SINGLE TAX LEAGUE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1907, Page 3

SINGLE TAX LEAGUE.

There was some plain speaking at Monday night's meeting of. the '. Single" Tax League, when the Budgot proposals in refeienco Lo the tariff and land questions were discussed. Mr. Warren proposed .a motion!, condemning the proposals. He rejoiced at first when he saw that sugar and a few other common necessaries were free, but he soon changed his view when ho saw that, instead of adequately increasing | the land-tax, the Government proposed' ) to place more indirect taxes on such no- , cessaries as boots. Mr. G. Q. O'Biien, in seconding th» i motion, ridiculed the statement in tha Budget that the price of wheat depended on the duty. Tho prioo of all out commodities depended on the world's \ markets. As a working man and a Freetrader, he refused to approve a tariff that merely shifted the burden front sugar to boots. As for the land policy, he did not care two straws for the ten* ure as long as tho people -got -the unearned increment. ". Messrs. R. Gosse, 13. Stevenson, j O'Kano. and others also bpoke. Finally, the chairman (Mr. P. J. . O'Regan) suggested that the motion b» ' withdrawn, and that a committee comprising Mesus. Stevenson, Denton'i and the mover, be appointed to draw up a, manifesto setting forth the league'? attitude. Tliis suggestion was adopted, arid it was determined to issue the manifesto in a few days.