The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-28
REBUKES HILL FOR TRYING TO REVIVE
 '1SECTlONALISM" s
Son of Veteran Deplores Trick of Stand Pat Re
 publicanism

In a singing rebuke written to the Darien Review, the son of a Union Civil War soldier replies to B. J. Hills efforts to revive sectionalism The reply of this member of the Sons of Veterans follows:
 Hon. E. J. HiIl in his speech of acceptance at the convention which nominated him for Congress. resorts to the old time practice of digging up 'tsectionalisrn'' in order to appeal to the people of the North against the people of the South, as though this was not one great big country.
 He goes to the income tax'' meas ure to find a pedestal upon which to erect this old skeleton which ceased to haunt us since the boys of the South and the boys of the North put on the blue and went to beat the Spaniard in '9S. Surely the boys of '98 were as ibrave as the boys of 61, and had the war gone on, they would have stayed as long and undergone the same years of agony and sstriven for ffO1d Glory as did their sires and gran ndsires. When the Spanish War Veterans adopted their regulation uniform, they adopted the gray trousers of the, Con- federacy and the blue of the North to signify the binding together of the North and South in brotherly love and patriotism.
 Why any man of MT. HiIl's reputed intelligence should attempt to revive the old s-sectionalisrn" is hard to tell But he does do it. He says, ''But the real wickedness of the thing is in the exemption provision throwing the burden on one section of the country and letting the other go almost ,un- touched He goes on to tell the great amount that New York pays of the income tax and then he compares the amount that Connecticut pays with that paid by some of the Southe ern states.
 When does he play fairly in the matter, or does he. think that the people of his own district are fools and will believe that law was made for one section of the country and not for another? He. could have said, and told the truth, that any single States with an income of more than $3,000 pays a tax on the excess he receives over and above the $3,o0o: on $4,000. Every one knows that the Eastern states have the greater population, and necessarily would pay larger income taxes than the Southern states if the population had prospered, Undoubtedly, some of the Western states and some of the Southern states would like to have the population of the Eastern states, in order that they might pay some of the income tax.
 But it has long been a trick of. Stand Pat Republicans to resort to sectionalisna They learned it in the days following the Civil War and it saw its continuation in the attempt to vote IA delegates from Southern states in a Republican National con vention-trying to give delegates from states which mustered S8,000 votes IA delegates to offset the honest Republican, vote of the North. The Bull Moosers Knocked out that kind of chicanery and such attempt to draw on 'ssectionalism' brought to life a new party.
 But sssectionaIsm'' has been such a good old horse to ride that MT. Hill brought it out for another race. and this time the jockey that he intends to have ride the animal is income tax" He tries to change the situa- ton about and say that 1t is wicked, that the income tax exemptions should be lower so that the tax would reach the people of the South. He says that it is wicked that the exemption is so high. He wants it to reach the men with $1,OOO and $1,50O salaries in order to hit the men of the South. Does he think that the situation would be changed at all? We all know that there are just as many more of the low salaries in the North as there are of the high salaries or incomes, if not more.
 Is it not an insult to our inteIli- S0nC0 @1OT MI E11l1 IO UGH us LI1ctt d great national law that must treat every section of the country alike, to be constitutional, is a sectional mea- sure % Does he think that the peo- pie of Fairfield County do not know that the income tax measure was adopted as a result of an amendment to the Constitution and that it had to be ratified by two-thirds of the states before it could be passed? Yet in his speech, he says, tBut the real wickedness of the thing is in the ex- emptfon provision throwing the bur- den on one section of the country. Does MT. Hill think that he can fool us in that way, or does he really mean that the $20 and $50 a week factory men and artisans of the entire coun- try should pay an income tax in or der that there would be 9 possibility Of getting more money outeof the South
 We know that the percentage would still be in favor of the North with an exemption lower, but, as a rich man, MT Hill would undoubtedly find a great deal of solace in knowing that the men with $1,O00 and $2,OOO in comes were also called upon to pay a tax to support the government. But MT. Hill says that the income tax is a sectional neasure-'' The crime is not so much in the untruthfu1ness of the statement as it is in the attempt to erect a barrier between the North and South.
 How any American who read of the reunion on the End and 3rd of July, 1913, at Gettysburg can want to stir up the enbers of strife is be- yond me. If MT Hill had been on the field of peace on those two me-
 norial days and had seen old grizz1ed veterans embrace each other, former foes grasping hands with God bless you, Yank,'' and 'FYou are my blood brother, Johnny Reb,'' as their ex- changes of greetings, he would have known that there was no sectional" feeling there. Gettysburg in 1913 presented a spectacle never before witnessed in the history of the world the survivors of two of the finest armies that ever followed flags and opposed each other, united in love and friendship on the same field.
 But MT. Hill still looks for 'tsec-