CLASS DISTINCTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 900, 20 August 1910, Page 10

CLASS DISTINCTION.

.'■■..' Sir,—Your artiolo in to-day's issue ifleaKng with the Death Duties Act, •■will, I feel sure, be ninch appreciated 'by .those (who nave from £1000, to £5000 in estate. It's quite time now a .definite line .was drawn to show where class distinction ended and begin, and ■ you having settled this aggravating point deserve the thanks of tho cqm■'miiiity. Of. course anybody having / jover £5000 worth of estate can consider themselves first-class, and under £1000 third-class.,. ;I am/ very, sorry .to say I am one of the great number /who cannot ally themselves to any of thevabbvo mentioned classes. My es- ; tate .consists of about £25 worth of 'cheap furniture, a wife, and five hun- ' gry>children. I have always consider-. .-' Sd.myself a decent sort of a fellow. No /.vicious habits /that-I am aware;, of, and I' pj'anagej ■'■although., this is--" a , .; hard ':.'.struggle, 'to keep my'accounts paid up.' -, INoTf,. as.'.you have so; kindly .defined, ■who' are' people,.,-, will .yofi"! kindly inform me to what class:-'I-,be--■long.' This is yeryAjmportant,-' not. only. ■ -.others.■:■!'do not..wanti.to'be'seen.'pn.; : forbidden .'ground .or ihirigling with' A a ; .class where I have no right; so if. yoju. milljfiiridly put , my mirid'-at :'rest'over /.'ithis all-important..problem, I- shall bo. : 'ldeeply,grateful.—l am, etc., ....'. ■'--■•■- / • PERPLEXED'. ..; August 16, 1910. ■■ ; •• .' ■. ' ;■- ' [Our/ correspondent appears to 'be /gmte intelligent enough, to answer his oivn question.] ,