The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-31
DEHTH Ind TAXES
The Two Combined Catch All. But
Taxes Catch tle Greatest Num-
Der. and They Catch the
Poorer Classes che
Heaviest.


selves and love their country viii
pay their war taxes willingly.
Americans who have strain of
the hog in them will grumble and
do their best to shift the taxes to
their neighbors.
But decent Americans who love
their country and respect them
selves, says McMasters Weekly,
are glad to make every needful
sacrifice for the maintenance of the
national welfare and honor and be-
lieye in fair play.
Why should the necessities and
little comforts of the poor be taxed
to carry on this war and the for
tunes of the rich escape altogether?
The mother who telegraphs her
husband that their child is dying
must buy 1-cent stamp before
she sends the message.
Russell Sage pays not cent on
his income of million a year
Is that right?
The Iaborer who breaks rock for
dollar a day and sits down with
his dinner pail in the shade of a
boulder at the noon hour is taxed
on his crust.
John d. Rockefeller pays moth
ing on his income of S12,0OO,000.
Is that right?
The mixed loaf that the tene-
ment-house mother cuts for her
children pays the war tax.
The Trinity church estate, the
Astor estate and all the gigantic
wealth of the landlords of New
York goes scot free.
Is that right?
The citizen whose business re-
quires him to travel is taxed for
his tickets.
The earnings of the railroads
and steam ship companies are un
touched.
Is that right?
The woman who drinks cup of
tea pays war tax.
The men who grow rich by sell
ing tea are exempt.
Is that rightP
The consumer pays everything
those who supply the consumer
pay nothing.
Why should this be SOP Why
should riches be left alone by the
government and the taxing hand
be thrust into the pockets where
the fewest dollars are?
Why is there no income tax?
Because the supreme court has
decided that an income tax is un-
constitutional.
What does that prove?
Simply that the constitution
must be amended
The American people we're not
made for the constitution but the
constitution for the American peo-
pie.
The constitution as amended by
the supreme court every day that
it stands legalizes crime against
equality, which is a crime against
republican institutions.
E cry day the incomes of the
rich remain untaxed while the
bread and tea of the poor pay tax
es is day which breeds discomfort,
fosters class hatred and encourages
the propagandists of socialism and
anarchy.
From the foundation of the re-
public up to 1895 an income tax
was constitutional. Then the Su-
preme Court made its new discov-
cry that incomes were sacred.
The people who pay the war tax
es have the power to override the
Supreme Court. They can amend
the constitution and include in
comes among taxable property.
Every man who eats war bread.
Every man who drinks war tea
Every man who drinks war beer.
Every man who smokes war to.
bacco.
Every man who buys war stamps
for his checks and his telegram
and railroad and steamer tickets.
Every man who talks through
war-taxed telephone
All these, unless they are of the
caste of the selfish, greedy and un-
patriotic rich-the hog-strained
Americans-ar are being educated in
to realization of the rank iniqui-
ty of making the wealthy favor
ed class in republic.
That means poisoning the well