The Morning Post of Wednesday published the curious results of
an examination of what the Daily Mail has said about Mr. Chamberlain's Bill. When Mr. Churchill outlined the scheme in his Budget statement the Daily Mail said : " The new plan of local rating relief . . . constitutes the first recognition by a Chancellor of the 'Exchequer . . . of the fact that industry is the most important element in this country ! Upon industry everything else depends ; and if it were allowed slowly to perish, nothing but ruin and starvation would await the people of Great Britain. "
What was true on April 26th cannot have become less true on November 19th, yet on the latter date the Daily Mail, which tendentiously describes Mr. Chamberlain's Bill as the " Higher Rates Bill," said : " The Higher Rates Bill is peculiarly cruelbecause it conceals the truth, and the truth is that it penalizes the smallest householders. It will increase the burdens on hundredi of thousands of women who earn their livelihood by letting rooms or apartments and keeping lodging-houses in our lacif and smalltowns.", •
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