23 MARCH 1929, page 45

The Acid Test.

And yet, at first sight, it seems so eminently fair that a taxpayer should be called upon to pay in accordance with hiS capacity that few are disposed to challenge the point......

Taxation And Representation.

It is difficult, however, to see how . we shall ever obtain economies in National Expenditur e so long as the old maxim which used to be regarded as a cardinal principle,......

" 007sq[nen." . At A ,,inornent.when All Parties. Are...

making • their bids for public support, .I notice a cartoon in last liondays Daily Express, • by that clever cartoonist, Strube,' irhiCh well merits the . attention of the three......

Finance . Public And Private

Electioneering Planks—A Neglected Point . irevE referred on more than one occasion to the fact that the approaching General Election "must• be counted am ong the factors tending......

A..conspiracy Of Extravagance.

• The': cartoonist hits off the situation unfortunately only too truly, and, the reason is not far to seek—namely, that the horse is seldom a favourite one - for Election times,......

. Ambition Wanted.

What, of course, is required in this country is that industry should be relieved from excessive taxation and should be freer to fight its way to prosperity and by its......

-the General Electric Controversy

I REFERRED last week to the problem presented by the acquirement by America of a majority of shares in certain British industries, and without expressing any • opinion on the......