Note 16 — THE DANGERS OF THE COUNTRY.
Reading edition
£100,000,000 in quarters of wheat at 80s., 25,000,000 quarters; £50,000,000 in quarters of wheat at 40s., 25,000,000. So that, after all our boasted reductions, our taxes are now thirty per cent heavier than they were in the heaviest year of the war, when they were only £72,000,000.