Saunders Portraits And Memoirs of Eminent Living Political Reformers the Portr
Saunders Portraits And Memoirs of Eminent Living Political Reformers the Portr
John Saunders
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Robinson's motion for a commutation of taxes, he strongly recom- mended as the " one thing needful, " the adoption of a graduated 132 HENRY WARBURTON, ESQ. , M. P. property tax— one, however, devised upon such a basis, and character- ised by such a consistency of design and equitableness of purpose, as to supersede, if established at all, " all other taxes whatever. " The principles of free trade are warmly supported by the member for Bridport, and they are rarely touched upon in Parliament wit...hout callino- him up in advocacy of them. To the present corn laws he is of course opposed, recommending in place of them a fixed and low duty. He is an advocate for the abolition of all taxes on knowledge, whether in the form of a penny stamp upon newspapers, or imposed upon printing and paper. This is a subject in which he has taken an active interest. Among the measures which he has warmly supported may be mentioned the Beer Bill, all alteration of which he has sted- fastlv resisted. For the Ballot and the Repeal of the Septennial Act he has consistently voted ; he would abolish the property qualification of members of Parliament ; and is as favourable to a gradual exten- sion of the suffrage — not consenting to render it universal until a national system of education, (to which he is also friendly, ) shall have been instituted, and its effects witnessed in the increased knowledge and better regulated habits of large portions of the labouring poor.
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