St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-08
TALK ABOUT TAXES.

To ask the average rich man what he
thinks OF an income tax is like inter-
viewing a smuggier as to his opinion of
custom laws.-New York World.
AS piece of practical legislation it
does not seem to US that the income tax,
even though reported by the committee.
admits of serious consideration.-Bost
Herald.
In 1866 the federal income tax yielded
about seventy millions of dollars. Why
is it now assumed that all income tax
would not yield half as much?-Rich-
mond Dispatch.
Gov. Mckinley tells the Ohio legisla-
ture that taxation should be- eQualiZed.
This is exactly what the voters of the
country told congress In 1890 and 1892
New York World.
The prospect of increased taxation to
meet new bonded Indebtedness is not
encouraging citizens to vie with each
other in the effort to reach Mr.. Carne-
gie's limit. -Pittsburg Commercial Ga
Zette.
Demagogic. unequal, impracticable,
sectional, unpopular and inQuiSitorial-
the income tax will not be accepted by
the American people, except as last
resort to raise revenue for a hopelessly
bankrupt government.-Bost Travel
Ter.
The Democratic senators Will help the
party by substituting truly Democratic
measure for the defective bills suggest
ed by the committee on ways and means,
one that will raise all the money needed.
and that by true revenue taXeS.-NeW
Orleans Tlmes-Democrat.
Republlean newspapers are bowling
upon one page for settlement of the
tariff and upon another page are jnbi-
liant over the efforts of Republican con-
gressmen who are filibuSteuDg to pre-
vent the bill being brought before that
body.-Burlington Gazette.
Andrew Carnegie. after making a
protest against the Wilson bill as being
un-American. has gone back to his
castle in Scotland. Mr.. Carnegle's in
tense Americanism brings him to this
country occasionally to warn us against
the foreigners.-St. Louis Republic.
Congress has ample opportunity to
provide sufficient revenue for the needs
Of the government, economically admin
istered. by readjustment of the pres-
ent methods of taxation. A failure to do
this will not be excused, it will be only
confessed. by resort to an income
taX.-PhiIadelphia Times.
1t is enough to know at,this time that
the ways and means committee is will
ing to meet the wishes of the people IN
this matter. and to give wealthy indi-
yiduals an opportunity to Bear some of
the burdens Of taxation in return for
the protection that the government
affords em.rAtlanta Constitution.
An income tax will raise ST., 00O. 900.
The proposed tax OH beer of 81 a barrel
would raise $4,000, 900. Yet the Demo
cratic committee on ways and means
prefers the inquisitorial tax on incomes
70 a levy on a trade, the published re-
ports of whose big breweries show
clean profit of from S1.70 to So a barrel,
Philadelphia Press.
1t is absurd for Democrats to shake
their heads over the sugar tax and eX-
press grave approximations about the
damage likely to result to the pafty
from an interference with the free
breakfast table" The free breakfast
table gnat ought not to cause any neon
venience to persons capable of swallow
ing the income tax camel.-New York
Times.
The argument that an income tax will
be popular with all those federal tax
payers whose incomes fall below the
$4,000 limit does not deserve much con
sideration. No party can afford to leg
/ iSlate unfairly to acquire an undeserved
popularity. In establishing an income
tax, while doing away with protective
taxation, one form of class legislation is
substituted for another.-Philadelph
Records