The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-17
By Edward Kenny

Aw1 He pemocratic party avors IN income tax; the Republican party Il
is silent on the subject An income tai is the farest sort of tax i
that wa ever devised, for it compels a mar to pay for the I
support of the government according ito. his near A working man. ]
owning a little home Is taxed a almost the full value of his property.
while a millionaire pays almost nothing n comparison. That is not fair. 3
That is not Just. An income tax would correct the unfairnoss and the
injustice. 1t has been well said that tax is that portion Of ones property 1
which he pays TO the State in order that he IA be protected in h pos
session Of the rest" By that rule the millionaire ought to be made to 1
pay in proportion to the laborng mar The millionaire does lot now Z
pay tax for the protection which the State and the nation gives him in
h possession of his property. He ought to be compelled, in all justice. !
to do SO. An income tax would compel every millionaire to pay tax
in proportion to the tar paid by the poor man " 4
. Becaus Mr. Bryan Is in favor, and the Democratic party is in favor. 4
4 an income tax and because Mr. Taft is against. and the Republican J
party is against al income tax, MI. Bryan should be elected President
and Mr. Taft should not be elected. !
The rust question is a question that will not down. and i. must
be meta and dealt with by the government in the interest If the whole J
people. A trust is a combination If corporations for the double purpose
of decreasing the cost of production and increasing the prices of the
product. So Ia as the results are to decrease IF the cost Of production.
no sensible man can innd fault Like the Introduction Of improved MAJ
chlnery, its first results are to decrease the demand fol laDors but the
ultimate result has always been found, that, like improved machinery, 3
It enlarges the field for, and increases the demand for, and the wages
Of labor, but when those trusts g Q farther n continue to raise ne prices
of their products and to make preferential rates to favored shippers. and
thus drive those not favored out Of business, the government ought to 4
STEP and step lin quickly, in behalf of the people. and throttle those trusts
1t aust be remembered that a corporation gets its life from the State. !
and 1t is expected that 1t will serve the people of the State in return Z
FOR the life it receives from the State. When it uses that life forDthe &
purpose of injuring the people Of the State. the State. has a right to. )
and the State ought to, take away that life. " as the State takes
the life o a murderer, for the protection OF the State and the people Of
the State. When a corporation uses the powers It receives from the
State for the oppression of the people Of the State, 1t should lose its
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publican administration those trusts have been fostered. and have grown, i
SO that they actually threaten the government that gave them, ne. :
Under the Sherman trust law a few nes have been imposed, which aonlyIs
means that the trust magnates have been obliged to give up a few dot {
lars of the millions Of dollars they have atched from the people. Those
guilty trust magnates ought lot only be compelled to give back all the
money they nave f1ched from the people; they ought also De punished
criminaly and be made ito feelt the rgors of jail life like other criminals,
and the corporate life which the State has given them, and which they Y
have abused. ought to be forfeited by the State. fs !
Because Mr.. Bryan favors and the Democratic party favors effective !
measures to curb the trusts. and because the Republican platform prom
i@s nothing effective Mr.. Bryan ought to De elected President 4
I believe with Mr. Bryan that the people should rule The people do 3
not nw rue-the corporations and the banking interests now rule the !
people by their agents in Congress, through the medium of the Republican
party. I believe this is and ought to be a government Of the people,
by the people and for the people; I believe the government should not be /
III by the trusts. for the trusts at the expense of the peoph;gI believe j
that the corporate powers should not control the government as they do &
for their own, benefit at the expense Of the people; I believe that the &
the government gave them life. and not try to control the government !
for their W private purposes; I believe that If any protection is to be I
afforded by the government the people should be protected instead OF Z
private monopoHes; I believe that the government ought to control and I
regulate all corporations to which. the government gives corporate life; 4
l believe that taxes should be levied and collected by the State alike on i
all persons, national and corporate, in proportion to the amount Of props 8
erty for which the State affords to the owner of the property, whether ]
a normal OF corporate person; I believe this should be the greatest i
nation o m earth, and I believe 1t would be and will be, should it be COY q