The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
KANSAS CONNENT
WOULD TAX THE RICH.

WOULD TAX THE RICH.
1t is an easy matter to tax the table
ana bed of the poor because common
iaDorlng people do not know how to
make protest that will reach the
United senate, which is sometimes
called the millionaires' club. It, how
ever, makes a difference when a propo-
sitlon is made to tax the rich.
senator Bailey of Texas has offered
an amendment to the tariff bill to place
tax of per cent on all incomes above
S5.oV0. The Eagle will be surprised if
MI Ba1ley's amendment does not meet
vigorous opposition in the senate. II
TINS amendment is adopted and be-
comes law the man who has an in
come or $4,000 a year will have to pay
the government $40. and an income of
100000 would be taxed $500. Senator
Balley estimates that this law would
bring a revenue of 500, 000, 900 annually
NOW watch the representatives of the
special interests in the senate raise the
nothing short of levying tribute on
prosperity" Since all wealth is pro-
duced by labor, it seems to US that the
man Who gets the most of the products
OF iapor is a very proper person to pay
taxes. Certainly. tax prosperity. Where
is the sense in taxing poverty?
Some of the men who are making
enough money to bring them within
the law imposing a tax on incomes
nave their business protected by a
tariff Why should they not for in
stance contribute something toward
The building of the Panama canal? Peo-
pie need government primarily for two
purposes: To protect their persons and
property. Therefore the man who has
the most property ought to pay the
most tax. That Is what they would do
If the government collected the reve-
mn y -
indirect tax A tax on coffee would
perhaps make the poor laboring man
pay more than the millionaire because
he works harder and east and drinks
more than rich men, and coffee has
come to be one of the necessaries of
life.
We are getting a good many million
aires in this country and they ought to
contribute literally to the support OF
the government Senator Bailey is on
the right track to make them do it
Wichita Eagle.
FISHING.
A Kansas man some years ago got
into a tight place financially. His
creditors were about to come down on
him and close him out. Hastily gath
ering together all his available funds,
the man took his family and went to
California resort famous for its plea
lOTldl dIITaCtlOIS. Hardly ndQ ne ar
rived when a telegram came from his
anxious creditors, demanding what he
meant by running away; insisting that
he come back and straighten up his
affairs, and threatening dire penalties.
The man calmly dashed off the follow
ing reply and handed it to the tele-
graph messenger:
Fishing is good here
James A. Patten, who is easily the
prize animal Of the live stock exhibit in
the Chicago wheat pit, has gone to
Colorado where trout abound. How
Mr.. Patten will fish with the snow
thirty or forty feet deep. We do not
know, but he has the right to try.
AS. Mr.. Patten declines to converse
concerning his reasons for his sudden
departure from Chicago. it Is a little
difficult to tell what purposes i'm
PEELED him to go fishing.
Did he leave to escape an impending
crisis?
Was he so confident of ultimate VIC
tory that he decided to let the situation
work itself out?
Was he bounded" out of Chicago
by public sentiment, rising steadily
against market manipulation, in direct
protection to the rise in the price of
bread?
To all of these questions, Mr.. Patten
apears to reply, when he replies at all,
as did the Kansas man who went to
California: ~
Fishing is good here. '-Salina Jour-
nal.