Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-08-25
NEW IDEA INCOME TAX NO. s.

two years and if any benefit is percepti
bic, it seems to run to the manufacturer;
the larger the manufacturing corporation,
the more money seems to come into its
Golfers from protective tariff. Strikes
increase and strikers multiply, like the
pests in Egypt, when Moses undertook
to liberate the 100000 strikers held by
Pharaoh as slaves. At that time, Egypt
ian priestcraft and every form OF popular
religion was welded in favor OF the
putrid wealth and slaveocracy OF the
country.
Male children had been slaughtered
among the laborers in order to offer
greater facilities to crafty the beastly in
clinations of Pharaoh's host of domineer-
ing Pinkerton detectives. Death was the
penalty against any Egyptian who would
dare utter a word Of sympathy in favor
of the crushed and disgraced laborers.
According to the government statistics
there were, between the years 1880 and
1887, 24,518 strikers with a loss to them
OF SOL 1884, 743. The actual loss to all
parties including destruction of property
was far above 500, 100000.
The greatest year of crop production in
all the history of this nation was 1891.
Following which came vastly increased
strikes, and the strikers have already
multiplied by ten, Notwithstanding the
protection offered the laborer by McKin-
ley. The relation between capital and
labor are no better today than ten years
ago, but the breach is growing broader
and the fight bitterer each day. The an
tagonism increases and the question most
prominent now, should be whatcan we do
to prevent further differences Of opinion
which in accordance with NATURES laws
must soon result disastrously to even our
form of government The silly question
of whether Mr. A. or Mr.. any body else
shall be purchased as our next U. S.
Senator, is very contemplate effort to
evade the profundity of the situation.
There are grave and solemn responsible
ties devolving upon our law makers, both
in state and U. S. legislation and the
party, whether master Or serf, who helps
to disguise the importance of the occasion
is only digging his own grave and bring
ing odium upon his posterity.
In all my letters, / have aimed to hit
upon something to induce our people to
think and possible bring about change.
To say there never was SO much dissatis-
faction all over this country, as at the
present time, hardly does justice, There
never was SO Euch evidence of precipi-
tated anarchy as at this time. Every
true patriot, every man who loves his
country, his flag and his family, should
strive to do all in his power. not for party
but for principle. am quite sure that a
form Of an income tax can be beneficial
if properly drafted, connected with a
large exemption law for each head of a
family, a law that will protect home
for helpless children, even against the
husbands contracts-and tax collector
also system of graduation tax ON assess
ments, as we'll as a succession tax or
division of large estates, at the death OF
the testator, thereby preventing large
sums OF money from being entailed upon
indolent children left to inherit millions
of wealth.
I quote from an editorial in the Seattle
Telegraph, very sensible article on this
subject, which reads as follows.
under wisely graded system of sue
cession dues the government of almost
every country would be in position to
do much toward the alienation of dis
tress. Small estates would be exempt
from the tax probably. They are under
such laws as are already in force on the
subject. Large estates could we'll afford
to bear the burden. Astor died the
other day leaving to his son $50, 900 900.
Under the Ontario law $4,000, 900 of this
would have gone to the government and
been applied to purposes Of highest merit.
Under the New York law there is no sue
cession duty, we believe. 1t will not be
claimed that the Astor who inherited the
property would have been at all burdened
by such tax or that when Gould leaves
his hundred millions behind him his
heirs will suffer If the state gets one
tenth.
Our whole system OF taxation is ex-
tremely crude and inequitable. AS a
rule the wrong people pay. In the end
taxes levied on real estate come out of
the people who occupy it not out of the
owners; the taxes levied by a tariff on
the necessaries of life bear the more
heavily upon man in proportion to the
number of his family; the tax on personal
property is evaded to an extraordinary
extent. 1t ought not to be beyond the
ingenuity of legislators to devise sys-
tenn which would rest most heavily on
able to bear it, and would compel con-
tributions from great estates, which their
owners in their lifetime are able largely
to conceal. There is graet deal Of work
to be done in this tield'
There is no one line OF thought that
offers such rich harvest of reward as
the subject Of taxes, revenue, exemption
and assessments.
Our state revenue laws are about as
miserably gotten up as they well could
be. score or more deputies are scour-
ing each county with pocket full OF I'M
collected tax tickets, charging each per-
son with mileage and fees, thereby in
creasing the burden to, in some instances, |