The Great Self-Taxed legislation View of old London Bridge

View of old London Bridge and the water works

'Positively the Last of the Long Skirts this Season'

Tenements held in lease by the Brewers' Company

'The End of the Season'

leads the way as Twinkle leaves on shop and heads for another

The Great Self-Taxed legislation View of old London BridgeThe 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