Note 283 — II THE RATE FOR NEWSPAPERS
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"This tax was a charter to the existing newspapers—it was not they who suffered from it—it was the public—it was the Government—it was order—it was society that suffered."—E. Lytton Bulwer, 22nd May 1834; Parl. Debates (Commons), vol. xxiii. col. 1195. See also G.J. Holyoake, Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life, London, 1893, vol. i. p. 288.