The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-22 00:00:00

rend the extract, which stated that, in effect, the Inc°/cr
tax would eventually fall upon thr. industrious.co;
He had thought it right to read that
sage to the House, to vindicate the body,
the working men from the suspicion that i.e
had yielded to the arguments which had btf,
held by Gentlemen opposite, and that they wished
the imposition of an Income-tax, because it would I
only on the rich. The working classes felt 11'8
the tax would press heavily on theniselves, and they qi;
posed it as an encroachment on the comforts of every. nl5,
in England. He apologised to the Hyuse for detatia7o
them so long, but the opposition to the rale
assumed now a different form.—(Cheers.) They
discussing. the details and principles of the Bill, and
was anxious to take the first proper oPro;e
tunity of expressing his oppoSition to
Bill. lie was not sanguine enough
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imagine that he should succeed en the present occasi)o
but as one who had taken a strong part in opPositioal..
the Bill, he felt anxious to defend, himself fr_s
the misrepresentations, to which it appearol ;t
those who opposed either the Bill or the Governe,
were to be subjected.—(Loud cheers.) If a Gene
man offered the slightest opposition to the iinteelis
progress of the measure, he was told that'
,to
conduct was factious, and that if he chose,,,,
take an opportunity of discussing the ques,
and there were many Hon. Members around him, rert
sentatives of large constituencies, who had a Perfecelo.
right to do so. It seemed to be the tactics 9f the vv.
vernment to set up Gentleman after Gentleman, te Arj
" Oh! you are stopping the tariff, which is most impertge.
tant to the hest interests of the. country should be
piately considered."—(Loud cheers) They ha" ot
right fully, freely, and fairly to discuss, Pio
only the bad principle of this measure
it still worse details—(Loud cheers)--and if hy so' all
they delayed the tariff, that was not their taull,b'e
the fault of the Government.—(Loutt cheers.) 1'
'
Government chose to press forward the Inuoin-tux Lag
the tariff, the responsibility of the delay must rest elhe
the Government and not. with them. He knew th°
was fighting against a majority—he knew that
was an uphill fight, but he knew that the (?Pi;
position to the income tax was grounded on regi!`o
and argument, and that when the tax was in opera
when the Englishman should find all his ciecueistsll4
exposed •to the inquiries of the tax-gatherer, t1:491
would the odium attached to this inquisit,°L)
impostlfall upon the Government.
—(Great cheerwri..,
and every year that it should he kept up the strong:fa
the more determined, and ultimately the more sueees'-
would be the Opposition.—(Cheers.) •
The question having been put,
Mr. EWART said that with some parts of the arwis
of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who build.
sat down he concurred ; from others he dlr.; tt
He (Mr. E.) wished to draw a distinction heL"-lepe'
property and income, but he confessed that be or
one of those, whether they were called Badiesls6o
Liberals, who were in favour of that g',ot
of direct taxation so much deprecated by
Honourable and Learned Gentleman. In Arneries'
far as he understood taxation, though indirect, was Ifi,„110-
to fall more on the rich than on the poor. In that c`
`,a
try there was an approximation to the ad vawo
system of taxation which must apply., to: the,
more than to the poor. It was consequeevirj
species of indirect Property-tax. The Honourable 8,.
Learned Gentleman had alluded to the case of France
He had told them of what was done in FP'ibe
of old, but he had not told them what the
System of taxation was in modern France sinee_i.
revolution. Was not the land-tax in that cotta-,ir
system of direct taxation. Was there not also
reect
sonal property-tax in existence in France. With resno
to the Property-tax now proposed, he must e,.;i00
that he did not regard in the same light, as mans
that (the Opposition) side of the House ; more en it
ally the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) who consideP-be,
only as a war tax. The question appeared to hialstilthet
what was the best tax to impose ? W'tiaepet4
a Property-tax was the best suited to the circuies'-for
of the country or not. He (Mr. E.) abjured the dis
tion between a war-tax and a peace-tax. Whatever, thethe best tax to be applied to the circumstanees O'nose.
country, that was the tax which they ought to inote,
He agreed with what had been stated during this ‘l,.e "Dot
that commerce had contests as formidable, ",pael
more formidable, than those of war. test-
were now engaged in a commercial CO to
more formidable than a military contest. They. P',T‘
compete with all the nations of the world apa
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had now all the disadvantages of eoniPe,tl.be
with foreign nations. The consequence emu'''.
that some great effort must be made.