A POLITICAL PLEDGE.
One of the pledges which the Farmers' Political Federation seeks to extract from candidates for Parliamentary (honours is of an obviously contentious character. This insists that there shall be no inorease in taxation by way of land or Customs taxes. Which is tantamount to saying that .either there sliall be no increase in lexpenditure, or that such increase, if it should be considered necessary, should be met from some source other than at present exists. It is quite open, rf .course, for a candidate to pledge himself against increased expenditure, which is probably what the Farmers' Federation wants. He would, however, be pursuing a rather risky counsie in doing so. His only other alternative is to refuse to make the pledge, or to advocate the raising of the revenue required by a graduated tax upon incomes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10428, 20 September 1911, Page 4
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139A POLITICAL PLEDGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10428, 20 September 1911, Page 4
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