The Quarterly Review, Volumes 157-158John Murray, 1884 |
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Page 68
... increase in the revenue derived from drink and tobacco . This revenue , twenty years ago , scarcely exceeded 26 millions ; it now amounts to more than 39 millions ; in other words , it has increased by 50 per cent .. while the ...
... increase in the revenue derived from drink and tobacco . This revenue , twenty years ago , scarcely exceeded 26 millions ; it now amounts to more than 39 millions ; in other words , it has increased by 50 per cent .. while the ...
Page 69
... increase its expen- diture without really increasing any burden that affects the people , without hampering trade , without imposing restraints on industry , perhaps without diminishing materially the family comforts or luxuries of any ...
... increase its expen- diture without really increasing any burden that affects the people , without hampering trade , without imposing restraints on industry , perhaps without diminishing materially the family comforts or luxuries of any ...
Page 71
... increasing with the increase of population and of wages that the annual increment of our revenue was chiefly derived . For a long time , as we have said , financiers supposed that that increment was something natural and necessary ; nay ...
... increasing with the increase of population and of wages that the annual increment of our revenue was chiefly derived . For a long time , as we have said , financiers supposed that that increment was something natural and necessary ; nay ...
Page 72
... increase of prosperity the consumption of sugar and the con- sumption of alcohol certainly increased , often by ' leaps and bounds . ' If the revenue has ceased to be elastic , and this we know to our cost is the case , it is partly ...
... increase of prosperity the consumption of sugar and the con- sumption of alcohol certainly increased , often by ' leaps and bounds . ' If the revenue has ceased to be elastic , and this we know to our cost is the case , it is partly ...
Page 73
... increase has a totally different effect . As was seen , towards the close of that period , in the coal trade , it generates idleness ; large classes of workmen neutralize the higher rate of payment by slackened work ; labour perhaps ...
... increase has a totally different effect . As was seen , towards the close of that period , in the coal trade , it generates idleness ; large classes of workmen neutralize the higher rate of payment by slackened work ; labour perhaps ...
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