Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1929, Page 7

CHURCHILL LIFTS * BRITISH TEA TAX Chancellor. . of - .Exchequer &ives Budget Estimate, Raps ,Enemy, Parties. - * By the Ascoolated Press. 1 LONDON, April 16.—Winston Church- { 1, chancellor of the exchequer, indi- cating his belief that the surest way: to win the hearts of Englishmen and | women, and perhaps their votes, is through their teacups, vesterday an- nounced the abolishment of a 300- year-old tax on tea in unfolding his 1929 budget to Parliament. ‘The chancellor thereby lifted the na- tional financial statement to the level of a fighting- pronouncement for the forthcoming general elcction. The reign of King George V thus will witness the total, immediate— and what Mr. Churchill believes to be ;,h? &lanl?ogtlgn of }: tea duty which as been levied since the days of Queen Elizabeth. g The Prince of Wales sat in the gal- lery of the House yesterday and heard | the historic pronouncement. He sat through 2!, hours of a speech which, for all the lucidity and incisiveness of the chancellor’s style, and his satiric humor in frequent tilts with opposition benches. naturally was a largely de- tailed and highly technical financial ltal;mem. " ng dull moments, the prince yawned like the other per:onzp ‘who Jammed the benches and galleries of the House, fidgeted with his necktie or re- banded.” his sore thumb. which was wrapped up like a small boy's. It will cost the government in revenue about £6,150,000 to reduce the cost of tea to the consumer fourpence a pound by rgnavnl of the tax. The measure will fake effect on May 22. Mr. Churchill also announced that the betting tax would be repealed. It had been a fiasco because of “the elu- sive and slippery character of the bet- hlxl‘lgfi?:puln:on nnl;il t}:xe precarious con- under whicl i (h_err;xselves.” they disported e budget was balanced by th chancellor with an_estimated txlyxndle- ture of £822584,000 and an estimated ;;:l;'ll‘;: of 23128.682.000. giving a pro- surplus o 81;.!66,000‘?1, £4,096,000 (about n conclusion, he declared tha - mier Stanley Baldwin would Im:orx::e the Conservative election platform at an learly dtte. The Laborite and Lib- eral opposition, however, insisf taking the whole budget sutem"::t olx: a keynote speech in the Government campaign. “It was not a budget, but an election manifesto,” leaders of these p-fiiu declared. r. Churchill ridiculed the en unemployment promised by efil‘.‘% Lloyd George, Liberal chieftain, and said that the only difference be- tween the Laborites and the Liberals was that the former proposed to raise their funds by heavy taxation while Lloyd George proposed to borrow his, Gives Unemployment View. ‘The chancelor propounded in great detail the government view '.hltzun- employment could be reduced only by & revival of industry as a whole. Mr. Churchill sald that the greatest economies of the government had Iseen in armaments. on which savings of about $37,000.000 had been made since the Conservatives had come into power since 1924. . Large reductions in the navy could not be made without Great Britain falling below the one-power standard, which he considered would be a fatal position. or without endangering the trade routes of the empire. As to arresting development of the air forces, the chancellor said that this could not be safely done without plac- ing the country “Iargely at the mercy —— e of that very neighbor toward whom we are constantly accused of belna sub- servient and whom Mr. Lloyd" George is never too busy to offend.” Early in his speech, Mr. Churchill, bowing gracefully to Lady Astor, a pro- nounced dry. announced that the beer ! tax again had failed to produce the expected revenue. “Hooray,” exclaimed the lady from 7irginia. In his forecast of revenue‘in 1929, he said that the customs and excise deficit of $38,400,000 last year was al- most entirely accounted for by de-. crease in beer taxes, which he said em- barrassed the exchequer, but was not & national misfortune. The wine rev- {'enue eiss fell short. The House of Commons roared with laughbter -when Mr. Churchill credited an increase of £300,000 in the spirit tax over estimates to the exceptionally cold Winter. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. 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