ECONOMY AND TAXATION.
.-[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Ski:MA-TOR:1
SIR,-LAllowmo to say brief word iwsupport of Sir Herbert Maxwell's commie-et on your—perhaps hastilY,svrittett—sertternm accusing all classes of :spending as much now as before the war, and pressing on this ground for severe taxation., My acquaintance lies chiefly among London peoples who, thorigh highly educated, have td liveon ince:nut between £400 and £800 a year-.sourer times all " earned,". sometimes all classed as " unearned,"- but generally a .combination-of the -two.: They are all economiaing as best they can.. Some of them are_ already enduring considerable discomfOrt .owing. to•-taxation and: high: prices. . They. are -not tradesmen.who can maintain their position-by raising charges,.Of artisans who can strike for a bonus. 'A large .propottion of the class mill; if the furtheetaxation.hits them, be deprived of thing[ requisite to their efficiency. In many cases their- fees or stipends are-gravely diminished ;_ in. some,- they_ can only. carry on their work. by reason of possessing a modest income front investrnenta. I venture to think that the deeper interests_ of F.nglish life will • suffer for generations if the type to which these people belong be crushed out of :existence in this generation. ! If the alternative be some. burden :upon posterity, posterity had better be bur:- dened.—I am, Sir, &c., It. J. Fr.sroaxn. 19 Provost Road ,-Ilaverstoek Hill, N.W.
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