The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-12-07

palities or other minor divisions Of the
state. But there are many kinds OF
taxes which can only be levied Dy tne
general government so as TO produce tllS
best results, because, among otner rett-
sons the attempt to Impose them IN one
particular state too often results merely
In driving the corporation or tndlVlduel
affected TO some other state, The ma
tional government has long derived its
chief revenue from n tariff on imports
In addition to these there is every reason
why when next our system of taxation
is revised, the national government
should impose a graduated Inheritance
tax and, If possible, a graduated IN
come tax. The man OF great Weai,h W
owes q peculiar obligation to the state,
because he derives special advantages
from the mere existence of government
i feel that in the near future our ma
tional legislators should enact law
providing for a graduated inheritance
tax by which a steadily increasing rate
of duty should be put upon all moneys
or other valuables coming by gift, be
quest or devise to any individual or cor
poration. 1t may be well to make the
tax heavy IN proportion as the mol
vidual benefited Is remote OF KIN. IN IN
| any event in my judgment the pro rata
of the tax should increase very heaViiy
| with the increase of the amount left 10
any one individual after certain point
| has been reached 1t is most desirable
to encourage thrift and ambition and a
potent source of thrift and ambition
| is the desire on the part of the breadwin-
| ner TO leave MS CnlluTell wen Ols ms
object can be attained by making the
| tax very small on moderate amounts OF
property left; because the prime object
should be to put a constantly increasing
! burden on the inheritance of those
swollen fortunes which it is certainly
of no benefit to this country to perpet-
| uate. -
| The only other persons whose welfare
| is as vital to the welfare of the whole
! country as to the welfare OF the wage
workers are the tillers of the soil, the
| farmers 1t is a mere truiSm TO say
| that no growth of cities, no growth OF
| wealth, no industrial development can
atone for any falling off in the charac-
ter and standing of the farming popu-
lation. During the last few decades this
| fact has been recognized with ever-n-
creasing clearness There is no longer
, any failure to realize that farming, at
least in certain branches, must become
a technical and scientific profession. This
means that there must be open to farm
ers the chance for technical and scien-
tific training, not theoretical merely Du'
of the most severely practical type. The
farmer represents a peculiarly high type
iof American citizenship, and he must
have the same chance to rise and de-
velop as other American citizens have
Moreover, it is exactly as true of the
farmer, as it is of the business man ano
the wageworker, that the ultimate sue
cess of the Nation of which he forms
a part must be founded not alone on ma
terial prosperity but upon high moral
mental, and physical development. This
education of the farmer-self-educa
by preference, but also education from
the outside, as with all other men-i
. peculiarly necessary here in the Unite'
States, where the frontier condition!
even in the newest states have now near
| ly vanished where there must be a sub
stitution of more intensive system o
cultivation for the old wasteful farm
management, and where there must be
better business organization among tn
farmers themselves.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
I am well aware of how difficult it i
2 to pass a constitutional, amendment
! Nevertheless in my Judgment the Who'll
question of marriage and divorce shoul
be relegated to the authority of TIL
National Congress. At present the wild
differences in the laws of the differen
states on this subject result in scandal
and abuses; and surely there is nothing
? so vitally essential to the welfare o
r the nation, nothing around which the ma
/ tion should so bend itseIfito throw ever
e safeguard as the home life of the av
4 erage citizen. The change would be goo
G from every standpoint. In particula
< 1t would be good because it would con
t fer on the Congress the power at ono
+ to deal radically and efficiently wit
Y polygamy; and tli1s should be done whe
S ther or not marriage and divorce ar
: dealt with. 1t is neither safe nor prope