The Forrest City times., 1894-04-06

Il that eight pounds or sugar when the walker | tarin was enacted. cost the purchaser sl, while | that amount of money will now buy twenty-fOur | pounds. In other words owing to the difference | in the value or sugar then and now, the duty proposed by the committee on finance Is but l slightly more than one-third the amount i'm posed by the Walker tariff, of blessed and glor- | ious memory.
 Speaking of the unparalleled and clearly un-
 constitutional piece of legislation known as the reciprocity clause of the Mckinley bill, Mir. Voorhees, said:
 Here is tarin schedule containing five | ticles of prime necessity to the American peo- | pie which to be heavily taxed, and their
 cost to the consumer largely increased, at the
 mere will and pleasure of the president of the United States. With the same stroke of his pen he can, by virtue of this law put a tarin tax of. three cents per pound on coffee, ten cents per pound on tea and one and a half cents l per pound on raw and uncured hides. These burdens when imposed as they are authorized,
 will have to be borne by the American con
 sumer and taxpayer and by no one else. The | inhabitants of the offending country against whom proclamation is made are indifferent, or | perhaps amused spectators Of our retaliatory proceedings against our own citizens. As to the whisky tax. MT. Voorhees, said he | oud be glad to have made it sl 70. instead of | q. 10 per gallon, and he defended the proposed | extension of the bonded period.
 In regard to the income tax Mir Voorhees, | said in part:
 ''The proposition contained in the pending | bill to levy tax of per cent on all net in-
 comes of corporations and of individuals in | excess of Si 600 per annum, is so just and equi- table towards the bard-woriEiug tax payers of l meagre resources throughout the entire coun-
 try, that not a word in its defense explana- | tion would seem necessary here or anywhere | else. On all the wants and necessaries of life l the man of wealth, with heavy income. pays | less rates of tariff tax under existing laws than
 the laboring man or woman whose wearing | apparel is of coarser material. and whose | household living is supplied with cheaper l goods bearing higher rates of duty His bonds.
 his accumulated riches of all kinds and all in- | comes arising from them are exempt from all | government burdens. remaining not only un- I diminishe and unmolested amidst darkened | homes and fragrant distress, but growing fat | ter. stronger, and more defiant as the days and | the years go by"
 In considering an income tax the most ex- l traordinary and startling fact we discover is | the very small number of people to whom it ap- | plies.
 | The commissioner of internal revenue in a
 recent communication to the ways and means
 committee of the house, estimates the present population of the United States at not less l than 6 000.00 and the wealth of the country at
 s65, 600 000,050 or average of s1 GOO if there l was an equal distribution. His further esti- mate, however. is that so great has been the | condensation of capital into the ownership of a
 small and powerful class that the tax here pro-
 posed on incomes of over si,0o0 will reach only | about 9j, 900 individuals and corporations out | of more than 65 100000.
 | These figures may well give the country pause. They recall the first days of Rome. | and other governments. both ancient and mod ern, whose liberties were lost by the aceumu-
 lation and power of wealth in the hands of l patrician aristocracies.
 l hat hal hp nf nnp of tha laaf1 ifan
 guments urged against the enactment of an in- come tax? We are gravely informed that such
 a tax can not be collected because Of the whole
 sale perjury which income owners will commit | in order to evade the law. Ii the criminal
 classes of the country or those of assumed | spectability defeat the enactment of laws | by threatening to commit crime in their viola | tion, then, indeed. have we reached a depth of | degradation far beyond the hand or the power | of resurrection. I will believe nothing so in- l famous of the congress of the United States as i it's submission to threat so atrocious or an | argument revolting.
 T confess that l am shocked, inexpressibly | shocked, to be assured now by gentlemen of great ability and high position that the princi- l pal property holders and income owners of the | United States are ready for the sake Of de- | frauding the government out of a small pit | tance to blacken their souls with the detesta | ble crime of false swearing; to render them 1 selves fit associates for thieves. house break.
 CTS forgers and cutthroats in prison houses of | this-world, and to become everlasting inhabi-
 tants of hell in the world to come" ] Taking up next the wool tav, he declared
 that if he believed putting wool on the free list
 would hurt the farmers he would not vote for | the bill, but 1t was a matter of actual dem- | onstration that free wool, accompanied by
 such reduced rates as can then be placed on
 manufactures of wool, and which are placed on i them in this bill, is one of the greatest bless | ings that can befall the farmer.
 | His peroratlon as follows:
 sir this is the birthday of Thomas Jener-
 son. One hundred and fifty-one years ago to. day he came into the world the greatest eman- | eipator of thought. philosopher of liberty and | teacher of the natural rights of man evr | known in human history. The blows he struck l for freedom justice and equality in govern
 msnt are yet resounding throughout the earth.
 and they will never cease to be heard until the last shackle of privilege and tyranny is broken Ten days before his soul flight from his mountain home he wrote his parting words to his own countrymen aud to all the races of
 mankind. With this great dying message be- fore us. and in its spirit. we take new courage and go on with our work.
 All eyes are open or opening he said. to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpabe truth that the mass of man. kind has not been born with saddles on their backs nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God Hail mighty message and hail it's
 speedy and certain fulhllment. All hail the
 counsels of Thomas Jefferson in this hour of
 caste based on wealth of privilege granted by
 law. and of monoply fattened on the slavery
 of labor"
 Ut is believed that there is great
 field for the exportation of our agri-