New Britain herald., 1916-08-19
HUGHES BOLT SHOT,
 CLARK TELLS MAINE
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ing orator to make a national issue
 of Durand ony more than he can
 make a national issue of: who fired
 the Ephesin Dome? or who struck
 Billie Patterson? or who was the man
 in the iron mask?
 Lord Bacon, who possessed the
 most exquisite intellect ever housed in
 a human skull-the father of the h.
 ductive Philosophy us against
 dt,ducting a general rule from too
 few instances warning which ap-
 plies to all writers and speakers, in
 cIuding the eminent Judge Hughes.
 He draws a general indictment
 against democratic diplomatic ap-
 pointments but fails to give us the
 specifications for the proof to sustain
 the indictment.
 n@ "Undilutcd AmeriCaIliSm." zaHS He says that he is in favor of 'un- SYluted Americanism.' So are we all. God be praised! He is not peculiar in
 that respect. The vast mass of the
 American people-men and women-
 gre too busy working at what the
 Germans denominate the Bread and
 Butter Sciences to make elaborate
 speeches vaunting their 'undiluted
 Aniericanism' but the average Ameri-
 can citizen-and after all the average
 American citizen constitutes the
 strength and the glory of the republic
 is as patriotic as Charles Evans
 Hughes, Woodrow Wilson or any oth-
 CT big wig in the land. There is not
 one American citizen, native-born or
 naturalzed, in one hundred who
 would fail the country should the su-
 pLeme test come.
 Perhaps President Wilson has made some mistakes. Perhaps the
 democratic congress has made some.
 It is safe to say that there never was
 president or congress that did not
 make mistakes and there never will
 be-Simply because we are all human
 Any astronomer with an adequate tel
 esGape can find spots on the sun; but
 nevertheless and notwithstanding, the
 Bun continues to light and warm and
 Fructify the earth.
 'Judge Hughes with his telescope is
 hunting for spots on the democratic administration and the democratic congress-but the people realize that we have the most unbOunded prosper ltN. that has blessed the land since Christopher Columbus discovered America and that notwithstanding the ancient and chronic sheer of the re- publicans that we possess no power of constructive statesmanship, we have In three and one-half years placed upon the statute books more con- Etructive rem edial legislation than the republicans did in twenty years-laws which should have been paescd four decades ago. They are likSJ to con- S clude to let well enough aIone!' and \ to continue the democrats in power. Actions speak louder than words Pere are some of the things we have 8 done and on which we stand:
 Democratic Tariff Bill.
 S We have passed a great tariff bill - khe best ever placed on the statute books It contains many excellent changes from the old Payne-Aldrich- Shoot monstrosity, and it contains one new feature that would make it the best of all tariff bills even if the rest of it were as bad as the last re- publican tariff bill, which most em- phatically it is not. That new feature # Is the income tax.
 8 The fairest and justest tax ever lev #$ led since men invented a tax system is # B graduated income tax with reason able exemptions. In the very first # rpeech I ever made in the house on a# the SuDJeCI or the Idrl1L SlalCQ that @ was in favor of a stiff graduated in- a come tax, and so long as the world VI kpins on it's axis and slides down the & AStic no political party is ever going #@W the country on a proposition to re- a peal the income tax. It taxes men on A what they have and not on what they N consume. It raises necessary revenue M from the abundance with which God # has blessed some of us, and not from M the wants of the poor. They may pass M law to change it, remodel it. to per A ct it-but to repeal it, never! It is E m1an experiment among legislators. 8 le English have had it ever since M Inc Napo1eonic wars, except or two A years. Then they went back to it M again, and have reduced it to almost