A PERFORM LEAGUE MANI FESTO.

The " New Zealand Radical Reform League," which has its headquarters at Auckland has forwarded to us a copy of a v Manifesto " issued under its auspices m favor of an entire change m our aystcm of taxation. Herein, the League sets out the following as the leading principles of a fair system of taxation, viz. that.

Ist. It must be laid m just proportion upon all classes .

2nd. It must be certain and not arbi tary. r f he time, manner, and amount of payment should be clear and plain to all.

3rd. The time of payment should be Buited to the convenience of the payer. And it proceeds to show that taxation through the Customs is not proportioned to the ability to pay, but is arbitary to the last degree, while " it conceals from the taxpayer the aggregate amount he individually contributes," and is further characterised by the League as mean and cunning device for abstracting from the thousands of little hoards of the poor, huge aggregate sums that ought to be drawn from the treasuries of the rich." It is contended that if the Customs taxation fell m equal and just proportion upon all classes, " the rich man would pay according to his wealth more duty on a single article of goods than does a poor man, whereas every every man, lich and poor, pays the same. For instance, if it were possible to levy Customs duties m just proportions, a man m receipt of £30 a-week should pay ten times greater duty on a single article than the man earning £3 a-week. That is, if the man m receipt of £3 a week paid one shilling duty on a pound of tea, the man m receipt of £30 a week should pay 10s a pound duty. This vronid be paying m fair and just pro portion." As such a differentiation ot taxation is not possible under any con ceiveable tariff, the League proposes an entirely new departure by removing the Customs duties on the necessaries of life and by repealing the Property-tax which is characterised as " iniquitous," substituting m lieu of these modes of raising revenue a direct tax upon land The League argues that land is a proper subject of taxation for the following reasons, viz.

Ist. Because it is the primary ([source of all wealth.

2nd. Because man cannot exist with out land ; therefore those who monopo lise without using it, should be made to pay for keeping those from it who would use and live by it.

3rd. Because those who do use and live by it are quite able to pay a reason able tax upon the actual value of the loud m their occupation.

The tax proposed by the League is upon land values only, all improvements effected by outlay oi capital to be exempted, it being argued that it is only by such a tax that the " unearned increment " can be reached, and those who have benefited by our enormous public works expenditure made to con tribute their fair quota to the revenue m return for the benefits they have received. Before proceeding to show how such a tax would work out the League refers to the present distribution of land m the colony as follows : —

"In a young and sparsely-settled country, such as New Zealand, the most natural industry for the bulk of the population to be engaged m is agricul ture but owing to various causes, the chief oi which being our selfish and illiberal Land Laws, all the best and most available land has been mono polised by a few private individuals, and laud settlement is impeded.

t( lt is frequently stated that mno country is the land bo equally dis tributed as m New Zealand. To show the extreme incorrectness of this state ment it is only necessary to refer to recent Parliamentary returns. The land owners will here be found to be divided into classes, and the largest number of holders m any one class will be found occupying from one to ten acres. The total number of holders m this class is 9172.

" Next to them come the holders of from ten to fifty acres ; these number 7507, or a grand total of 16,679 families who are occupying homesteads of from one to fifty acres. These 16,679 families occupy an area of something less than 300,000 acres.

" As against this it will be seen that there are 1924 families who possess amongst them an area of no less than twelve millions six hundred and thirty thousaud one hundred and twenty-five acres, m estates of from one thousand to two hundred thousand acres each.

" Jt will be seen on examination also that four out of these 1924 landowners occupy amongst them over 600,000 acres, or just twice as much land as is held by the 16,G79 families who are struggling along on little plots of from One to fifty acres."

The " League " goes on to say that it is calculated that a Land-Tax of £1 per cent, would produce an annual revenue of nearly a million and a half, and that its substitution for the present Property-Tax, and (m part) for the Customs duties, would result m con siderably lightening the burden of taxa tion m the case of the working classes. Thus a working man, with wife and family, having landed property valued at £100, would, as against the £1 direct Land-Tax he would be called upon to pay, be relieved (according to the " League's " estimate) of from £14 to £19 a year, the amount now paid through the Customs, while also the email farmer would be similarly benefited. The case of the latter is put thus : — " The small farmer whose land with im provements is now valued and t^ xe d under the Property-tax at £1-500 but whose land without improvements is only worth £500, would pay unser the pro posed tax £5. Un(Jjsr the present Property-tax, for the same, property, he is liable for £6 os, He would, there fore, not only be a gainer of £1 ss, but his contributions through the Customs would be so. materially lessened that he would be a, considerable gainer finan cially." There is a great deal of truth m what the "League" advances, and there ia no question of greater importance than that of securing a just incidence of taxation. We have always Btrongly supported a Land and Income-Tax m preference to a Property-Tax, but the repeal of the Cutstoms duties is desir able only m the case of those articles which we have necessarily to import and which we are unable to produco or to manufacture for ourgelyeg.

THB ASHBUBTON GUARDIAN, THUBSDAE, MARCH 15. 1888

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Sold Everywhere.



PRINTING OF ALL KINDB INCLUDING- Billhead b Circulars Memorandum Formi Agreements Liens Conditions of S»Io Catalogues Poßtero, &o. And every description of LEGAL AND COMMERCIAL LETTERPRESS executed at the shortest notice and.ln the LATEST DESIGNS SPECIAL and most favorable terms offered to WHOLESALE ORDERS, ASHBURTON GUARDIAN OFFICE,



GRATEFUL— COMFORTING. EPPS'S OOOOA. BREAKFAST. BT ft thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operation! oi digestion and nutrition, and by a oarefu application of the fine properties of wel selected ooooa, Mj. Epps ban provided our breakfast tables with a delicatel} flavoured beverage which may save vi many heavy doctor's bills. It li by the ad -clous use of Buoh article* of diet thai a constitution may be gradually b«llt v} antil etrong enough to resist every ten denoy to disease. Hundred! of subtle maladies xte floating, around us ready c attaok wherever there t weak point, We may escape many • fatal shaft bj keeping ourselves well fortified with part food and a properly nourished frame,— An artlole In the Civil Service Gazette, Made limply with boiling water or milk Sold m ilb packets by Grocers, labelled thus:—



ONE box of Olark'a b 41 pills is war- ranted to cure all discharges f /om the urinary organs In either sex (acquired of constitutional), gravel and palna m the baok. Guaranteed free from meroury, Sold In boxes 4b 6d each, by all ohemisiß and patent medloine vendors. Sole pro- prietors, The Lincoln and Midland Conn* tiea Drug Co., Lincoln, England. For sale by the wholesale Houses.



Solo Makers:— KAY BROS., Stock- port, England



KAY'S TIC PILLS, a Bpeclßo Id Neuralgia, F&co-ache, &o. Con v&tns Quinine, Iron, &o. /~>lO&GULlNE.— Oeirent for Broken \J Articles,



Public Notices. FOR COUGHS, COLDS, BboS&i is ; Asthma, Coryza, Influenza, Con- : sumption, &o. KAY'S COMPOUND OF LINSEED, | Aniseed, Senega, Squill, Tolu, &c with Chlorodyne. KAY'S COMPOUND, a demulcent exreo*orat.t, for Cougha, Oolda, and Chert Complaints. KAY' 3 00MP0UND» for Oouabfl, and Colds, is equally serviceable for Horsea and Cattle.



Agricultural Implements. : IWE ARE APPOINTED \ BOLE AGENTS IN ASHRORTON ! FOB i asfessßs booth, McDonald & ov Oarlyle Implement Wotkf, Ohrlatohroh. Samp.'.b Implements on hand Inspection Invited. H. MATSON & CO. Aehburton. GARDEN & FIELD TOOLS Wo are appointed SOLE AGENTS m Abhburton for the PLANET JUPR. HOKBE HOE AND CULTIVATOR COMBINED, GARDEN PLOUGH AND DRILL COMBINE, JbL MATSON & CO. Aihburton. STORAGE. STORAGE. FREE FROM VERMIN. H. Matson & Co.



Money to Lend IN LARGE OR SMALL SUMP. Apply H. MATSON & CO. -, _ ..I r ii ri rwirrr— —^-^ I have oeen appointed Agent FOR THE Mercantile Finance Go., CHRISTOHUROH, Wb o are prepared to advance Money upo BILLS OF SALE, MORTGAGE OF STOOK, CROP LIENS, or other Security D. .THOMAS. IWE ABE APPOIHTEDJ Sole Agents From Rakaia to Rangitata MURTON AND WHITE'S Prize Sheep Dip Placed let by the Canterbury A. and Association after an exhaustive trial. H. MATSON & CO. ABhburton.



LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FJRE INSUBANOE COMPANY. WE have bee"x appointed Agents for f he above Company, and are now prepared to take risks on Buildings, Stock and Cvopa at current rates. H. MAJ'SON & CO., Aahburton.



H. Matson and Co. FOR SALE. QEVERAL GOOD FARMS CHEAP >"po LET— Good 6 Roomed House, In I Oox Street, lately occupied by A. Pkoxheroe. H. MATSON & CO. \ TO LET. OK AH AORES E AR BALING /CQVjVj half English grass 3a per Acre OAAA ACRES NEAR BALING hi\)\J\) tussocks, 2a 6d per Aoro 0 ( f\fi AORES ALFORD FOREST, /Ci^t\J^ half English grasß, 3a per Acre H. MATSON & CO. Ashburton.



Horses Shod with skill »nd care. „ If. H. PAGET. NOW JtiEMOYED TO SAUNDERS' BUILDINGS.



PAFERKAiranTGS, SCBIM, TAPES, TACKS, Also, — WINDOW GLASS (all sizes). W & R LEAD, PAINTS, OILS VARNIbHES, COLORS, DRYERS, TURPENTINE &o, Joe it landing, a Bplendid lot of House Coal, ex " Hauroto." McCallum & Co., BON. TIMBER, AND COAL MER- CHANTS, & IMPORTERS. Agon Is for TITAN and TBIPL*EX STRAINERS. 12*103



0. M. CAMBRIDGE, 8*92 Manager., PA^ERHANGrL> T <GBI PAPErtHANGINGS^ 1 rjIHE Undersigned have just opened up A a BpJ.endid assortment



Ashburton Drag Company, VL %



Tiie Ashburton Drug Company, LIMITED. Having effeotod this, the new Company are determined to give the public the fall benefit of the reduced coßt m working expenses, by supplying all DRUGS and MEDICINES at a muoh lower soale of charges than heretofore. Patent and pio- prletary articles In constant nae, will be SOLD at specially LOW figures. The quality of every DRUG used In Medicine will be of the very boat obtainable. A thoroughly competent assistant will reside on tho premises, and the convenience of customers carefullj; Btudled m every way.



rpREJ respective businesses of Mb Ch j_ Neate and Mb A. Kamnitzeb, have been amalgamated, and with a view of obviating the double expenditure In- curred m carrying on TWO Establish- ments, will m future be oondnoted m the premises lately occupied by Mr Kam- nitzeb, Tinder, the style or firm of



R. ALCOBN SADDLERY I SADDLERY ! 1 ISRA. IRELAND, having removed to lli premises occupied by Mr Tait, Burnett Street, hopes, by strict attention to Bueinesß, to merit a share of public patronage. THE LOWEST PRICES CHARGED. Every reqoieite m the Trade kept m Stock. Farmers and others will now have an opportunity of getting SADDLER f at such LOW PBIOES as were never before offered m Aehburton. Repairs executed on most teasonable terms. AGENT for the new high arm Davis SEWING MACHINES. The only Vertical Feed Machine m the world. It nas no equal, Sold on tlmo payments if required. 11*19 A. IRELAND.



BEGS to announce that he has taken over the Coach Bnildlng and Wheel- wright Branch, lately carried on by H. Peat, and will continue all branches of the above business as before. All kinds of Buggies, Dtaya, or Oarta made and re- paired . Agricultural Implements repaired promptly.



Is PREPARED TO PURCHASE CASH ALL KINDS OP WOOL In Large or Small Quantities. H. SEMPLE, t66 Secretary. W. H. Paget. _ =eES «ggp^- BLACKSMITH Bornett Street, next " Mail " Offise.



THE ASEiiUETON WOOLLEN MANUFACTURING COMPY



Public Notices j B. Morris WISHES to inform his numerous Customers of ABhburton District that he !b prepared to GRIST GRAltf In . any quantity at reduced RITES. Satin- 1 faction guaranteed GRISTING done, for Farmers by return ; good FLOUR guaranteed WBEAT for GRISTING may bo dellvad at the Triangle Bakery as uaua?. BRAN and SHARPS m Stock.