Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-04-30
NEWS FROM
WASHINGTON

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IN intensity and interest with every
day that passes The representa-.
tives Of the great corporations and
trusts that went a law amounting TO
a license to plunder the Americas
people are here on the ground de.
manding the highest tariff that was
over known in this country. UufOr-
tunately the e5,OOO,O 600 consaEers
seem to have no agent to rsprsssn,
ths'u, but they are, however, send
ing some very vigorous and spicy
letters TO the Senators and Repressn.
tatives they tent 50 Congress. II tbs
people ef this couEtFy woUlG do
more letter writing 10 their Con.
grsssmsn, they would get better
laws from Congress than they have
been getting. About 200 years ago
the French Eoblee secured laws ex-
empiing them from taxation, 90 that
all the burdens Of the Government
fell on the middle and lower or peas
ant classes. Tho American Mobiles
are now trying TO do the very same
thing
One of the things that frightens
, Senators most is the proposal of an
income tax which President Tan
heartily favors and which would do
nsore towards placing the proper
share Of the burdens Of the Govern.
lnent on the wealthy aud prosperous
than any measure that was ever pro
posed. The leading Senators that
deteat the income tax are crying out
that this ID Democratic doctrine and
are endeavoring to have 1t squelched
by raising this kind of partisan cry.
This charge is nothing less than an
infamous lie. The first income tax
law was passed by Republican Con
gress and signed by the immortal
Lincoln and yielded millions of dol
lars Of revenue during the war times
of 81 to '65. Wa have now come TO
the point where moro revenue must
be raised and nothing is more just
:han that tax shall be levied on the
enormous incomes that = few msn in
this country eujoy. Senator Aldrich
whose daughter Is the wife of John
D. Rockefeller Jr, which of course,
makes him closely kin to the 8. Oil
and Rockefellers, is Mortified at the
idea of an income tag and says that
IL we have an income tax, IL will
mean the abolition of tariffs and con-
sequontly the abolition Of protection.
This is one Of his trick arguments.
The Government 81 the present time
Is failing to raise revenue for its nee
essary expenses by about $780, ,0oo..
600 per annum and an income tax
which would yield about $50, ,0Oo. 600
to $50,O00,O 900 would still be made
quAte even with the tariff to raising
the necessary revenue for running
the Government.
Senator Aldrich is working over
time TO convince his fellow Senators
that the revenue from an income tax
will not be needed, and so tenderly
does he feol for the millionairos Of
the country, that he Is deliberately
trying to deceive the country into be
lieVing this untrnth. which he Knows
too well to be false.
This willy old Senator, denies that
the country was promised 4 reduo
tion of the tariif, he claims that . re
vision is all that was promised, and
while he knows tho country under.
stood that both parties promised 10
"reduce," he holds that revision
means a raising as much as a lower
ing, and raising is what he insists,
as long as it enables the monopolists
to gouge deeper and deeper into the
pockets of the common people, which
Abraham Lincoln slid God must
have loved or he would not have
made so many of them.
One thing however, about Congress
that all people heartily endorse, and
that is their desire TO pass a tariff
bill quickly, and get away as soon
as possible, so the country can have
an era of quiet and rest.