New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-11

rents or fixed profits Annuities are
treated in like Manner while in the
case of corporations, partnerships, bust
ness and professional men, and the.
like, it is easy to compute incomes
with tolerable accuracy and to collect
the tax before it reaches the pockets
of the individual recipients. In this
manner the stigma of nation of
liars has been wiped out through the
simple and effective expedient of Civ
ing the nation no chance to lie. Lead
us not into temptation Besides. the
present method Of collection does not
hurt so much. One does not miss
what he never possessed.
The advocates of an income tax
argue that it is the most equitable and
just form Of raising revenue for the
reason that it places the burden of
government on the shoulders Of those
most able to bear it, They contend
that graduated income tax is also
justified for the reason that man
receiving 100000 per year can better
afford to part with 10 per cent of it, or
$lO,OOO, than man receiving $1,000
can afford to part with per cent, or
$40, for the one with the large income
would still have left 100000, while he
with the smaller income would have
only $3.50. The old notion that men
spend according to their incomes is
largely exploded. There are certain
fixed amounts that each being has to
pay for the necessities of life, and
above this the amount expended grad
ually lessons according to the tempera-
ment of the spender
A Senator of the New School.
The man who introduced the income
tax amendment which is now going
to the various states for ratification is
new member Of the upper house, Sen
ator Norris Brown Of Nebraska About
all the general public knows of Sena-
tor Brown is that he is an anti-monop-
olist, that he ran for the senate on an
anti-railroad platform, that he beat
Edward Rosewater of the Omaha Bee
for the place, shortly after which poor
Rosewater, like Horace Greeley, died,
and that when attorney general Of
Nebraska Brown beat the railroads on
a bunch of tax suits that Immediately
made him the idol Of the other tax
payers. This, I repeat, is the general
knowledge of the man. BY looking
at the congressional directory or
''Who's Who" or some other publica-
ton, read chiefly by those whose
names appear therein, the reader
might also learn that Mr.. Brown was
born in Iowa and graduated from the
Iowa State university in 1888, that
he afterward practiced law at Kear-
ney, Neb., that he was twice county
attorney, that he ran for congress and
was defeated, that he was assistant at
tOrney general and afterward attorney
general of Nebraska, that he is forty
six years old and some other biograph-
ical dictionary facts in kind.
So much for statistics. 1t just hap
pens that used to know Norris Brown
when l was trying to run country
paper at Kearney and he was trying
to be lawyer. 1 hope he made
better out of his effort than l did at
mine and believe he did. He must
have done so or he would not now be
in the senate
A Personal Touch.
There is nothing like the democracy
Of young fellows in a western town,
and even though we did belong to
different parties think I knew Norris
Brown in those days and believe I
know him yet, and if he is as sized
him up you should keep your eye on
him, for he will go far. A capital
campaigner, with a fund of happy
humor and telling anecdotes, he is yet
a man with stuff in him, one who will
dare much for principle, one who in
tensely admires the La Toilette brand
of politics and one who belongs dis
tinctively to the new school. He is
chap Of rolly poly physique, but with
a good, strong face, rather luminous
brown eye, in which plays almost al
ways kindly twinkle; a square mouth,
with rather whimsical upper lip, and
a head and face that denote sturdi-
ness, readiness and strength-natural-
ly likable man and unpremeditatedly
so, one who can say keen and cutting
things with smile, fighter with the
face of a cherub, one who is not
afraid to meet anybody or any situa
ton, man ambitious, tactful, win
ming and with the ttsmile that never
comes off," hope I have not over
drawn the picture. There is always
danger of that with one we have
known and liked. And l confess that
l like Brown more now since reading
his career than did in the days when
I knew him. That was nearly twenty
| years ago, and his whole upward path
has been Travelled since.
Here are three incidents of his life