THE DEATH DUTIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2577, 11 August 1909, Page 2

THE DEATH DUTIES.

Britain, is, at all events, wo maj l, see at the fir.sit cursory glance, not a country for the capitalist to fly to after shaking from his shoes the dust of an ungrateful democratic Dominion. Moreover, one can see in the vast difference in the duties proposed under the new system the difference reflected of the social conditions obtaining respectively in the Dominion and in the Mother Country. So great a departure would not be justified here, because the distribution of wealth has already been placed on a better footing than it is in the Mother Countrv. We can therefore conclude for ourselves by easy process of reasoning that the problem of social disabilities lias been very firmly gripped by the farmers of the British Budget, and that they are likely to be encouraged by the majority of public opinion to hold on. The figures given the public by the Attorney-General enable the Dominion public to understand the Budget better than they did before. They -also ought to help the wealthy men of the Dominion to be more content with their lot under the Libera] regime. They are at all events furnished with the opportunity of giving a new. reading to the term than the one they have sometimes associated with sneers. They may even thank the Liberalism of the Dominion for being so much more Liberal than the Liberalism of the Mother Country.-—“ Southland News,”