A LIMIT TO RICHES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1277, 13 January 1883, Page 2

A LIMIT TO RICHES.

Hie Westminster reviewer, after stating that the - increase in the land 1 rents of the kingdom since .1836, has been caused by the manufactures, : claims for the rest of the community a share of this increment, A. large pro* portion of'tlus'"increasecourse,/paid 111 tho fpfcm of interest on 5 development ,oif the trade of, the country, the facilities of transport, aind other, similar causes, . rally added to the value of land.' ' m ■these,causes have added no less largely to :• the ..ya'ue i of jjyeirthinii,elss-of 'wortfe of 4 of Kon'sM^f^dsSnd ■the ■ increment of value attaohmg to then; firsf; editions since .the .foundationbf;their: libraries'up i» the preseni'day, A .as.tho land holders their' 1 interest in the increment, i-?The; manufacture is a responsible' one .the -other,; All, might cry out for a share in'the business which their 'coHsumption stimulated. Drunkards imight;Wfor. soiie §h"are ifl tho profits of the manufacture of glass," and thieves and incendiaries^forusome? strdction of safes; the demaud 'for which is greatly , enhanced by. their • efforts. • ' theriph.from becoming, rioher and the poor from. becoming poorer, !.f°m ?ais suggested ,th ej im- • position of a progressive tax on incomes, , t no estate should produce more thai £l2, clear, of the'land tax'and ■^ogr^iv^Vatitiwl'^lthouA tax .^omM'2os,m,the&,'and M'riv sequently every thousand beyontl 'that Bum can .produce po profit but by divid-" ing the eßtete.', ; , iho might fall into very much worse ilaiids !l thar those of Tom fain, ■whose proposition Repms moderate compared with mqny.r ofi thesel in: ■' ivogup' .at. • ipresent,—' Nineteenth Century, tw v/Z * :, m .