The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-13
rINpIIAHCI COLUMN.
Conducted by the lola W. C. T. U
TARE orr THE rAY

Conducted by the lola W. C. T. u.
TAKE OFF THE TAX.
The extraordinary emergency of
civil war led Congress to levy q tax on
certain manufactures, including that
ofalcoholic liquors. The emergency has
passed and with 1t the justification Of
this extraordinary exercise Of Federal
power. In the face of the present
financial prosperity there is no justifi-
cation Of this tax; and to continue 1t
after the cause for it has ceased, is I'M
tenable in law. The tax IL further in
expedient because, but for the SUPER
vision which the government exercises
the "whisky lobby" at Washington
would not possess its present baneful
influence. Taxation is recognition.
The presence of this lobby at the seat
of national legislation gives the traffic
q strategic position from which it lie
easily able to oppose the enactment
and enforcement of law in the States
and to inject its virus into the very
of political life. The inter-
nal revenue system is bad In morals.
A traffic confessedly iniquitous in
character and disastrous in results
ought not to be recognized by the gov
eminent as an established industry.
Our plea rests in law, in politics and
In morals.-Mrs. j. Ellen Foster.
I am in favor of the repeal of the in
ternal revenue tax on liquors. My
reasons are as follows. The fact that
the Government receives a revenue
from the business legalizes the traffic.
which I believe to be the cause of much
Of the crime and pauperism that exists
in this country. Second, the taxes re-
ceived by the government have a ten
dency to make q business respectable
which I believe can truly be character
lied by the words used by Miss Will
ard, "a covenant with hell, and a
with damnation." Third,
Our government ought not to receive
from a traffic, the results of
which are only want, misery, and crime
a traffic which we find everywhere
opposed to the enforcement of pure
laws, and the upbuilding of a pure
government.-Mrs. Churchill, Pres.
Cal. ". C. T. U.
To have our country a partner in
every distillery is a disgrace to us all
Nothing so shameful ever happened
in the old slavery times. Uncle Sam
himself, never traded in slaves; he
only protected those who did. Whisky
and Uncle Sam must dissolve partner.
ship and then we shall not have this
enormous surplus which is such a
to our politicians. If
whisky is good thing, let every body
make it and ruin the monopolists who
to-day keep the moonshiners, and
everybody else, out of it. The few who
make whiskey are close corporations
with untold money power. If finan-
cial ruin would come to them it would
be a blessing to the rest of the COM
and breaking down few
would ruin the money
power of whiskey. Uncle Sam with
30 cents in pocket for every gallon of
cannot i'm honor turn on the
men very severly; hut Uncle
Sam with his money partnership in
crime dissolved, would be different
sort of person.-Mrs. .an,ie S. Cairns,
Supt. Legislative Work Mo. ". C. T.
U.
am in favor of taking off all the in
ternal revenue as that was war
measure, and the necessity fol it is
over. The income is not needed; and
by doing away with it we would get
rid of all the offices and officers neces-
sary for the purpose of collecting it..
We would also get rid of the monopoly
of manufacturing spirituous liquors
which the high tax encourages. be-
lieve in restricting the use of liquor by
but it should be levied and
collected where it is used and where it
mischief.-Hon. B. F. Jones,
Chairman National Republican Com
mite.
From all parts of the country the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion is petitioning Congress to abolish
the internal revenue taxes in the in
terest of the temperance reform. The
whiskev ring, by opposing the repeal.
presents the rare spectacle Of a manu-
facturer insisting upon paying taxes
upon his own product, instead of al
lowing them to be paid by the consum-
er. The whiskey tax is the cement
that holds the whiskey monopoly to-
gether.-Philddelphia Press.
A prominent member of Congress
said the other day, "There is no let up
when the w. C. T. U. women start to
do anything, they keep at it till they
get it." The very keeness which the
liquor men manifest to retain the tax
should open the eyes of the temperance