The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-26
Greed Cause Of
 Disaster To Titanic
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HOO6 men pay most or the CuStOIQS and internal revenue taxes.
 Rich men pay all of the income tax.
 The more income tax there is the less the burden on poor men. The more customs and internal revenue, the smaller the burden on rich men.
 Connechcut's contribution to the Federal exchequer is not less than $7, 00o, 900 . year.
 The meaning of the fine language of MT. Hah about unfairness of the excise tax to the State of Connecticut dmply amounts to this: He wants that G,oOo. 900 to come out of the pockets of those who have little, and as little of that $7,000. 900 as he can contrive out of the pockets of those who have much
 And that is what they all mean, who indulge in that argument about the excise tax being unfair to the New England States. What you and I and all honest men are interested in is a tax that will be fair to the New Eng- land people. +a
 We are on the edge of great crisis. Just what part our beloved party is to play in the events that are so near. do not know, except that I know it will be a noble and important part.
 We need not fear for the future. The world is moving not backward, but forward. It Is making spiral pro- gresS ever upward toward brotherhood, justice and equality.
 Whether it be a more equal taxa tion. or the application of a purer Democracy to our government in the management of our affairs, the end and aim will be to extend to the masses of men, the workers and tOil- CTS and producers of society more of those blessings of civilization which their labor brings into being. We are about to mend a system in which men starve to death because there is too much to eat, drink and wear, and go idle because the labor of their hands has filled the warehouses and the granaries to overflowing.
 These modern questions of legislation and politics go down into tn every Issues of life and death.
 Sunday, April IA, or early on Mon day morning, sank the great Titanic Earryfng to the bottom hundreds of human souls, the chivalry of the race, so ranking by their mortal heroism tn that awful situation.
 But what shall we say of the ab- eence of lifebOats, of the haste where care and precaut1on were demanded, and the failure to furnish glasses to lOOkouts i'm the crOwnests.
 Must we not say that all this terri ble sacrifice was but another sacrifice to mammon, the legitimate offspring of a system that places dividends abeae righteousness and profits above human life
 More dramatic was this terrific reck- oning of nature with greed, but not more awful than other catastrophes that stir this land year after year. Annually 25,000 die or are injured in i'll kept and badly protected mines. These toilers, for your sakes and mine the bangs of slow starvation, deaths compared with which release by drowning is merciful.
 RailrOadS make an annual unneceS- sary sacrifice of thousands of brave men, who have the neroism that is as : necessary to the pursuits of peace as to war;
 Greed takes countless thousands of human lives, makes myriads of Ws<s,- ows, and deprfves myriads of children of the opportunity that should be theirs.
 The human units responsible for these things are scarcely conscious of what they do. It is the function of this great modern progress to remove the scales from their eyes, to punish the incorrigib1e; to put justice in the place of avarice, to raise man above the dollar, and keep him there. The people have so decreed it. The Dem ocratic party, as chief representative of the people has so declared it. The Democracy of the world is behind the change.
 The will of the people is the voice of Cod He who opposes is as one blas- Dheming. The stars in their courses fought against Sisera, but he who fights the people fights the stars in their courses. My friends, let us go forth in the determine tion that the Democratic party in Connecticut shall be purged of it's fraflities and brought to an equality with the magnificent Democratic party of the nation which Is bringing forth deeds worthy of a nation.