The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

`ChTat and paramount as the landed, inter

country is

not the land of England alone to whic

are indebted for our
lands more fertile.

as a natio

then, that gives

It is the

creased van;
England. To what h the we
To its trade and commerce.
has a power and wealth beyonc
her trad

th of the country mainly du

How is it that this 1

ries ? Why, that
)f the

led over all par

hat, then, was

the object

It would ha
ting agriculture under the ci

of the Government it

late measures

ss
rcumstances of

the country

cl, therefore, it was the duty of the Parlia-

and the Government to endeavour to encourage the
mmercial and shipping interests of the country, as the best

node of

n'cre used value to agriculture-and of hene-

fitting airchisaalof the community. (Loud cheers.) Then
there was the credit of the country, which also required some
and active aid. When the late Parliament met
there was no less than a ten million deficiency in the public
revenue, which had to be made up. (Hear, hear.) And

vigorou

Was this enormous deficiency to be znitde up by s paltry
shifting of the burden, or by pretended reductions? No.

• •
Was it not rather to be provided for by boldly looking
fact at once in the face, and devising a plain and
emedy, that should provide a fund to pay
(Hear, hear, hear.) It was only to be
honestly met by the government telling the
t it was so much in debt, and, that it must be paid
by the money in hand. (Cheers.) This is the way an honest
man deals with his creditors in private life. But it is a mat-
ter which is of the deepest interest to the agriculturists first,
and all other classes after them ; for it is not merely to our

rowerfu

the mone
fairly and

colonies, our trade, or our wealth, that we derive our great-
ness and our safety, but to the national honour—and what
is national honour but the paying of all our just debts ?

Appian

hen it me

such was the situation of this parliament
and what did it do ? The government and the

rst adopted the plan of an income tax ; certainly
thing. (A laugh.) You feel it, and I feel it ;
-ny time.

s is not very agreeabl

income

it; should be remembered that this tax was not
i agreeable thing in itself, and that this was an
:ompanied by other measures which enabled

the great bulk of the community to pay it, not only without
feeling it much, but without feeling it at all. (Hear.) I
know how some of you talked of this income tax—(a laugh)—
but I tell you that, for your own sakes, the national faith
must be kept. (Cheers.) You will, no doubt, say, if others
are enabled to pay the income tax out of the reduced price of
commodities, how are we, the agriculturists, to be enabled to
pay it, when we are to sell our produce at a reduced price
and to pay the tax also ? (Hear.) Now, I have stated it in
the House of Commons, and I have stated it here,

hat the

income tax will be paid by the great bulk of the community,
who are all consumers, from the decreased cost of the neces-
Hear.) am glad to hear you assent to that ;

cries of life

let any consu
and other

r calculate what he saves in bread, in meat,
tides, and he will find that it more than coml.

his share of the income tax. But upon whom,
:n fall? It will fall first upon the hoard-
: those who have more money than they
will have to

excellent friends

for hoarding