The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-30
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IIamp1ng 1atterS-W nos been g1V1n
rer dat layout?
Rural Ragges-All of de boys. Dey
say yer put brillantine on de fringe O. yer
Dants.-Puck.
man pays more than the rich man, be-
cause with his family of a dozen children
he must have sugar for each one, while
family does not need so much sugar
Why should we all be taxed to put money
into the Golfers of a sOulless corporation
which paws % cent dividends on its stock
and then has from ten to fifteen millions
on loan during a panic when everybody
else is crowded for money. 1t is said that
this is for the protection of the Amer
ican laborers, yet the employees of the
sugar retineries are all foreign born and
when they complained to the president
of the trust that they could not work
twelve hours day in temperature of
$50 degrees the president told them to
"go to hell where it was hotter" And
thus the trust squeeZes the people on the
one side and their workmen on the other,
with the result of piling up money at
the rate of fifty thousand to one hun
dred and fifty Thousand dollars each
day. Now if we want to protect the
American laborer why not Immediately
stop all immigration Why not? Be-
cause the coal barons and the sugar trust
and the wooden and silk mills and the
thousand and one other trusts in this
country wish to grind down their own
workmen by fresh importations of for
eign workmen who are willing to work
for starvation wages, and what those
powerful people say is law. But how
can we tax the rich as they should be
taxed? AS the greater part of the ad
ministration of the laws in this country
are made for the purpose of protecting
companies ETC., let property pay for it..
And let a man pay for it in proportion
TO his property or income. An income
tax is the fairest tax in the world when
honestly collected. But it should be
made sliding tax. Let those with an
income of anything under say $4,000 or
$4,000 not to be taxed at all. Those
with an income of 100000 be taxed say
per cent. Those with $4,000 be taxed
2 per cent. Those with $4,000 be taxed
3 per cent and so on, making the tax of
a greater percentage the higher the in
come. Let such tax pay the running
expenses of the government at present
and let there be law restricting the
amount which one person can leave by
will to, say $1,0OO,000, and let the bal.
ance go to giving every child, rich or
poor, black or white, or red as far as
possible an equal start in life. The most
monstrous injustice in our present civil.
nue. is by that fact allowed life of idle
ness and debauchery while the chile
born in Cherry street, is by that fact
| doomed to life of poverty and crime
do not ask charity but justice for the
poor We are on the verge of a very
| serious change in our civilization. Shal
it be violent one with bloodshed anC
anarchy or peaceful one where
every man knows what he want:
and votes for it, thus bringing th'
change about legally? We are all be
trayed by the politicians of the Hill
Murphy, German and VOORHEES, stripe
When we learn enough not to send sucl
scalawags to make our laws, and wher
the poor man learns that they are no
really his friends but his worst enemies
when we learn that if the courts decid,
against the poor to fill those courts with
judges that will be just to all and are no
hampered by the long list of evils which
have grown up in the law on account o
judges paying more attention to prece
dent than to right, and when lawyer!
care more for justice than for decisions
grown gray with time and Shiny will
cruelty, We may hope for change with
out violence. Every map in the country
| who thinks at all is bound to do hi:
best to bring this thing about.
Trinity Epwor:h League Entertains.
The members of the Trinity Epwortl
Leapue were very ELEGANTLY entertained