The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-17

I14Sez states senator uksls VINO u maa
Of political ssgac.ty and brains, in his re-
cen. speech denounced the income tax.
| United States Senator Voorhees,. OF Indi-
ans. who has all his lie been an unprirei-
pied. unpasriotie. incepdisry politician, IN
his speech defending the Wilson tariff bill
fransically denounced the manufacturers
who had sought 10 have the bill modified
in their interest n arrogant. insolent and
dieiatoriai. and IN some instances sinister,
perhdiogs and dishonest" as '.incarna-
sions Of human selashness." and -
''shams and bstrayers Of the people and
the truth"
In advocating the income tax voorhees,
denounced the owners OF capital in general
and defended the income tax because he
believed that il would all come out of the
xei.-to-do. lie, the well-to-6o remember
that this incendiary defender OF class leg
islation has served notice upon them that
they are expected henceiorth to pay ali the
current expenses OF the government. The
proposed tar Of two per eent is bus the en-
tering wedge. II mar be increased from
year 10 year until. as voorhees, suggests. il
may be made TO yield the whole pension
roll Of sioo. doo. GO. and. instead OF being
collected from IS Zoo citizens. il may be
levied upon only $50 or issa Thus. upon
incomes above {lo,ooe the rate OF the tax
might be made 10 per cent. upon those Of
$4,000 and over Sd per cent, and upon oil
above $1,000 il might be 81 or even 100
per cen.
once admit the vile dogma of Voorhees,
that the rroprietors OF aecumul aied
wealth are public en.mies and the eontis-
cation OF their whole property is just -
righ.fal as that OF their incomes. Mat
thew Marshall in the SewYork Sxa says:
IF the rich men of this country expect
10 secure their riches against depredations
like that for which the proposed income
tar Will establish the precedent, they will
have 10 eniss, on their side the intelligence
and the moral sense of their fellow citi-
xens. for. when the sentiments expressed
by seast1r voorhees, become those Of the
majority, they viii be as helpless TO resist
| them as were the nobility Of France TO re-
sIst the revoiutionisis Of the last century"
Senator Voorhees, in his speech asserted
that aeea,Duiations OF wealth are danger
Gus. to the welfare of a country, and
showed his ignorance of history when
he cited Rome and Greece IS examples
/ 1t was not the rich pa:rieian srissocraey
! that overthrow the Roman republic; il
was the military rivslsaip OF Mauns and
/ Syila. Of rompey aud Cesar. II was the
| rich psir!eiEn class that sided with Pom
| peg against Cesar. Greece certainly did
| not perish because Of a piutoc-
/ racy: she fell because OF internal
/ disssaslons between Athens and Sparta
/ aud the other Grecian states. The 6rst
/ French republic did not perish because of
4 piutocracy. for surely the nrss Napoleon
/ was no pluiocrat bat needy, hungry si-
/ sentarer q enormous military talent. and
! the second French republic did not perish
! because Of plutooracy ha; was sabver,ed
( By she wiles Of a poor, INSCRIPTIONS al.
( seatuTer. backed Sy a few nercenary sol
+ dssrA Mr.. Aarsha.l closes his eviscera.
! tion Of Voorhees, incsndlary speeeh Is
/ follows.
! There is no case On record If PEOPLE
( enslayet ~ mere money grghbers TIE
] anassins OF wealth - incompatible by IT'S
] very nature. with the acquisition oi pstitl.
/ cal supremacy. The man whose whals
I mind : gtven 20 hts business has no
: leisure for anything else. Nor can he
! succeed without nj the saGsc rae benefit.
ing als fellow usea. oi the usefulness al
} masses of capital, ssillfulfY efnrloved
. TO develop The natural resources of a
/ country. tco Fnsay proofs are visible
l sreuud as 20 permit doubt Our rail-.
. roads. oar great raaBafacturies, our
aansS and othes taaueasl institutions,
( and the numerous corporations fostersd by
state Avs tor ths exps~Ss purpose OF cafa-
( tlntag under SINCE management iltEke
+ Amounts Of wealth whieit separately woyg.yl
- Useless. all attest the beue6ceui resalgs
/ ct taat aggregation - capital whieh Seaa-
/ Tor Voorhees, arnuunees. Il al sach as.
: ETesass0ns are ~ - prevented either ~
coahscat4cn us.der the sltse 81 tasatiOt ~
, hr statutes making t0efa Illegal the ma
ssr}A progress ot the coaatFy Eli *
B brought - = staAQsfil3.