had their subscriptions as quickly as to me that, as a product of he believed that here all Scots strike at the confidence of capital. heen led to expect during the possible, Puritanism-and-water,i am fairly stood on common ground.

There was no precedent for such war. (Hear, hear.)

Objection was taken by a Ber typical of the wear and tear of

a levy in any civilised country.

AN IRISH REPUBLIC. mondsey delegate to the memorial. modern times. The whitewash of

and what guarantee was there

In his references to Ireland.but Mr. E. Smillie defended it, sanctity is peeling off, and under- It was for a long time illegal to that such a lery, once imposed, Death is the old humanity, im-sing hymns out of church, and it would not be repeated without Mr. Hutchinson plainly looked saging it was not intended to for an Irish Republic if the Irish glorify the WI spirit. The patience of humbug, and common is still illegal to solicit aims out the present justification?

wajority of those who died at the sense of the Anglo-Saxon, or of church. As for gambling, that

For this reason the Govern-people demanded it whatever

Dealing with matters affecting front believed they were right in mixture of earth's is not a disease peculiar to horses.ment had decided not to make any the Labour morsment at home, fighting, and that was enough for mould constitutes this particular I have sat on bench at the proposals on the subject. He

"Oval" and heard bets flying all would now have to ask the House Mr. Hutchinson said the key to him. The Labour party ought to In my teens I listened with round me.

to maintain the Excess Profits real democracy. alike in in have this memorial, reverent awe to addresses in

"Bet you a bob he'll be out Duty this year at 60 per cent, and dustry and politics, lay in which the Turf was likened to therefore lunch."

-What'll the choice having been made the the assumption by both hand and top of a cliff over which men were you bet me the hundred don't go taxor its equivalent must continue brain workers of the direct blown into the bottomless abyss up next over Anyone take a in existence for a longer period control of their own affairs which and even now I cannot bring my-level bob be don't catch it?" and than would otherwise have been were the most vital affairs of the Imperial Marchant Service Guid self to read & story by Nat Gould so on. In other words and with necessary. It was true the float-community of which they formed and the Board of Trade regarding. or enter a sweepstake. I have no other intout the same spirit crops ing debt remained at a very high the essential part as a Labour the issue of war med al ribbons to Merchant Service officers has re- sympathy with the sporting up among the godly-not merely figure, and if we could not raise a party.

A to the future, their policy sulted in the services' qualifying parson's point of view, nor would in "drawing" for a piece of limited lavy of £500,000,000 with

of for medals being extended to com- I back a bore to win money for needlework, but in the pride of safety on war wealth we could must be towards control a new organ or repairs to the generosity.

not rely as an expedient for industry by the workers. The prise mine additional danger some steeple; yet when I read that Whether Saint Paul ever went dealing with the Floating Debt future really lay in the inter- It is further announced that per Dean Swift very nearly went to to the races or not is still an on a general capital levy, which national movement and they sons entitled to war medals should. Ascot I feel half sorry that he did open question; that he entered would have a far more disturbing Dust be ready, not for the task of apply for the award to not get there. He could have into the spirit of all contention, efect and crease much greater destruction, but for the nobler authority in that part of the made such delightful copy out of for the mistery is plain enough insecurity for capital and task of constructing sa British Empire in which they now system ander which the peoples reside, and in accordance with Sball I be too, too utterly mis-credit. THE GAMBLING, understood if I dare to suggest The result of the Committee's of the world could live in peace the regulations in force there. "Oh, but the gambling, cries that, the difference between one raport was to show that there THE PARTY BUDGET, Those who now reside in forsign out a shocked rasader; "you must obsession and another is partly— was no shot cut or royal Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, trea-sountries should apply to the see the wrong in that; why, any- not wholly a question of the road to the recovery of our surer of the Labour party, pre-puthority ide bat part of the im where else it is illegal. Sumber of costa of whitewash? position

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