Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-09-05
GOODWIN ADVOCATES A GRADUATED TAX.

&c. C. Goodwin, lifelong Republican, editor of Goodwns
Weekly published at Salt Lake. and very conservative man,
has the following in his last issue:)
It requires months and years plan and infinite labor to-
large Turkish carpet.
When completed represents the long wasting labor of hu
beings who while incorporating their very souls into the
wonderful fabric had not sufficient food to properly nourish
their bodies
But at last patient worker taking the principle on which
the carpet woven began study how machinery might be
made to do the work that the hands in Turkey doing
He made and changed his plans he made and changed the
mods for the machinery that and after years la
bor he perfected it, and attaching to the that had been
evolved from the brain of Watt it all moved harmonouy and
trial did the work automatically that before required the
work of scores of men.
That invention has been improved upon until now man who
has enough to install hemachner and purchase the
material for it to work upon in week produce carpet al
most enduring and beautiful those upon which of
people wear out their lives in producing
At first when the steam engine and the power loom
started in England the enzed people tore down the struc
lures in which they set because they reached the natural
conclusion that the poor about lose all chances of max
ing living
But the world wd and as yet is thousands of years re-
moved from enlightenment and though those machines which
transfer the burdens from the of flesh of STEEL
have been vastly multiplied has found that there and
more work for men.
But likewise true that men with money can command
this machinery and make work for them and to the dollars
they have add thousands and m lions
This makes heartburnngs discomfort and who rug
Cling for livelihood cry out against the inequalities of the
worlds gifts forgetting that Aadn had than others
until he evoked the gen which thenceforth his slave
And that the mprecaton should not be against Aladdin but
against the slave that compassed all of Aadn's wishes
So we hear all sides nveighng against all monopoes
and combines which ping up wealth.
We the prosecuting officers of the proceeding
~en the monopoes and combnes read in the daily press
that this that monopoly combine should be attacked
destroyed.
But the truth of the matter that the thus arragned
are not whit different from the who buys crate of
twenty-five cantaoupe for dollar and sells them to his
ers for fifteen cents each.
1t was his geni who brought the treasures and built the
veous houses and decorated them with gems.
There is to crush monopoies and combines and
can think Of only way to curb them
That is by system of graduated taxation.
Money rules the world but the world is not half
deemed
More and better schools needed hospitals OPP
porttes need to be opened for the poor distractions
moved from their paths
There bur thing through which this be DONE and
that is the genii which modern call money.
The way obtain this by taxing incomes of men, of
monopolies and combines.
The tax should be graduated
fair reward for work. fair interest money should be
allowed but after that the taxes should increase up the
of confscaton when a certain percentage is reached
tho dOuhIew ddnpca