New-York tribune., 1894-04-04

"Gc, rid of the incom" tax at once. ana th'h
pass the Tariff bill without delay Such Is ''l'
advice earnestly given by some p'hio'r''''
Journals II is advice without reason. lH' III
come fax Is oliou> as II ought I" h'. p"' "
v,ould do lncomparably less harm thah the Ill
t,strv smos shiny measure To which II l. al
,,ched II would indcccntly ana most uhJtstN
nlundcr several hundred thousand bondhold'rS
mr. shareholders in corporations. many "i H'ih
willows and children who have no other means
of support and whose personal incomes are
far below The pretended limit of Si."~ year
Iv bccausc the corporations would h" comp"ll'u
,o nay the lax for every bond or sllar" hohl"r'
Iorgc ar ,mall dcducting II before paying any
interest or Dividend There could hardly he Il
,nur. shameless thing 10 do. and II would WORK
great hardship to many individuals. But TWEEN
tv times the number have already suffered Il TAR
or,,tcr loss i'm reduction of wages because OF
,h, ,hre,tcn.d change of tariff The Demo
cratic party has just sense enough 'o ilaEl"'
cha, an income tax would be useful and popular
Through al the weeks Of wrangling about o'her
features Of the bill there has not appeared III
the Senate enough Democratic opposition L"
oi,,o ,ho lc,st reason to hope that the Income
tax will bc defeated Indeed. some of tn" west
declared that this Is the one provision OF the
bill which makes them willing To vote Tor IT,
II that is taken ont they say, they will defeat
the Tariff bill itself.
Whom n Great party is in such Il condition,
what IS the use Of submitting arguments To II :
There were Democrats in the House from
Northern States who had been members oi
great prominence. and were supposed to b" able
10 control their own votes ana some hl"r'' WIZ
declared most cmphaticaly even down 10 'he
very day The bill passed tho House. that 'h'!
would never vote for il with III" income 'aN'
and vet they did Crawling in the very 'ra'N
of the doughfaces Of forty years ago 'h'v
voted ms their Southern masters ordered. IL Is
now said that Senator Mcpherson VIII Try I'D
have the income tax cut ont OF IN" blll III 'h'
Senate. Yet this same Senator. after all tho III
suits put upon him, did not dare to rrf'iS" ms
assent to the report Of the bill from comhltt'e'
Had he possessed courage enough To controi his
own vote the bill could not have been reported
with the income tax II part of IT, Thc senator
who would not kill the OdiouS measure, Wlcn
no could by his single vote is not man likely
70 he followed when he proposes 10 get ma
ioritv Of Senators To do the same thing.
| Resides offensive as it is to every fair-mindcd
person. the income tax would do less harm by
far than the rest Of the bill Perhaps looW'
persons would be- deprived by the income taN
| of a ffticth Of their profits but 4.o0ooOo manu-
featuring workers would lose by the tariff from
"A quarter to the whole Of their earnings. There
are several thousand corporations which the III
come tax would most unjustly deprive Of ;
fraction of their earnings. but there are thou
sands more, n larger number on which many
more persons depend for support, which ih'
rest Of the bill would absolutely ruin. Th'
thirteen hundred woollcu mills in the Initc'
States. with their Sl3O,OOOO 900 capital and 80,
600 hands employed. paid S37.00o00o in wage
and miscellaneous expenses. and $S2,0O0,0D 70
material and had left in Il good year out o
s133 100000 worth OF product less than 10 pc
cent for interest on their capital and renewa
Of plant From most Of them the new tarif