The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-26

6. 1909.
THE TAX OF INEQUITY.
A Little Plain TAX by Citizens Who Are
In Earnest.
To THE EDITOR OF The SUs-Sir. /
cover all the Eastern, middle and Southern
States. Inject workmen and also managers
Of plants. Over so per cent. Of all these
people are dead set against the tar on cor
porations. The workmen are all or most all
against II. / myself worked up from the
shop and do not own any stock In anything.
Almost every one 10 In favor OF q stamp tax.
II the men in Congress and the Senate don't
look out there will be a turnove at the next
national election. am q Republican.
e. K. RopENBusH.
SCRANTON, Pa, June rs.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE suS-Sir: What
was meant when the Republican party
gave out that the tariff would be revised
downward? 1t looks "a II " % were to get
a gold brick.
I have been a Republican since Lincoln's
election. / have been a high protectionht
also. There is no longer any necessity for
keeping up the tariff to foster Infant In
dustries" that have become hoary with age.
The cost Of living is high enough In all
conscience now, without making 1t any
higher, and II the revision downward would
fail to give US revenue SUFFICIENT to meet
the extravaaances Of the Roosevelt regime.
put on q stamp tax. as was done to meet
the expenses Of the Spanish American war,
and as soon as We get down to a legitimate
expenditure for Government purposes lift
this stamp tax.
There was a duty Of one or two cents
placed on checks. drafts. money orders.
do, and the revenue derived therefrom was
enormous. In looking over a report OF the
Postmaster-Gener for 1908 I find there
were issued In that year A.seA.o7o domestic
money orders. The newspaper OF the
country should take UP this matter and let
the men at Warrington understand that the
people of the country do not intend to let
this matter sink into oblivion. There will
be q comeback for all those who vote to
raise the rates. See II thereis not! M.
WoopsIDE, N. Y. June "a.
To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: Every
American citizen who has the courage OF
his convictions land 1t is to be regretted
the percentage is very SMALL should Join
with THE Sun in its effort to put q stop to
the willy-nilly management Of Government
al fairs at Washington. The management
of the business Of the United States is q
great undertaking. 1t should be entrusted
only to men OF wide business experience
and financial acumen. Yet We reoklessly
turned matters over TO Roosevelt for seven
and one-half years-a man who never
earned a dollar In his life and who never
employed labor or managed any business
with the result that the country has been
practically bankrupted. Roosevelt's as
sistants-Garheld. Newbcrry. Cortelyou.
Bacon. Taft. Meyer. Bonsparte-and his
principal advisers. we're clerks or lawyers
who never were obliged to meet a pay roll
In their lives and knew nothing OF practical
political economy.
Mr.. Taft's Cabinet Is q trihe better. but
still has too much Of the lawyer element
In 1t to insure a successful business admins
t%ration-and that lie what the country most
needs.
Take as an illustration Of the last few
years e~xtravsgances the Bureau OF INdian
Affairs, managed by Mr.. Francis Z. Leupp.
q man who knows absolutely nothing Of
business In It's practical sense. That bureau
has expended SIC. ooo.o 900 the last year.
fully half Of which has been wasted in silly
experiments. The Indian Bureau formerly
cost -. 900. 900 to sio,ooo.o 900 a year. and
should be getting lees expensive each year.
Mr., Taft. 1t appears. with his corporation
tax fol-de-rol and his plas to the galleries
to lower the tariff" 10 proving himself q
most worthy successor Of Mr.. Roosevelt.
He Is at least as impractical and visionary.
Let our next President be a mar who knows
the value of q dollar by having first earned
some OF them. CoMMoN CITIZEN.
NEW foRK. June rs.
To THE EpIroR OF THR SuS-Sir: The
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton declares hat no State shall deny to
any person within Its jurisdiction the equal
protection OF the laws In Santa Clara
County VS.. Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, iisU. g., asi. theS Supreme Court unani-
mously held that q corporation was a per-
son within the intent and meaning Of this
amendment. The proposed . per oenH
taxation by Congress Of the net earnings OF
corporate persons, all other persons being
exempt from such tax. seems a plain vio-
lation Of this declared principle Of public
policy.
It is dificult for a person carefully looking
at the underlying policy Of his amendment
to discover q just ground for the proposed
discrimination by Congress. II the power
to levy such Ajax Is denied to all the States
In their Individual capacity. what Just
foundation lie there for the aggregate Of
the States to exercise the power denied
to them individuality The mischief wrought
is not In the least diminished from finding
Its source in an act Of Congress instead OF
an act OF a State Legislature.
W. W. BoYNroN.
ELYRIA. Ohio. June "a.