The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-06-25
CHAMP CLARK HAS SAID SOME
THING
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down to the depot and saw the train
come in. He looked it over and he
said, "Sallie, they will never start
her"
1t went around the hill at the rate
of about 40 miles an hour. He looked
at it, and said, Sally, they will never
stop her." (Laughter.) And that is
what you people said about us. You
said that we could not do anything
and then that we did too much.
Another bill that would be willing
to go before the people on by itself
as emitting us to another lease of
power is the income-tax provision in
the Underwood tariff bill. applause
On the Democratic side,) And, by the
way, great many of you Republicans
voted for it. Why did you vote for it
Because you were afraid not to vote
for it. applause on the Democratic
side.) The best system of taxation
that ever was devised by the wit of
man, as well as the fairest and justest,
is the graduated income tax. CAP
plause on the Democratic side.) l
have been for it ever since / can recol-
lect. / was one of the men that help
ed to put it in the tariff law of 1894.
i
decision of the Supreme Court that
still StinkS in the nostrils of mankind.
1t Immediately became a part of the
Democratic creed. We worked at it
for years and years, and finally had
to get a constitutional amendme,
adopted in order to get it, And we
have got it. That is Democratic
measure. applause on the Demo
in cd 10 xr,s1 h.
ed. 1t may be modified and amended
and improved by reason of experience,
but there is no more chance of repeal
ing the principle of the income tax
than there is of repeating the rule of
three-nOt bit.
Mr.. Fess. Does the gentleman say
that the amendment relating to the
income tax was not ratified by more
Republican States than Democratic
States?
Mr.. Clark of Missouri. do not
know.
Mr.. Fess. 1t was ratified by the Re-
publican States, and it became a law
because there were more of those
States than there were Democratic
States.
| am getting to be suspicious as to his
torical facts as stated by the gentle
man from Ohio. Laughter) His
memory sometimes plays tricks with
him. i do not see that that matters
one way of the other. Anyway. we
got it, and, what is a good deal more.
we are going to keep it. If we had
not done anything else, it should en-
n q Of
Mr.. Longworth. Will the gentle
man yield?
Mr.. Clark of Missouri. / will
Mr.. LongwOfth. Does the gentle
man confine his notion of the Under
wood law to the income tax?
Mr.. Clark of Missouri. do not
confine it to that. 1t is the best tariff
law ever put on the statue books even
without the income tax, but the in +
come tax improved it. applause on
the Democratic side.)
Mr.. Byrnes of South Carolina And
the best proof that it is the best tariff
law is that the Republicans are in
power and have not attempted to re-
peal it,
Mr.. Clark of Missouri Yes. Any
party that will go to the country with
a proposition of repeating the income
tax law would not carry five States
in the Union. 1t taxes what people
have and not what they consume.
Mr.. Knutson. Will the gentleman
yield?
Mr.. Clark of Missouri. If it is an
easy question; yes.
Mr.. Knutson. / suggest to the dis
tinguished gentleman from Missouri
ment was getting us into the war. We
would like authority on that.
Mr.. Clark of Missouri / think a
remark like that is an insult to the
American people and everybody in
the House as~well. 1t was not Dem
cratic war; it was not a Republican
war; it was an American war. The
Republicans acted very well during
the war. (Applause) will say that
for them, and that is a matter of JUS
tice. A man who has held the posi-
ton that ! have in this House cannot
e+tord TO do anything but tell the
truth. But the very moment the war
was over you commenced acting badly
and you have been at ii ever since.
(Applause on the Democratic side)
do not think that the Democratic
record is absolutely perfect. The
record of no party that ever existed
was perfect. But | will tell you what
] do know. Anybody can take an or
binary telescope and go out and find
spots on the sun. They are there.
They have always been there and they
always will be there, but nevertheless
the sun continues to light and heat
and fructify the world. (Applause on
the Democratic side) You can pick
flaws as much as you want to in the
Democratic record, but when you take