The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-09
'LOOK AT ENGLAND"
a Comparison Between the United
States with the Old Country.
Some Respects in Which the Mother
Country Seems to Have tho
Advantage of Ua.


Golfers Weekly thinks that the
United States should pay higher
salaries. Ambassadors do not pet
enough. Neither do cabinet Office rs
The President also is underpnided.
HOW lamente
Look at Eogland," says Golfers
in effect.
E-sland pays 800, 600 to the lord
lieutenant of Ireland, s35, 900 to the
speaker of the house OF commons
and 30 forth and SO on.
We'll, let us accept the invitation.
and look at England.
VINO pays the taxes in EuglandP
We know who pays them here. With
US the poor man pays the taxes.
When he covers his nakedness,
when he satisfies his hunger, when he
builds his house, when he buys tools
to work with he pays an outrageously
oppressive tariff tax.
Rockefeller pays no more federal
tax than is paid by q one horse negro
farmer in the south.
Morgan pays less federal tax than
many western corn grower who fed
his stove on ear corn In 1891, because
1t was cheaper than coal.
Blessed are our millionairesl Those
OF them who are neglected by con.
gress are tenderly cared for by the
federal judiciary.
Blessed are the richi-they run the
government and the common man
pays the bill.
Look at England.
All right, we nov look. This is
what we see:
She compels her railway corpora
tions to pay an income tax upon the
assessed valuation of s19O, 600. 900
She compels the coal barons and
the marble quarry owners to pay in
come tax upon an assessed valuation
Of s95, 200, 600.
She compels the landlords, bankers
and merchant princes to pay income
tax upon an assessed valuation OF
5000, ,O00,0O
In this manner she forces her
wealthy classes to pay on property
and income nearly two million dollars
annually toward the support of tile
government!
Her tariff duties are levied exclu.
sively upon articles which are not ne.
cessaries Of life.
Not dolfar Of tariff need the poor
man pay to live in perfect comfort
This tariff upon the non. necessaries
amounts to $40, 100000.
From Intoxicating liquors the reve.
tnuc is 6f5o, 900; 600. g.-,ss
Thus it will be seen by look at
England that the poor man can feed
himself, clothe himself, build house
to live in, and supply it with necessa.
ry furniture without having to pay
one dollar of national tax.
In this land of the free he must
pay the tariff tax, or go naked, eat
grass and live in hole in the ground
But let us "look at England
again.
We see her operating her postof1ice
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, 200, 900 instead
OF letting the corporations make five
times that amount.
She owns ard operates the telegraph
lines, and makes S18, ,OOO,O 900 per yeal
instead Of letting the corporation
make it.
What, therefore, is the net result
OF the Look at England?"
We discover that the government
supports itself upon the possessions O.
the people rather than upon their ne
ceSSitieS.
Give us the same system of taxa
ton compel those who possess th
wealth to pay the expenses of govern
ment-apd for one, will say, MAX
tho salaries what you will so long a
you will make them have to pa,
them"