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SLUMP IN DUKES r .0- MR. LLOYD GEORGE I P: Discusses the Budget. AFTER AXE AND CHISEL COMES THE SANDPAPER. IVELY SCENES: NUMEROUS EJECTIONS Hr. Lloyd George, in the course of his peeoh a.t Newcastle on Saturday afternoon, laid:- I have ijot come here to deliver a speech. I have just come here for a PLAIN, straight talk about the Budget, the opposition to it, and the prospects of both. The Bill has emerged out of its forty days and forty nights—(laughter)—in the wilder, ness much strengthened and improved. We have done our best to meet hard cases; amidst the taunts of the people who proposed them. I have done five months' hard labour. (A Voice: What about the women?" and disturbance.) But the Bill in its main structure remains. All the factors are there, and the land tax and the spirit tax are there. (Cheers, interruptions, and ejections of male suffragists continued.) We are through the last stage where the substance of the Bill can be fashioned. The Committee stage is the stage for the axe and the chisel and the plane. The Report stage is the stage for the sandpaper, end the eubstanoe remains. Going to be an Act I You see the Bill practically in the form in which it is going to become an Act of Parliament. (Another objection here took placeO The Bill is an attack neither on industry nor property. There has only been one class of stock that has gone down badly. There has been a great slump in dukes. (More ejections were witnessed.) All other forms of stock have improved. Why should Liberalism seek to destroy industry? Most of the people who never work for a living belong to the Tory party. (Another two ejections.) As a matter of fact, the richest men in the House of Commons happen to sit on the Liberal aide of the House. And yet we are told we are engaged at the present moment in destroying property. All we ask is that wealth should pay its fair share. One class of people who detest the Budget are those who are seeking completely to change the fiscal system—to tax fo-od--md they know that once this Budget is through there is an end to their desire. (Cheers.) Powerful Landlords I The second most powerful class are the landlords. They are angry because the land taxes are taxes which will grow. The working classes are tired of Wal- bottles. (Cheers.) They want better houses and more air to recruit their exhausted energies altar toil. They will get it. (Cheers.) This Budget will help them to get it- (cheers)—-and more land means more revenue from land taxes. The chief objeotion of the landowners is to the valuation proposals. That goes to the root of the land ques- tion. There had never been a great public undertaking in this oountry in connection with which there (had not been enormous sums demanded for land far in excess of its agricultural value. State Valuation j You see where valuation oomes in- I have my bag packed with papers in which landlords have demanded the heaviest price they could possibly extort when additions were wanted to existing property. The State valuation for the first time places a perfectly impartial valuation on all the land in the kingdom. It forms a standard to guide the buyer. When I aak for 5 per cent. of landlords' incomes from collieries they say, "You're a thiefyou are worse, you're an attorney. Worst of all. you are a Welshman." They have got to stand the Weilshiman this time. Collecting the Dead Rent I Having set the paoe of a euoceaefol mining speculator in Yorkshire, the Chan- cellor Aid, My Budget came in lale, but not too late. It will give us 5 per oent. on royalties, a half-penny on the capital value of building land, 20 per cent. on the increased price when the land is sold, and when the land- lord passes to another sphere we will col- lect the dead rent. When the lease falls in we get another 10 per cent., and on royalties from other seams which may be worked 20 per oent. Where's the inj ustice of it? I have listened to criticisms for five iQonths, but have yet to learn of an injus- tice in these taxes when the State needs money. The landowners should feel honoured that Providence has given them a chance to Pay a. little into the poor box. Perhaps if they don't do it we will do it for them. (Cheers.) We are going to send the Bill ttp. All the taxes or none. (Load cheeTS.) Now, what will the Lords do. I tell you frankly it is a matter which concerns them more than it concerns us. The more irresponsible and feather- headed amongst them want to throw it out. What will the rest do? Mutinous Lords' Crew I It will depend on the weather. PttwrLard Lansdowne, with his creaky oM ship and his mutinous orew. has got to sail through the narrows, with one eye on the weather- glaas and the other on the forecastle. But it does not depend on him. It will depend, in the first place, upon the report from the cotintry-not Lord Lansdowne, not Mr. Balfour, tnjt Sir Acland Hood, the chief Tory Whip. He is the real sailing master, and that I ancient mariner is ensued a.t the pz?sent moment in trying to decide whe?e=rl ist safe to shoot the albatross. He will pro-I bably not disoover until it is too late. Complete Control of the Commons I The Commons, and the Oonrmon-8 alone, have the complete oon/trol of ways and means. Whiait our fathers obtained through centuries of struggle, strife, and bloodshed we will not lighitly give up. We are not gomg to be traitors. (Lomd cheers.) The Constitution is to be torn- to pieces. Forcing a Revolution I Let them realise what they are doing. They are forcing a revabution. The Lords may decree a revolution, but it is the people who will direct it. (Loud cheers.) Issues will be raised they little dream of. Who is responsible for the scheme whereby one man is enga,d through Me in grinding labour and ekeing out a pre- carious existenoe, and another man is rolling in luxury which he does not earn? Where did that table of the law come from? Questions such as theee will be asked, and the answers arc charged witii Peril for the order of things the Peers represent, but tibe3, are fraught /with rare and refreshing fruit for the parched lips of the multitude who ire treading the dusty road along which the People have marched through the dark ages which arj now merging into light. (Loud cheers). Mr. Lloyd George sat down at 4.22.

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