The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-10

ocrats merely because Of the omission OF the
present Executive to wholly share, remember.
Cd %sS cant SSssby dSns Sfsst IL
sort Of income tax from the ciroumscriptiOn
'Nobody, ever had doubt before the war tina.
the constitutional Inhibition. upon that GROUND
not Quarrel w with ne dee h ~ The
Court In the Springer case, but the doctrine
court. Such things have happened before
The income tax proposed by the President,
other sort Of Federal income tax, Is unsuitable
for apportionment among the several states
and neither pfstends' to be uniform. applied to
All the net income Of each and ever citizen
shifted. distributed and divided by repercus-
4 single tax on land. has enlleht,ped sdyo-
Gates on the ground that 1t would be dis
tributed, divided, and repercussed with FREQ
Ssncsd By the occupier Of the land Il would be
distributed according 70 the use OF the land.
sembiine in this point tax on sugar, for ex-
ample. which being advanced by the i'm porter.
would be distrlbuted according 70 consump-
Direct taxation. on. the other hand. OF which
percentage. are perfect Illustrations. lie like
an acid which must eat where 1t falls.
OVER Rss To- ppg
rule Of inequality and q principle Of injustice
IN STdeT t. the 81
among men acting with individual freedom
under equal laws such grant Of power to
o grant OF power. after long litigation were
found there. or after the long process OF con-
theiess the test iirst to be applied Just now in
the search for sources OF revenue would pro-
Il Is not the m ost Immediate and m ost ade-
ouate remedy for the existing lack OF revenues.
and would no! aid the revival Of our prostra.e
another decade.
AN uNw1sE COURSE
To double the deficit Of $Ta 900 900 by way
OF ending it; to discard $76O0UOOO OF annual
esSsP Ways Vsos e@body e ts,f rei.sm as the
President imagined himseli to he doing In HE
struct oil the schedules instead OF amending
or discarding one group at time, the worst
possible and all at once. instead Of few at q
and V suited to conduct the policy and principle
OF tariff reform unimpaired through period
Of general business prostration. public deficit.
For my own part, as . Democrat. I prefer in
foreign products rather than taxing home
products. follow Jefferson In regarding even
ucts By Internal revenue, war taxos as not good
to be extended and the first to be rid OF when
In the language Of the Democratic national
platform OF 1884:
From the foundation OF this Government taxes col.
OF Federal revenue Such they must continue to be.
In the language Of the New York Chamber OF
Commerce. Jan. IL, 1894:
distinction OF party lin.s that 10 sGd;ioa to
o s IL fSsS h s.
through the Custom House.
The Presidents proposal to invert the
counter to the prin ciple and the practice pre-
ferred BY the founders OF our republic. and to
Democracy have led the return. But were ali
this otherwise. nevertheless. | would first and
foremost consider how to add sufficient rev.
would remem Der the captains OF Industry
would remember the breadwinners And II
upon customs duties on foreign products,
were hereafter to be bottomed upon taxes on
| never counsel a President or a Congress to
sound the tocsin OF that revolution In the
day OF oil private incomes.
THE PoREIGS PREcEDESTs
10 Europe. has made a collection OF incom g. tax
out the lie blood Of the people OF Europe 70
land Of liberty. this continent OF Industrial
tsSss. the Graitsmen 81 this si one mel lesson
too many; They have taught the craftsmen
constitute class Of oficiai hiGhwaymen for
IL q
the pupils better than the best OF men, no form
Of words thei, VT cGS,d eontEiye would fell OF
trinsic; It sticks In the very nature Of any
Federal ineome-tax law whatever.
JEFFERsos's sEsTIMKsTs.
Jefferson's Foptainebleau letter has been
waswritten in the Iesone &c OF those awful social
wrongs and the political inequality: injustice.
yuision ensued It Is actually quoted as help
full authority By men favoring an income tax.
In century ahemisphere. and State where
that Jefferson's Kind heart grieyed over. and
his philosophlc mind SCANNED all the darken-
The Fontsins bleau letter reveals him anew
In those powerful ret winning traits which
every Am sriean. Indee the most I'm prsssivs
argument against an American income tax ts
10 ss ,hrns Fsg Is
rial theme" OF the great inaugural address.
OUR AMERICAN PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT.
The United States OF America have hitherto
received and are now receiving from the best
races Of other States, nations. and empires. the
dent In hlstory-the praise Of the desire OF
their young men and young women TO assimi-
late their lives to ours and their children's
blood with the blood OF our chi dren the praise
Of their desire to escape the burdens OF past
and future wars and be at peace; the praise OF
their desiIe to escape from the Inequalities
Of privilege to an equality OF rights from
European thrones. domiuations, hierarch ies.
classes. and castles, political. ecclesiastical or
social. to an American Individual liberty and
civil equality. to our forms OF Government.
founded upon popular elections. expressed in
written constitutions. embodied In q perma-
nent union OF permanent Rtatek
| 1t may be impTacttcAble that our distinctive
| ly American experiment OF individual free
| dom should go on. Its novelty. az known hy
experience to TIE earlier immigration, can
hardly be expected to receive full appreciation
| even from the most Intelligent Immigrants OF
| the present generation. Our separation from
| the traditions and habits OF thought OF the Old
World was so complete that the Declaration OF
| Independence ratified an old fact rather than
| accom- plished a new fact The Constitution OF
| the United states confirmed US in the posses
| slon Of that ind pc ndent tradition and a COM
| plete individual freedom,
| The States which II united. the Federal Gov
| eminent which IL established. are chiefly re-
mArkAble for their inhibitions OF power for
1 hat Init ~ 81 - . h.