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Página 6
... taxation . As a true friend to the farmers , the Age then shrieks a note of warning in their ear , and tells them that under this monstrous system their taxation would amount to 10s . per acre per annum , or on a farm of 320 acres to ...
... taxation . As a true friend to the farmers , the Age then shrieks a note of warning in their ear , and tells them that under this monstrous system their taxation would amount to 10s . per acre per annum , or on a farm of 320 acres to ...
Página 7
... taxing them , seems to have deprived our lead- ing lights of whatever little wits they once possessed . In order to stave off the inevitable taxation of land values , a retrenchment boom is advocated , as insane and more injurious than ...
... taxing them , seems to have deprived our lead- ing lights of whatever little wits they once possessed . In order to stave off the inevitable taxation of land values , a retrenchment boom is advocated , as insane and more injurious than ...
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... taxation must therefore be judged , not solely , but largely , with regard to its tendency in this direction . This rule , which holds good at all times and in every country , assumes exceptional import- ance in Victoria at the present ...
... taxation must therefore be judged , not solely , but largely , with regard to its tendency in this direction . This rule , which holds good at all times and in every country , assumes exceptional import- ance in Victoria at the present ...
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... taxing the unimproved value of land ? Mr.Trenwith poses occasionally as the leader in the movement for the taxation of land values , though he has never yet opened his mouth in Parliament to support it . The following utterance exhibits ...
... taxing the unimproved value of land ? Mr.Trenwith poses occasionally as the leader in the movement for the taxation of land values , though he has never yet opened his mouth in Parliament to support it . The following utterance exhibits ...
Página 36
... taxing men according to the number of mouths which they have to feed , and the number of backs which they have to clothe ... taxation , the wealth taken from their industry , would be very small . Our traders and manufacturers would then ...
... taxing men according to the number of mouths which they have to feed , and the number of backs which they have to clothe ... taxation , the wealth taken from their industry , would be very small . Our traders and manufacturers would then ...
Índice
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91 | |
115 | |
120 | |
145 | |
147 | |
161 | |
180 | |
106 | |
109 | |
117 | |
122 | |
133 | |
142 | |
151 | |
163 | |
169 | |
190 | |
3 | |
19 | |
67 | |
81 | |
189 | |
10 | |
60 | |
67 | |
73 | |
88 | |
90 | |
128 | |
129 | |
152 | |
155 | |
156 | |
175 | |
183 | |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acre advocates amount annum Australia banks Beacon Benalla benefit capital cause cent Church classes COLLINS Collins-street colony condition cost duty Echuca electors England equal existing fact farm farmers favour Free Trade Free Trade party freights George Dibbs give Government hands improvements income increase industry interest JAMES SERVICE labour land monopoly Land Value Taxation land values landowners living Mallee manufacturers matter Max Hirsch Max Hirsch lectured meeting Melbourne ment moral owners ownership paid paper Parliament PHOENIX present production proposed Protection Protectionist question railway reason reduced reform rent result revenue Sac Suit Single Tax League Single Taxers Sir Graham Berry social South Melbourne South Wales street tariff tax on land things tion TOBACCO town Trenwith unimproved value value of land Victoria vote wages wealth Wimmera workers Yarrawonga
Passagens conhecidas
Página 26 - God, Give Us Men! God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Página 87 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Página 57 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Página 52 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us — cherish — and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence...
Página 56 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to — shut the gates...
Página 166 - If the bulk of the human race are always to remain as at present, slaves to toil in which they have no interest, and therefore feel no interest — drudging from early morning till late at night for bare necessaries, and with all the intellectual and moral deficiencies which that implies — without resources either in mind or...
Página 12 - Well, then, for Christ," thou answerest, "who can care? From sin, which Heaven records not, why forbear? Live we like brutes our life without a plan!" So answerest thou; but why not rather say: "Hath man no second life? — Pitch this one high! Sits there no judge in Heaven, our sin to see? — More strictly, then, the inward judge obey! Was Christ a man like us? — Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
Página 35 - Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Página 53 - England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.
Página 79 - ... cannot, like Newton, weigh the far-off stars in a balance, and measure the heavings of the eternal flood ; we cannot, like Voltaire, scorch up what is cruel and false by a word as a flame ; nor, like Milton or Burke, awaken men's hearts with the note of an organ-trumpet ; we cannot, like the great saints of the churches and the great sages of the schools, add to those acquisitions of spiritual beauty and intellectual mastery which have, one by one, and little by little, raised man from being...