14 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 2

Apart from the immediate problem of finding a certain amount

of money by December, M. PainleN4 has on -his bands the much larger task of providing a sinking fund for the repayment of loans. He proposes a poll tax of twenty francs upon everybody over the age of twenty one ye*._ Englishmen who remember the history of their own Poll tax will See ;very little relief. for Fiance in that way. -The English rebellion of the fourteenth -century 'was entirely due to the hated poll tax. In this country we can hardly understand why anyone should suggest a poll tax when it is possible simply to increase as far as necessary the much juster and more scientific income tax.