Report from the Select Committee on Money Lending; Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index

Recent blue wrappers., xxviii + 246 pp Some wear to wrapps especially at the spine. Members of the committee were Mr Ascroft; Thomas Bayley, Caldwell, Captain Chaloner, Garfit, Hazell, Jeffreys, Lloyd-George, A K Loyd, Dr M'Donnell, Price, T W Russell, Warr, George Whiteley and Mr Yerburgh. There are a few paragraphs relating to extortionate money-lending by Jews at ruinous rates of interest, these men being absolutely loathed by the Jewish community and being strongly condemned from the Synagogues. The committee was set up on 16 February 1898 to 'Inquire into the alleged evils attendant upon the system of Money Lending by professional Money Lenders, at high rates of interest, or under oppressive conditions as to repayment, and to Report theron'.