The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
BREWER DER|DES
THE INCOME TAX
Justice Says Such Law Will
Sap Vitality of State 2
PUBLIC DEBT DISCUSSED
Woman's Suffrage Is Also Spoken of
and Justice Brewer Says the
Question Cannot Be lg-
nored by Men.

Milwaukee, July 2.-Addressing the AS
sociation of Agents of the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance company of this
city, of which he is trustee, Justice
David ]. Brewer Of the United States SUI
preme court, today expressed himself upon
the income tax in part as follows:
Under the hue and cry of today We
must have an income tax which means
tax upon all incomes and If that power to
tax all income is given the government
we will see the states taxed not out of
their existence, but out of their vitality
The idea leads up to the question of
placing the entire power in the control of
the nation and the state is left out of the
matter
The Justices speech was impromptu and
touched upon various topics. Referring
to the public debt, Justice Brewer said
AT the close of the civil war we began
paying the debt of that war and we kept
on paying the debt
Owing to the unwise attitude of the
political leaders and the President, who
spoke of me and my navy we have piled
up public debts for vessels which will rust
before they are used.
$50 far as possible I believe every
generation should pay its own debts, We
should not pile up debts for the future
The only thing we should be guarded
against is the wickedness of the bankers
and Wall street spectators who occasion
ally get up a panic. The Almighty is
going to require of us to continue to
strike and do our best and we shall yet
see the picture of honest men doing honest
business. We had 10 years of unprecedent-
ed prosperity until the late financial de-
preston and we can have 1t again. But
we must all exercise honesty and fairness
to all men.
I'VE have great questions that we must
meet as we go along and these questions
the negro question for instance-we must
meet and solve. There Is negro that
we in the north cannot control and this
question must be controlled by our friends
in the south and 1t is our duty to en-
courage them in it's solution.
1.-The colonial question is another and
we must educate the people we have in
herited.
1.-THE female franchise is question that
cannot be ignored. They are appealing to
our intelligence and We must meet it. Ii
it is to the interest of the gentler sex
that they should vote, then it is for the
interests of the nation.
Il have supreme faith in the hope" ex-
claimed the justice, now in his I'D year,
as he closed, that l may or at least
that my children may see that period
where this great republic will be sent
forth as the leader of the nations In the
cause of universal peace. 1 hope they
at least will live to see the time when
the implements of warfare are forgotten
and put aside and the troubles of all ma,
lions shall be settled by arbitrntions.'
With reference to his remaining a men,
Der of the supreme court Justice Brewer
said
There are four men on the supreme
bench who could retire. l told my wife
should retire because the statutes say
l could do so.
~ don't care what the statutes say;
you can't do it, she said. That seemed to
settle my status. | am assured conf
dentially that there are a number of able
lawyers in my section who are anxious
that l retire Next January 1 shall have
completed 45 years of judicial life"
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