The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-07
LOOK AT ENGLAND >
& Comparison Between the United
States with the Old Country.
Some Respects In Which the Mo.hes
Country Seems to Have the
AdvanCsae OF Us.

| Un1ueQ SbateS SQOulQ pay mSQel
salaries. Ambassadors do not get
enough. Neither do cabinet officers.
The President also is underpaided.
How lanentsb:el
Look at England" says Golfers
10 effect.
England pays 800, 600 to the lord
lieutenant Of Ireland, s35, 900 to the
speaker OF the house Of commons
and 80 forth and so on.
We'll, let US accept the invitation,
and look at Eogland.
Who pays the taxes In England?
We know who pays them here. With
US the poor man pays the taxes.
When he covers his nakedness
when he satisfies bis hunger, when he
builds his house, when he buys tools
tc work wish be pays an outrageously
oppressive tariff tax.
Rockefeller pays no more federal
tax than Is paid by a one.horss negro
farmer In the south.
Morgan pass less federal tax than
many a western corn grower who fed
els stove on ear corn In 1891, because
it was cheaper than coal.
Blessed are our nillionaires! These
Of them who are neglected by con-
gress are tenderly cared for by the
federal judiciary.
Blessed are the rlchi-tbey run the
government and the common man
pays the bill.
Lock at E E1gland.
Ali right, We now look. This is
what we see:
She compels her railway corpora.
tions to pay an income tax upon the
assessed valuation Of $50, 600 600
She compels the coal baIons and
the marble quarry owners to pay in.
come tax upon an assessed valuation
Of s95, ,000. 900.
Sne compels the landlords, bankers
and merchant princes to pay income
tax upon an assessed valuation Of
5000, 900, 900
In this manner she forces her
wealthy classes to paw on property
and income nearly two million dollars
annually toward the support OF ::'e
government!
Her tariff duties are levied exclu
sively upon articles which are not ne.
cessaries Ct lie.
Not a dollar Of tsrlf need the poor
man pay to live in perfect comfort.
This tariff upon the non. necessaries
amounts to s170, 900, 900.
From Intoxicating liquors the reve-
nue. Is $3.50. 10000
Thus it will be seen by look at
England that the poor man can feed
himself, clothe himself, build a house
to live in, and supply it with necessa-
~ furniture without having to pay
one dollar Of national tax.
In this land Of the free he must
pay the tariff tax, or 60 naked, eat
grass and live In a hole In the ground.
But let Us "look at England"
again.
We see her operating her postomce,
carrying parcels as well as Letters,
She does not allow express companies
to amass fortunes by robbing the
people in the carrying Of light
freight.
Thus she makes $40, 900, 900 instead
of letting the corporations make five
times that amount.
She owns and operates the telegraph
lines, and makes s18, ,000,0 900 per year
instead Of letting the corporations
make it.
What, therefore, is the net result
Of the Look at England?"
We discover that the government
supports itself upon the possessions OF
the people rather than upon their ne
cessities.
Give Us the same system OF taxa
tion-compel those who possess the
wealth to pay the expenses OF govern
ment-and I for one, will say, Make
the salaries what you will so long as
you will make them have to pay
them"