The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-02 00:00:00

THE."ALBION" AND LOCAL TAXATION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.9RO•
Stn,—The unceasing outcry of the radicals against '`the
taxes" has not been surpassed by anything except their silrw:
on the subject of "local rates." Often have I wondered tle`'
these disinterested tax-haters never discovered the oppressive"
ness of the "highway .and lamp, &r., rates," amounting, 4'
they do, within a penny or so, to the assessment for the fear
rate. The reason for this patriotic silence, on the part of the
rods, I always conceived to be the fact that the "Wan's',
which had the management of these matters, were composed'
whigs, whigly-radieal, and radicals; until mine eyes n'ers
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opened yesterday by means of the scrap sheet, which tells.,"
that these favoured boards are made up of tories! I write, Mr'
Editor, to know the truth on' this head ; for to me it aPPen,l5,
incredible that a hoard of tories, putting their thick 10'1;
together to lay a tax as heavy as the poor rate on the proph;
of the good old town, and that for the purpose of changing ta-
pavements in Dale-street, Chapel-street, Castle-street, sr
Paradise-street, to the tune of three times in the year, for the
only purpose of trying their experiments ; I say, that it apPees-
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incredible that these tyrant tories could have escaped the ne.
partial vigilance of your influential wbig-rad contemporsro'
But it may be after all, that this same sheet of scraps is ell!
"at its dirty work again" of throwing dust into the eyes of h's
readers, as he is wont; for you have not forgotten his chargos.
the tories with "bribery and corruption," when his own Pert'
were hoth the bribed and the bribes, the corrupt and the car.
rupter. And again, his charging the tories with exelor'll;
dealing, when his own party and they ALONE, were, and are'
this day carrying on this system without shame or remorse.
could like to enlarge on this subject of exclusive dealing, en
to remind you of the efforts of the Liverpool Standard, Wu,
two years ago, to discountenance and condemn this vile 5)::
tern. That the Standard was successful in confirming l.
readers in their abhorrence of this wickedness is true euongb
but that he had any effect on the minds of the whigs is
apparent; and what is the consequence of this state of matters`
when the unitarian, the baptist, the independent, and tbe
of them, shun a conservative's shop or warehouse as they wc'n
a lion's den ? and not only that, but the conservatives them-
selves. Aye, to their shame he it said, they (in their iletreo
to appear liberal, and to please their opponents,) shun Ib
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same shops, and support their deadly enemies, se that there:
scarcely a conservative shopkeeper in all Liverpool; for, let"
man be as true as he possibly can be to true principles, when
he finds that those who solicited his support at the elect",
deny hint their support in return, and give it to their opponent:,
be is bound, for his own interest sake and his familY's9,
change his side, and support the destrortive side; for thee t-
will come in for a share of radical support, and stand a heti!r
chance of seeing his old friends the tories paying him thelr.
respects. The conservatives have acted foolishly in this 9)3t
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ter; were they to act as their opponents act, and support the:,
supporters, they would very soon- convert the shover<
their support, and not to fawn- and hatter Teo they 01„
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pear at their shops, and laugh at them when their backs ere
turned, at the same time exclaiming—" he is a tory," or "he
is a tory's wife." You must call this a digression, I suPP°'
for I started as yours, &c., A. TAX PAYER'
September 30, 1&35.