Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-31
JArticle Number Two)
CONTINUED from last week

Now my friends if Henry Ford
has amassed fortune of five bill
lion and Mr.. Couzens received
thirty million, they are not to be
blamed. The blame is upon our leg
islators to allow such conditions to
exist. What is fair interest or
profit on capital? $50 to 1870 was
considered fair earnings for capita.
in the not far past Today we hold
the railroads down to point where
a stockholder seldom receives 6 90
Why did we let capital invested In
monopolies take profits in excess of
as much or more than 10000? Was
the public robbed or was it just a
joke? Did the big steel corpora
tion rob the public or was 1t just a
Joke when the dividends were so
large the big stockholders were
ashamed to pay income tax on such
earnings, and we are told made
million dollar presents to the office
boys in what they called bonus" !"
It seems that is new name Tor
Santa Claus. 1t was also joke
when Mr. Mellon was ashamed to
take the money from this benevo
lent lot of stockholders who made
million dollar presents to their Of
fee boys, and he returned few
millions from the excess income tax,
no doubt thinking that it would be
best to hold the farmer and labor
ing man down by a system of sales
tax and land tax.
Is the monopoly of the Shell,
Standard and Gulf Oil Companies
also a joke? Yes, my friends, we
have a lot of monopolies that are a
joke on the American public. The
Sherman Anti Trust Law has been
put through three terms OF political
sa1earing and that law is now a joke
also, but monopoly is not satisfied
and is now spreading propaganda
to still weaken or abolish the Sher-
man Act.
We certainly are bunch Of
slackers, an army on ratio of 81
to 3 of the enemy, and we have al
lowed our people to be robbed and
the proceeds to be used abroad to
cur own detriment, allow ourselves
to pay the tax to operate the gov
ernment for the benefit OF a few
money lenders, autocratic rulers,
monopolistic capitalists and Inter
nationalsts who are trying to de-
stroy our national and patriotic
ideals.
The enslaving chains of taxation
are SO burdening the American peo-
pie that it now is case of Eight
or PERISH Which shall we do?
Here follows an example of who
pays the tax:
John Doe is a laboring man liv-
ing in Morgan county, Ohio. | per-
sonally know this man to be
good reliable worker. He will do
an honest days labor without the
supervision of an overseer. He sup
ports a family of five-never re-
eeiyed more than 81 for days la
Dor in his life-says he never had
full years work on an average OF
SO per day, and that his average
year. He owns little home and an
old car bought from the junk yard,
repaired and rebuilt by himself.
Last spring, there being no work IN
his home locality, he secured work
near GAINESVILLE at 50 per day and
was glad to get it. In going to and
from his work he uses three gal
Ions of gasoline per day, thus pay
ing a tax of 12c per day, and on
this average $4380 per year His
license tax this year cost him "a;
tax on his automobile, SO; thus
making this mans total road tax,
5000. On his little home, his
yearly tax is $26. He smokes one
pack of cigarettes daily and the
additional state tax on this luxury
increases this tax to $10.95. He al
so chews tobacco. This tax about
So. Thus his direct tax and sales
say amounts to almost 500 per
year. But that is not half the tax
n pays. On such purchase of gas
oline or oil, he pays a portion of the
oil monopoly income tax. On each
purchase of hardware he pays a
portion of the big steal corpora
tion's income tax. (My secretary
has just called my attention to the
fact that | have misspelled word
in the last paragraph, but AFTER
looking up the word in Webster's, |
have decided my secretary was in
error. | will leave it to the readers
judgment.
Each time John Doe buys an
aluminium pan or other utensil he
pays a portion of the aluminium
trusts income tax and incidentally
he NAV be helping to make it pos
sible Act Andrew Mellon to buy pic.
lures abroad. If he buys his gro
ceries from a chain store he is pay
ing a portion Of the income tax OF
some Wall Street financier and in
cidentaIly he is automatically in
creasing the tax on his little home.
Practically every item that John
Doe buys, bears portion of income
tag. At the end of the year John
Doe will likely have paid out of his
meager earnings about $500, or
half Of his gross receipts, and az
the end Of the year if he works sew
en- days per week without a holi-
day, he will be genius for thrift II
he is out of debt; it is certain he
would not have a dollar to show for
his years labor. Suppose John has
sickness or has season OF unem-
pIoyment-result, he will lose his