The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-09-08


and refuse to allow the kaiser TO sub
marine our citizens, and al the repub-
lican congressman whose american
ism" was outraged because we de-
clined TO deny Americans the right TO
travel on the high seas. The Minneap-
oils little discoverer has found another
basket for Mr.. Hughes eggs and if he
does not use the basket he will prove
himself as blind and deaf as he has
proved himself dumb.
This is the Minneapolis discovery.
Woodrow Wilson should be beaten not
only because one of his American eggs
is to be found in the basket of eggs
which Mr.. Hughes takes to market
which, as is well known, contains all
the American eggs ever laid in hens
nest, hawks nest, doves nest or mares
nest-but he should be beaten because
with dia6olieal malignity he has de-
vised and imposed a system of taxa
ton which taxes the American people
in the north and exempts the Ameri-
can people-if they are American peo-
ple-in the south. Taxation by
Southerners," reveals the Minneapo-
lis discoverer, mainly for southern,
mainly not of southerners, is the Will
son program, disguised by specious
pretense, but authentic enough. Three
years we have had it, and four years
more are promised, unless west and
east object sufficiently to defeat Will
SON" THE NORTH" we are further
told, being rich, has endured the drain
and the south, being poor, has appre-
ciated the bounty. Lean southern
statesmen in power in both houses of
congress and with the white houses
consent, have slapped taxation on the
north and poured out golden streams
upon the south"
Therefore, if Mr.. Wilson is to be
defeated this year the defeat will have
to be administered by the north, both
east and west"
Presumably this fendish system of
taxation which Mr.. Wilson has in
flicted on the north is that of the in
come tax, paid by more people in the
north than in the south because there
are more rich people in the north than
in the south. All that Mr.. Hughes has
to do to profit by the Minneapolis dis
covered issue is to come out squarely
for the repeal of the incomet ak or to
to come out squarely for its amend
ment in such manner as to insure
that it will be collected from the poor
people instead of the rich people.
If Mr.. Hughes can devise system
of taxation by which the taxes of the
country can be collected from those
who have nothing, to the exemption of
those who have something, he can af-
ford to discard his entire basket of
Americanism eggs. No such winning
issue was ever before dreamed of. To
tell every voter who pays taxes that
he shall pay no more taxes because
taxes under Hughes will be paid by
those who have nothing, will make ev-
cry taxpayer Hughes man, while il
will not disturb those who are to pay
the taxes under the new system, for
the man who has nothing will still
have just as much after he has paiC
his taxes as he had before. Certainly
no proposition could be more to the
liking of those who have put Mr.
Hughes forward to lead the republi
can party in this campaign, and if il
would not sweep the country it would
be impossible to conceive of an issue
that would.
All that seems to stand in the way
of launching it is the uncertainty 0.
Mr.. Hughes ability to devise such
tax system. 1t is hardly to be doubt
ed that if he felt that he could d.
this he would overcome his reticenc,
sufficiently to take the country in hi
confidence on the subject.
This difficulty, however, is more SUI
perfcial than real. Mr.. Hughes ma!
not be able to devise a tax system
which will raise our revenues by tax
ing only those who have nothing, bu
it is not clear that the little discovere
at Minneapolis stands ready and vii
ling to devise for him ?-Louisvill
Courier-Journal.