The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

THIS CHARTER CLAIMS AS RIGHTS :-•

Ist. A graduated property and income tax, equal to the full
amount of all the exigencies of government, when wisely
administered.

Because property ought to ply for its security, and the means
afforded for its enjoyment.
Because none ought to be unduly taxed who are producing
wealth for society by industry, physical or mental.
Because a graduated property and income tax is the most
just and ecornoinical mode of raising national supplies.
Because the national prosperity would advance much more
rapidly under the equitable mode of paying its expenses than
under any other, and a less amount of taxation would be
required.

Because the members of parliament having to pay their fair
share of this tax, would have the strongest motive to see that
proper economy was used, both in the collection and expendiq
tore of the money.

2nd. The abolition of all other taxes, national, county, and
parochial.
Because all these modes of raising revenue create immorality
and crime, 'withdraw large numbers from the useful producers
of wealth rnd knowledge to become useless collectors of the
wealth of others, and in circumstances most unfavourable to
the good feelings, morals, and happiness of the payers and
receivers; and because it would be much more economical to
have but one complete and superior arrangement for all the
national receipts and expenditure.

3rd. Free and protected ingress and egress for all persons
into and out of all countries; and the free interchange of all
improvements, and of all commodities, between all nations.
Because it is for the interest of the human race, and of
every individual member of it, that there should be the most
free intercourse between all nations, and an unlimited inter-
change of knowledge and commodities among the individuals
of all countries.

Because, by an open, honest, and gener.ll intercourse of
nations, the wealth, the knowledge, and the happiness of the
world, will he increased to an incalculable extent ; and because
all people would derive permanent and substantial advantages
from unrestricted ingress and egress.
4th. Wars to cease, and all differences between nations to
be adjusted by an annual congress, to be held in rotation in
each of the different states.

Because wars are now in direct opposition to all the best
interests of the human race.

Because they are grossly cruel and immoral.
Because they change producers info wasteful consumers, and
turn the creators of wealth into wholesale destroyers of the
most valuable property.

Because they generate anger, violence, crime, poverty, and
misery.

Because they train man to murder man, and to have a
pleasure and a supposed duty and interest in so doing.
Because they tend to detain the human race in their present
ignorant and irrational condition, and to encourage the growth
of all the inferior passions and qualities that eau be given to
human beings ; and because, while wars shall be permitted to
decide national differences, nations must suffer, for national
differences will b 3 devised for the supposed benefit of rulers,
and man will he compelled to act as heretofore—more irration-
ally than any other species of animals.
6th. The congress of nations to determine on some one lan-
guage, which shall be taught to all the children of each state, is
addition to their mother tongue.
Because it would be of great p3rmanent advantage to all
individuals, in every part of the world, that they should he
taught but one language ; and that language should to
devised to be as simple and as perfect as language can be turn a.
Because no one nation or people can have an interest it: the
continuance of a variety of languages which tend to separate
man from man, and to create and maintain contests and vitu
throughout society.

These, Mr. Editor, were the opinions and feeling's
of a very largo proportion of the most intelligent
and well disposed of the working classes of England,
more than twenty years ago, on the important
subjects of free trade—free intercourse between
all nations. Wars, and direct taxation, and all
experience since that period has only tended to
confirm the convictions they had then formed.
The Liverpool Financial Reform Association will
therefore see that they were not the first workers
in this great and good cause. We were THEN many
years in advance of them EVEN Now, as I will
show by other extracts from this noble charter is
another letter.—l am, yours, A WORKER.
11th Jan., 1857.