The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-19


this end?
These questions are being asked ev.
erywhore The status of the situation
is this:
The Democratic House. true TO its
promise to reduce the cost of living in
this country, will at this session pass
bill repeating the $53,O0O,OOO tax on
sugar and pass another taxing incomes
in excess OF $4,000.
The bills will go to a Republican
senate. If the progressive Republic
ans vote with the Democrats, both
bills will pass the upper body.
The fate of the two measures will
then rest with the President. II 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 opposeIan income tax
for two reasons: 1. They are rich as
class and like other humans have
no desire to pay more taxes than nee
essary. 2. Protectionists know that
II this country, like Great Britain,
France, Germany, Holland, Switzer-
land, New Zealand, Australia, Den
mark and many others, gets, into the
habit of raising revenue by taxing
wealth instead of the things the peo-
pie must have in order to live, the
tariff tax which gives them monopo-
lies on the particular commodities in
which they deal, will be reduced,
which would be damaging to the nice
fat dividends, particularly to such
American industries" as the sugar
trust, the steel trust, the woolen trust,
the harvester trust and Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's oil trust. High protectionist poll
ticians 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 citadel of high pro-
lection, so why should protectionists
countenance an income tax?
Breaking Away Fran Tradition
The greatest Importance of the Dem
ocratic program providing for the
abolition of the sugar tariff and the
imposition of tax on incomes in ex-
cess of $4,000 is that it breaks away
from the tradition that the govern
ment's income must of necessity be de.
III .uh ~ Iu hn
pie eat, wear or use, a tradition which
has been responsible for wealth not
bearing its just proportion of the bur-
den of federal taxation, and tradi.
many tariff outrages through so many
years. Regardless of whether the bill
is vetoed by President Taft, there is
little question that the Democrats have
opened the way for its enactment
when another man is in the White
House.
Here Is Real Humor
Those millionaire woolen trust mag
mates at Lawrence, Mass, are nothing
II 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 ad
vice:
''Do not spend all your income;
start bank account and be inde-
pendent. 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 $6.O5. This was the workers
full weeks pay!
Buy home," was the advice tC
another employe, on the edge of whose
pay envelope was written $2 After
you have paid the grocery bin for 9
family OF five or six" suggests the
fatherly old woolen trust, "and bough
some coal, and paid the landlord his
share, and tickled the baby with {
new pair of shoes, and paid the docto
bill, and purchased some warm under
clothes for Willie, and bought mamma
new shawl. take what is left of you
wages and by home"
How long are the American peopl
going to stand for this kind OF humor
Lawrence VS.. Foreign Wages
Here is comparison of full tim
wages paid In England, and at Law
renee, Mass, u. 8. A., which fails t
substantiate the high projections
theory that 1t is necessary to place
high tariff on woolen clothing In oi
der to protect American workers fror
what American trust magnates deligh
to describe as foreign pauper labor.
The figures show that the so-calle
foreign pauper labor receives as muc
wages as the all.but-pauper labor a