Show IRISH HIT I BRITAIN BIAN E BY CUTTING GUTTING DOWN DONN ON BOOlE v SI Slacken on Consumption of off f- f f j Whisky to Curtail Revenue Rev- Rev h or of Enemy J BY BYC C C. C C C. C LYON I t Newspaper Enterprise Association Staf Staff x V 0 Correspondent 1 i DUBLIN Ireland Nov 20 The The The- Irish s 1 republic has two new schemes lor tor crip- crip the British government in the island tat tat- and r 4 i. i Quit drinking so much liquor J 2 Refuse to pay British taxes One big source of or British revenue In 1 Ireland comes from enormous taxes on j 4 the he whisky and beer that the Irishman drinks drinks drink The result is skyhigh prices a at If q Ty regular drink of costs two shUl shil- shil l' l f p lings Ings or 50 cents in American money y rj under normal exchange rates but this fy y Is too much for top the average Irishman I I i so o the saloons dole him out a halt half to y t p portion for a shilling I I 5 TO BRITAIN For r the fIscal year 1919 1918 Great all aU kinds 11 collected in Ireland and in taxes of or put back into the country in governmental expendi- expendi tures jures of or one sort or another I expendi-I leaving a difference of or some Ireland was required to contribute fo to maintenance of the British empire What makes the Irishman sore is the fact that Great Britain last year spent r 2 bl bi part of that maintainIng maintain maintain- Ing a British army and thousands of ot con- con tables stables les iT-les in m Ireland nd trying to prevent the people from establishing a republican lican form of at government Therefore there Is now going on in the the Island a at persistent campaign to induce induce induce in- in duce the Irishman to cut down his con- con H. H gumption of or liquor and the drive is S tL rI J am tg told making some headway a The e destruction tr gor of the British govern govern- overn tax offices and records in every section of south and west Ireland by soldiers of ot the republican army Is but a a part of ot the republican scheme to re refuse re- re fuse oI to pay income taxes taxes to Great Brit Brit- i aln am am this year Scores of these tax offices offices' of- of have been raided and their contents contents contents con- con tents burned TAXES TAXES TAXES BE PAID TO REPUBLIC I The Irish parliament Is asking its I I vers to pay their taxes this year to the republican government Instead of ot I I to o Great Britain and it is pointing out that the British machinery is so broken V lown there is practically no way of foring foring forcing for for- ing cing its tax collection I I p. p To assure the timid however they will not ot lose loe their properties through fore- fore proceedings in ill the ent vent they ont pay pa pathe tide the British tax collectors the I republic is offering to insure against I Joss oss all an Irishmen who pay their taxes es I nto the republican treasury I W The cry of the Irish tata is that Ireland pa pays ps s too much l' l taxes lor Irish taxes are arc arc enormous yet jet ct they are ale I I I I I I I I I no higher than in England Scotland or Wales For some years prior to the war after the introduction of old age pensions and other benefits the Irish local expenditures expenditures expendi expendi- tures exceeded the revenue In 1914 this deficit was more than which the English Scotch and Welsh taxpayers had to make maka up NO COMPLAINT FROM SCOTLAND AND No complaint is heard from Scotland about the amount of money she is re required required re- re to contribute toward imperial ex expenses expenses ex- ex perises yet Scotland with a population the same as that of Ireland conI con- con to the imperial in 1918 as against Irelands Ireland's 70 OI O- O OO O. O The present high taxes are the direct result of the war and the average British British- er or is strongly inclined just now to insist that Ireland pay her share of the war expenses |