The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29

ubouts-xnO F0OpI00 F0rSYs
NULLIFIED THE INCOME TAX LAW,
while Republican Associate Justice
Harlan voted in its favor and declared
that he feared that the notification of
said law would prove the first step
towards the submergence of the liber-
ties of the people in a sOrdid depotism
of wealth, that the decision Of the court
in this great case IS fraught with i'm
| measurable danger to the future of the
country, and approaches the proper
tions of national calamity" and
while Republican Associate Justice
Brown voted for the law and said:
This decision may well excite the eravest
apprehension. 1t strikes at the very founda-
ton Of national authority in that it denies
to the general government a power which
! Is or may at some time, in a great emer-
the existence and preservation Of the
Union.'
i Said another great authority:
over need. Great and rich corporations by
hiring the ablest lawyers in the land, have
secured the exemption of wealth from pay
ing its just share towards the support of the
government that protects it. The people
| will not
| ASCAEI THIS Nv Az JUSTICE.
No decision can make wrong right: 1t
| is not right that the entire cost Of the Fed
eral government shall rest upon the ms sses.
1t Is not right that wealth shall pay no
more than poverty towards the support of
the national administration. Democratic
principles are violated in the most fragrant
manner, when q man worth $40 90 OOOO paws
no more in gross than the man who is
| worth $1OO, 600, or when the man with an
income of 81 900 is called upon for substan-
tally the same amount as the man with an
income of 100000"
Mr.. ThOs. G. ShearmaD, in the No
vember Forum, 1889, says that "the
leverage annual income of the richest
one hundred Americans, cannot be
less than 100000 and probably ex-
ceeds 81 800, 600 per annum.
If one hundred working men could
earn each one thousand dollars a year
they would have to
WORK 1900 OR 500 YEARS
to earn as much as the an
nual income of one Of these one
hundred richest Americans. And
lif working man, could earn
$1,000 year, he would have to work
until he was 547 years old and never
take a day off before he could earn as
much as some Americans are worth"
If this be 50. and it has never been de-
MED, how about the Western farmer
with wheat at 80 cents and the South
ern planter with B cent cotton.
The wealth of CrOesus was estimated
at S, 900, ,OOO but there are 20 Ameri-
can estates that
AVERAGE $35, 100000 EACH,
and there are 400 milliOnaires in the
two cities OF New York and Brooklyn
whose fortunes range from one to two
hundred million dollars.
Last winter in New York at the
Metropolitan Opera House was seen
one of the most magnificent sights
ever presented on this continent. The
fashionable women of those two cities
, under the blaze of electric lights, glis.
, tened and scintillated with the sparkle
and flash of $29,OOO,OOO worth of dia.
,, monds. And $2,sOO,OOO,OOO were pos.
sessed by the men who owned tn.
: grand tier of boxes
Last winter fifty capitalists had ,
+ supper in New York City that cos
$l5 900. In the centre of the banquet
table, was q crystal lake thirty fee
in diameter, OH which swan superb
e Miniature valleys and mountain
}, bordered the lake, while around tn
= table were golden plates and colder
8 knives and forks. with luxuries from
: all quarters of the globe. Hambur,
: grapes at ten dollars per pound. an
: first Florida strawberries, fourteen il
: q cup, at four dollars per cup. Out
t side the banquet hall, . woman shiv
y cred on the pavement with
STARVING BABE AT HER BREAsr,
and beyond her were the millions q
the unemployed and the suffering meI
women and little children of this lant
The Peoples Party alone, declare
: in its platform, that those who live i
y such kingly magnificence, ought an
= should pay to the government an in
- come tax in order to lessen the ta
= burdens of the people. The Demo
cratic party being in power, and feal
ing the growing sentiment of th
voters of the land, passed an incOn
" tax law, which. while far short
it what it should have been to equaliz
% taxation, was nullifled by Democrat
d Judges.
# How can this be defended?
D. 9Th. Why has this admlnistratio
failed to prosecute the Trusts whiC
are sapping the life blood of the RI
public, and which the Democrat
g party was pledged to annihilate?
ID 7th. A new York Democratic daily d.
clared not long since, that "when Den
'y 0cratic speakers were telling the pc,
p pie in 1892, that the Pension Syste
er was costing the people, after thirl
= years of peace, rs much per annum
it required to support every standir
lc army in Europe that Il
IS Democratic party would reduce it to
Just and honorable basis-there We
u y. 100000 pensioners. Now, more ths
II, two years after the Democratic par
On came into power, there are more tn,
q million on the rolls"
n What has this Democratic admit
X istrationdone to mitigate and to CO
rs rect the infamous Pension robbery
bitterly and 50 justly denounced
leI the Representatives Of the partyr
ne 8th. (al Why are forty per ce
Is Of the Republican Officeh0lders st
AZ in Office, to the exclusion of tho
lid who have worked al their lives
! the Democratic party, and, the ascen
,oI ancy Of its principles?
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