The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-26
From .he Now York WorId.


lion az public policy.
From The New York World
TAXING WEALTH NOT SECTIONS
Senator Turrie's amendment TO the tariff
hill proposes TO levy tax Of : per cent
upoa the estate OF every person who leaves
more than 5000 a. death. The Chicago
Tribune says;
The object Of this amendment IS the
same Is That q the unconstitutional In
come tax Its supporters want certain sec
tons ot the country faxed much more
heavily than others, not because the for
ineT are the more populous, but because
they are wealth!er'
Nothing could be more absurd and I'M
true than this statement. The inheritance
tax proposed would not be laid upon sec
lions or STATES at ali. bat upon property
wherever found and with absolute impag-
TALLY.
As estates are larger in New York than
in Arkansas. for example, this tax would
yield larger returns here than in Arkansas
bu; in the same way New York pays vastly
inore import duties than Arkansas. because
New York imports and consumes vastly
mere dutabie goods.
again, the wh;skoy aud beer taxes yield
Kentucky than from Maine and Kansas
Fat This is net discrimination between
the States. It means merely that some
States make and sen more Of the articles
taxed than other States
To call such taxes ascriminative be-
tween states IS q folly which. if carried to
lis logical conclusion, would forbid all but
roll taxes. FOR there Was never yet any
other kind OF TAX which could fall equally
or according to population upon all the
States. No existing tax does,
The purpose Of income and inheritance
taxes is perfectly simple II is 10 make
wealth bear some part az least of It's tust
share of the burdens OF government soon
er or later that purpose Will find expression
In effective law, even II a constitutional
amendment must first be adopted
From the Washington Post.
WINDING ONES OWN BUSINESS
Where" inquiries the Detroit Journal.
does ex-Candldate Bryan get the money
to pay his expenses in travelling about the
country"
It is pertinent TO Inquire where. IN any
| code Of journalistic ethics or etiquette. or
where within the limits Of decency. our
contemporary finds warrant for propolnd-
ing that inquiry. In the excitement Of the
campaign OF 1886. when Mr. Bryan Was
I h
sitIon furnished an excuse for many re-
marks about his personal affairs that were
nO In good taste and might well have been
omitted. But 10 such excuse can be Of
fered for impairment illusions TO the prl-
vate business u an ex-eandldate. Mr.
| Bryan is now before the public as a Ice
turer. His .,ree hes are proper subjects for
criticism, Bat It Is nobody's business save
his own how or where he gets money ia
| deiray his travelling expense Common
! deeeney demands OF all men the nrosun,n-
ton that every respectable traveller gets
| the money that he spends by honest means
| and until traveller is publicly charged
| with dishonest practices. no newspaptr mas
a right TO refer 10 his pockelbook
Tue Journal. after emitting the insolen,
inquiry quoted above. goes into n long re.
view OF Mt Bryan's finances IN ordsr "a
how that he Is too poor a man 10 ,rnyel
at his own cost. II saws that his daily ex
penscs must run into dollars and n
finally concludes that ne is In the nav Of
the silver trust" whatever that may he,
So long as ex-Candidate Bryan violate.
no laws, statutory or moral. we can not 80,