CORRESPONDENCE. TAXATION AND FRANCHISE.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1247, 6 March 1878, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

TAXATION AND FRANCHISE.

To the Editor of the (-Uobe. Sib, —There was one great point in manhood suffrage that was left untouched, and as it came out clearly, but in an utterly false shape by Mr Z. in a letter on taxation, I propose to settle the question for ever by means of this bill: — Mr Z. in account with Zealandia. Dr. £ To yearly value of town property 200 „ yearly value of country property 1500 Yearly receipt from Zealandia 1700 Cr. By paid to revenue town estate Nothing „ paid to revenue for couutry est ate Nothing „ spent on family in colony (2) ... 300 „ spent on family in England (2) 150 „ paid to revenue through tariff 8 „ paid to English revenue through children 1 „ cash, wages, six servants town and country ... ••• ••• 240 „ rent and food six servants town and country ... ... ••• 240 „ cash, ten extra servants ... 120 ~ rent and food, ten extra servants 120 Total yearly payments ... 1179 Untaxed yearly profit made out of sixteen workers ... ••• 521 So the whole world can now see that the servants pay £64 a year to the revenue, while the rich Mr Z. only" pays £8 a year, although Mr Z. is so ignorant as to say, "I don't see how the working man is to be reached by taxes." Further, as Mr Z. is an ingenious mind, let him send a cheque for conscience sake to the Treasury to make up his past neglect. Further, these sixteen servants arc paying house rent in his town and country Bouses with labor; consequently they are entitled to claim a vote through occupation of his premises, and the clause in the new Bill which will meet the case is—" All working men occupying as residents for three months a master's house, are to be deemed as paying rent by labour, and are to be allowed to register their votes for such occupation in March each year." The same clause in effect applies to lodgers. I hope the discussion will go on, carefully excluding the drunkenness, lying, lunacy, and hanging, &c, &c, that was so very unwisely admitted in a certain Canterbury paper the other day. Yours, &c, J. W. Tbealuvell.