The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-12-28
THE TAX ON INCOMES.
CAPITALIST CLEVELAND WILL
NOT FAVOR IT.
Men Who Are Interested in Whisky :"
and "Sugar" Deals DO Not Advocate a
Measure That Touches Their Incomes
Some Homely Hints.
Grover Not For 1t.

If there have ever been "chumps"
who believed that Cleveland would
favor an income tax they ought at last
to throw up the sponge. Cleveland is
not that kind of man. He is the rep
resentative of Wall Street, pure and
simple. He has ''made his pile dur
ing the last eight years and has no
sympathy with anything or anybody
His mission at Washington is to help
skin and rob the people for the benefit
of the moneyed class. There is not an
honorable impulse in his makeup.
Such a thing as patriotism never en-
tered his soul. He is the same kind of
ainatural born human hog to-day that
he was when he hung a couple of fell
lowDemocrats with his own hands in
order to ''save" the fee of profess
sional hangman. He is ''out for the
stuff, and he proposes to make his last
possible term in the White House
pay" all that he possibly can.
Grover Cleveland sign an income tax
bill? When water runs up hill; when
ducks refuse to swim, and fish live on
dry land! That Cleveland is in the
whisky" and sugar" deals is openly
charged 10y Democrats in Washington.
That he is rich, and still working for
more, is also too we'll known to be dis
puted. And such men are not the
ones to favor an income tax. Here is
what the regular Washington CORE
spondent Of the Chicago Times Demo
cratic says of Cleveland and the in
come tax-as we'll us his schemes of
money making:
And this income tax suggestion turns
cut to be excessively dista>teful to Mr..
Cleveland. This last induces IL gasp OF
establishment. As it Was we'll known that u
month ago this White House prince OF
mugwumpS ffattered and favored an in-
come tax and very much patted it on its
back. Cleveland and his income tax posi-
ti"n- make ii suspicious paragraph. Hall
of Missouri introduced the income tax bill.
Ii was known, too. that he had given the
subject midnight study. Cleveland at
once had Hall out to Woodley. He could
listen to Halls eXpo~itions OK the reasons
for an income tax and promote the price OF
Nuudley real estate in his fat vicinity at
one and the same time. This two-bird>-
witi,-ouc-stone idea is very popular with
Cleveland. and SO he kept on with his set
ting and his Matching of the Woodley rel
estate eggs. and brought Hail to him To
talk income tax.
HAL went out twice and stayed six
hour>--until l o'clocI, n. m.--each time
When he came :tway the last time Cleve-
land told him he was in favor OF the plan
and that Herbert, Gresham. Morton, Bis
sell and Hohe Smith all Endorsed 1t also.
Olney, Lamont and Carlisle. Cleveland
said. were inclined to doubt it as Il good
thing. After this statement OF Cleveland
to Hall it became generally talked of as
one OF the certain tasks OF the3 Ways and
Means Committee. this offer Of An income
tax in the House But to-day, when in dis
rus>ing Carlisle's remarkable figures, an
income tax rather than an elevation of
sugar tariff and whisky taxes WAS urged
the administration was found sharply and
in some ma>sed quarters very a>tOnish-
| inSly arrayed against the income tax prop
osltion.
Still the present temper OF the Ways
lnt: Means Committee Is still in favor of
this Same income tax. A ma jority OF them
have no reason to love Cleveland or believe
| in him. and they decline to allow him to
| hold any suggestion candle in this tariff
! matter. They make no bones of saying
| this, and it il to be half suspected they
| find Il strong added inducement to frame
an income tax in the formation that it is
| dlstasteful to Cleveland. This same reason
has operated to cut down tariff schedules
| in divers particulars. and will tend to pre-
| vent any restoration of the old figures on
sugar.