The Great Self-Taxed legislation 'The End of the Season'

'The End of the Season'

Tenements held in lease by the Brewers' Company

pictured in her room at Claridge's Hotel in London

View of old London Bridge and the water works

on Saturday

The Great Self-Taxed legislation 'The End of the Season'The Great Self Taxed, 1873. The Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, makes off with a sack labelled Surplus 5,000,000. He is being heckled by a drunken representative of the working class. This cartoon refers to Mr Lowe's 1873 Budget. He started with a surplus that allowed him to cut 1d of Income Tax, reducing it to 3d in the pound. The labourer is drunk because Mr Lowe had exempted from taxation all hotel servants and all those who dealt