Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-24

n iJieIlLeSSIlIl0ut dIsIlOTtlOUIHeilIdfD among Tic
States In proportion TO POI tilation.
This course is much to be preferred
q to the one proposed of i.o-enacting Il
a law once jndicialy declared to be I'M
4 constitutional. For the Congress to
assume that the court Will reverse tt
self, and to enact legislation on such
an -assunptiort will not strengthen
popular confidence in the stability of
q judicial construction Of the Constitu-
\ ton 1t is much wiser policy to ac-
\ ccpts the decision and remedy the de-
4 feet by amendment In due and regular
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Il The Presidents conclusions on this
subtesct, a reversal of his carrier opin-
ions, show not only that he is not afraid
4 to revise his judgment and change his
attitude. but that he is actively In
earnest as to the nations 4 wei fare
which he is thus shown to place above
party platforms and personal declarsl-
lions previously set forth This We re-
gard as a mark Of breadth and true
greatness In any public man.
4 Ii may be recalled that the Republic
can platform adopted at Chicago was
silent on the subject of the taxation.
of incomes. on the other hand the,
1 Democratic platform, adopted at Dem
Yer, contained the following tleclara-
/ ton:
We favor an income tax as part OF
our revenue system and we urge the
submission of constitutional amend-.
n1ent specifically authorizing Congress
| to levy and collect a tax upon individ-
ual and corporate incomes, to the end
that wealth may bear is proportionate
share OF the burdens of the Federal
government"
During the resistance to the income
tax law passed during President Cleve-
lands administration the Supreme
Court held that Federal tax on rent
was tax on real estate, and therefore
unconstitutional. Another case was
soon brought before the court in which
II was contended that any sort of an
income tax was Unconstitutional This
was the famous Pollock case, in which
tho court stood four to four, Judge
jackson of Tennessee being i'll and I'M
able to sit. On a rehearlng, Judge Jack
son took part and supported the con-
shtut iorrality OF the law But one OF
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the law at the first hearing, voted
against 1t on the rehearing, and in
spite Of Justice Jackson's arising from
sick bed to sustain the law, 1t was
declared unconstitutional by a majority
OF one vote.
President Taft now holds that the
federal government ought to possess
the constitutional powefst to tax incomes
and that the safe and sure way OF Civ
Ing to 1t this power, is by a constitu-s
Fticnal amendment
a three fourths vote Of the states
will be sufficient to amend the Con
stitution and to give Congress the right
to lay a tax on incomes
Age brings far more regrets than
wisdom. E
The black heart is the worst part Of
the Black Hand.
& Tattooing has gone out of style. still
1t has left It's mark,
Even in horse racing the first shall
be lastson appointed days.
Si..,
It is fun to see shorts. and little
chickens run to cover.
The quickest way to uplift the negro
is to put him on a n elevator.
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It is an easy matter to improve on
nature, especially Immature.
A duty on hides has a tendency to
skin the shoe manufacturers.
For the automobilist the death rate
is from forty to sixty miles an hour.
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IT Is not true Of the tariff schedules
that what goes up must come down.
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q society high flying woman makes
the money fly faster than an alrship
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