FARMERS' AND COUNTRY SETTLERS' LEAQUE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4191, 13 August 1892, Page 3

FARMERS' AND COUNTRY SETTLERS' LEAQUE.

The Programme,

The follojvijig is the programme Qf tho«e]T Zealand Farmera' and pountry Settlers! League';— ' ' j, That ihfl League will pppose all piass Legislation ap a violation of tip rights of ail citrons to equal lawn. 2. That this league will oppose all attempti to plac» heavier State W-

dens upon tlio owners of land than upon the owners of other kinds of property. 3, Tlmk this League denounces as dishonest, and a national breach of fniili, any proposals to nationalise thu land 3 owned by private citizens without paying fair compensation for them. 4, That this Lfiagao declares that the imposition of a Progressive Tax upon tho owners of land while exempting tlio owners of money from progressiva taxation is Class Legisla* lion, hostile to farmers and landowners, and a violation of thoir rights tO equal laws. 5, Tliut this League declares that it is unjust and oppresive to compel mortgagors of land to pay progressive taxes upon the mortgagee's interest in their land.

6. That this League views with just alurm those provisions of the Land and* Income Tax Act, 1891, which tax the farmers and country settlers so much more heavily than the town dwellers and money leudetß with equal means to pay taxes,

7. That this League condemns any systsm of taxation which will have the effect of unfairly diminishing the fund for employing agricultural labourers, and considers that the present Land Tax will cause a manifestly unfair diminution of such wage fund withoutgiving any corresponding advantages to them. 7. That this League declares it unprincipled and dishonest, for any politicians to advocate that any class of citizens able to pay taxes shall not pay their fair share of tho taxes required to be levied for the necessities of the community. 9. That this League declares it is unjust for the dwellers in town to havo the right to three votes, while the country settlers have only one vote for the election of Parliamentary representatives,

10, That this League will take every means in its power to forward the above views, and to assist in protecting the rights and interests of the farming community.