Milford chronicle., 1893-10-06
4 TAX UPON INCOMES.
IT'S ADVOCATES LIKELY TO SOON
CARRY THEIR POINT.

The Idea Meets with Great Favor In the
West and south "A Possible Way to
Brsak the DeadIOcI1-secretary Carlisle
interviewed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. q. = lspeciaLl--
An income tax is one Of the probabilities OF OF
the new tariff bill. This intelligence VIII
doubtless be somewhat surprising 70 nosI
readers. Nevertheless there is astrong prop
ability that the ways and means commit
tee of the house will decide to put some ..s
sort Of an income tax feature IN the Dlil
which they are now preparing Inc com
mittee has not as yet decided ofhelally 20
do so. but It is believed majority OF the
Democratic members of the committee are
Ia favor Of this policy, and that IN the emu
II will be adopted. If the committee Tor
snv reason decides against the introduction
of an income tax feature, it is believed the
matter will be brought forward in the
house after the bill shall have been report
ed and it is claimed there is an overwhelm-
ING majority there in favor of the tax.
Members who favor an income tax say
the demand for such legislation has been
constantly growing during the last few
wears, especially in the west and south, and
fbat such an nactment would meet with
qreat favor everywhere, except in the large
cities and New England. The prevailing
idea appears to be that the poor men OF the
country are paying more than their share
of the burden of taxation for support OF the
federal government, the operation OF the
nresent customs and internal tax being
such that a poor man and his family pay
nearly as much tax as the rich man and bis
family. This. at any rate, is the argument
of those who favor revival of income taxa
tion. Whether or not their argument IS
sound. the fact remains that they have
many champions in the Democratic party
in both branches Of congress and are likely
TO carry their point at an early day. Con
sidered from a purely political point OF
view. these Democrats who favor an 1mpo-
sition of a tax upon incomes say nothing
could be done by the party in power that
would have greater tendency to win it the
support Of the agricultural and working
classes throughout the greater part Of the
country, and for this reason alone, If for no
higher one the departure should be taken.
Republican Senators Restless.
Senators who are friendly to silver claim
that most of the pressure Of public opinion
in favor of repeal comes from the newspa-
pers and not from the people. In illustra-
tion Of this a certain New England senator
Ia Republican, Of course-whO has been
earnestly in favor of repeal, says he has so
far received but two letters from his state
concerning the Sherman law. Both of these
letters are from prominent business men,
who say it is not the silver currency they
are afraid of, but the tariff bill, and being
Republicans, they quietly informed this
Republican senator that he is making
donkey of himself and his Republican col
leagues are making donkeys of themselves
by helping the Democratic party and the
Democratic administration to carry through
their policy The senator says it is mat
ter Of great surprise to him that he has re-
ceived no letters from his constituents in
favor Of repeal of the Sherman law. The
only letters he has received-these two-ad-
wise him to make a trade with the silver
and in consideration of de-
feating the silver bill secure also defeat Of
the tariff bill.