Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-03-28
VITAL WASHINGTON NEWS.
CBy G. H. Tayenner.)

| Special to this newspaper.
Washington, March 20.-Will it be
possible to transfer the $53,000,000 SUI
gar tax from the breakfast table to
the shoulders of the rich? Are the
people sufficiently in control to ac-
complish this end
These questions are being asked
everywhere. The status of the situa-
tion is this:
The Democratic House, true to it's
promise to reduce the cost of living
in this country, will at this session
pass a bill repeating the $50, 100000
tax on sugar and another taxing in
comes in excess of $4,000.
The bill will go to Republican
cans vote with the Democrats, both
bills will pass the upper body.
The fate of the two measures will
then rest with the President. If Mr..
Taft accepts the advice of those about
him, who were described by the late
Senator Dolliver as being men who
know exactly what they want" he will
veto the bills.
Protectionists oppose an income tax
for two reasons. /. They are rich
as class and like other humans have
no desire to pay more taxes than ne
cessary. 2. Protectionists know that
if this country, like Great Britain,
France Germany, Holland Switzerland,
New Zealand, Australia, Denmark and
many others, gets into the habit OF
raising revenue by taxing wealth in
stead of the things the people must
have in order to live, the tariff tax
which gives them monopolies on the
particular commodities in which they
deal, will be reduced, which would be
damaging to the nice fat dividends,
particularly to such American indus
tries" as the sugar trust, the steel
trust, the wooden trust, the harvester
trust and Mr.. Rockefeller's ell trust.
High protectionist politicians receive
stupendouS sums as campaign funds
from the tariff trusts, and money is
mighty handy thing in campaigns.
The income tax is a menace to the cit
adel of high protection, so why should
protectionists countenance an income
tax?
Breaking Away from Tradition.
The greatest Importance of the
Democratic program providing for the
abolition of the sugar tariff and the
| imposition of a tax on incomes in ex-
cess of $1,000 is that it breaks away
| from the tradition that the govern
ment's income must of necessity be
derived wholly from the things the
people eat, wear or use, a tradition
which has been responsible for wealth
not bearing its just proportion of the
burden of federal taxation, and a ira
dition which has been responsible for
so many tariff outrages through SO
many years. Regardless of whether
the bill is vetoed by President Taft,
there is little question that the Demo-
Gratis have opened the way for its en-
actment when another man is in the
White House.
Here is Real Hum0r.
Those millionaire WOODEN trust mag
mates at Lawrence, Mass, are nothing
! if not humorous.
| AS evidence of their humor, witness
pay envelope No. 1907, issued to a
| Lawrence mill worker On the back
of this envelope, solemnly put there
! by the Broadway Savings Bank, a
wooden trust institution, was this adj
vice:
Do not spend all your income, start
bank account and be Independent.
/ A mans duty to himself is to save
some of his earnings.
Now for the woolen trust joke!
Just opposite this fatherly advice
were the figures Sc. .05. This was the
workers full weeks pay!
Buy a Home, was the advice to
another employe, on the edge of whose
/ pay envelope was written So. After
| you have paid the grocery bill for a
! family of five or six" suggests the
fatherly old wooden trust, and bought
some coal, and paid the landlord his
share, and tickled the baby with pair
of new shoes, and paid the doctors bill
and purchased some new under
clothes for Willie, and bought mamma
a new shawl, take what is left of your
wages and buy a home,
How long are the American people
going to stand for this kind of humor
Lawrence VS.. Foreign Wages.
Here is a comparison of full time
wages paid i'm England, and at Law
renee, Mass, u S. A., which fails to
substantiate the high protectiOnist
theory that it is necessary to place a
high tariff on wooden clothing in or
der to protect American workers from
what American trust magnates delight
to describe as foreign pauper labor. .
The figures show that the so-called
foreign pauper labor receives as
much wages as the all-but- -pauper la
Dor at Lawrence, while the cost of liv-
ing is much higher here than in Eng
land.
In England, spinners receive from
$3.50 to 's12 per week, in Lawrence
they are paid from IS 10 to $7.70 per