The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-02 00:00:00

THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.

yesterday evening the enema meeting of the
ANOtillttOtt- for Promoting the Repeal of the Tales on
Kiweigdge Ode hell at E •hall. and the spacious hall
as oiled by an execoliugly respectable and influential
sum' 111%y. tin the platform were Mr. Douglas Jerrold,
Mr. U. olden. M P., the Right 1t... T. M. Othea, Mr.
C. Knight, Mr D. Seymour. Mr. Hearse Creek-
desk. Mr. C.esell, Mr. Julia Chapman, the Bay. Mr.
B.sekbers. he.
le the mows of Mr. CABO! tA.
Mr. MAGIAN: Jaanote WY called to the chair, and in
tpcaiot the meeting, he said—Uentleinen,—We are
Mnha hem this smarm to consider and de-
nde upo• a petition to the House of Common*
for the total repeal of the tares on knowledge—
these m•vt lazes, because most hostile to what is
oink., just, sod ben, ficial"—(chetn and laughter)-1
we that those words are nit yet out of fashion—(hear,
teat'—out beneficial for the moral elevation of the masses
if the people. (Cheers.) There are gentlemen about me
.6re as familiar with the statistics of the question
as thi y are with their own tiugers, and I steal not there.
fat.. in the few prefatory remarks which it w 11 be my duty
to impress ulcer. you. attempt to touch upon that part of
the subject. Mr. Charles Knight, in his " Struggles of a
Sok," had shown—and I have no doubt he will add
Mho' liberations this evening—how heavy the result
has been—how the very best and the noblest books may get
thi •or.t of A mid be ripped up by the Chancellor of the
Esehequer. Mes (Cheers.) srs. Chambers have also shown
that a work popularly addressed to the people—• work
that at once broke out 30,000 strong—was, nevertheless
sot Moog enough to 1:n at the taxes on paper. That work
was carrying intelligence and mental recreation to its
So,neal eutocribets, when it was written down by govern-
mere, for it vias written down by the exciseman. (Cheers.)
With aspen to the stamp on newspapers, it needs very
little to demonstrate the injustice and shaurdity of this tax.
(Ilex, hear.) For myself, I think there ought to be a
postage stamp—a carrying stamp. When we know that
there are every day tens of thousands of newspapers, and
every Saturday hundreds and hundreds of thousands
tame to theuvelves winos of steam, and arriving at their
destitution without the aid of the post-tffice, you might
Medi attempt to tax the throbbing. of the electric tele-
graph, or any other ezhicle of information. (Cheers.) Why
wt tat, fur untance, barristers going the circuit ? (Laugh
ter) The advertisement tax, again, is • tax which the
rate demands of every man, woman, and child that
wishes to make known his necessities. Even the errand
boy that wants a place must pay his eighteenpence. (Hear,
tear.) It is • double tax—a tax upon industry, and • tax
n want. (Cheers.) lint now consider the injustice of this
tar. Why should your widely-eireulated newspaper be
:and, when your widely-circulating omnibuses are allowed
:J run as free vehicles of intelligence ? Why should Merv.
leageloth and Co. advertise to every lady or gentleman
who travels by the "Atlas" or " Favourite" gaolbreak
*heir "everlasting shirts" at 30e. the 11•14dans ?
aaughter)—end why should not those gentlemen be Weed
upon to pay a tax for the beneficence of that (fdierniatio• ?
(Laughtea ) Besides, almost everything is an advertisement.
The tradesman's brass door-plan is an advertisement.
There we have it—" Smith, tailor." (Laughter.) It would
be equally just—if, for once, the Chancellor of the Etch..
quer would give his mind to the consideration of brass—
(great laughter)—it would be equally just sad wise to tax
the brass dour-plates as to tax the advertisemeat In a news-
paper. A/sin, there would be some Jambe ia this sort of
impost. For instance—a quack, when Is hos paid his
Is. tkl. duty for an advertisement of his see den Olken
Cosmetic," wou'd not feel himself wrequi heron the
apothecary would be taxed foe his ammo sa lb doorpost
sad for he night-bell—sash poll, afghan-irons.
(Lighter.) Bat weeder the strength het would awn
to a state from the intelligeace, the ladnostba, sad know-
ledge, of the people • and so long se paper is the chief
vehicle of csoveying that knowledge, it is a reproach to a
state that bathtub it even with • tratistes weight of tan-
bon. (Cheen.) Some few days ego,hor Majesty, thrash
her Home Secretary, acknowledged Oho conduct mad
the mural bearing of the people as • great nee
tonal solemn occasion. (Be., ham.) The moral
diznity of the people ea hat day invested
that ceremony with a rest peolinad sod • most
touching grandeur. It was Wpm* at ear elevated
sad controlled by the iallomess e( heir aelliweepest- bat
what would they have been if it bad net ben he ion.
sad newspapers ? (Chan) 1 gnat that then is an inhe-
rentquality in every SagUsbmea to rename, or at least
b obey the laws • but then is to sae aill wisely sad
hersaly nertrod men power them in the staves
Oa thereat pelimeman. (Loud sheen) The inflasses of
the weepers pro is a Glib meow Asa the Boras
Guards and fleodembpard. (Mora) Why, era Lord
Derby, in the Hone of lards, we. surprised into • Mar of
admiration foe the people and fee that unbridled diameenney
which it was his hensaappoialed mimics ire es =
control, and so Madl, he inn (Clisen) As I ban
to the !louse of Lashl I tell nmaak. Met ft has hen he
haloes of Into—med • erg hides it it—lhr
certain norm's sad erten enstabors of the arroary he
preside at 100117101. sad NM to deliver then at Mahone
initautions. Dukes sad earls an very wise in irk
generation to do sue ((Meer, bear.) It is ma many mem
age since the a peete6 earl
"the swinish mu tin& ;" sad we ha to ast
pearls before swine was sad is a proverb he here the von
perigatity of folly. Bat then is as Mager say swiair
niu:titade, sad dukes and sorb, la the ehamener of easol.
Masters, now gout Testae/ present their puede le he
people. (Cheers.) a hag a gala era Ore nibs be-
trers—(therm)--oad din right to be hoe deb Veep eves-
log—not that we west thon—led they aught be ho here to
croon this asserag, hr w have • just dein ad eight to
era smociatios cad Mersey—to their rest emir airs-
satyfor at sem rinse at which they ruble_ Ali most
elertantli descant apes the sand and aril blembew
knoele age and men mast, thasehmk be the most
determine; opponents of • tea en hardsdge. .)
Pre, be this is it may, lot as eessleatig go-
v,roceent—whether it he whiff es seirehetber it be
omervative or democratic (for we have lees threatened
with that last horror)—for that gotraterent whisk abbe
to be friendly to the spread of hassled,, sad the blanage
of eduratioa, sad which still asatiarm a to en kaoseledge,
• at unjust, tyreanieal, and an essentially bypooritical
goverment. (Loud cheers.)
Levers a gain, were read from ViremetChilsain
ad the Rev. T. Spencer.
br W•TTO, Of Manchester, proposed the bell senslation
r follows That the duties wimple and eiweekeeseets,
and the penny stamp on newspapers, teed to Injure liters-
tore, to iiheinet education, and to hinder the regress of
the people in intelligence and morality."
Mr. I:ii.AILLIIS KNIGHT, weeded the resolution.
Mr. Ciiriusx, who was received with enthusiastic cheers,
roes sail mid—Two or three times in the course of the
%Kuhn ma le to you to-night, you have beard eomplaists
made against the government for having imposed or main-
tais,il thee taxes on knowledge, and it crossed my mind
that it was wrong to talk of government, as some abiarae-
ti..a from government can neither alit or benefit you
without our own sanction or cesium& (Chan) I am
glad to gad, from the opinion of this great and influential
meeting, that there appean to be in the public mind a
feeling kindred to that which pared in my own wind—
namely, that it does not become es r Englishmen to talk of
government as something that can do as harm or good with.
out our owe consent. Wei are our own government—
(chisere)--er at least we have It in our power to make
It so. (Ileac, hear.) I am, therefore, glad to
judge from the great demonstration Of to-night
tha t you are determined to take this inestin
as you have other ones into your own hands, and when you
do this I will engage that government will be found your
obedient servant, in this as well u upon other subjects on
which they exhibited more relic ante. (Hear, bear.)
When I hod myself engaged in • controceny of this kind,
heving • variety of phases, I always like to put what same
to present the greatest difteulties—the others hong arab
ti work thens.,elvto out, or to emirs the services of those
who will work them out. But where there are questions
which Mimee more power at the elbow, I am disposed to
give it rather to those questions. (Mese, hem) Now
there are three propositions berme us the repeal of the
paper duties, of the advertisement dots, and of the stamp
dot y, all of which are !octet injudicious and intole-
table burdens on the diffusion of knowledge. The
paper duty is by far the largest of the three,
being more than double the other two put tow-
User. Yet I do not set myself to attack the paper
dry so much ae the stamp duty, bemuse it will have many
snore persons to attack it than the stamp duty will have ;
sad, berhs, it will not be so each resisted, The whey.

diseetnt duty is lees than 800,0001., and is it does set is-
vole* say party or political feeling the rummest will be
less solicitous ia maintaining that tax, and it would not at
all Guerin me if, within 48 keen from the present those,
the Clieneellor of the Haeltaspaer was dealing villa that tau.
(Hear, hear) But the newspaper stamp duty is • very
differ's, sort of tax. Its amount Is under 400,000.1., but
the diet:natty in this ease dons sot arise so auk
hem the resistance offered to its repeal ea ac-
count of Its amount, bet on account of maw advantages
which some pumas think accrue to °Male parties ia wi-
ther diem:ties. (Rear, bear.) This tax never was lapsed
for the sake of reweave *ugh it was dilkult te make
people avow the real nano for which it was lapsed.
(Hear, bear) Now the real object of the summer Wimp
duty was to prevent people hem reedeumpepere, sod
I maintain that it is Maimed for the Wham
(Hear, hear.) Now, la speaking ea this sales• r it
I:
always said that I considered aurepeper pole be
more important to the great mass of grows up than
any other hied of reading. (Hear, hear.) I set mesa
to say that newspaper reading is In itself men twists
than any other reading; but what I mean to say is
that the grown up MIS whom I see before me
will, if they an basset, conks' that they reed
more uwepapers than say other printed matter. (Hear,
hear.) If that is the ISM with people who tan afford to
pay the prise el a daily newspaper, sad to subscribe to
news rams, bow mash aeon mast it be the sees with re-
5. he the weekies dress, the great bulk of whim
i reed-
ear* d reading. If this be am, bow
Winos most sat dist he whisk prim ishoseles is
the way MM. welling dere hides their mevorr et, aid
that is the epseaden et the areepaper mum in BO esualry.
(Hear, leer.) I love mei I is a allot plus -I as sled that
we are edessedes es isol as le erre s hero epie—diat
with repot to every Orr memeeilly bet
people may sok themeilem with es snide =re
their cireuriewithe and lesie. • as. ISM hay • bat
from 2s. 81. le IL, esesedies to his Man sod researem, but
for • daily smogs/ay theme Is a seseeetyped pries of 6d.,
below which he onset by • ne —that le the moo
paper price ezelersly eispeed for upper end mild.
classes. And unlmerm theireamove the atemp_ yen sever sem
have a newspaper per witeriag as It Merl de to the
eases of the pore elf this sessery. Memo bier.) I re-
member, oboe the eammitine wee eiWes led psi en this
subject, that we eerier es American ILmtbessa. who is
he connected with t seorper rem of imanty—Mr.
Horace Oreely, of the New Teri Mire. He Mid es that
la New York the anima, the seselmmikliwalkbeilder, the
millwright, the joiner, the meth, Ind NM of this clam re-
ftived allot them their daily swopyw beers beesklastjed
o the beaker or the mereheat saesiiel it in the City of
London. (Hear, hear.) Well, but des% think that
them men who go away from their table after
waking themselves acquainted with the mesh MPe whole
world will go to their heady work sew istialsest sad
with better appetite—that they will hello the millet, the
chisel, and the sew with mare elbst—that they will be
better shipbuilders and engine makers than the men who
cannot read newspapers P (Hear, hear.) I am sometime*
charged with being wreag in appmaliag to the example of
America, and am told that it as eery democratic of me
to refer to America as an example. (Laughter.) But
these people forget that we are now to have
the principles of unrestricted competitioa, and if
you an to open your ports, and to have free trade with
all the nations of the world, and if you And any country,
whether republican or despotic, where the working classes
are bettor educated than your own, it is fall time to look
about you, ;for that is the very country which will be most
dangerous to those who have exposed their industry to the
unrestricted competition of the whole world. (Hear, heu.)
No., with regard to the population in the rural districts of
this country, my *aka is that you will suer be able to
reach them like the people of the towns by minas of such
works as those published by the Messrs. alesabets and
others. Them works are tot read by the mass laths people
in the rural districts, and in order to stimulate their spire.
UM fee reading at all, you moo fork Am wide smoo-
thies is the ire of news. MOM) I WM Wee psis to
yes as ether from a letter of Lod ZZialkirbelime had
great ezperience in this education fa says, alter
speaking of the paper duty—" the stomp is by
far the most hurtful of these bad taxes these enserial par-
ticular. The instruction of the working dense in the or-
try dbtriets, where it is mist warted, hem hems almost
entirely prevented by it. When the . Usefel =edge
Society' made foe years efforts of every kind to diffuse
sound Warmed= amongst the peasantry et villosrillasti
legs., tad farm houses, we were always met end
by this stamp. One only chance of makiss these poor
perm read win by wrapper up good ishossibe of a rat-
ios- value io news—especially news reiredes farming
mown and things in their own
palerseighbeeed. But the
raw row mode this Womble. The pe of 12 octavo
pare, ef whir test weld bees hos newspaper and the
other eight ef a roe pang bemblies sr soon puma.
neat ohms, betruedes se eidemeries sr loth, could easily
hate bees mid he a pry after the sersary allowaaces
to the hawker we other retail dealer. The history of
the Penny Ilivaaina shows this • but the vast circula-
tion (at oar Wes 280,000) enablek us to sell so costly
a wea very siFT:mi* I em sew re Me to what would be
mere cheaply sad hoe a mush move limited di-
abetes, bet t could only be done mete there so stamp.
TIM make. it quite impeasible, and ell ear Maas se far
faded that we sold tel diffuse the bardedge when it was
mot weset. Our beer were reed, sr they did great
service, eel will de, brio leri g herrn down the
pin of all best. but Ws messsnsw institutes we
have sot yet got Ise eseish in moiety t sad that we or to
the stem y, became we And that MVO error did set
mak *Boreal slam mid m--enathee girl= wee
waatel—aews. Of cameo my remarks op* absorb
in the towns; but they hew bade user rim from
their social habits, more eurusest Man the peers the
country. The loweriag of the? bow lbeepeoce to
ens poesy, I really can hardly as • bens& at all—
if kinw a mar re ifir of nal it only relieved two
&mos who required me relief. It peat senekistable sow
kr the pWsele et sewarger perieton, est It
sari yes-yes-nestme a ter porde • year, to whom
this was but of little iespertmese. It did not
seal& us to help general Mendes at all." (Cheers.)
New, having bad ere uproot* of oral 116),I can vuech
tar the assensey of the beers ea ef Led Brougham,
Who,
hr bialses.sintlemed Weir is the sees. ef 011101.
Who,wee entitled lee eery great reaped. (Rase, /sem) If
yes put into the heeds of the rural peeing treatises on
esinsee, or is:treats too bury, or bobs a travel, they
will afford no stimalas or ezeitomeat to sash people, sal
they either will she teed them at all or they will very nes
tall asleep seer Pa fellow them to the village green er
te Ifs pulls rum, esd yes will lad dist their converse-
ties deco set tors epee the weediest Fslb of Niagara, or
the Tale ef Chemenal, se the exploits of Alexander, but
you MI hear him sink this: " When did Tim Odes
kill hie pis?"—gresismo)—er "Now many parr te the
acre des.- Farmer haft get hem such a MI a whist ?"
Or if he travels at ell heft Ws own villik fall is. the
ewe ef lON great amides; as that of • Mims is
Wag swept
away by emu great goad. These are dr that torte
hi. opmpsdelso, sad heyerl Pit him meneig tees set p.
' (WE ~heer.) New, ha erre le melee lb ipmertis, sad
to mehe bet bosom s ruder et ell, mew esesunge
amp level newirpos. livery when tows simmill have
its load shook sreednitg
_ell the bed sews of dee
Mrisk-
learkesk well of berie the sows of the O end
im ardent end essatir sends. The wodd irks
ile I word mg.-s a reader, end wheel
' yeslMPolleibil them
eseiesaM is la, youmep the five his °Wm"
Ohm sire sekirged sod wee wise. (Hear,
MO DM It is poorly the eseenat ef mews that the
law pressted hem being reldithed. (Hear, bear.) If
yen rebel to ay that • bridge wee bier airs at seek
ei piss% sr that the fannies mot set se that way, thle
, left rem yes mold net pebble it wither Ming liable
to penellies. (Heer, her.) And If times was • ardor
law to roost people bin ormisiiiedes bete elms eon,
I voity believe that trek pore wilt Weems primly
ale, end that would set be Mis le Irak st all.
(Lemellier.) spoulatio—
tame,.
erne yes bet modern—
at=4: y or to-lay, so that is
in or meal you may sot re (Hear,
ham) tax may Is fest lee nimbi es a pro-
hibitory tax as modems Win hewed en dr gnat
mem of the rural perform a this Gerry. (Loyd
are) Now, what la the rumen of this reser with re-
, red to sewirprs. It rim der, that if yes hod reap
would emiine. reed is Or keen
=Pert sonar ehmester. The UMW (Nate ware
pistil st, sad pare mid, see hew low isd ripe wed
vitoweethe they are. New I iss these papers, aid I so
I bow they lib of their ride more. I also see sad reed
the .reopen is this reestiy—men Ikea I wish—sod I
ore he it that the sewsperes of the United litotes do
set reek is more moire or elhipmestive term of
' ispails mos this streak newmpapre do et
lust lust or perides, who ihill li meembek
I wasters le say that, dories the bet freight, you will i
had is tee high litigator mew hen—ppm that are
themovezects:cf dankeydese-1 mean the Berahl and the'
hear)—mon pemenal ars. ef anyils
see le hie ernes then le to he hoed Best ups pub.
lie isms is the limbed bore within therms pried. (Loud
ehoees.) het wilmittleg, if you please, that newspapers
will sesiediees brigs is raciness and seareenme, it is a
mistake em thyme that the stamp on sorepapere it inhered
to prevent the Om elessloths 0 leading errs. (Rear,
bear.) Ten my ands% them withers* the stomp sow ;
but that whisk mire be circulated is mew, sews I beta,
fasts. (Hoer, bear.) Speculations ow atheism or
' socialism 'yea may circulate without the weep,
because they are considered to be Merl matter.
' Now, all we scatted for is, that we should be allewed to
publish facts without the stamp ; for it is hest ilia that
the rational mind will be able to draw some nmelesions.
and form safe judgments, respratiog the current woos d'
the day. (Hear. bear.) Look to • newspaper, adi=
will see how small a portion of it is untaxed. TM
articles are sot lazed, but the advertisements and the sews,
which constitute the main value of a.paper, are bald. I
do sot mesa to undervalue the brag artier ; NM a
which are the most transeendant compositiens, iit point of
style and intoned of any of the present day. (Hese.) Ne
onetan Amy that; butistill the great bulk of the people
are more interested in the news than is the
leading articles; and the news comprises nine-tenths
I of the whole newspaper. You hue, therefore, a tax
I which was Intended -to prevent the dilation of useful
; knowledge, and not to prohibit the diffusion of peraiciousopi.
' aloes. Let it n be forgotten that what we contend for is
the free eirculetioa of facts, and not of opinions. We seek
' to His working damnthat which the upper and the
deism, as they are called, enjoy—an interest intim
periodical press of the country. (Cheers.) The upper sad
' the middle classes of this country should take warning frees
' what happened in a neighbouring country. Have we set
sees la Treace the freedom of the pre abolished with a
mart stoked of the pen, without any reiseass• Wog

eared ? (Chem.) Do you think that this mid ham
hem film M demise? TM people *UM United
RUM Muldeseme mar their daily bread to he takes
hem them sea& its paper, Why was this ? Demme
la AMMO every raMmeiMand perm was la the habit of
having aid reading his /sue stemusper Momenta Frame
the privilege was seeleselle a small frastioa of the am-
musky, aid I believe that the mass of the French
people meld met be able to road the acampapers even if
they amid get the.. (Hear, hear.) Well, do we in this
country rem on a Mad • bath with regard to this se wall i
as with aged to oeher ismAisits se he seem as against a
similar peciesualag Mee? bit eel sere that by • majority
of thepospie of Man • meniste annihilation of the
newspaper prose would be Niftily felt as a deprivotion or
• Mimi, ? (Hear, bear.) If that as I seam you of
the upper and neiddlillill•M en the renalbe
slyest ass es-
=ella saathes, le litho that emir whisk will
the reel mass the people ea the side etre ton
dem of the par I:ig then ea lawns is its mate-
nem. (Mar, hear. Now, who are aniseed ye this?
We lime net had m diresteppesitioa„la ea avowal Mar.
Hut the mum which some newspaper proprietors take
leads meta suppose that they are resolved to oppose the
nat their own meas. (Hear, hear.) - Hose is
.osearfttil effects of monopoly—that it has set only •
baserl sod pernicious effect on men's energise. bet en
thv ir isitelleet and judgment likewise. (float Mar.)
Wales the last fortnight a media( of propitiates; eff mo-
'Medd nowspepers was held in Linden, and although they
denswised es petitioning against the paper duty sad the
advardesesset duty, they resolved, by a majority of 16 to
6, to memorialise the Chancellor of the Exchequer to re-
taia the stamp duty. (Hear.) Of course it was • pro
Medial* whe made that propeoltion, and warribir who
seeseded 11. (fiest.) las Isid the argereets they NW
were pasitsly the as a these whir we used to
her a era in serer to orarkwr question, namely,
that N the stamp mos MISS of we would be
isandatad risk bask Ind a we woe MI6 that if we
nwesied Ibe era Isar we were be bordated with foreign
talk is the reps et earn--(isaghend-what farmers could
all aentiase their bearess, that lebsereve would be thrown
out if empleneset, that they would fellow other pursuits
Irish word -wrest ea the lowa% =I that the end would
M pulls mg lorreree dm eh illumaimZear, hear.) I ra-
kes there U in seeing news.
porn whisk ed= Les tole in sera turning round
new and imietia. apes • renspely of knowledge.
(Cheers.) I rearember tarty year. ego, when Lord
Al hasp, the then Chemsdiler of the BeMquer, was so-
Hied to akar the thee stamp duty .f 3j6.
as the arm yard is edema, two or three cotton
pokier enemodsibal bins is freer ef the re
UMW of the dry ; that the noble lord, who had a great
find of eareity. toil up the doireasst, sad said it was the
best and stns asps' arrusent be ked heard for
the remold of the daty, Ware, said he' if
Huy have se inisrad is mairring the tax, their
interest must metrame the midis interest. (Hear.) 80
these gentleman were the lest who should be consulted in
this matter of the no stamp duty. But I hope, for
the honour of the Bog WOW•141/Wf_ VOW, that they will
not make au& an inhibition et Memenlvas here the whole
world as to appear the rimesser el hes wade is everything
eise,whilst they Mamie mompeinfor newspapers for their
own advantage, wafer the pies of benefitting the public.
(Cheers.) The destok newspaper press use this
argument, that the pray stamp is an advantage,
because it enables • newspaper to be tranunitted several
times through the Parries. Now, I meet that argument
in this way. I will allow rum We privilege even for oae
halfpenny, provided they will use the stamp on the whole
impression, if other parties are permitted to publish news-
papers with the stamp and without this postal privilege. If
this be done I should like to know how long they would
costume to as the stamps? (Hear hear.) I think they
would very soon get rid of them. But this is not • ques-
tion for newspaper editors or proprietors. (Hear, hear)
It is a question that affects the great mass of the people.
I hope they will take it up as a national question, and that
this nesting, large and magnificent as it is, will be
followed up by others still greater. (Cheers) I
am afraid that I cannot ogres with the gentleman
who has just spoken, that this question is about being
settled for ever. It has lasted for 370 years, and lam
afraid it will last some years longer—Cheer, hear)—bat I
hope the people will at length see the importance of the
question, and that they will not rest satisfied until it is
finally Nettled. (Cheers) I said on a former occasion that
literary men and men of education ihould come forward to
advocate this question, and I as glad on this occasion to be
surrounded by such men as Mr. Wildenpia the great advocate
of infant causation; that brilliant ornament of literature,
Mr. Douglas Jerrold--mad Mr. Knight, to whom the
country is so much indebted fotpromoting cheap and ex-
cellent publications. (Cheers.) You must treat this as •
question of education. The taxes a knowledge amount to
1,600,0001. a year, and we gave 600,0001. for purposes of
education. Now, if we cannot do more than this for the
promotion of ediaeaticia, we should at least remove this
load of taxes whir press se heavily on the advocates of the
voluntary system. (Cheers.) This is a question
in which the liana is,. of the ago should take
an intend. Uwe make Is • radios of education and
literature, sad net • pasty ac>olitieal question, lam per-
suaded that although we may sot reseed this year or the
next, the time is set for distant when is, efforts shall be
incanted with MONO& (lend cheer)
Mr. Rogowdemounsod the law whisk required semi-
ties for newspaper, esd awed as addlundam to the reve-
lation complaining Mar law Obe MI flee. 111., cap. 9,
clause 8), as calmkged to =lithe setaliblunent of work.
asmisn's Tte a tbe securities must
to the wt= middle dem. (land cheers.) The
dem to which he beidepd was
sad nailer deep mist
wmag. (Loud einem, same bkll/4 sad mewed cheers.)
He wished that this leareas law arid be brought before
the puha* a that when then elgiss et his class should colas
to be dram* they ad set
_at as be gegged. Were
those rights emeo fairly Memene4 U send be -=hewn -*own that
laws might be devised that weld he • ossq bar to the
spumy et the impitaliseu : riellimes at
bis " geoid= " sad
wear) at Mr.Redgen less& sumer to's close,
proteethig spinet the unfair Sesetemat be bed resetved.
Mr. Clunt.as Murry sewer& the reellation amidst
great essfasiss.
Mr. Iseerraans O'llsrior 'rapport d the airadunt,
whisk he arises is petrol ham say with the eyed fur
whisk the assorg bed been essesse4 smartly, the seta-
blidmiet of • eaft bee prase. The newspapers now
add at U. did sat
U. )
iegeseerwi'llberczie • bit run than
they did wises rip eint
Mr. Mu.nas Otorei— your pennimiss. ir, I will
make two or the ea diesreaduss in raisins* l• the addition
whir kr bees marl by Mr. Radom and asesaded by
Mr. Murray. I big to mg that thb isti berg •
midis niseting kr ••hit sad resolosses seades of
peat qusdiss. I de NW k as liestesselhis thst those
shield base intimined theta views to your
nsamisdiessf.Lesam.) Order peat presisiss ups which the
as borsde sad of whisk she laser may be
band monad its perm. ens* amempands with the
peter st the sensai. (Cheer)_ The ardent's
Who *mod the ardatiss sommilled thromdees to re
had priesiple that they raid aressirele the prom bar
all assirel, except that of • wart ef kw—hr ft was never
inianded that a sea sherd be Area to libel others with
impunity. (Cluare.) Net while we muted that the
nor web! be band airiest to peeled peresnel charm
ler, we lit at M derreillog era elw that ho rrid
ms
re=densth somity. die prosm was that
bwr
by • rebore de re t• libel as pours of his
isiew Mors. I bar ens, therefore, the Ira Millealty in
or ring Mho neer dike whisk has bees mori& If I may
amide of liessdait the oWer tree prionsen have
slillig I arid. Ate the weed " adeerbuorsts" in the
efulqrsitiation.tinesealrpateisiztrass,..=...alesysion"
Intim serespand arias* silk the puisdelll9 of the
Amosiatios for the Repeal el M. Tres an Knowledge.
(pis)
Now, no it Mr beeslmbed tome to have the
of submittlag this Iste te the eassideration of
ZireAmoths rise. I will Ye Os liberty of call.
ntlemliss of ibis mesas le the peitlen is whir
the roam new deer They have always had
direly is as what sews was. Mr. Charles
• purisdiesi which contained
new., hut It only same re air • math. He had high
bp* advise, mming his that NA. I? paper was not •
mairrapsr. sada& net asstila news raft the meaning of
the see. Bored a mentedss, sad *hedged a favourable
jadgment; bet re Dori • 1 Wise Newer refused to
easeleam wed meta that they wend reseed by writ of
sem to mem that jadgmeat, sad to ender the stamp '
ups Mr. Dickens —or rarer Messes. Dredbary mad Evans,
his pablishers. Now, it seems, they ha taken bight, and
they are ring to hag in • bill, of whisk nodes has been
exilathe -ArrserCieseral, to make a parliamsntars
as seers of what a winnow ix Now, r
' the Adoney-General, on Um pert of she grarainsal, is
Ledag to doctor the Newspaper Stamp Act, I repels to
esinateur my assistesos. (Cheers.) If we are to attempt
to mead the liewmpoper hemp Act, lot as sr whore we
onset mho sosasei like a red job of it. (Cheers.)
New, what is sewer When we inumaird the eolleotor to the
Herd of Island Itmerm, whose duty it is to Mures this tau,
and who, of Oil men the world, ought to know, we asked
him es give • desmiption of an article upon which he cos-
@WM himself hotrod to impose the tax. He paused •
Mr while and then be said • Queen's speech was news;
sal that say men ire printed the Queen's speech on a
Om of kes's" without • stamp was liable to • penalty of
SOL " Wed thsa," we diked, "is the Chancellor of the
Haeltagera's speech nom?" The answer was No, he
did not think it was; be thought It was net a such
• etre affair a • Quest spar. (Laughter.)
Then are your pablie arena wbe see reassdag large
salaries to 'afore this tax, sad who ought at bar to know '
what are the articles on whisk it druid be lord; but I ,
' Amid have thought it was jest the were. I 'Maki have
✓eaght that theft WOO say anering ilmit seem marred
are it was • Qnsea's spoods—daisghtor rd reers)—
(cbseing and I believe we as se- how arils news Is the shape
of • vary nerd bum the goner Chancellor of the
lindiequer. ll orris., &Atrium oa knowledge
will be a pert of heart (Mon sheer.) I entirely
esemorred with my hen. Arad that of rue three tares the
newspaper gray is thew iiparbse. They on ell I.
purteat, I admit ; and I. onlunillibg this aeries to perm
mint, I have moved three resebatisse. 41/1 ht the repeal el
the paper duty, ardor for that of the adesolismasut duty,
rid a third km that el the stamp; bat I hew always felt
that the sesinsses word be te the drew be in that
really re the garbs Odom arrepspees. (Hear, hear.)
The shurissaisst duty, no ruby was • mirsaa devised
be wipers the sowspaper ress. braes the newspaper is
the Wirer yards kw aresliewasais ; and also because
sherrements bra a legitimate ad the Arras worse of
per to the nevreparr. 'Tree eight to be advertisements
re= =as lw illiPtil the wrestler sad maintain its
; bat the leideletare ear to society,
may aterlise all test. end is entsibeles, mad you may