The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-14

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his heels over the dasher board ne
Irishmam said: Alright, yod can get IN
if you like, but if you do set out
\ REVERSIBLE ARGUMENT.
But | found that poor Republicans
We're sometimes so partisan that they
would hurrah for anything in the plat
form. ! went over into Iowa to hear 4
great Republican, make Il speech nj one
timc--I wanted to hear The best thar
could be said OIL that subject | re-
member that there We're some Repubh-
can farmers there with co.M stalk caneg.
and when the speaker said THAT the Re
publicam party had nut a tax on wool 10
raise the price Of wool and thereby bene-
fit the farmer they raiscl their canes
and hurrahed: and when he told them
that the Republican party put tariff
ON WOODEN goods to lower the price OF
| clothing. they raised their canes and
cried hurrah.' They thought they had
| found something that would catch them
comm and gwine. ! have heard speak
/ or make an argument like this: that alli-
/ der free coinage mine owner could
| take 30 cents worth of silver to the mint
! and convert il into dollar and make
30 cents by the operation. After the
speaker had shouted himself hoarse in
ANALYSING this, then explained 20 the
audience that under free coinage the mine
owner would take 80 cents worth of free
silver and make cheap silver dollar
that was worth only ; 0cents, and not
make a cent. The one proposition con-
tradicts the other and | have heard the
, Republicans hurrah. for both. was
reminded of the man who was travelling
in the mountains and said that the path
was so crooked that he often met HIM
self coming back.
UNEQUAL BURDENS.
Il say | wonder why Republicans id
not. in 1896. see the necessity of income
tax. hut when we needed more revenue
the Republican party, instead of amend
ing the Constitution TO authorize the ln-
come tax brought in q stamp tax The
Republican party might have proposed an
amendment to the CONSTITUTIONAL might
today propose an amendment to the Con-
stitution that would help the government.
hut instead Of that it lays the burden of
the responsibility upon the. backs OF tho
people without justice and without
equity. | run across n stamp tax every
day when / send a telegram l hnd
that l have to pay the regular rate that
used to pay, and in addition thereto,
! cent On each telegram for the benevo-
lent assimilation of the Filipino. Why is
it that the man who sends the telegram
, has to pay the tax? Because the Re
publican party so wrote the law that the
telegraph company could shift the bur-
den upon the man who sent the telegram.
They would have more influence than all
the poor Republicans who voted for the
ticket. had an experience with inns
tax ont in Iowa. / found that the fare
i'm n chair car was 80 cents between
Sioux City and Council Bluff. | was not
accustomed to paying 30 cents, 1T was
usually Is or so cents, and | inquired
why this was and found that it had been
a quarter until tax of one cent was
, put ON it, and then the Railroad Conn
pany raised the price to 80 cents so as TO
collect from the passenger the one cent
charged by the government and then +
cents for the trouble they went to IN.
collecting the one cent. | only speak OF
this to show YOU how. under Kepubll-
can legislation, all these burdens are
shifted over on the backs of the people.
In England they have large army, but
they have a tax that makes the rlch
bear their share Of the burden.
THE DOLLAR ABOVE THE MAN.
I'm this country the Republican party
wants the country to have an imperial
| policy, but it wants to throw the ex-
J pense of that policy on the struggling
masses instead of making the rich bear
| their part. If you could not see what
| the Republican policy was in 1896. you
| ought to see now that the Republican
party has put the dollar above the man
| and makes money more precious than
| blood. In Justice Browns opinion he
said i fear that iii some hour of ma
| tiopal peril this decision will rise up 70
paralyze the arm Of the government. The
/ hour Of Peril came. and the people found
out that in the hour of peril the govern
| merit could draft the citizen. but could
/ not draft the pockctbo tApplauseD
| And | want you Republicans to under
stand now, that in an hour Of danger
| the power of the government Is ilnnteu
when dealing with the property or the
| citizen. In an hour Of peril this govern
1 mtnt can take the son from his mother,
| no matter how much the mother needs
| him: in an hour Of peril this government
/ can take the husband from the wife: IN
| an hour of peril this government can take
| the father from the children: in an hour
| of peril the father. the son or the nus
band can be made to stand up III front
Of the enemy's gun; lut in an hour OF
neril this government could not lay its
!! hand upon the property of rich ana
| make them bear their share of the bur-
| den. Why is it? 1t is because the he
! publican party puts the dollar above the
! man. and if YOU Republicans think you
are through with the income tax want
/ to tell you that that income tax ques
| ton will be in the campaign TINS Seu.
even more prominently than in 1915, and
| thar this fight for justice in taxation VIII
| go ON until the Constitution is so amend-
ed as to specifically authorize an income
tax. then neither one judge or name
| Judges can build a fortress around the
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