Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-16
business prop

prOJectlQnlst party Is suSCeSsAui 49,
representatives in congress will main
tain tariff rates SO high that the tariff
trusts will be able to extort from the
people in increased prices not only the
amount of the campaign contributions,
but enormous dividends on watered
stock as well.
"At the present time the attorneys
for the tariff trusts write their own
tariff rates, and, naturally, they write |
then in the interest of the tariff trusts !
and nor in the interest of the people. |
The tariff schedules should be
written by the representatives of the
people for the mutual welfare of both
consumers and workers and manufac-
turers.
81 believe in an honest downward re-
vision of the tariff, with greatest reduc-
tons on sugar, woolens, cottons and
lumber The tariff should be reduced
in the interests of the masses instead
of in the interest of only a comparative
4 handful of men who are already rich
| beyond the dreams of avarice."
The observation-disclosures bill is
complete fulillment of the above pre-.
election tariff promises. We have
kept faith with the people and accom-.
plished after election what we prom
J ised to do in order to be elected.
LOBBYISTS DRIVEN FROM WASH
INGTON.
1t will be recalled that in spite of
people to revise the tariff downward a
the fact that we were pledged to the
horde of tariff lobbyists were on hand
when congress met, ready and pre-
pared to deprive the people of a we'll
learned victory. But instead of receiv-
ing the reception they had been &C.
customed to they were promptly set
upon by President Wilson and driven
en- masse from the nations capitol.
The result is that for the first time in
many years there will be a tariff law
on the statute books that was really
framed by the representatives of the
people instead of the representatives
of the tariff trusts.
INCOME TAX PLEDGE ALSO Full
FILLED.
During the campaign l declared ii
, elected that l would do everything
within my power to obtain the passage
: of bill taxing incomes. On this sub
ject said:
) Il believe in the passage of an in,
} come-tax bill which will require the
/ rich to bear a fair proportion of the
! burden of taxation, which they are not
!. now doing. 1t is not just that the mel
: who own 80 per cent of the wealth Of
2 the United States should shoulder but
! 10 per cent of the burden of taxation
I That is the condition at the present
( time"
4 This promise, like the pledge to re
Z wise the tariff downward, has been full
. filled.
t In my opinion the income tax is the
+ greatest victory that the masses of the
v people in this country have won since
: the Civil war.
!. Under this bill a man will be taxed
n according to his ability to pay. If hi
7 has small income he will pay {
r. small tax, and if he has large in
+ come he will pay large tax. John D
v Rockefeller, for instance, on an est
II
and an estimated annual income O
II $4,000, 900, would pay an annual ia,
n of more than 100000 Heretofor,
Mr.. Rockefeller has paid little if an.
more toward defraying the expenses O
Il the national government than the poo
g man with large family. Under tn
\. Payne-Aldrich law everything the pee
a, pie eat, wear and use is taxed, bu
\. there is no tax whatever OH wealth o
4 incomes. This is not just.
v PROVISIONS OF INCOME TAX LAW
Under the provisions of the income
= tax law unmarried persons will be tai
I ed on their incomes in excess of $500
and married persons, living with thei
life partners, will be taxed on thei
incomes in excess of $4,000. Singl
persons having an annual income c
less than $4,000 and married person
with an income of less than $4,000 ar
not taxed.
The income-tax returns will amour
to approximately $S3,000,000 annual.
Every cent of this is new revenue
the government Heretofore thos
who owned 80 per cent of the wealt
OF the United States contributed bI
10 per cent of the burden of taxation
AS result of the income-tax law, hoy
ever, those who own 80 per cent {
the wealth will be required to stan
a larger proportion of the tax burdel
A THIRD PLEDGE BEING CARRIE
OUT.
The tariff is not the only agenC
that has 10 do with the everincreasin
cost Of living in the United State
Overcapitalization and monopoly all
play their parts In my campaign
repeatedly called attention to this ia
and declared that if elected wou
work TO obtain a physical valuation
the railroads, telegraph lines and 9TH
public service corporations. A goo
start has already been made towal
carrying out this third pre-electiC
promise, as is also the case in come
ton with the pledge TO revise and u
prove the currency system.
Jail for Drunken Auto Pilot.
Oakland, Cal, Oct 16.-One hu
dred days in jail was the sentence il
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