A historic window into early 20th‑century budget debates and the case against heavy taxation. This speech, delivered to Glasgow’s commercial community, weighs the impact of death duties, capital taxes, and government spending on industry and liberty.
With a clear, practical voice, the speaker argues for retrenchment, responsible public finance, and a businesslike approach to running the state. The address contrasts capital as the nation’s war resource with policies that would broaden state power, and it questions the direction of tax policy and social reform.
Ideal for readers of political history, economic policy, and archival speeches from the early 1900s.
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Excerpt from The Budget, Its Principles and Scope: A Speech Delivered to a Meeting of the Commercial Community of Glasgow, Sept. 10, 1909
I think the crisis in which this speech was delivered is one of this kind. It is of course painful to any one to have to put himself in Opposition to old friends and to a party with which he was long connected. As, however, the Liberal critics of the speech have all declared that it is wholly ineffectual and vapid, they have evidently sustained no damage by its delivery.
I may notice, however, the allegation that I have suddenly left the Liberal Party. I think the fact would be more accurately stated if it was alleged that the Liberal Party had left me. They have gone ahead with alarming velocity: I, on the other hand, have proceeded perhaps too slowly. I am much where I was, they have shot far in advance. Still it is not I who have left them, but it is they who have left me behind.
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