The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-07-15
AN INHERITANCE TAX.
Give Me Neither Poverty Nor
Riches.

of July 18th.
In one of Lowell's biting sa-
tires he holds up to special scorn
the SNUG, constituencies creature
who refuses to consider the NOR
ality of any question of social
ethics by remarking that they
didn't know everything down in
Judee. 1t is to be wished that
some of those who preach and
practice a gospel of mere mater
ialism and greed, and who speak
as if the heaping up of wealth by
the community or by the indi-
vidual was in itself the be-all
and end-all of life, would learn
from the most widely read and
oldest Of books that true wisdom
which teaches that it is we'll to
have neither great poverty nor
great riches. Worst of all is it
to have great poverty and great
riches side by side in constant
contrast. Nevertheless, even
this contrast can be accepted if
men are convinced that the rich
es are accumulated as the result
of great service rendered to the
people as a whole, and if their
use is regulated in the interest of
the whole community.
The movement which has be-
come so strong during the past
| few years to secure on behalf of
the Nation both an adequate su-
pervision of and an effective tax
alton of vast fortunes, so far as
| their business use is concerned,
is healthy movement. 1t aims
to replace sullen discomfort, rest
less pessimism, and evil prepara-
tion for revolution, by an aggres-
sive, healthy determination to
get to the bottom of our troubles
and remedy them. To halt in
the movement, as those blinded
men wish who care only for the
, immediate relief from all obsta-
, cles which would thwart their
, getting what is not theirs, would
! work wide-reaching damage.
= Such a halt would turn away the
=, energies of the energetic and
. forceful men who desire to re-
form matters, from a legitimate
object, into the channel of bitter
and destructive agitation. The
reader Of Prince Kropotkin's Me-
moirs must be struck by the
: damage wrought to Russia by
}. the unwise opponents of all re-
: form who, by opposing every
sensible movement for better
;, ment, turned the energies of the
}. young men, who under happier
conditions would have WORKED
q for rational betterment, into the
s channels of a useless and des
tructive revolutionary movement
g The multi-millionaire is not PEI
. . Sc a healthy development in this
country. If his fortune rests OF
basis of wrong-doing, he is ;
II far more dangerous crimina
( than any of the ordinary type
/ of criminals can possibly be. 1
e his fortune is the result of great
p service rendered, we'll and good
3 he deserves respect and rewar(
for such service although VIZ
], must remember to pay our hom
to age to the service itself, and no
to the fortune which is the mer
D. reward of the service; but whel
5. his fortune is passed on to som
X one else, who has not rendere'
II the service, then the natio
should impose heavily grade
st progressive inheritance tax. :.
singularly.wise and unobjectiona
J. BILE kind of tax. It would be
st particularly good thing if the ia
bore heaviest on absenteeS.
h Raft Swamp News Notes.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Miss Addie Lynn. who was sic
" with fever a few weeks ago,
Il spending a few days in Whining
vi ton and at the Beach for he
st health. We think the ocea
- breezes will help her.
W. - After a two-weeks' visit
10 friends and relatives near White
~ ~ vile and Abbottsburg, MissMolli
es 40 Davis returned home Saturda
ID ID evening.
he A large number of our youn
hit people took in the excursion
n Wilmington Friday and report
ng grand and quiet time, save a fe
ed who were pretty we'll "boozey.
he A good many are thinking
: d going to Jackson Springs Frida
all We hope they will have nj
st, time.
Mt Mr.. Owen Davis has some
'er bacco which excels anything
ed, this section. 1t will reach al
no common mans shoulders. N
me Davis is a hustling young farr
md er:
cir ''Polly Ann.
lgh Raft Swamp, NC, July IL, Z
all
Will At midnight Saturday mig
ttv more than one thousand saloo
in Texas ceased operations
cause of the coming into efft
of the law invalidating all liql
licenses issued as February
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