The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, April 28, 1910. WHY THE IRISH HATE THE BUDGET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 832, 28 April 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, April 28, 1910. WHY THE IRISH HATE THE BUDGET.

In the National Review, Mr Healey sets forth the objections of Ireland to the Budget. He says : —The protest of Ireland against the Budget is no exudation of party strife. It arises not only from poverty but from an insistence on international compacts. The Budget devised a tax which, without touching any Englishmen, rich or poor, smote Ireland to the bones. This masterpiece was the tax on tenant-right. This proposal is the real mainspring of Irish hatred for the Budget. In serried file there parades for our peasant’s eyes an ogre army, brigaded only for the work of brigandage. It musters up its stamp duties, its increment duties, its death duties, and all the other land taxes, to attack and reduce the little store which was believed to be fortified against all risk of spoliation. A farmer who, in sixty-nine years, will only have paid the money his landlord received, must forthwith pay duty, in case of a sale or death, on the full amount of the loan —as if the year 1910 were the year 1979. To give an illustration: If a tenant rents a holding which he can sell for the Budget makes him pay a doubled duty on But if the same holding has been bought out tor another the State, which allows sixty-nine years for repayment will, if the tenant dies, exact from his widow and orphans a doubled duty on viz., /300 on the tenantright, and ,£3OO on the money borrowed to pay off the landlord.” On the sale of a tenancy, increment duty as well as a doubled stamp duty ou estimated value comes into force. —-“The traditional arrangement of lowly wedlock in Ireland is that the farmer’s son gets an assignment of the land at his marriage, with life provision for the parents ; the bride’s dowry then goes to portion the daughters, or pay the younger son’s passage to America. Heretofore a tenshilling stamp validated the deed of marriage articles, but if the Budget passes duty will be levied ou the full capital value of the farm at future transfers. If the holding has been purchased from the landlord, then duty • ' •“ full capital borro.. ;d from t' - - .“•> ment will be added. The Budget, therefore, is an attack on the only possession of poor people, in,a poor

country, who are engaged in the most precarious of industries — agriculture.”