The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-28
WHY HILL HATES THE INCOME TAX

Norwalk, Oct. 2S-Before an en- thusiastic meeting of citizens under the auspices of the Progressive party at Red Mems hall here last evening" Rev. George F. Pentecost, former pas tor of the First Presbyterian church of Bridgeport, Conn.,, and the holder of many notable pulpits in New York and other large American cities made a stirring address, in which he liter ally dissected the old parties, paying particular attention to the Honorable Ebenezer J. Hill, Republican candf- date for the eleventh time for cleo ton to the House of Representatives.
 pr. Pentecost was particularly in terested because of the fact that he is one of the veterans of the civil war, who marched through Georgia with Sherman and feels keenIy the treat ment that the old soldiers of the na- ton have received at the hands of MT. Hill
 Dr. Pentecost said:
 There are three candidates for congress from this district. At the head is MT. Shepard. Then we have MT. Donovan and MT. Hill These three men cannot all be elected Only one can be elected. I can tell you the one that won't be elected and that is MT. Ebenezer J. Hill. MT. Hill has represented this district for eigh- teen years.
 why should we not re-elect MT Hill? First of all. because MT, Hill is pre-eminently and professionally a politician. He is a professional po1i- tician, and one thing that this coun- try has been aroused against is the professional politician His business is just like MT. Croker's in New Y orl, for his pocket all the time. do not mean that he is corrupt. He is sim ply 8 professional politician and he stands for his political pocket all the time. He is not out for you--but he wants you to get,eout for him. be- eighteen years and want to be there eighteen more unless [ die.s
 An out-of-town man once went out for the office of first seIectman. He went around and said, You ought to put. me in. The oyster business is very bad and need the money. He is a machine ruled politician. and in running for office Congressman FIfII does not care for you, for he IS ser want and creature of the political ma chine. A few years ago he was speak ing in Darien on the tariff question, when I had the temerfty to rise up and ask: MT HilI, did you vote for the Payne=A1drich tariff bin2 He answered, T did-' asked. Did you approve of it2' He replied, T did not Why, then did you vote for it 2, Because Said he. T had to- MT. Hill was never known to stand out for principle against the party bosses. The Progressive votes to break up that sort of thing and make the bal lot clean.
 MT. HiIl is a reactionary and a standpatter. In a statement in a Bridgeport paper short time ago, he says he stands where he always stood. was out in China 2 few years ago and studied the old Confucian philosophy. found out why the Chinese people had made no advance in civilization. or changed their con dition for three thousand years It was because that philosophy teaches that they should do nothing that their ancestoes d1dn L.. MT. Hill is like the Bourbons; Whatever has been, is right. He never does anything that his ancestors didn't.
 s.Mr. HilI is an enemy Of the old soldiers pension. This class of man is nearly all accounted for. There are but few of them once boys with me when we fought in the ranks Of the union. Two years ago there was introduced a bill to give them 3 pension of a dollar a day MT. Hill opposed. These men are dying off fast now. Few men live long after seventy. myself. have lived but four years past. Yet MT. Hin was square against a pension from first to last.
 IT will admit that President Wilson was the sponsor for one of the best pieces of legislation ever saw--tl1e income tax The burden of taxation falls upon those who have an income of four thousand dollars per year. Most of us can live on that. and when one has ten, twenty, or fifty thousand, of five hundred. or a million dollars. the burden falls upon those who can best, bear it. MT. HiI1 objects to that because he thinks every man who has a thousand dollars ought to be taxed. Why? Because the south has very small incomes and is practically on the South he would make every man in New England who has an ir- come of a thousand dollars pay tax to the government on that.
 1T was on my farm a short time ago. found a black snake about six feet long. He was harmless but you know mans natural a.verson to a Ilsnake. [ picked up a stone and threw it at the snake and struck it on the head and crushed it in. The snake was killed then and there, but his tail wriggIed there in the woods until sum- down. Two years ago, MT. Hilfs head was crushed, but he still Wrigg1es. He is dead. politically dead. The district has emphaticalIy repudiated him by it's vote two years ago.
 seThe question of election lies be- tween MT Shepherd and Mfr. Dono- yon. but I do not hesitate to say thai if had to choose between MT. Hi1l and MT Donovan. I would send Jerry back Give him another chance, for
 he has done good work. but Eiil-- never