The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

our representatives insisf

ailgeraent of our financial

stem, as that the ta.xa-
,,r shall be levied with com-
raou fairness upon all classes. The principle of an
"le'tax was more intelligible in the time of
rITT, when incomes as low as £6O were liable ;
but by the mode at present pursued those who are
best able to pay are permitted to escape, while the
greatest sufferers have an additional burden im-
posed on them. There are thousands and tens of
thousands of working-men in this country earning
wages which enable them to gratify their taste for
self-indulgence, and thereby to add to the revenue
in Malt and Spirit Duties, but, because their wages
are paid weekly, they escape direct taxation,
although their gross earnings considerably exceed
the limit of liability. On the other hand, there
are very many men who, upon salaries varying
from £lOO to £l5O a year, have to maintain a
family, and at ,the same time to keep up a certain
respectability of appearance, in order to enable
them to obtain -their livelihood. Yet, while the
first escape every charge but those self-inflicted
by their own vitiated appetites, the latter hav
directly imposed on them a tax varying from £4
3s. 4d. to £8 15s. a year, in addition to their share
°I the duties upon articles of general consumption.
The whole financial policy. of Liberalism appears
to be centered in relieving the artisans and opera-
tivesby the reduction .and abolition of duties upon
tertle.les in most ngeneral consumption, and trans-
les ng the burdens of the State to those who are
in thellinerens, and at the same time less skilled
of the arts of vulgar clamour and the application
Pressure from without. Liberal Legislators
seem never
- be actuated by principles of justice,
or a conse:_
tuns/less of right and wrong, but to suc-
cumb with b
of the ase truculency to the mere expediency
wo I.' moment. Touch the means by which the
can indulge, and immediately a
the-vvi is heard from the tap-rooms,which frightens
ZMinister of expediency, and then his only re-
°llree is to apply the screw where it was applied
-e,.
R. ere, and the CHANCELLO of the EXCHEQUER
!i'f'fy talks about the expenses of the war being
'441 out of the income of the year as a grand dis-
e:"Y in finance, which has placed his name far
little that of the Heaven-born Minister. There is
w_
ve fault to find with his principle, if it is in any
Ilas Practicable, but the application in the way he
betteerll4eavured to solve the difficulty is little
tive than State robbery, sanctioned by Legisla-
subserv• •
t ehe • • neY, and only submitted to because
inJured
selves, em
have
are powerless to help them-
chef3ter school ave llot been educated in the Mu-
llis/4Ela °F at lxiditical agitators. When Mr.
henattempted
to relieve the pressure of the
an extensio .7 an increase of the House Duty and
a year,
son of the latter to rentals as low as £lO
between as
.te make an intelligible connexion
sailed
;v. axation
„ andof
abuse from
he was as-
from all quarters, and
as-
the
for . nueB round in the proposal a ready excuse
tilrevih:atltin_g_i.oall_ their previous professions, and
ber,we.._ als• Even the Conservative mem-
heipea
tie averse to offend the £lO voters, who had
isonsrte
vnot°o7ltyurn them to Parliament, and the Inca-
fell to the ground, but the country
x±
was advantages of a Conservative Government.
a
vies
toPractical application of Free Trade prin-
ititio those who had been the loudest in
liring for that new discovery in political
was,
lc and it was consequently repudiated. There
however far more of justice and equity in
iliett"lsulma's proposal than the short and easy
solv"_ ,4(1. by which Mr. GLADSTONE has sought to
e financial difficulty, though neither scheme
'night
at_have been necessary but for that insane
vrellft to the Free Trade crotchet of preferring

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