The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

while the man who pays less than lis
share may be able to wink at such a
system, what do you think of the man
who. knowing of the system, still sup
ports it?
In 1894 when this question was be-
fore congress of income tax, a New
ork Democrat said to US as We We're
discussing the question. If the Demo-
cratic party favored the income tax,
rich Democrats would leave the party.
1 said they would not do any such a
thing; l denied that the rich Democrats
would leave the party in order to avoid
just law, but 1 did not know rich
Democrats then as well as I did after
wards (Laughter) 1 said, suppose
they do; won't the poor Republicans
come in and take their places?
thought they would I did not know
did afterwards. (Laughter.) For I
found that while the rich Democrats
were watching the law, ready to vote
any way, some of them ready to vote
any way that would help them and
their pockets, poor Republicans were
willing TO shout for anything that was
in the platform.
But, my friends, these poor Repub-
licans have had chance to study and
to learn something since, and l want
you Republicans who have supported
the Republican party to remember that
when the war came on and we needed
more revenue and could not get it be-
cause of that income tax decision, the
Republican party instead Of asking au-
thority to amend the constitution, in
stead of proposing an amendment to be
ratified by the states, began to look
around tor something TO put stamp
on. And now, when you go to send a
telegram you have got to pay l cent
extra, besides the regular rate. Why
doesn't the telegraph company pay it?
Because the Republican party go wrote
the law that the telegraph company
could put the burden over onto the man
who sent the telegram, and why did it
so write the law? Because the tele-
graph companies have more influence
with the Republican party than all the
poor Republicans who vote the ticket
and hurrah for anything that is in tka
platform. applause and cheers.)
Sample of Taxation.
L was riding on a train in Iowa last
fall, and they came around TO collect
the fares for sitting in the parlor ear,
and they wanted so cents. Well, Won
dered why they wanted 80 cents; had
been in the habit Of paying 25c and soc,
and l did not understand why they
had asked for 80. So 1 inquired, and
they told me that it was on account Of
that tax law that required a 1-cent
stamp on the receipt, and that they
had made it 80 cents, collecting l cent
from the passenger under the law, and
cents for the trouble that they had
to go to in collecting the l cent.
daughter and applause)
If Won VIII examine T6n TAXATION
system favored by the Republican
party, you viii find that they are all
the time devising some method by
which the burden shall be placed upon
all the people and the corporations ex-
empted. You go into your bank and
give check, and you Will find that the
man who gives the check for s., because
he has not much money, and draws out
but little at a time, will pay 2 cents on
the check, just the same as the man
who gives his check for 81, 900 or g, 900,
and draws out a good deal at a time
Is that taxing men in proportion to
their wealth or their incomes? Oh, no.
Such system Of taxation is obnoxious
to Republicans. You cannot get the
Republicans to adjust the burdens Of
the government to the backs Of the
people.
Why? Because the people who now
control the Republican party are in
sisting upon inequality in taxation, and
the people who get the benefit of the
exemption stand by. the Republican
party, and the people who bear the bur
dens allow themselves to be deceived
into voting the Republican ticket. I
want to ask you whether You are will
ing that the burdens of the government
should be so adjusted as to make the
poor man pay more than his share, and
the rich man less?
I went upon the lakes last summer,
and 1 found there people enjoying sum-
mer vacation. I often wondered why
people ever went anywhere else for a
vacation than TO Salt Lake City. where
you have the benefit Of the mountains
and the benefit of the sea shore at the
same time; but there are some who are
UP on the lakes, and the first thought
came TO me was how small a percent
age Of the American people can take a
few weeks rest in the summer time;
how small a per cent Of the American
people have time for a summer vaca-
ton; and the second thought came to
me was this. that the people who pro-
duced the wealth Of this nation have
less time and less money to take a
summer vacation, while the men Eho
trade rather than produce are the ones
who, under Republican legislation, have
time to spend at summer resorts and at
winter resorts. (Applause)
Lays Burdens on People
want to ask you why it is? It is
because the Republican party LAYS upon
most Of the people burdens that they
ought not to bear, and then confers spe-
cial privileges that ought not TO be con-
ferred upon those who have the ear of
those in control of the government. We
want an income tax, and l want King
in congress because he win vote for the
income tax every time he gets a chance
to vote on It (Applause and cheers.) I
do not want a Republican there. be-
cause the Republican would feel so
lonesome in voting for anything that
was good that he would come home and
you would have to elect somebody else
applause and cheers.)
My friends. the Republican party is
now engaged in its old occupa ton OF
burying the silver question, but do not
be frightened; they have buried the
silver question so often a little thing
like another funeral need not bother
you. Don't you know that they buried
it in every election; didn't you know
that they buried il in 1892. 1898. 1894.
1885. 1896. 1897, 1898 and 1899, and are you
surprised to find that thSy are burying
it again? I understand that it is being
urged in this state that Mr.. Cleveland
recommended the repeal OF the Sher-
man law. That is true-he did But. nv
friends, the bin introduced by Congress-
man Wilson of West Virginia to repeal
the Sherman law was almost word for
word the bill introduced by John Sher-