THE PROPOSED TAX UPON CORN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 179, 2 August 1869, Page 2

THE PROPOSED TAX UPON CORN.

To tiie Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir — In your issue of Friday last I find that the Fox, who some weeks ago, [ so cleverly wheedled the silly geese into his den, is now preparing to pluck them, [ and that he has made up his mind to begin with the poor ones first. In order to supplement present ways aud means, he proposes to lay a tax upon the poor man's bread, as if there was no other means than this of raising the needful; if the thing must be done, if the money must be had, could he not have ■ plucked, as sparingly as possible, the fat I ones first ; there would have been some little sense iv doing this ; but no, his predilection is for the poor ; true he'finds au excuse, but a very lame one, it is Victoiia to] wit. So,; because the Government of one country chooses to act au egregious blunder, and tries to perpetuate it, we must as a matter of course adopt the same evil course, and follow a | bad example. If to provide for a present pressing want, he had moved for a half-farthing property and income tax upon all with an income of £500 n year and upwards, few would have felt the extra pressure, and we should hate called him a sensible fellow ; but no, if any must go to the wall s ifc must, be the poor man. Really I thought we had seen enough of tiie curse of taxing the poor man's loaf at home in the old country, without transplanting the same curse to this the opposite side of the world. Working men, now is the time for you to watch your. representatives, and should they vote for this tax, you will then know what to ! do with them next election. Yours truly, A Working- Man.