The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-08-29
VII NEW %sECTIONALIsM

THE NEW SECTT0NALISM
Twelve northern and western states
with a population less than twice that
of the u states comprising the solid
South were taxed IS times more
heavily by the Democratic tax meas
ures-the war tax, corporation tax,
and income tax-than were the south
ern states, during the fiscal year end
ed June, 1916. The per capita tax of
these northern and western states by
reason of these three taxes, was 1888,
and for the southern states, SO cents.
Distributing these taxes among the
heads of families, allowing five to a
family. each proyider for the home
was assessed $2.65 in the South, and
$17.65 in the northern and western
states during the fiscal year just
passed.
The twelve northern and western
states paid 81 per cent of the total
collected during the fiscal year, while
the southern states paid but GA per
cent. The total wealth of the twelve
southern states in 1912, according to
the Statistical Abstract, was $27, AGO.
100000; of the twelve northern and
western states, $109, 400, 600, 900, or ex-
actly four times as great, yet the con-
tribution Of the southern states to the
corporation and income taxes was
one-sixteenth, and of the war tax,
one-tenth that of the northern and
western states.
The II southern states cast 1885,
743 votes for President in 1912. The
u northern and western states cast
|S,753,197. In that year the II south
ern states sent ITO Democratic Rep
resentatiyes to Congress, and "a Dem
ocratic Senators. They made a wretch
ed botch of the tariff law, which, be-
cause of its failure as a revenue pro-
Queer, necessitated the passage of
the war tax" saddled onto the cOun-
try whilst He kept us out of war"
At present these u southern states
have "a Democratic Senators and 1OS
Democratic Representatives in Con-
gress-Louisiana having elected a
Progressive Protectionist, an euphem-
ism for Republican, and North Caro-
linn IA aNfnU aIaafnd N DnanLIf,un -
the Lower House. Today the South
has absolute control of the Senate.
and, under the ring-of-iron reign of
King Caucus, absolute domination of
the House. OF the n great committees
of the House, handling practically all
the important legislation of the codn-
try, 22 are headed by Representative res
from 10 of the southern states, the
only northern committee chairman
being Fitzgerald. of the committee on
appropriations. Mississippi and Loui-
siana have no ehairmen Of committees.
Not one of these chairmen comes from
a manufacturing center. Six members.
of the Cabinet are of southern birth,
and the President himself was born
in Virginia.
The extent to which these southern
Representatives favor the South in
making appropriations is well exem-
plihed in the rivers and harbors bill,
just passed. Excluding appropriations
for the Mississippi, Missouri, md Ohio
rivers, which arc national waterways,
nearly ST. 00, coo was carried in that
bill to make nayigable. and in some
cases to "irrigate," rivers in the
South, while the northern and western
states, paying four-ffths of the above
named taxes, received about the same
amount. In addition to this the flood
control bill was passed. carrying
about $4,000 900. to reclaim lands in
southern states along the Mississippi,
and an appropriation is pending of
about S20.O00.000 for a government