CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 63, 19 June 1916, Page 4

CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH.

The Timi’s also discusses tln- ' conscription id wealth’’ in reply to another new-paper’s criticism and concludes its article by remarking: “it would l)o interesting to know why the

huge incomes not reached through the income tax are ignored. The value of agricultural and pastoral production in this country last year was well over .t*i0,00(),000. Most of that is current income and a great deal of it is war profit. Those who urge the

conscription of wealth are not evilminded or fanatical people. They include citizens and members of Parliament usually treated with profound respect by our contemporary. They wish to see some approach to equality of sacrifice. They want to see the principle, the very correct principle, of the Military Service Bill carried to its logical conclusion. That is all. They believe that it is right, if necessary, to compel men to fight for their country, the men being taken under a system which calls lirst upon those best able to serve; and they believe that money for the war should he secured on the same basic principle of payment according to ability. In a word, conscription of wealth.”