Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-06-30
HILL ON The INCOME TAX
Denounces 1t as Undemocratic
and Unfair.
Arraigns tho Administration as Part Pop
slist, Part Muawump and Alto
gether Out Of Tune with
the Party Principles.

WASHINGTON, June 2,.--After some I'M
important routine business the tariff bill
was taken up In the senate ut 0:30 this
morning, tae pending question being on
the income tax, sections 81 to 90.
Mr.. Hill, dem, New York, addressed
the senate in opposition to the tax. SEN
ator Hill began his remarks by announc'
ing that we have now reached the consid-
GRAFTON OF one of The most A. important fea.
lures OF the pending measurej important
not only because the tax which IL seeks to
impose equals In the aggregate about ono
fifteenth Of the whole federal taxation OF
the United States, bnt because OF the
peculiar nature OF the burden AS we'll rs
the vast and varied interests which II az
fects. 1t would have been wise states
manship TO have avoided this unnecessary
issue.
Prudence dictates, no said, that this
congress should not attempt 10 formulate
new democratic doctrines to which we
have never been committed, bat rather
carry out the pledges we have already
made. He believed II was tho solemn
duty OF a political party to redeem the
promises upon which it obtained power
and on this point he referred TO the presi.
dent nominating and the ena confirm
ing officials for territories and the Dis
trict Of Columbia who were nonresidents
tncTCOl, III NtOihtiOu VI tuo VEtuCipits VI
home rule and the explicit provisions OF
the Chicago platform.
"For one l protest against the repud..
alton OF the promises of the democratic
party In order to adopt aud carry out the
promises OF the populist party"
The income tax was a war tax; II had
never been approved by . vote OF the PEG.
pie and there was no genuine emergency
calling for its adoption. 1T Is unfair"
he asserted, ito those who might desire
to support the main feature OF All appro-
pristion or n tariff measure TO be Obliged
to accept n questionable provision foreign
to the principal subject matter OF the bill
itself or clse record themselves In opposi.
ton TO the whole bill.
Mr.. Hill said upon the point no was
now considering IL 10 immaterial whether
the Income tax Is right or wrong. II Is
sufficient that 1t is not a democratic tax
and Its support cannot properly be made
q test OF fidelity to democratic principles.
He spoke OF the attempt Of the demo.
Gratis Of Oregon TO substitute new fan
gled populistic principles for the good old
principles OF true democracy, the result
Of which which was the most disastrous
defeat ever experienced by the party In
that state
IL ~repudiate the spurious democracy of
these modern apostles and prophets who
arc part mugwump, part populist and the
itaNt DaIt dtlhOtIatiy, WuO btch W ithu
us astray after false gods, false theories
ard false methods. / object to our re.
storing n war tax which republicans re-
jccted themselves years ago with our ap-
probation"
lie could not follow a leadership which
shifts and turns and temporizes upon
every public question. Thu representa-
tives of states most heavily in debt, were,
he said, special champions of the income
tax and they have taken pains to fix the
exemption high enough so that their
states will be compelled to contribute
little or nothing.
Mr.. Hill attacked the exemptions al
lowed In theb bill and questioned the CON
s~titutionality OF the proposed law. ''fhe
principle involved is tho principle OF
state rights, h policy involved is the
policy of self preservation, preservation
against the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of general
government. Fed-ralists may approve
an income tax-democrats cannot"