Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-04
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INCOME TAX
Idaho Senator Declares That Ex-
travagance Has Become AL
most a National Disease.
HE WANTS GREAT BIG NAVY.
And Huge Arny-lNith 1aN Would
Build Them Up So as to Cover
Nations Of the Earth

washington, May 3.--Declarins that
lextravagance has become almost Il ma
-tional disease, Senator Borah to-day ar
gued for an income tax as Il means Tor
wiping out the deficit in the treasury
as well as awakening public interest In
national expenditures.
He said the tax which he proposed
should be used to build up u great navy
and u great army for the purpose of
covering the nations ofthe earth, but
that the burden OF taxation should be
taken from those who dig the earth
and put upon the purses OF those VINO
would never miss it.,
II believe in AN income tax said Mr.
Borah. not that we may impose the
whole burden OF government upon the
rich or upon wealth, but that wealth
may bear its Just proportion of .hat
burden which 1t does not do under a.
system OF taxation resting entirely upon
consumption. Every system oil TAXA ton
resting upon consumption should DC
supplemented With an income tax, not
alone for the purpose OF raising extra
revenue but for distributing the burden.
of whatever revenue is necessary more
equitably and more in accordance WITH
the ability to pay
Mr.. Borah asserted that the income
tax gauges itself according to u mans
SUCCESS OF failure. He said 1t reaches
the income of the professional man,
who may now escape almost entirely.
Declaring that 1t was no more an IN
.centive to perjury or fraud thnn the
personal tax laws in the various states,
AIR. Borah claimed that the income Tax
was no more inquisitOrial than the Sys-
tenn OF national taxation OF today lie
referred to the recent smuggling cases
III New York,
MIR. Borah, asserting that extrava-
gance has become almost q national clls-
ease, said: 1T permeates the home, IT
permeates college and church, it par-'
vades society and it Is rife in every de-
pnrtnent or government Ii has reached
almost the point of crimnality. 1t Is a.
disease of the blood and you can not
cure 1t, like appendicitis, by cutting 1t
off You will have to rehabllitate The
system. This will take time and u great
deal of attention and immeasurable per-
8sistence Of purpose. In other words,
you will never do 1t until public opln-
ion is thoroughly aroused.
Mr.. Borah referred to former Presl-,
dent Roosevelt as having shaped the
destinies OF the Republican party, and
said that without his leadership his
party would have gone out of business,
He added that without continued
adherence to these principles the patty
will go out OF power.
sNo man. he added, sis politically
so short-sighted or politically SO blind
as the man who thinks the steamer
Hamburg carried away the policies, the
principles, the public interest, that
aroused public conscience and the
searching public concern which this re-
n,arkable man bequeathed to his coun-
$trymen."
This statement WAS in connection With
a discussion of Mr., Roosevelt's sugses-
2 ton fayoring a graduated fnherltance
and graduated income tax.
Mr. Borah also quoted MI. Taft,s
speech in which he spoke in favor OF
the income tax
Does the senator believe. Mr.. Suttl-
aerland asked, THAT President Taft be-
lIeved in the constitutionality of the
income tax lawn other words, that
he believed that the law pronounced
unconstitutional by the supreme court
was in fact constitutional"
II only know what he said to the
American people when he was a candi-
date for PRESIDENT responded MI.
Borah; that he favored an income tax
which could be drawn to be made cons
stitutional. am not willing to believe
that the president believed in drawing
an income tax law applicable to men
toiling in professions, and then IN e&-H
elnpting the vast accumulated wealth
of this nation from taxation