The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-03
SOME QUESTIONS.

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SOME QUESTIONS.
First. After criminal delay, result
ing in the passage of an inadquate ana
undemc cratic tariff law, why did not
Democratic Congress, as pledged by
the platform and promised by the rep
resentatives of the party, still further
reduce the tariff during the short ses-
sion of Congrt IS?
2nd. Why did not Democratic Con
gress pafs a free coinage bill as prom
ised by the platform of 1922
3rd. Why did a Democratic Presi
dent veto the Bland seignorage bill,
which would have put in Gil culation
about $50, 900, 900 in silver7
45h. Why did the Democratic Con
gress fail to repeal the 10 per cent. tax
on State banks to which the party was
pledged?
55h. Why did Democratic Chief Jus
tice Fuller, of the Federal Supreme
Court, and Democratic Associate JUS
tice Field vote against the income tax
law, when either Of their votes would
have saved it2
How do you jas ify tE spectacle of
| the Democratic Chief Justice writing
the opinion that
NULLIFIFD THE INCOME TAX LAW,
while Republican Assc cjate Justice
Harlan voted in itS favor and declared
that he feared that the notification of
said law would prove the first step to-
wards the sub nergence of the liberties
of the people in a sordid despotism 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 a national calamity" and
while Republican Associate Justice
| Brown voted for the law and said:
This decision may we'll xcite the
gravest apprehension. 1t str ikes at the
very foundation of national authority
| IN that 1t denies to the General Gov
ernment power which is or may at
! some time, in a great emergency such
as that of war, become vital to the
existence and preservation OF the
| Union
S lid another great authority:
This decision is another victory of
greed over need. Great and rich cor
pOratioI by hiring the ahlest lawyers
IN the land, have secured the exemp
tion of wealth from paying it's just
share towards the support of the gov
ernment that protects it. The people
! will not
ACCEPT THIS LAW AS JUSTICE"
mo decision can make wrong right
| 1t Is not right that the entire cost of
! the Federal Government shall rest upon
| the masses. 1t is not right that wealth
| shall pay no more than poverty to-
wal d5 the support of the National Ad
ministration Democratic principles
are violated in the most fragrant man
ner, when a man worth SO 600, 900
! pays no more in gross than the man
who is worth 800, 600, or when the
man with an income of 81 900 is called
upon for substantially the same amount
as the man with an income OF 800, ,0O0."
Mr.. Tnomas G. ShearmaD, in the No
vember, Forum, 1859, says that the
average annual income Of the richest
one hundred Americans, cannot De less
than 81, 200, 600 and probably exceeds
81, 500, 600 per annum.
If one hundred working men could
earn each 81 600 year, they would
have to
WORK 1000 OR 1, SEQ YEARS
to earn as much as the annual income
of one of these one hundred richest
! Americans. And if a working map,
could earn 81, 600 year he would have
to work until he was 547 years old ard
never take a day eff before he could
earn as much as some Americans are
worth"
If this be 80, and it has never been
denied, how about the Western farmer
with wheat at 60 cents and the South
ern planter with cent cotton.
The Wealth of CIOe u3 was estimated
at $8, coo, 600, but there are 70 American
estates that
AVERAGE $35 600, 900 EACH,
and there are 400 millionaires in the
two cities Cf New York and Brooklyn
whose fortunes range from one to two
hundred million dollars.
Last winter in New York at the
Metropolitan Opera H5uso was seen one
OF the most magnificent sights ever
presented on this continents. The fash
ionable women OF those two CITIES un-
der the blaze Of electric lights, glisten-
ed aud S s,intijIated with the sparkle
and flash of $29, 600, 600 worth of dia-
monds. And 50. 500, ,OOO,O 600 we're pos
sessed by the men who owned the
grand tier of boxes.
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