The Struggle Over the Lloyd-George Budget

The Constitutional Crisis of 1909–10. Comparison with Crises of 1832, 1846, 1884–5, and 1886, 244. — Popular political education through the platform and the press, 245. — Liberal and Tory Press in 1909–10, 247. — Platform Propaganda in 1909, and in previous crises, 248. — Class bitterness in the Budget struggle, due in first place to action of the peers in attacking the Budget. Letters and speeches of peers, 253. — Unfair assessment of mansions of aristocracy for local rates, 257. — Peers' desire for protective duties, 258. — Propaganda of political leagues, 259. — Chamberlain's share in the struggle, 260. — Reasons for the Lords' rejection of the Budget, 262. — Chamberlain's appeal to the Lords to reject it. Contrast between his attitude in 1884 and in 1909, 264. — Methods of propaganda in constituencies and results in education of people, 266. — Agreement of Liberals and Tories on need of new expenditure. No opposition to old age pensions or Dreadnoughts, 268. — The taxation proposals, 269. — Motor car and petrol duties, 269. — Tax on urban undeveloped land and on unearned increment, 270. — Attitude of municipalities to these taxes, 272. — Tax on renewals of leases of building sites, 273. — Ground landlords of London and site values, 274. — Tax on mining royalties and way leaves, 275. — Tax on monopoly value of liquor licenses.