THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 9 June 1909, Page 5

THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, Yesterday. • Mr Austen Chamberlain moved the rejection of tho Budget. Tho Government, he said, was forging a weapon of oppressive confiscation. The real authors were Mr Phillip i Snowden , and the Labor party. If tho Budget was a triumph for freetrade it Avas tho deathbloAV to fiscal reform. Lot the electors decide to uso tho scoffed idea and capital would tako wings and fly away. Ho vigorously defended the land clauses. The debate Avas adjourned.

Mr Philip Snowden is M.P. for Blackburn. Ho was chairman of the Independent Labor Party in 1903---06, and is now chairman of the Labor Leader Newspaper Co. He is a prolific writer on Socialism.