Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-05-16

TldtS autlIltNidtiSO vi ttfupii'"'
principle?
.. To which party does it alb
solutely belongs
B. When raw materials are
taxed, who ultimately pays the
taxi
4. Did John Fl. Regain and
democrats Of his class advocate
such a tax?
3. If this tax is correct and
sound, why is not high protect
i've tariff equally as sound?
6. Is it not a distinction with
out difference?
Ragley, Texas. w T Atkins.
/. The taxing Of raw material
is neither democratic nor a re.
publican principle, nor any other
kind of principle; it is the result
of -blooded, unprincipled
trade between eastern and north
ern manufacturing monopolists,
on one side, and western sheep
and cattle kings, lumber kings,
and other monopolists Of natural
wealth, on the other side, to
unite in a scheme for levying
protective tariff subsidies upon
the great majority of the Ameri-
can people, who have nothing
but their labor to protect, and
get no protection on that.
2. 1t does not belong absolu-
tely to either party. 1t belongs
absolutels to the gang Of subsidy
takers, pap-suckers, men who
pretend they can't stand on their
own feet and make their own liv-
ing, like other men do, without
being authorized by the federal
government to levy an extra
legal, unconstitutional subsis-
tence tax upon their equal fellow
citizens. 1t cannot be chared
against either party absolutely,
because many so-called demo
cratic senators and representa-
tives vote for it, along with the
majority of the republican sena-
tors and representatives
3. When raw material is taxed,
the consumer of the goods made
from the raw materials pays the
tax. 1t is added to the selling
price of the goods, just as if it
were legitimate charge, such
as rent, light, power, labor, etc.
The manufacturer who imports
the raw material, of course, pays
the tax at the custom house, but
he equally of course passes it
along to his customer in fixing
the price of the product.
4. We have no authority at
hand to determine whether John
n. Regain did or did not advo-
cate such a tax Colonel VOL
,ers says he did Editor George
of the Waco Times
Herald, the guardian of the jeff
ersonian policies in Texas, says
Regain didn't. We are not great
~ concerned whether he did or
did not The facts in the case,
and not what some good and
great man Of the past thought
about the facts, chiefly concern
as, now that we are called upon
to pay the tax for the enrich
ment of our fellow citizens who
hold the government license to
soak us for it.
5. The tariff on raw material
is as sound as the protective tar
III system generally, Of which it
is an intergal part. Both are
sheer robbery, legalized, out
none the less robbery for being
6. There is neither distinct
lon nor difference between a pro.
tectlve tariff on imported raw
and a similar tax on
manufactures, Both
are licenses granted by a gov
vernment controlled by special
interests, Under which those
special interests have stolen
billions of dollars from the work
ers of this country during the
past fortp years; have brought
millions of Recent Americans TO
poverty and enriched a
few score of thousands of other
Americans beyond anything of
the kind the world ever saw be
fore; have created class distinct
ions and class hatreds, imperil-
ing the stability of the republic,
and have corrupted American
ideals until it seems sometimes
that nothing short OF an econom-
&c REIMBURSEMENT amounting TO q
revolution will ever again restore
in this country any condition APP.
preaching the early democratic
and Industrial equality
which made the United States in
its first century the glory of the
world and the hope. of mankind
The developement of Texas
resources has been greatly sus-
pended by the recent slogan or
Legislative rest. Useless legis.
lation, "a be sure, ought not 10