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INLAND TAXATION IN CHINA.

Effect of the Washington Decision.

Referring to a remarkble report from a traveller in Hunan of the degree in which trade in that pro- vicce is oppressed and squeezed by military exactions, the N. (. Daily News says: In general detail this report only fills in similar accounts which we are

in

USUAL PRICES.

If that is so, all that the diplo. rastists at Washington have agreed to is the transfer of a 24 per cent. duty from native to foreign goods without any compensating adrance towards the solution of what merchants in China regard as one of the country's main problems, name ly reform of a system of taxs tion which weakens her politic- ally and binders the prosperity

of her trade.

ORIGIN OF POPULAR PHRASES.

A Few Exemples. themselves on their knowledge olj

How many people who pride the English language can track to their source the common phrases used every day?

mean "first rate." and why does Why, for instance, does Al

"first rate" mean something of the highest degree of excellence?

denoting ships in the best condi

Al is derived from the symbol lion in "Lloyd's Registry of Shipping." and "fist rate is an highest class- allusion to & warship of the

"A

The Journal then suggests that "the easiest way to abolish them continually receiving from cor, likin and kindred taxes) is to respondents all over China,

Bat abolish the duties collected by the the grievance thus focasser! will Customs on interport trade." be useful to put before the com-. If all the trade routes which ing tariff revision commission,.

lie between the ports of China in order to illustrate the were free the attraction which enormous difficulty which the

These and thousands of other would exercise upon unfree, or popular phrases, which have Powers will have to face

likia ridden, routes would be im become part and parcel of the approaching the queation of mense. Trade seeks the freest language by right of commen China's inland taxation. In this routes just as surely as water connection the current number of seeks the lowest level and if the Dictionary of English Phrases,"

usage, are explained in the British Chamber of Commeme | so-called export duties and coast Journal makes an important sug trade duties on cargo göing from wares of reference have ever by Mr. A. M. Hyameon. Few Cestion, the reform it advocates on Chinese port to another were tempted the reader to wander so being within the control of the done away with all cargo that far beyond the Inspector General of Customs and could possibly escape likin by Did you know the derivation of fae: required.) therefore not able to the inevipusing free river and ses routes the following?-- ale objections summe I up in the would basten to do so.

The re- Peking's weakness and venue lost, as shown by the the American backwoodsmen's To have an axe to grind-From words: provincial rebelliousness.

figures given above, is not great practice of calling at The arrangement to which the in itself and shoult ampls ostensible to grind an axe, but in Powers have agreed at Washing-compensated for in generally reality to obtain a drink. ton is for an immediate revision enhanced prosperity.

Bogus-From Borghese. The associated Chambers cer-swindler who about 1837 of the import tariff to an efec-

1195.

houses:

=

In

From dam, a Hindu coin worth

Not to cara a twopanny dsm- less than a farthing.

The deuce-from the German das Dans. Possibly connected with the Caltic dus, a wood demon.

tive 5 per cent and to the sub-tainly deserve to be encouraged Boston passed worthless secun- sequent imposition of a surtax of this line of policy, if only on j#12 per cent. No conditions are the grounds stated in the fast To take the cake- Allosion to

attached to the first proposal

sentence. On the other hand the prize of a cake in negro cake- but to the second there appear to

there is one visible law in the walking contests. be some, although what we do argument as regards the expected net precisely know. In April. diminution of likin. The ports 1920. the Associated British at which the Customs fonction Chambers of Commerce, writing ara not, so to speak, isolated: to Sir John Jordan on the sub they do not deal only in cargo ject of reformation of inland from or destined for themselves taxation. drew attention to the but are the mouthpieces for large anomaly of the Maritime. Cus- districts behind them. In other

To mind one's P'a and Q'E—A | tom's distinction drawn between words, the trade routes between reference to the pints and quarts coast trade duties, ie halt Customs ports are but a fraction chalked up in country public- import duty levied on native of all the trade routes of China houses against credit castoruers. goods at the port of destination) and before cargo can get to them. Among the and the so-called expor: duties it has to be passed along creeks everyone will be able to give the phrases which levied on Chinese produce ship and roads where abundsat likin origin is flag day-A day set ped from one port to another. stations would still flourish. Bot appear separately in the Furthermore, while we do not the streets": Perhaps in a few Customs retorns the combined magine that the barpies of those hundred years time this amount for. 1923, the last and stations are greatly influenced ference will be regarded as very largest total available beinz Hk. by what happens outside their equaint and intreating. Tis. 7,451,784-and the Journal own parview, the effect of aboli- contends with considerable force tion of coast trade and export

REINTERMENT OF CHINESE, that the distinction drawn is illo- | duties, if any, would most likely gical and unreal. The so-called be in the direction of causing the that the remains of a Chinaman The tradition which requires export duties, it argues.

likin stations to increase their who dies abroad shall be brough:} are just as much a taxation of charges on the ples of nothing to home for burial is still observed coast trade as the duties which pay elsewhere. To say this is

now

in China"

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