 ... lesser of two evils that it should be repealed rather than used as a first step in a policy of preference or protection." But in the light of the existing state of the finances he clearly regretted that the country should have been deprived of the...  The Britannic Question: A Survey of Alternatives - Page 235by Richard Jebb - 1913 - 262 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1904 - 1024 pages
...the Exchequer has been deprived of a penny on the income-tax, and of £2,500,000 from the corn duty, a duty which I still think, as I told the House two years ago, when once established would do very Iktle practical harm to anybody, whatever might be said against it in theory, and the repeal of which,... | |
 | Richard Jebb - Great Britain - 1905 - 494 pages
...duty should be repealed than that it should be used as the first step in a policy of preference or protection . . . a duty which I still think, as I...harm, . . . and the repeal of which, as far as I know, hat done no good whatever to anybody." — Speech by Sir Michael Hicks Beach in the Budget debate,... | |
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