Arizona republican., 1909-12-01

which will result in the restoration of the land of England r the people from the titled holders who have enjoyed the fruits of these lands for genera tions back" Both sides fear that the ultimate result will be revolution. Accordingly, MT. David Lloyd George. and MT. Winston Churchill are de- nounCeti by the conservatives as revo- lutionists and socialists. Even the king is quoted as saying of MT. Churchill. whose father was the late Lord Randolph Churchill, and whose mother was an American, that he is half alien and wholly undesirable"
 It is worth while to mention some of the prominent features of this rev olutionary tax bill.
 It provides a tax of 20 per cent on the unearned increment Of land val ues, based on a valuation to be taken at once; two-tenths per cent on the capital value Qf undeveloped land and undeveloped minerals; two-tenths per cent on mining royalties; ten per cent reversion duty on the benefit ac- cruing at the termination of lease,
 Income taxes are increased. re- bate of $50 is allowed to the middle class taxpayer for each child under ten years of age. On all incomes in excess of S25.OOO year there is to be d super-taX of 2.4 per cent. On un earned incomes Gncomes from landed estates. for instance) exceeding s25.- GOO year the income tax will be at the rate of S.2 per cent There is to be a graduated increase in the inher- itance tax. the new tax ranging from per cent on estates of s=5.O00 to 15 per cent on estates of s5,OOO.000
 Motor cars are to he taxed. accord ing 90 horse power. ranging from sl0 on d six-horse powe- machine tp $200 on car above 60-horse power. Gas oline is taxed cents a gallon. Doc tors cars pay half rate. The motor car tax is expected to yield more than 6 million dollsr5 a year
 The revised death duties range from f Der cent to F per cent.
 The working classes are freed from all taxes except booze" and tobacco.
 Of course, none of Mir. Lloyd Georges proposals have been so bit terly opposed as his land tax. It bears heavily upon such titled hold CTS of land as the Duke of .Suther- land. who owns 1.S5s,69O acres. The tax on undeveloped land will De charged upon unbuilt-on land only. and all other land ot which the capi- will be exempted. Under these pro- visions all land having a purely agri- cultural value will be exempt. The land tax is well designed to force the owners of great estates to subdivide them and sell them to the people.
 MT Lloyd George, in his speech the budget, described with some eloquence the salient features of his bill:
 This is a war budget It is a budget for waging implacable warfare against poverty, and l cannot help hoping and believing that before this has passed away We shall Lave made a great advance toward the good time when poverty. with the and squalor and human degradation which always follow in it's camp. will be as remote from the people of this country as the wolves which once inhabited its forests"
 The appalling magnitude of the poverty of the English people is not by Americans. Some idea of the extent or it may be gath cred. however. iron MT. Lloyd Georges statement that the paupers above the age of seventy number nearly three hundred thousand