Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-12-30
PROPOSED INCOME TAX.

The rich have the ears Of the
press, the poor may cry until their
hearts break, but the rich and pow
erful protection papers, senators and
congressman hear not, exclaims the
Provo Dispatch. Heretofore the
poor Of this land have paid the fed
eral tax in the shape of onerous
duties on their yeriest necessities.
This is in full accord with the policy
OF the Republican party-the party
OF trusts, of corporations, of money
and corruption. For this party the
poor may groan, and suffer, and die
so that their petted favorites may
grow rich and richer. 1t is the
dear, oppressed, lordly manufacture
ers and monopolists who have had
the paternal care of the Republican
party ever since il leaped into power
in November, 1860. Since that day
federal care and federal pation
has been thrown tenderly about the
millionaires. 1t is the greatest and
best government on earth, cry the
Carnegies, the Goulds and the Rock
fellers. Doubtless it has been to
them. No man of good sense quar-
rels with his bread and butter,
neither do these Carnegies. these
Goulds, nor these Rockfellers quar-
rel with their millions only when
they have to pay a tax upon their
enormous incomes. Then the air
is filled with their cries.
Under the proposed income tax,
and the lowering of the tax upon
imported necessities, the poor have
a chance; but the deficit in federal
revenue must be made up in some
way, and the Democratic party
propose to shift part Of the burden
of federal taxation from the shout
ders of the poor to those of the rich,
by levying an income tax. This
tax hits the millionaires heavy
blow near where they live" 1t is
q righteous determination.
The government looks with alarm
upon the enormous increase Of pri-
vate fortunes. Thinking and fair
minded as we'll as patriotic people
of all classes, save the millionaires,
will and do applaud this sadly
needed measure of relief, this inn
mense reformation.
Who are they, these howlers7
Why, the paid creatures of the rich.
the subsidized papers of the east,
and in fact all over the land. The
edict goes out from Republican
headquarters at Washington that
"this Ubiquitous" income tax has
been brought under the party ban
and Immediately every thick and
thin henchman, every great and
small Republican paper, even away
out here on the Pacific slope, begins
to groan and cry out: ooh, these
Democrats, they are destroying the
country, destroying the industries
of the land" when the simple fact
is they are only endeavoring to shift
the burdens of supporting the gov.
eminent from the shoulders of the
poor to those who are most able TO
bear them.
If this proposition becomes the
law we will see more of the Astors
fitting across 10 London or else.
where, where the poor are yet pay.
ing all the taxes while the rich still
enjoy almost perfect exemption, as
they did in the United States under
Republican party rule. There has
never before been a more equitable
proposition before Congress than
this income tax. The proposition
has before been made, the expert,
ment been tried, but is now fal
more formidable to the rich thar
ever before, because the tribe Of
millionaires has been largely in.
creased under the protective policy
of the Republican party, so long in
power. II is indeed bitter pill &c
them, but they must swallow it for
once, and like all other bitter medi.
cines it will be found wholesome
at least to the body polite.