Excerpt from The Fiscal Relations of Great Britain Ireland: Papers Read at the Congress of the Royal Economic Society January 10th, 1912
The consideration of Irish Public Finance is certainly rendered opportune at the present moment by the proximity of a Home Rule measure. But Home Rule is a large human problem, essential by a question of nationality, sustained by a sense of injustice and injury to be righted, inspired by a historical claim to be re-asserted. Where human sentiment looks for appeasement and human feeling awaits reconciliation, it is obvious that there finance enters only as a subordinate consideration. You may, for instance, set up a Congested Districts Board to do a specified bit of work: and you then finance that body with funds considered sufficient for its purpose. But the financial provisions of a Home Rule measure must involve considerations of quite another order and must intend a much larger policy. Now, the present paper necessarily excludes all these larger issues of Home Rule that go beyond finance and belong to the sphere of statesmanship. Nevertheless, the present position of Irish Public Finance is so remarkable that whether with or without Home Rule the subject equally claims consideration.
Admittedly the subject is highly controversial. But this arises solely from the different standpoints from which the same facts are viewed. The facts of Irish Public Finance are common ground and are beyond controversy. These facts are regarded from three different standpoints: - (1) by the Irish people; (2)by the British administrators, here called the Treasury; (3) by the British people. Hence interpretations will be divergent. In any difference between (1) and (2), it may be taken that (3) must act as umpire or Court of Appeal. The present paper is an attempt to define the actual facts, apart from any controversies as to their interpretation.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Fiscal Relations of Great Britain Ireland (Congress of the Royal Economic Society)