The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-05-07
ALDRICH AND THE TARIFF
A Phase of the Effort to Put Bur-
don on Common People.

OOn on common People.
| Washington, D. c.. May 1.-The
tariff fight that Is now being waged
i 10 Washington Is Increasing IN in
tensity and interest with every day
that passes. The representatives Of
the great corporations and trusts
that want a law amounting To a
license to plunder the American
people are here on the ground de-
manding the highest tariff that was
ever known to this country. Un-
fortunately the $4,000, 900 consumers
seem to have no agent to REPRESENT
them, but they are, however, sending
some very vigorous and spicy letters
to the senators and representatives
they sent to congress-. II the people
Of this country would do more letter
writing to their congressman, they
would get better laws from congress
than they have been getting. About
200 years ago the French mobiles Sc
cured laws exempting them from
taxation, SO that all the burdens Of
the government fell on the middle
and lower or peasant classes. The
"American mobiles" are now trying to
do the very same thing.
One OF the things that frightcns
senators most is the proposal OF an
income tax which President Taft
heartily favors and which would do
more towards placing the proper
share of the burdens Of the govern
ment on the wealthy and prosperous,
| than any measure that was ever pro-
posed. The leading senators that
! detest the Income tax are crying out
that this Is Democratic doctrine and
are endeavQring to have it. squelchrd
by raising this kind of "a partizan cry.
This charge is nothing less than an
Infamous lie. The first income, tax
law was passed by a republican con
gress aud signed by the Immortal
Lincoln and yielded millions of dol
lars or revenue during the war times
Of '6l'to '65. We have now come To
the point where more revenue must
be raised and nothing. is, more just
than that a tax Shall be levied on tho
II
enormous incomes that a few men III
this country enjoy. Senator Aldrich,
whose daughter Is the wife Of John
D. Rockefeller. Jr,, whichsof course,
makes him closely kin to the
Standard OH and Rockefellers, is
horrifled at the idea of an income
tax and says that II we have an III.
come tax, it will mean the abulitfbn
Of tariffs and consequently the
abolition OF protection. This is one
Of his trick arguments. Theguvern-
nent at the present time is falling to
raise revenue for its necessary ex-
penses by about 500, 900, 900 per
annum and ah incline tax which
| would yield about $50. 0OO, 900 to $780, :
000,00 would still be inadt quate
even withothe 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
| deos he feel for the millionaircs OF
the country, that he Is delfberatel,
trying to deceive the country into
believing this untruth, which ht
knows too we'll to be false.
This willy old Senator denies tha,
the country was promised reduction
OF the tariff, he claims that a ire
vision" is all that was promised. and
) while he knows the country under.
, stood that 18th parties promised II
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 monopolst,
to gouge deeper and deeper into th,
pockets Of the common people, whom
Abraham Lincoln said God must
have loved or he would not hav,
made so many of them.
One thing however, about congress
that all people heartily endorse, an,
that Is their desire To pass ta,if
bill quickly, and get away as soon IA.
possible, 50 the country can have at
: era of quiet aud rest.r