Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-19
BRITISH BUDGET.
Taken as a Whole 1t is Not as Bad
a Measure as was Expected.
Parnelrs Objection is 1t Expresses the
Irish PeOple-Watered Whisky
One of Its Results.
Maj Weissman Sends an Officer Back to Report
the Progress of His Expedition.
Socialist Exiled.
A Campaign Document.


Special to the Gazette.
[oSDON, April IS.-4The budget is still
the prominent topic of discussion in all
CIRCLES, and the general opinion is that
the measure, while far from giving
complete satisfaction, lis much less
offensive than any previous ministerial
presentation of like character
in many years. The failure TO
reduce the income tax and the changes
in the duty on spirits and beer form the
chief and most vital objections to the
bill, and these points are the basis OF
public criticism. Labouchere, IN an in
tervIew to-day, characterized the meas
ure as the milliOnRires and capitalists
budget, and predicted that II would
prove to the government veritaoIe
boomerang. The leading brewers are
already active in protecting their III
tereSts, aud a meeting of the owners
of the largest of these establishments
has been called for Monday next to con-
slider the matter Of offering opposition to
such of the provisions of the govern
ment' scheme as affect them. The gov
srnment's assertion that the increase1
duty imposed in 1889 is removed, is held
statement of fact. Instead of it being
removed, it is merely transferred to
another account so that the reve-
Eues from malt liquors shall be
devoted to local instead of imperial pur-
poses. The distillers profess the utmost
indifference to the change in the tax on
spirits, declaring that the increased
duty, or any further increase OF duty,
must fall upon the consumer and not
upon themselves, or, in other words,
the increase will be Offset by the addition
of wateP to their stock by the retailers.
This being the inevitable result, 1t re-
mains to be seen how long and to what
point of dilution the bibuIOus Briton will
permit his whisky TO be watered. The
objection TO the budget offered by the
Parnellites through Mr.. Sexton, is that
1t is undUly oppressive TO the people or
Ireland, burdening them with taxation
for which they receive no compromising
benefit.
GERMANS IN AFRICA.
The Emperor William has donated the
sum of 90 900 marks from his private
purse to the German hospital at Zanzi-
bar.
Maj. weissman has sent Maj. Lie
bert back to Berlin TO re-
port the progress of the formers
work in East Africa to the government.
Mai. Liebert is an officer of the general
staff, and year ago was appointed rep
resentative of the imperial commissioner
for East Africa, to go to Zanzibar TO
assume the direction of the organization
aud equipment OF Weissmann's expedi-
ton, and to command any supple
mentary expedition that might be deemed
necessary.
1t is understood that his report will be
submitted to the reichstag almost imme-
diately after the re-assembling of that
body, as evidence of the complete iusti-
fication of Weissman g expedition and as
a convincing reason why it should re-
ceive full legislative sanction and sup
port.
HERR SCHORT,
who was the Socialist candidate for the
reichstag in opposition to Professor
Virchow in the late general election has
been expelled from Berlin owing to the
violence of his speeches in the prevailing
Soeialistic labor agitation.