Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-10-30

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l. mCdiGes the existing law. sh IT'S to !
that extent the burden OF taxation I
from the poor cOnSum ar to the rich |
possessors of great incomes. It's tend /
ency is to tighten the taxes upon
mere sufFiciency ard increase them
upon superiority. This has been the
policy and theory of every wise sys-
ten Of taxation in the most enlight-
erred civilization"
The Income Tax.
To my mind one Of the strongest
features of the Underwood Tariff Bill
is the Income Tax because it requires
those who are ablest and have re-
Ceiyed the greatest benefits, to come
to the support of the government, and
to that extent removes the burden
from the shoulders OF the poor In
stead of requiring every man who
buys a suit of clothes, a pair Of shoes,
a hat, or any other necessity Of life,
to contribute large per cent of the
price paid to support the government,
and incidentally enrich the manufac-
tlrer, as he has done under a pro-
tective tariff SO long, it says TO a man
with an income in excess of $4,000.
you are better able to bear this bur
den, because you are receiving more
of the benefits, so YOU pay your part,
and relieve your less fortunate broth
ers. What fair-minded man, | ask
you, who is willing to live and let live,
be he rich or poor, consistently OBJ
ject to such a law?
The calamity howlers, with axes TO
grind, have criticised this tariff bill
and called it a failure, yet, although
It has heen in operation only year,
there has heen raised more revenue
under it than by the Payne-AldIich
bill for the previous year, or in fact
Tor any year in the last ten.
When normal conditions are restore
| and the countries now engaged in dc
| structinn, change to production, Will
! the' rehabilitation of business and i
| resultant increase in imports, the I'm
derwood Tariff Bill will abundantiy
establish the wisdom of Democratic
| craftsmanship.
Let me call your attention especially
to what the government has done In
direct aid of the farmer:
Government Aid in Graduating Hog
Cholera.
A very careful government estimate
made no later than 1913 revealed the
| 70 -;x
| So, 900, died of hog cholera in the
United States that year. AS this is a
| preventable disease, it means that
over 7O0,O00,000 pounds of dressed
meat and lard, or enough to furnish
every family in the land with about
30 pounds of meat has been needless
| ly lost This has been allowed to go
on uunoticed for fifty years. 1t re
manned for this Democratic Congress
to take positive and efficient steps tC
checks the awful waste caused by this
| Scourge. So, in February of this yeaT
a bill was passed settling aside $500,
600 for nationwide application oil
serum to eradicate a disease that not
only costs the farmers many mil
lions annually, but also gives the peO
pie a greatly extended meat supply
This certainly brings government aid
| directly to the farmer and lends
helping hand where most needed.
The Smith-Lever Agricultural Exten
sion Act.
The Smith-Lever Agricultural Tx
| tpncinn ct he f,, h in,
and progressive measure ever enacted
Tor the farmer. 1t takes the STATE
| Agricultural College, the State EXperl
ment Station and the Federal Depart
ment of Agriculture direct to tn,
farmer, the farmers wife and into the
farm home. 1t is the first Congress
siOnal act that considers the farmer.
wives and daughters by providing
funds for teaching home economics
This administration was the first one
- grasp the tremendous truth that il
all of the knowledge applicable and
| helpful to farming shat has been work
ed out separately by the experimental
stations, and by individual farmers
upon the farm, and by the scientists i.
he United States Department of Ag
riculture could be gathered toEethel
and correlated and sent out to the
| ,armer-nOt in written bulletins
which they would not read-but by
chat agriculture would be readjusted
hat country life would have an at
traction, a dignity and potential infiu
ence never enjoyed before. This &C
makes liberal appropriation for farr
extension work There is immediate
y available $4,000 for each Stale
Agricultural College and by gradually
Increasing sums the new law appro
Iriates $4,5S0,000 annually from tho
'ederal treasury, conditioned upon
he individual states providing an al
lCst equal sum. This will make avail
lble after the year 1922 nearly $40,
100000. In the first nine years of the
avs application, the Federal govern
nent will have given the forty-eigh'
;tates more than $23,0OO,OOO, and the
tateS themselves will have given
lore than $1S,C00,000. Thus in the
inc year period now beginning, g
and total of nearly $42,GC0,000 viii
o into agricultural extension work
re cooperative feature of the bill
'he states and Federal government
working in close harmony, is a very
'aluable step forward. Efficiency is
guaranteed for the wise expenditure
Of this enormous sum by providing
hat the work shall be carried on in
uch manner as shall be mutually
greed upon by the Secretary of Agri
culture and the State Colleges.