The Speech Of The Chancellor Of The Exchequer In The House Of Commons 10th December 1802 On The Opening Of The Budget

Author : William Ewart Gladstone
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ISBN 13 : 9781332199082
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Financial State and Prospects of the Country written by William Ewart Gladstone and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Financial State and Prospects of the Country: Delivered in the House of Commons on Monday, April 18, 1853 The, annual exposition of the financial state and prospects of this country, even upon ordinary occasions, affords abundant material of interest to this House and to the country, and of anxiety to the person charged with the preparation of that exposition; but on the present occasion, perhaps that interest on the one hand, and certainly that anxiety on the other, are greatly enhanced by a variety of circumstances, including among them the number of separate motions respecting taxes which have recently been made in this house, and which indicate the increasing eagerness of the people with respect to financial questions. Political events, shocks which have enfeebled or overthrown Administrations, and which have made it necessary to adjourn from year to year questions of taxation, have likewise greatly accumulated on the present Government the task they have to discharge in that department; and in connexion with those questions there have of late been raised discussions of a nature most deeply interesting, descending to the first elementary principles of taxation nay, almost to the first principles on which men are united in civilized society. With a task so formidable before me, I feel warranted in addressing a special appeal to the Committee for their kindness and indulgence, for I am certain that only by their kindness and indulgence can I be enabled - I will not say to discharge the task as it ought to be discharged, for that is wholly beyond my power - but to discharge it so as in any case to be at least intelligible to my hearers. The first portion of my duty will be to lay before the Committee the state of the account of the country. I think I shall best discharge it, by taking up the state of that account from the point at which it stood last year, when the financial department was in the hands of the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Disraeli); and it will be satisfactory to the Committee to observe, that as our experience grows with the lapse of time, so do we obtain larger and still larger proof of the elasticity of the revenue, and of the progress of the productive and consuming powers of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.