Press Views.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12758, 1 May 1909, Page 5

Press Views.

"The Doctrine of social Ransom"

"Plundering the Middle Classes"

"A Bold Budget, but a Bad Speech."

LONDON, April 30. The Times declares that the deficit has to be covered at the cost of the wealthy and the fairly well-to-do. The doctrine of social ransom has never before been carried quite so far.

The Daily Mail says the Budget is plundering the middle classes and shows that Freetrade finance has hopelessly broken down.

The Standard says that the Ministers have flung away vast revenues from coal,

For Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Curt. Never fails Js 6d and 2s 6d.

The Grand Pnx and gold medal for qual-ty i? the whisky section of the Franco-British Exhibition has been award- • ed *? *^ Mte Horae " whif *y °ew. ing to Mackie and Co., distillers, Ltd., &. •5? an f, Gla «g? w ' X was only last month this old-established firm were honoured with the appointment by Royal warrant to Hi« Majesty the Kinf .

sugar, and tea, and are now without the courage to recant. The Manchester Guardian voices the opinion that Mr Lloyd George has vindicated the elasticity of Free-trade finance.

The Chronicle says it is a bold Budget, but a bad speech wearied the Commons. Mr Lloyd George was so anxious that a sketch of the future developments of the Liberal policy became a political manifesto.