The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-27
ALDRICH IS FORGED ID
 OPPOSE THE INCOME TAX
Bailey Does Not Conclude His Speech and for Three Hours Holds the Attention of the Senate and
 Number of Spectators.
By PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington April 26.-(speeial.)- )-The | appellaton. "The Mighty Texan" which Senator Bailey found attached to him after his effort on the railroad rate bill was
 made more descriptive in his heasoning
 and oratorcal powers than ever when he
 had concluded the first installment of his
 speech in the Senate today. The Texas
 Senator left little to be said for his side
 of the question His convincing logic
 in favor of compelling the rich to shars
 their just part Of the expenditures of the government and his appeal against the
 imposition of the exorbitant duty fall | Ing on the consumer in the Payne Aldrich | bill, held every senator in his seat and | through a three hours discussion of the
 intricacies of tarlff schedules hardly an
 occupant of the galleries retired. 1 It Is proyerbial that the greatest
 speeches do not change votes in the Sen
 ate. The advocates of an income tax,
 however, have the satisfaction of know | ing that the argument of Senator Bailey
 will not be answered in the Senate, and l that the dissemination of the speech J throughout the country will show conclus- ively whether the income tax be de-
 feated, that the weight of argument is upon their side. Weaving his case
 around tht principles of Adam Smith, the 1 senator demonstrated that his position and that of the democratic senators is impregnable and he served notice that
 the dominant party. if it defeated the
 amendment. would yet be obliged to meet
 the issue 1setly.
 Admission by Aldrich.
 From a political standpoint perhaps
 the feature of the day was Bailey's forc-
 ing Senator Aldrich to take an open po-
 sition against an income tax. The Rhode
 Island senator reluctant to do this
 Senator Bailey said that Senator AIdrch had. once stated that the tax was social ] lstic and populistic but he would not do ] so now for the reason that he knew b or
 70 republicans were considering voting for l this kind of legislation. Senator Aldrich somewhat uncertain, gave denial to this interpretation of his words whereupon 1 Senator Bailey read from the record the l senators remarks on the income tax fea- 1 ture in the Wilson bill debate confirm 1 ing his statemnt.
 Now" said the senator. "is the Presl- l dent of the United States socialist or 1 populst?" From that time on Senator i Bailey met with few Interruptions and those that came had their origin in the i legal phases of the discussion. In closing ] his speech Senator Bailey took occasion l to express his confidence in the present members of the supreme court and for 1 those who had preceded them. He was
 not one of those who charged anything 1 akin to bribery in the last opinion of l the court overturning decisions since the l founding of the government on the Income 1 tax question. He believed, however that l he was lacking in no respect to the court i and was in his rights when he sought l by every legislative means to secure a 1 review of the question before that court i He added that he believed he could show l that the supreme court would hold the
 amendment constitutional and it is with 1 this view that he will discuss the sub- s l ject tomorrow.
 Tariff Commission. ] Mr Bailey first took up the proposi- ] ton to turn over to tariff commission i the schedules of the tariff bills, com
 mentng on which, he declared that he l did not believe in turning over to Eu- , ropean eunuchs the consideration of such l a great question If they were im- 1 partial as to entertain an aversion of i what Is bad or preference for what is i good"
 The question of taxation. he said. 1 iiah always tlSd6tu lNe alleHllOn or
 statesmen and he did not believe in ] with drawing 1t from the people to | place it in the hands of a commission. l At some other time he declared he
 would speak on the Folly of attempt-
 ing to guarantee profit by any law, and 1 the injustice of taking from the mil l lions who labor in any line of employ ment to bestow an advantage on ths ] few in any particular industries" He would not, he said at this time ] discuss free trade, which he declared
 was impossible in this country. l T do not hesitate to say" he added, ] that I believe in taxing wealth in. l stead of consumption. and if 1t were in
 my power I would compel every man l to contribute toward the support of 1 the government according to what he i has and not according to what he 1 wants
 Speaking of the principle of protec- 1 tive tariff. MT. Bailey said: If your law ended when it gave your fellow 1 citizens an advantage over citizens of l another country l would be one of it's | most ardent supporters. But 1t does l not end there because its inevitable ef- | feet is to give a few of our fellow citl- 1 zens an enormous advantage over the | others of our countrymen.'
 Effect of Protection. The practical effect of protection. he | said. was to give a bounty to the fa- | vored manufacturer
 "'rhe only difference is in the direct and the indirect way of taking money l from one man and giving 1t to another 1 who has no honest claim upon it. he 1 said. Referring to his proposed amend ment for an income tax, he directed his ], remarks to Senator Aldrich and said there was time when such propos- ton was described as plan to re- l distribute fortunes.
 | But" he added, the senator from
 Rhode Island, when he recently referred