A Change of Taxation.

As your position in relation to your property may be materially altered by any fresh arrangements that may be made by the State for revenue purposes, I would respectfully urge upon you the necessity of watching the tendency of any legislation towards an increase in the taxation of your land, not, as you will understand, for the purpose of evading fair liabilities, but that you may prevent the advocates for a Land tax from shifting their share of the burdens of the country on to your shoulders.

Such a course would injure the country as much as it would impede your advancement, for inequality of taxation is as dangerous to a State as is a badly trimmed cargo to a vessel.