The Rev. J. O. Hannay ("George A. Birmiaghain"), speaking in London recently, gsrld^'that the middle class had been the oneiuffering class in England. The middle c]M»'Wai the easiest posible prey of Chancellws who wished to tax, and at the presentStime that class was struggling against bj'lT'ifiin* almost impossible tp bear. The Khglislr- middle-class people would do anything rather than accept what members of the working .classes not only expected, but clamoured for—State aid, free education, fr.ee this, and free that. Rather than accept' th we things, and in order to maintain their Independence, they were prepared to suff.gr almost incredible privations, and to lower almost beyond belief'their standard of living. He believed that owing to the»». characteristics the English- middle daMutijK w great a future before them «s their poit.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 4
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