Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-13
Little Dauid Upsets England
We1sha, Who Has Come From Obscurjty to Political
Po,per Startles the Lords of Wealth by
Income Tax Scheme.

United Kingdom. The country shifted
and the lords amended the bill into in
Significance. The liberals tried some
reform of THE Scottish land laws. which
certainly needed it, for most Of the land
in Scotland is owned by less than a
dozen great titled landlords, the tillers
being their tenants. But this didn't
touch the spot: it was too radical for
the conservatives. but not radical
enough for the real radicals.
Then came the death of Sir Henry
and the emigration of Mr.. Lloyd
George from the board of trade to the
treasury. The Welshman was willing to
tackle a very bad situation that nobody
else yearned for. He had a theory about
It, The new premier with some mis-
givings decided to let him try.
Tackles Bad Situation.
The exchequer faced deficit OF
about s60.000,000 in the revenues. II
was partly caused by the tremendous
squirt in navy building to overmatch
Germany; partly by the old-age pen
sion legislation which the liberals had
passed, looking to the ultimate dis
tribution of about s40.000,00O annually
frightened out of its wits over Ger
many and airships and all sorts OF
scarecrows that the conservatives had
set up. The conservatives demanded
bigger and vet bigger naval expendi-
/ lures. Mr.. Lloyd-George had once voted
against big naval program. and ev-
erybody thought as chancellor he would
be violently against it, to the great
injury of his party.
But he fooled them all. Lloyd
George as chancellor was a new man
Battleships? He was willing. He'd ge,
EN- the money, too. Deficit? He wasn't
afraid. He would wipe it out all al
once; he would raise taxes to point
never before dreamed Of; he would be
as good a judge as there was in the
kingdom His only worry was that the
deficit wasn't so big as he would like
For his purposes, the biggest one pos
sible would serve best. He actually sci
at work to make it look bigger than ii
was. and MANAGE to initiate it to about
s75, 100000.
For he had scheme to increase the
taxes and make the people like it.
There was vast mystery about the
SCitSIut w men WOulU
come from the keen-eyed lit
tie Welshman who had once
convinced very solemn cour,
that it wasn't wicked to steal if you
We're hungry. There were million OF
so of paupers in the Kingdom, and 9TH
er millions who went hungry more o,
less of the time. There were also
twelve or fifteen great land-ownine
dukes who by the exercise Of marvel
Gus foresight in the selection of Tor
bears back to the time when the con-
querer divided up England among his
favorites, owned so much land anc
money that they couldn't count theil
incomes. The millions who were hun
cry went back and read those speech
es of the sharp tongued Welshman
about stealing when you're hungry
and opined that the coming budget
wouldn't do them much harm. Likewise
the landlord dukes read the same
speeches. and We're impressed that the
budget wouldn't do them much good
The Lords Take Notice.
1t turned out that both views were
correct
Mr.. Lloyd-George sent out for all the
figures that all the accountants ant
statisticians in his department could
ing, and sawed wood And one day hi.
bureet was presented to the commons
The great dukes, and the rest of tn