Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-06-09
Vote for Income Tax.

Washington. June 3.-Six states
thus far through their Legislatures
have ratified the income tax amend.
ment to the Constitution, FIVE have
rejected it and two have postponed
action.
Most of the states will act durine
the coming Winter or the Winter
following. and the fate of the amend.
ment will be definitely known in two
or three years at the very latest. If Il
states vote adversely on the amend
ment it will be defeated, but it re-
mains to be seen whether II states
will venture into the opposition col
umn.
Friends of the income tax express
the fullest confidence that the amend
ment ultimately will be adopted, and
believe that one or two of the states
now on record against it will reverse
their attitude when new Legislatures
are chosen.
The six states that have voted to
ratify this amendment are Alabama.
South Carolina. Illinois, Maryland,
Kentucky and Mississippi The states
voting adversely are New York.
Rhode Island. Massachusetts, Virginia
and Louisiana, while Georgia and
New JERSEY have postponed a vote
until the next session of their Legis-
latures.
Senator Norris Brown, of Nebraska.
who has kept close tab on the income
tax fight. and who was one of the
foremost advocates of the income tax
while the tariff bill was before Con-
gress last session. predicts that the
income tax amendment will be part
of the Constitution within three years.
He believes that more than three
fourths of the states will support it.
and says it will be indorsed in every
state where the income tax is made
political issue in the legislative cam
paieon.
He comedies that Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware and most of
the New England states will be among
the opposition. but all this was
expected when the fight opened. New
York, however. he believes will in
the end fall in line and vote to ratify
the amendment.
According to Senator Brown, all
the states of the West, without ex-
ception, will ratify the income tax
amendment. most of them during the
coming Winter. He predicts also
that the Southern states will ratify
it within two years. Virginia failed
to ratify because the Speaker of the
Virginia House was able to bring
about an adverse vote. This vote,
Brown believes. may be reversed.
If the income tax is
made an issue in Virginia. The same
thing may be done in Massachusetts.
though the chances there are not
favorable, he opines.
The recent New York Legislature
failed by one vote to ratify the amend
ment. This narrow margin. it is
thought, can be overcome, for it is
figured that the income tax will of
necessity be an issue in the next New
York legislative campaign, and the
supporters of the measure are conf
lent they will gain in strength in
The next Legislature.
In speaking Of the outlook, Senator
Brown explained that since the
income tax amendment has been SUBJ
nitted by Congress to the states for f
heir ratification, it remains before (
he country continuously until it is !
'atifed. 1t MAKES no difference how !
The states may vote in the first a
instance; more than one-fourth of a
hem may vote against the amend
nent. but that would not kill it; it
would till be pending, and in case
'nough subsequent Legislatures vote
or it to make three fouAths of all the
tates, the amendment will then go
nto effect. T
While advocates of the income tax
% not believe that 12 states will. in
lie first instance. vote against the
atiication of the amendment. they 4,
till maintain that should such :
hing happen, the amendment would =
ot be dead. but that opportunity r
'ould later be given the adverse :
tates to reverse themselves through
lture Legislatures. :
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