Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-06-26
AS TO cirpAIaN rrEre"s.

81 more Etesl itas f.ts afftt1 cam
paign promise 9n,! pitsts ..see=::.teiot be
found than the Taft-Aidr.t. Ii 81: me to-
defeat an income tax ana t. LASS a
tariff bill that is a revision up instead
of down. All through last years CAM
paign promises were made by Repub-
lican papers and speakers OF reduc-
tions in tariff rates-instead we are
confronted with rates that protect and
promote the robbery of the many by
the few and increase the cost of liv-
ing.
The fact about the Taftian part of
the scheme is, however, in black and
white. Here is what Mr.. Taft said
in a speech at Columbus, o., on Au-
gust 10. 1907:
In times of great national need,
however, an income tax would-b be of
great assistance in furnishing means
to carry on the government, and it is
not free from doubt how the Supreme
Court, with changed membership,
would view a new income tax law I'M
der such conditions. The court was
nearly evenly divided in the last case,
and during the Civil War great sums
were collected by an income tax with
out judicial interference, and it was
then supposed within the Federal
power"
In his acceptance speech at Gin IN
natl, July %, he went even furt.-er
when he said:
1.-The Democratic platform deman is
two constitutional amendments-one
providing for an income tax and the
the people. In my judgment an
amendment to the constitution for IN
income tax is not necessary. I
believe that an income tax, whon
the protective system of customs
and the internal revenue tax
shall not furnish income enough for
governmental needs, can and should
be devised which under the decisions
of the Supreme Court will conform to
the constitution,
But once entrenched in Office he
goes over to the Aldrich-Cannon
scheme for defeating an income tax
proposition and for passing the most
oppressive and iniquitous tariff ever
devised-a tariff that will empty the
Treasury, but that will enable the
privileged few to exploit S0,000,000 OF
people without conscience or remorse
Mr.. Taft is the official leader of the
Republican party, and it is he who
will be held responsible for the tariff
that the reactionaries are Matching
out and especially for the refusal to
pass at this time an income ta1
amendment. The sins of Aldrich an(
| Joe Cannon will be visited on the
head of William Howard Taft because
he has repudiated his campaign
pledges in order to lift the reaction
aries out of the hole into which tn,
income tax issue had flung them.
In this connection we cannot d.
better than to quote from the Mobil
Register, a paper that is conservativ
always and under all circumstances
Some method says the Register
'tof making the very rich pay thei
share for the maintenance of the Re
public should be found, else the clam
or against wealth will surely increas
until laws to confiscate and abolis
wealth will be demanded. The pro
paganda of socialism finds it's bes
support in the cry against unjust bur
dens upon the poor, and the grea
privileges of the rich. If, however
the rich pay in proportion to thei
riches and help adequately to sunpor
the government, there will be no grea
feeling among the masses that il2ius
tice is done the common people b. tn
way the burdens are distributed
Our men of great wealth shou:t b
the first to see this and to prop>.se t
/ take a fair share of the burden ';'he
have but to study history to be con
vinced that this would be good pol
icy"