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October 23, 1852.] THE LEADER. 1019 _
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THE PEOPLE'S PALACE 1KD THE RELI&IOTJS "...
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THIO MORALITY OI<' WOMAN'S RIGHTS. (To t...
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DISUNION AMONG POPULAR LEADERS. {To the ...
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NOTICES TO CORRKSPONDHiNTa. C. "W. "VV.'...
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Taxation Reduced To Unity And Simplicity...
h is may fall on men whose sacrifices to sustaii the burden may not be merely those of comforts , luxu r ; es or accumulations , but of daily necessaries for bodj and mind . In any case , however , we must for the present assume that our taxation absorbs one-sixth < jf our income ; ahd in whatever way we turn the matter , it t'H still come to the same thing . The effect of tlu proposed change of system is to bring us face to face "Hi the fact . It is worse than useless to disguise it 1 - the obscure and complicated devices of an indirect taxation . ~ Fev ? nations have paid so little as one-sixth of their income in taxation , including all its forms , although none of them have p aid taxes approaching to ours in absolute amount . As to our own experience , we had , inl 799 , an income-tax of one-tenth above 200 / . per annum , and at o-raduated rates down to 601 .: this yielded six millions , while the tot al taxation was thirty-five and a half millions . The incomes returned in 1801 , down to 60 L , amounted to 74 ^ 76 , 8941 . ; add what we may for evasions , exemptions , and incomes below the taxable limit > t still appears that the taxation at the beginning of the century was at least one-third of the income . In 1803 the income-tax was fixed at one-twentieth ; but the whole taxation reached to thirty-eight and a half millions . True , those were years of war ; but this at least is clear , ihat a tax on property which , on the average , should take only one-sixth of the iucome , to Uie exclusion of all other taxes whatever , would be far less burdensome than a tax of one-tenth or one-twentieth , accompanied by other taxes of six or ten times its own magnitude . , Having referred so much to income , we must add that the relation of taxation to income is necessarily taken into account in considering the effect of taxation on the general wealth of the nation , but that it does not supply the rule for apportioning taxation amongst the individual members of the community . We have not space in this article for showing that our taxation * oven ut its present rate , leaves us large collective annual savings . Our tables have been calculated on the supposition that we have but one tax , and that an annual one on property . Such a tax , to meet our present expenditure , would be a rate of 11 . Is . 7 { d . per cent , on all property . Two devices , consistent with our principles , may he proposed for reducing that rate—a personal tax and a large tax on all successions . The first at one shilling per person per annum would raise only 1 , 350 , 000 / ., i'lirt at three or four times that amount , would not get '"id of the necessity of relying chiefly on the tax on propert y . A large tax on successions , ably advocated '' . V Air . . 1 . S . Mill , i . s a property tax paid under arrnngeiiumiIk equivalent to the operation of ii reversed life assurance ; practically , it ; would bear with great ^ 'verity where successive- lives on the same property ^ em short . Mvon if it were raised as high as would '"' < 'onsist , ent with not defeating its realization , in large S 1 'uis , ; uiil jvt l () 1 | rr intervals , from the same property , ¦ "id i ( real properly ( now exempt ) were included in it , ; is l ( ' ' > "glit to |> e , the chief resource must still be the niial lax . Reserving , then , these points , we do not . "i them disturb our table , or our reasonings founded "ii it . <) ll ( ' of \ f . I . v . 71 , ^ <]„> ainomi t of the requisite rate , -- ! / / ., or „„„ . « , than hull " , is absorbed by the interest lll ( 1 "'• tuagemeni , of the National Debt , In . spif . e of "' ' "'" ' mn | , e Hilid to the contrary , " debt ., " in "" ml as well m privn . te affairs , " in not . only an in' ¦ ' "vnfinHv , 1 , | , calamity : " and «» f all the objects the ' "" should propose ) to itself , t ' o . w are so important , as ^¦ " iicsl , ! 1 U ( 1 Ht ,, 11 ( lfllHt Hlbrts to reduce its own . If , as " litive , sixty millions of dlm : t would be more < llM . V borne thnii fifty of indirect , taxation , we might ° make some . sensible impression on its amount K "' Ho lives of our present active men . Kxclusive ' lh ( 1 " » s « ' < nic ] ic (< n of <) , „ - debt , our taxation would be ''¦ ' !<¦ fell ¦ 1 - - ' ' ' « f it were direct , and , therefore , ini-• "W well us open to ciihv understanding and CO ] ,., . . 1 , 7 r > '' lu "> it would occasion little dissatisfaction and ""' '< li * eontent f pi ^ oregoing tables hIiow by wliut mnall imposts , if
1 only they were equally spread over all property , taxes may be entirely obliterated , which have been subjects of deep and long-continued complaint , and which by the partiality of their pressure have been undeniably injurious and severe . k The following table illustrates this point , which , however , will require further discussion : — j - . ¦ . Rate per 10 OI . per aim . Matters affected by required to replace J present taxes . and abolish the said > taxes . Household consumption , exclusive of s . d . ' drinkables 5 7 jjf ; Drinkables ........... 6 7 & Successions ( real property now exempt ) . 0 11 Commercial operations , considered as distinct from , the subject matters of commerce 1 11 ^ Locomotion 0 7 : j Means of discussion , information , and publicity 0 7 : ^ 16 3 We have confined ourselves in this paper to general views of the position of our taxation under the proposed system . Assessment , and the bearing of the system on classes , and in special circumstances , will occupy future papers .
October 23, 1852.] The Leader. 1019 _
October 23 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 1019
The People's Palace 1kd The Reli&Iotjs "...
THE PEOPLE ' S PALACE 1 KD THE RELI & IOTJS "VTOBLD . A well timed , moderate , and sensible pamphlet has recently been published under this title on the Sabbatarian agitation against the promised charter to the new Crystal Palace Company . We had hoped that the indignant voice of public opinion had silenced that nasal clamour ; but a report has reached us which we would fain consider as unfounded , that Lord Derby , harassed by the Sabbatarian skirmishers , sent out by the Earl of Shaftesbury , begins , with his now proverbial pliancy , to hesitate about granting the promised charter to the new Crystal Palace , unless the building be entirely closed on Sundays . When this outrage on sound feeling and common sense was first announced , our readers will remember that the Leader denounced its folly and its cruelty : for the rest , we may add that the pith of the pamphlet to which we have alluded , and "which well deserves attention ( as it is written in an eminently religious spirit ) was contained in "A Plea for Sunday Reform" which appoared in our Portfolio rnoro than a year ago .
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Thorn is unlearned man bill , will eonfiN-iM he , 1 irI . Ii much profited I ) V reach 111 ' , e < uil . n > v < : r : > H \ s , Ins . seiine . s aw . ik elied . ii ) id him ) Ucl ( ' . riienl . si lurpoiiec I . If , l . hen , it , be prolil . nlile lor liiiii l . o rein I , vvh v should it- mil ., at , leas I . , Im Lull Tal > lu for his ii' Ivei'rtnry l . o wnl . e . M ii . ton .
Thio Morality Oi<' Woman's Rights. (To T...
THIO MORALITY OI < ' WOMAN'S RIGHTS . ( To the Kdilor of the Leader . ) Mr . Lkadku , — In your recent observations upon f , h »> Woman ' s Rights Convention in America you say , thai , " had thi ) law the right , of compelling men to pay for the support of illegitimate children , infanticide would be diminished , or entirely cense . " . Hut its good effect would b «> carried much further . Illegal connexions would bo more effectually checked . The law which gave women < . he rights of equality . would tend to clear our land of the miserable , abandoned , vagrant ., and criminal juvenile population whom no one cares for and who care for no one . Perhaps even the law which elevated the Woman to her just , position , would in ho doing elevate the Man so much in bis moral state , that the laws to enforce education , now ho evidently incumbent and approaching , would not be needed . The laws I mean which must give support to rugged and reformatory , and industrial schools , or by whatever name we call thos » i institutions whieh are to mipply the
faults of educational schools—the faults of social tieswhich the want of this education has been so long engendering in our country . Can we doubt that by whatever sanction we give to raise the worth and dignity of the human race that now exists , by so much shall we secure the increased worth , and dignity of the succeeding race who are entering into the world as the progeny of the present . For it is the peculiar property of morals that they raise not only those who acfc them , but those towards whom they are acted . What is the argument which you and all rational men make use of in advocating the giving of rights to the people , to the whole of the adult males—is it not that in thus doing you will give them also duties ? and is not this argument identical for women in truth and in power ? I have lately visited a reformatory school in one of our cities , in which out of 30 boys lodged and fed , the master tells me that almost every one is illegitimate or turned out by a step-father or mother , or having parents in prison , and the consequence is that most have been in gaol seven to ten times ; and while the causes , bad family-ties , and bad education , are so strongly pointed out by the evidence of such schools , shall we only look to the remedy , not to prevention ? I remain , Sir , your humble servant , S . Bath , October 11 th .
Disunion Among Popular Leaders. {To The ...
DISUNION AMONG POPULAR LEADERS . { To the Editor of the Leader . ) Dear Sir , —Please to be so land as to allow me to tender my sincere thanks and regards to Mr . Thornton Hunt , for his manly forbearance towards his calumniators—for I cannot call them less—for depend upon it , a man who can truly say , ' it is my rule never to defend myself / is calculated to exercise a very beneficial influence , both in the present and the future , over the movements of the people . I am a poor man , but I have often said that I would contribute half of my week ' s earnings towards making a fund to be divided amongst the Chartist leaders , on the condition that they would be at peace amongst themselves for a period of two or three years ; but now , when a leader like Mr . Hunt , whose usefulness time alone will tell , comes forward and states the above rule of his conduct , I think that there is good cause to be thankful , for it is , in my opinion , a true sign of calculable progress ; and if the people only countenance such conduct , as it ought to be countenanced , our timehenccforth will not be taken up by personal bickerings , that have so long beenthebano of every Chartist movement ; but by true union in word and action , until wo finally triumph over every obstacle , and obtain those political rights for which wo have so long yearned and struggled . Yours ever , dear Sir , in the cause of Right , a . g . ISinploy , Oct . 18 th , 1852 .
Notices To Corrkspondhinta. C. "W. "Vv.'...
NOTICES TO CORRKSPONDHiNTa . C . "W . "VV . ' h Mtor , in reply to our ti'inpernneo contributors , declined . Wo prefer to insert ( he eoniiiiunieiitionn aijnlntt tlio view token l > y " Ion , " ho Iliat tint disctiHsion may not . bo considered purtiiilly eondiiel . ecl . " Ion" will probably ofl ' cr a lew remarks on the tellers wo have inserted . Mr . ii . Beal's letters admit of no reply . Their insertion would , wo believe , discredit the oau . ie they profess to represent in the eyes of all ri ^ lit-lliiuliin ^ and generous men . " Tim War of Ideas , " addressed to the Ant i-Nlavery Lenders ut home and abroad , by Ion Kellers to the "Open Council , " on " The Kmpiro in I'Yance , " and tlio " Ki'hition of Woman to Political Reform "—unavoidably omitted this \ v « 'clc .
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YVivks at A l'ltio . M HIM . A ii ( hvgon correspondent , of the Commercial . Advert ' iNer , in speaking of tho famous Oregon land law , which gives a mile si pi are of laud to every actual settler married before a certain date , says thai it set the whole country astir , mid everybody got married that could . Tlu ; scarcity of marriageable women , however , was such that , in some instances , girls of 14 , ][\ , ' 1 . 15 , and even 11 years of ago were ; married , in order to secure the land perquisites ! — JSem )' <> rk . Herald . A Dandy ' Indian " . —The young Indian , like Uio young lOuropean , is apt to break out as ; i dandy . ITo paints and greases himself with studious care , and dnllies elegantly with his pipe and tomahawk . Ho aspires to possess a looking-glass-, and when he gets ; one , dresses by it more than . seveil times a .-day . Jt is , however , not only a vain tiling ; it is serviceable to him in the prairie , since by flashing it . ngainst the sun , ho can make signals visible l > y distant friends before his , own dark body is lo be described ; and that , on many critical occasions , may lie a property that makes tluv looking-glass a valuable friend . Mr . Sullivan estimates the smoking power of Hie Indian at 5 <) pipes a-day ; but his tobacco is diluted with three times its quantity of the dried bark of the red willow , which makes Lfc . hotter to tho mouth , but diWiinisluss its sedat / ivo cll ' oot-• Diokionh'h Household Words .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101852/page/15/
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