The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-09 00:00:00

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EXTENDED TAXATION POE THE POOR

To Ai lidaer.

With • certain amount of surprise I reed in your
courriorewir and partner, the Dena Cbeaty Bwpreet.
that in consequence of the people becoming more
sow, they are likely to be burdened with that most
vexatious and abominable of all taxes, the booms
Tax.,—• tax which if it were applied to • people who
have anything like the spirit of itogligamen hi the
olden tunes, would result is • stir more dreadful Ohm
w•• caused by the odious poll tax. Fortuomely the
Englithmen to whom the meddlesome, vexations, sad
utterly insulting promises ot the locome tax are applied
are rn etxtecil • Poace-loving people, reminding one of
that wiee ma, bawler, who, though bo wild down
between two bord.na, found the land it was good and
nu, it was plaamat, so he bowed his shoulder to bear,
and became obedient auto tribute. but if the large
section of society who "through motives of oom
pasted" are exempt, aro to be laud ; U their "days of
immunity are numbered," then I very sumo sabilithe
the tmarimay of the tens if • great many other testi.
tattoos will not be "subject to modification." Not
half the people are subject to the emollient iulluesese
of religion, yet eves of these I am able to see there is
• large proportion who are strongly impressed with
advanced Liberal notions. These men—and they are
young and strong men, with all their wits about them,
able to read, ma to work, and to do more if nomeary
—are unable to see why the mere fact of being born is
a soamlied high fondly should entitle • maa to hr.
with all the advantages of luxury about him out of
the tam paid by those who have only 1210 • year.
They are unable to see why • "professional" man is
able te demand MOO • year fa aerv‘m that are
of teatimes most iontemptible ; but they flatter them.
selves that too profeemmal claim is di egged in to pay
taxes from which they themselves ere f. eie. Let, how-
ever • poor man who "borrow' Mare to b.' at Me. •
week is • town, without any hue.* but what has Ingle
are lammed for —let • young couple! who have specu-
lated on love and We at nodes • week, out of which
they have to pay for perhaps a drunken father 21. or
3s. • week la the Unionhouse ; let even • man with his
£lOO and all the calls made upon one who expects
and widthes to live " rispeetably," to say nothing of
the duties which fall on him through blood-ties which
It is his privilege to recognise—l say, let these
people know that—because they have innancipated
thenuelves from being the ConteMpUble grave
seeking
slams of the drink trafia—boosuse they deaths to build
up the bloated fortunes of the beer-oligarchy—they
are to 611 haraued by the Income Tax, bringing them
Into servitude to the Corninielionas and the tax-fatted
,offidals, then, sir, the Wades of those who play at
Civil dervioe moieties, and more than the baster
offertories ef the dtate's teachers of senro-mmtlan,
will be greatly endangered, and probably the makers
of the cream from broad acres and miles of this land,
nay, even toe cheapest and most beloved tiovernmeut
and the beet and meet rateable Kiva Family in the
world, will Gad a singiame and narrowness grew Op
among those who vote, which may unoosuortably
teach them that though ringitelusen an slow to
Matruh the customs of the poet, yet they do demand,
that whet they gain by thou own temisrame and tor-
bearance shall nut be taken away again by a tax
only tit to be endured by • plutocracy timid
for fear of losing their wealth—Use inquisitorial and
Lie-fostering boolOO Tax.
When that is impaled upon the people of England,
their Compemation Bill will come et But it will not
be for compensation to • people-impoverishing Irak
on its maim to suck the rims of linglend, but for
compensation to the people for their looms suffered in
the past.—Youts truly, LimaL.