TAXATION AND POVERTY.
[To Tile EDITOR OF TUB "SesarATos.-]
SIR,—Would you allow me to point out that the views of Professor Dill, Guizot, and Dr. Hodgkin with regard to the effect of heavy taxation can be, at least partially, reconciled ? Heavy taxation not only tends to press with increasing force on the poorest—John Bright, I think, likened it to a stone rolling down a hill—but it increases the- ability of rapacious men to plunder the community. The grasping, crushing landlord is in social harmony with the grasping, crushing State. Those who are at present crying out for the taxation of the rich wish to help the poor, but they are really creating conditions that will enable the unscrupulous among the rich to plunder the poor more and more.—I am, Sir, &c., .
OLD LIBERAL.
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