The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-22

every other part of the world. cannot Justly
be required TO pay taxes on something that
II has not-a surplus after providing the
necessaries OF life.-Chicago Times-Herald
(Rep)
Fifty decisions cannot alter the fact that
an income tax is one of the most equitable
that can be levied, and that the denial of
the power TO the government takes from IL
one of the most essential and important
prerogatives of national sovereignty.-Pitts-
burg Post CDem)
The income tax law, after condemnation
by the common sense of the people, has
been voided and nullified by the action of
the Supreme Court II will stand second
in altitude among the pyramid of plumbers
that the F'ifty-third Congress has erected
for the warning of observation-disclosures Inter
Ocean (Rep.)
If two-thirds of each House of Congress
will submit the necessary amendment and
three-fourths of the State legislatures rat
fly it. then law like the one the Supreme
Court has just wiped out can be put into
operation. and not before. 1t will be many
years before such amendment is
adopted.-Chicago Tribune Rep)
The Democratic party stands condemned
by the highest judicial tribunal of the
country for having attempted to put upon
the people without justification or excuse
thus another reproach is added 10 the
many which it has incurred since it was
unfortunately restored to power.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat tRepD
Better this than the sustaining of law
that imposes inquisitorial methods that are
at variance with the whole spirit of
institutions. War reconcies people to ex-
traordnary hardship; but in the piping
times of peace the methods of war are not
to be tolerated. good days work was
cision.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Rep)
The victory is on the side of progress.
If it be important to preserve for the
future the institutions which have made
the past glorious; if it be important to pre-
serve 90 him who sows the harvest that
is reaped; If ii be important to preserve the
effort after the animal wants are supplied,
the decision of the Supreme Court is inn
portant.-Detroit Tribune (Rep)
Inquisitorial and unjust, the income-tax
law from the first was an offense to Amer
lean sentiment and American principles.
After its first alteration at the hand of
the Supreme Court II became so absurdly
and barbarously unjust that the former sup
porters of the measure themselves had no
word to say in its defense. Now that it is
wiped off the statutes there will be general
Observation-Disclosures Record Qnd)
The Southern Democracy favored this
policy almost to a man. knowing that 80 per
cent. OF the tax would come from the great
manufacturing States and the commercial
and business centers of the North.
Democratic stupidity and demagogism were
never more conspicuously exhibited than in
the enactment of the statute which the
Supreme Court has stricken down as total
ly void.-Pttsburg Commercial Gazette
Rep)
There is nothing for the people to do but
philosophically accept the inevitable. While
there are those who will rail at the highest
tribunal of the land for reversing itself and
declare that there is more Of politics than
of justice in its finding they will do better
TO exercise the wisdom which gracefully
yields when there is no appeal. There is
nothing TO be gained by making faces at
the court and the future of the Nation is
In no wise imperiled by the action of its
iudCiary.-Detroit Free Press DemO