This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...a year, which will be a permanent sum. Now, England cannot complain of having to pay this two millions a year. The present state of things is the result--the magnificent result--of the government of Ireland under the Union. Home Rule, as a matter of fact, will be in the nature of a financial relief to England in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...a year, which will be a permanent sum. Now, England cannot complain of having to pay this two millions a year. The present state of things is the result--the magnificent result--of the government of Ireland under the Union. Home Rule, as a matter of fact, will be in the nature of a financial relief to England in the end. If Home Rule is refused again, the deficit of a million and a half or two millions will in five years be four or five millions. Therefore England has no right to complain of this arrangement, as it is a good one for her. Well, there is only one aspect in which it is unsatisfactory to us. We want to Pay our Own Way in this Country.--And it is humiliating to our national pride--even though we know that the situation is the result of English ignorant misgovernment--it is humiliating to our national pride to receive any subsidy, even at the commencement, from England. We want to stand on our own legs at the commencement. Hence it is that I rejoice, and you all rejoice, that this Bill provides machinery whereby when, through the increasing prosperity of Ireland, the deficit disappears--that is when, through the natural growth of prosperity, the revenue of the country exceeds the expenditure--then the Bill provides that an agreement be come to between the two Parliaments whereby Ireland will enter into an arrangement to pay whatever is decided to be her fair proportion of Imperial expenses, and whereby we in this country get control of the collection of our taxes. Now, under this scheme we get complete control of the duties of Excise on beer and on spirits. That is to say, we can abolish, if we like, all the Excise duties in Ireland, or we can diminish them; or we can increase them to any amount we wish; and similarly we have the same rights as t...
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