Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-13
HILLS SPEECH ON THE IN
COME TAX

Tho following is careful syno psis
OF Senator Hills speech, as delivered
in the Senate the other day:
He summed up by asserting that
the enemies Of torff rrform were
those WHO imperiled the passage of
this bill by arbitrarily insisting upon
The retention Of an income tax there.
in. They refused to present sepa.
rate measure embracing this feature.
They even declined to fix auy date-
one, TWO or three years-when the III.
come Tux should cease, but sought to
incorporate aud establish it, as per.
Inanent policy Of the government
In conclusion, he defines his posi-.
ton III these earnest words:
81 stand ready to support my rea
sonable measure for tariff reform
within the lines and based upon the
principles which | have here partially
Indicated, aud which were fully SGT
forth i'll my speech, in op ming the
political campuign in Brooklyn on
September 10, 1892 l stand today
where 1 stood then. | have nothing
to add and nothing to retract.
Il will checrfnlly vote for the Mills
bill and join with you in milking
many mnterinl reductions of duties
therein. l nm ready to waive all
minor difference Of details which do
not involve question Of principle.
Having spoken today especially
upon the income tax feature of this
bill, reserve the exl rcssion of my
views upon its other features until
near the close of the discussion
MIR President, this is an import
ant crisis in th,. history of the Demo
cratic party. The failure of the tar
III revision nj this time means the de.
feat, the decentralization, if not the
division and humiliation of our party.
Moreover, it mems, ms we believe. in.
jury to the best interests of the couu
try. Let those who insist npon in
jecting into this bill this odious and
undemocratic feature of an income
taxi relic of war legislation-pause
and reflect upon the possible conse
quences of their understandable de.
mands.
LOSS OF THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
They should realize that 1t means
the loss of this Senate. now neurly
equally divided between the two great
parties; it means the loss of the next
House of Representatives; it means
the loss of the electoral votes of New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and
probably every Northern State; and
finally, 1t means the loes of the next
Presidency and all that it implies.
They should recollect TINT this in.
come tux feature is Justly regarded in
New York and many other Northern
States rs II scheme of spolintion, mn
unwarranted sectional attack upon
their citizens of meals.
"They should consider whether
there is anything about an income
tax so sacred, so desirable, SO popu
lar, so just and so defensible that it's
maintenance is worth the risk which
they arc precipilnting. Let them re
member 1850 and the ultra demands
then made upon the Democratic
party, to which it could not honora
bly, accede; demands which led to our
division and defeat. Let them re.
member tho triumphs of our oppo
nents. the civil war that followed, the
military and carpet bag governments
which flourshed, the force bills
which threatened ant! all the Incl
dents of the terrible years which
darkened our party's aud our cour
try's history from 1860 to 1861, when,
through wiser counsels, moderate
lion, conciliatory methods and i
stored confidence, we we're entrusted
with power again; and, rejecting up
on nll these things, let them saw
whether it is the part of wisdom, by
the lnsistcnce on extreme demands,
to imper;l the success of our party
again aud endanger the best and
highest interests of our common
country"
BUCK I,EN'S AI2EICt ClTNE