Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09
Revenue Bill Will Be Taken Up
for Amendment To-
morrow.
INCOME TAX LAUDED
AS THE FAIREST EVER
Mr.. Clark Also Shows Reasons for
Levy on Munitions Rather Than
on Necessaries.

Speaker Clark closed the general de-
yesterday afternoon. The bill was then
read in full. and tomorrow will be con-
sidered for amendment
THE tariff question. like the poor.
we have always with u.s." says Speaker
Clark. The very first general bill put
upon the statute books in the United
States was a tariff bill, and we have
had them at intervals ever since. After
going through five of these general re-
clusion that there Is more lying done
about the tariff than any other question
that mortal man has ever concerned his
mind about.
Some men are very much in the
habit of making epigrams. President
Cleveland was. I think the wisest
a condition and not a theory that con-
fronts u.s. and certainly that Is the
case here today. l am not going to
argue about these tariff rates one way
or another. 1 have done that in days
gone by until 1t is absolutely distaste-
full to me.
Taxes Necessary Evil.
II have won at it and I have lost at
1t. and 1 have heard every argument
made in the House from the building
of the Chinese wall and Augustus
Caesars almost absolutely perfect
tariff system-that Is. II the tariff sys-
tenn is intended to get money out OF
people-down to absolute free trade.
Now everybody dislikes to increase
taxation. but taxes are a necessary
evil. If we lived according to the
golden rule we would not have much
eat your cake and keep 1t. too. The
American people seem to have de-
manded extraordinary expenditures,
not only for the army and the navy
and all the appurtenances thereto. but
bills have gone on increasing and 1t
seems they are going on increasing"
Speaker Clark said that this Con-
gress had done good work despite
had been "dawdling" and marking
time"
1--WE have done WE'LL" he said. I'VE
deserve well Of the country" Mr..
Clark said that II he had the sovereign
power to arrange the tariff bill he
every item.
II can take this tariff schedule" he
said land so arrange 1t that the Ameri-
can people will not have to pay any more
than they are now paying and get twice
as much out of this tariff system as we
are getting now"
Income Tax Fair, He Says.
Mr.. Clark described the income tax as
1.-The fafrest tax that has ever been in.
vented since man invented the tax sys-
tenn.
LAS long as the world spins on It's axis
and slides down to the elliptic no politi-
cal party of this country will ever go TO
the people on a proposition to repeal the
income tax" he said.
Mr.. Clark expressed some misgivinss
about the Inheritance tax. and said that
after all. lit is better than to tax them
on the necessaries of life"
He commended the munition tax, say.
ing: NO set of men in American or on
the face of the earth has made as much
money in the last three years as the
munition makers, and they ought to be
made to pay part of 1t in taxation.
Il congratulate the House." he said.
ION the fact that this bill is going to
pass by a good deal more than a dem
ocratic vote in this House. That is ev-
ident when such republicans as the
gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. Longworth
the gentleman from Massachusetts,, Mr..
Gardner; the gentleman from Connect
cut. Mr.. Hill, all three of them rank
protectionists, see their duty to help
the country out of a hole"