Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — England’s Big Mistake. [ARTICLE]

England’s Big Mistake.

On the Bth of March in 1765 the house of lords in England passed the stamp act, which led to the famous Boston teg party, the first militant act of the Revolution. The English- treasury had been drained by the Seven Years’ war and the country needed money. The people of England were already taxed to the limit and King George and the English parliament decided that the most expedient way to raise money was to tax ‘the American colonists and to establish the principle that the colonists must pay taxes to the crown even though they were not allowed representation in the English parliament