Nor can a single individual ever be able, in a constituency of five members, to make his personalty and his policy adequately known to those to whom he is appealing.
I do not think that any satisfactory basis of a division of public burdens between those borne by real property and by personalty, respectively, has ever been arrived at.
Unless we increase the burden upon land, equally with other property, it means that we must increase the burdens still further upon personalty and other sources of income.
On the other hand, if you do know he is a bankrupt it is sufficient to deprive you of a good title, whether personalty or freehold.
That seems a great difference indeed in comparing mere personalty and realty in this country.
Some trifle of personalty in some conceivable circumstances would go to the wife under a will; therefore there would not be an intestacy.
You cannot treat land, where the value depends upon the unity being maintained, on the same basis as property which is personalty.
Why should not that apply to personalty as well?
