The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-06
WHAT THE BUDGET, MEANS.

Lords with respect 10 the budget The
House of Lords rebels at the budget
as passed by the Commons. and for the
brst time IN three hundred wears re,
fuses It's assent 10 provisions for pro
VldlnC revenue for the kingdom The
House of Lords undertook to claim that
the new election of Parliament would
be IN the nature of referendum on
the budget. As has been shown here.
tofore, however. il is nothing of this
KIND, because multitude Of other ducs.
tIons, as the tariff labor issues, woman
sudraGc, etc, come IN TO complicate the
situation and deprive the election Of
being referendum i'm the sense that
the Lords claim, The Smoot paper in
this city Claims that tho Lords have a
good case. We disagree entirely on this
proposition. They have no fair case at
all II is the Commons that has the
case Illustrating this point we quote
a portion of an article contributed by
the chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr..
Lloyd-Gcorgc. in the Independent of
New York City as follows:
I have. been inquirirg into what is han
Psm,ng IN Englana recently. Landlords
nave no nationality; their charactcris-
tlcs are cosmopolitan. A case was given
nc the other day from Yorkshire OF all
,ne places IN the world. and as It illus
pose In my budget, | Will tell this story.
AS have II on the authority OF the
managing director-well, he is respon-
| Sible
II is the story OF a district in York
shire which four or five years ago was
purely aericultural-rcally agricultural re-
| ceiVme half It's rates as agricultural land
| from the general taxes. There was not
within four miles OF 1t an industry, not
factory. not coal mine, And some
| here And they went 10 the landlord
and said. .'WilI YOU allow us to dig for
He replied. '.For consideration of
course. | will only charge you sIXpcncc
ton on all the coal that comes up
dhsy said, What about the surface"
face land you want for the purpose. for
| Il consideration.
We'll. what do YOU want?" they said
| You are receiving now los. Sd. an acre
What will YOU want from us?"
Well" he said, -four pounds an
Then they said to him, eve must bring
"orkmen here. and as there arc no cot
| tages we shall have to build them, and
We propose building a model village" And
When they asked, wifi you allow us
to build few cottages?" he said. Ger
tainly, but l shall want a small return
This landlord is really a most mod
crate landlord The land was at l5s. Cd
eighteen times the value OF the land. /
can give cases whore landlords have
charged thirty, forty even hundred
times the value OF the land. This man
cl~I,Y
] times its value.
Then he said to them. There is the
nsh pond dr. rather her, near your model vii
afterwards. whatever It's worth now. So
think you had better take it, The
mining spcoulntors replied. IAN right. 1t
| for trout or tadpoles."
The landlord: II am getting sl for
it now; will let YOU have it for eighteen
| Suineas year, cheap
They started They spent half mill
lion without knowing what would hap
pen. II was real speculation. a real
lion. discovered the coal, and the land
| owner Is getting royalties now a the
rate Of nearly s20ooo per snnum. He
is getting In addition TO The e. per
annum for every acre OF land out Of
the surface used by tho colllery.-he is
getting es TO Eio per annum per acre
| Gi per annum for tipping rubbish. and
| El0 per annum for each workmen's cot
| iage. And he is making a good thing
| out OF it-a very good thing out OF IT,
Recently they were prospecting and get
ting more and more coal and In very
short time they will he paying 100000
per annum for this land for the ROYALTIES
alone. The landlord has never spent a
penny upon II. Recently they wrote him
and said. we want more ground TO build
| cottages on.
He said Certainly. for El50 per acre"
the land now for agricultural purposes
being worth about $50 per acre and the
of the general taxation of the county
In respect TO the fact that 1t is agricul-
tural land,
What happens? Iie said 10 them. Il
acre but he added. mo public house
TO be erected-without the consent OF
the landlord.
II consent is given an extra premium
is required. like man who puts a
high value ON his principles. Here. at
any rate. is a man who won't part with
them without an extra premium.
Where docs my Budget come In? II
comes In rather late. | admit II ought
10 have come in In one OF the earlier
give the story a happy ending. When the
10000 royalty comes. per cent; for
the first ,nId time Till come 70 the state
nominally agricultural land. but which is
now valuable building land. Will pay a
halfpcnny In the pound. When it is sold
we VIII get 20 per cent, on the In
crease,
More than that. We have had another
little provision. We have considered his
case thoroughly. When these cottages
fall in and his heir comes and walks In
for the whole OF this beautiful model VII
lage--this model landlord OF q model VII
lage-the State VIII then under this
Budget. say, VERY well. II you really
must take all the property / think we
had better get toll OF 10 per cent on
IL, at any rate. We shall be able 10 do
something for the people who live in
these cottages.
We have got another little provision.
The 5 per cent. only applies 10 existing
collicries. But we have got special
provision for future collieries- We shall
then ask not per cent OF the royalty.
but 20 per cent
Let me call attention TO one provision
in this lease, because IL really casts a
strange. almost weird. light upon the
landlords ideal OF rural life i'm this coun-
try. There is clause in the lease OF
this model village that no persons shall
reside in any OF these cottages II they
have been convicted OF an offense aEeins,
the game laws. No person shall reside
=. there II the landlord or his agent has any