The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-04-18
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Republican Opin,onA on the Income Tas
 Verdict

t'G OSV VH6"6 SSOHI DIS'SsS" Republican Dpinions on the Income Tas Verdict
 The income tax law, or at least Q part of 1t, has been decided to be un- constitutional Will this mean bond sales to provide funds for current ex. penditurcs, or will congress be called together to provide for an adequate revenue2-Boston Record.
 This practically defeats and over throws the law. If the income from the landlord class, from the Astors, the sharon estate, the Luning estnte and the like cannot be reached, the people will not consent to allow the law to stand.-San Francisco Chronicle.
 The law is likely to become morn unpopular on account of this decision than it was before, and the chances os its repeal by the next congress will be correspondingly increased, particular ly in view of the fact that the revenue from other sources promises soon to be sufficient for all the necessities of the government.-St Louis Globe-Dem0- crat-
 The income tax measure did not com mend itself to the judgment of the wiser leaders in the democratic COD .gress It was a weak concession to the populists. It is greatly to be regretted, notwithstanding the crippled condition of the treasury, that the court could not have thrust the whole body of the law out of the statute book-Balti- more Record.
 The decision of the supreme court will bring the income tax question | prominently before the next congress The demand will be for a repeal of the remaining portions of the income tax schedule, with the possible exception of the tax on corporate investments, and the substitution therefor of either | increased import duties or new internal revenue taxes.-Omnha Bee. The queer decision of the supreme court only amplifies the already exist ing objections to the income-tax prin- ciple. It is hardly worth while to mourn over one more addition to its inequalities and injustices. as the best informed persons have always said, as the experience of this and other gov. ernments has proved, the income tax is unjust and unequal.-St Paul Pioneer | Press. s,
 The supreme court has not done It. l self credit by its failure to decide as tc the constitutionality of the income tax, and yet has practically taken the life out of that offensive law. It Is the crowning disgrace of the party now in power and of the president who per mitted the income tax to become a law that every democratic justice present held parts of the measure and two oi the three held the whole of it uncon stitutional.-N. Y. Tribune.
 We cannot affirm that the conclusion reached by the court is a surprise, but it is certainly defeat of the object had in view when the income tax was injected into the Wilson tariff bill The business of the country, already staggering under the pressure of con stantly depressing values, falling price: and constricted markets, must shoul der this additional load and carry 1t al best it can. while the coupon clipper and the rack renter go scot free,-De troit Tribune.
 The public was prepared for a gen eral condemnation of the law or fol the maintenance of it's constitutional ty,. but very few anticipated that tho income from rents would be exempted from taxation so long as incomes iron other sources were allowed to be taxed Incomes derived from property othel than lands represent the labor, skill and enterprise of their holders quit as much as do rents, and the latter ar, much better protected by their natur, from the numerous dangers which be set capital.-Baltimore American.