Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 February 1894 — Page 4

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1894.

AN INCOME TAX,

Tins Journal to-day prints a comM«nication from John J. Darter in advocacy of an income tax. He answers himself completely in the first sentence of his communication in that "it "gores the other fellow's ox." This is a strange admission to make for a man who is pleading for taxation laws based upon equity and justice. The weakness of his argument is in the assumption that the entire tax would come out of the pockets of the men who pay it. He belongs to that class of doctrinaires who assume that the tariff is a tax, and that the tax in the end is paid by the consumer. Admitting for the sake of the argument that this is true, how does it come that the importer is so much more shrewd in being able to add the tariff to the price •f his goods than is the man who pays an income? We apprehend that the man who is possessed of sufficient thrift to acquire property upon which he will derive ail income large enough to be taxed possesses business ability equal to the importer of foreign goods, and he will manage in some way to compel the user of his property to pay the the tax. The fact is you cannot tax any special class without violating the fundamental principles of taxation.

It is a communistic theory. The operations of an income tax was illustrated by ex-Senator Thurman, whom the Democrats affectionately refer to as ••the noblest Roman of them all," in a speech delivered in the Seriate in 1870 «n the repeal of the then income tax law. Mr. Thurman said:

The effect of this tax is the effect of all other taxes in the end it conies down on the consumer. It may be illustrated in a number of ways. You compel a man whose income is derived from the rents ol' houses to pay an income tax, and he will, just as certainly •as lie rents houses at all. increase the price for which he rents them on account of the tax which you have imposed. If you compel a merchant to pay an income tax derived from his business as a merchant he must put that into his expense account and he must charge an additional price for his goods. And so on with every person almost who pays an income tax. I do not say that they always get reimbursed, but the bulk of the tax at last falls, not upon their shoulders, but upon the shoulders of someone else. That being the case, it will not do to say that this is simply a tax on property and that the laboring people of the country are not at all interested in it. It falls on labor in the end, no matter how it is levied.

The income tax therefore fulfills the desire of that class of politicians who endeavor to deceive the people, and who frequently succeed. Dire necessity alone justifies an income tax in a free country. It is an exaction which is not only inquisitorial to an intolerable degree, but in practice has been prolific of wholesale, injustice and fraud. An income tax is a fine upon thrift and enterprise. It is an inducement to wasteful living. It discourages the accumulation of capital, thus narrowing the opportunities lor labor. It puts a premium on trickery and evasion. It is a. burden that falls chiefly and heavily on the more conscientious members of the community, or on that class whose wages and salaries can be readily ascertained. When David A. Wells was Commissioner of Internal Revenue he asserted that the income tax in force in 1 .Si8 was paid by only 250,000 persons out of a total population 40.000.000. John Stuart Mill, who favored an income tax theoretically, declared that in practice it was more vicious "than many other taxes which are prima facie more objectionable." An income tax under ordinary conditions is with' out precedent in the United States, The Federal Government was started without this odious tax the war of 1812 and the Mexican war were fought without it we bought Louisiana and the Floridas without it, and the national treasury has repeatedly weathered financial panics without it.

A protective tariff mainly has supplied the needs of the Federal Government. Only for a short interval during and subsequent to the war period was an income tax levied, and then because other sources of revenue were practically exhausted. An income tax is now proposed in anticipation of a delicit caused by an unpatriotic policy designed to dismantle American industries. The conspiracy to "gore the other fellow's ox" will prove as abor tive as it will disastrous, for .the act that paralyzes American industries will wipe out hundreds of thousands of incomes, great and small.

Til 15 POLICY OF INFAMY. It seems incredible that Minister Willis can remain longer in Honolulu in any official capacity. Even if the Provisional Government of Hawaii be willing, in their amazing forbearance, to permit a further continuation of the preposterous arrangement, our own Government should hasten to recall a representative who has been made to cut so inadequate and discreditable a figure. His reply to President Dole is as weak as dishwater. It will be observed that the cuckoo Democratic newspapers made no comment oil Dole's trenchant letter. The more outspoken like the Cincinnati Enquirer and the New York Sun, however, rip up the Administration policy in good style. The Enquirer says:

The letter of President Dole must bring the blush of shame to every American worthy of the name. It puts this Government in the attitude of a bully and a sneak, trying to frighten a weak neighbor by big looks, and to drive it from power to make room for the return of a licentious female savage, avowing her desire to shed the blood of -every American on the islands who has not espoused her disreputable cause. Servile, indeed, must be the Senator or Representative who will utter a syllable or give a vote in defense of the policy of infamy, after reading the letter of President Dole.

The Sun is no less vigorous than the Enquirer. It says: Mr. Dole's specifications were held back from the Senate because they justify the charge because they prove that Mr. Willis from the day of liis arrival at Honolulu deliberately and artfully concealed the fact that the. American Executive has no right to use physical force for the purpose of subverting a foreign Government without the sanction of Congress. They prove that not only did he conceal this fact, but he persistently endeavored to create a contrary impression. They prove, in short, that executing faithfully the disgraceful orders of his master, he was guilty of menace, duplicity and fraud, acts for which, long ago, he would have been ejected from Honolulu but for the exemplary magnanimity and self-control of the Hawaiian Government and its unshakable desire to preserve the friendship of the American people.

There, is no question but that Mr. Willis should be recalled at once. He is clearly out of place where he is, and the Administration should not submit the country to the humiliation of having the Provisional Government, hand him his passports.

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The Washington Poxf, speaking of the growing exelusiveness of the Senate, tells the following "The Hon. John L. Wilson, Congressman-at-large for the State of Washington, unconsciously trod on one of the new 'promulgations' of the Senate restaurant yesterday, and, on being reminded of the fact by the head waiter, launched out a few sentences which made the ears of several Senators tingle. Mr. Wilson and a friend took seats at one of the tables, and Mr. Wilson asked for a. menu card, but got instead an apologetic bow and a statement from the waiter that he was very sorry, but orders had been issued that Representatives were not to be waited on who sat at that table. Thereupon, Mr. Wilson arose and gave vent to his wrath. Senator Perkins, of California, who was seated at an adjoining table with some friends, was an interested listener a and spectator, and called to Mr. Wilson to bring his friend and take seats with him. 'I will do nothing of the sort,' retorted the angry Congress man. 'I never push in where I am not wanted. As I am not good enough to be treated like a gentleman here, I will take my lunch somewhere else in future.'

John Y. McIvank, the Democratic "boss of Coney Island," has been sentenced to serve six years at Sing Sing prison, because of election frauds com mitted last November. If a few more Democratic "bosses" from New York City were there honest men would shed no tears.

Eiiwaun Atkinson', the great apostle of free trade, and just now one of the leading Democratic lights, figures it out that workingmen can live on four teen cents a day. Workingmen all over the country should throw their hats for Atkinson!

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Pennsylvania held a special election yesterday for congressman-at-large Galusha A. Crow was the Republican candidate and the Wilson bill was rebuked by 150,000 majority.

CALJIOUNMSM STILL ALIVE. Speaking of Pennsylvania and the 175,000 plurality just received there by a Republican the Indianapolis .Vcir.v has this to say:

Her interest in the McKinley scheme is of the same character as was South Carolina's interest in slavery a generation ago.

The system of free trade in the United States had its origin in the State of South Carolina and was loved and nurtured there under the fostering care of John C. Calhoun, and to-day the rankest. meanest kind of free trade is known as "Calliounism." Curiously enough, this system was the outgrowth of the crime of slavery, as beggary is to-day the outgrowth of prospective free trade. The two systems are naturally found together. Either will beget the other. South Carolina favored free trade for the reason that she had to buy all her agricultural products from the North, and wanted to trade the products of her slave labor for manufactured articles made in England. The English manufacturers wanted to down the manufacturing interests of the North and induced the South to join them, and the alliance is stronger to-day than it was a generation ago. South Carolina, like England, has always labored under the false impression that this country should be wholly agricultural and trade such products for commodities manufactured abroad. Pennsylvania never did think so, and with no uncertain sound she still proclaims the idea of building up her resources for the benefit of her people, and her wealth to-day is fifteen times that of South Carolina. It is not a little amusing to see the News still gnawing at these old bones, though every election indicates the marrow g'etting thinner and thinner.

Had George Washington lived until Thursday he would have been one hundred and sixty-two years old, but he has been dead ninety-five years. The character of Washington stands among the great men of the world as a pure man, a patriot, a wise statesman, a citizen, a ruler, a husbandman, a General and a Christian. His life has bei written and commented upon by hundreds of writers. For more than a century the gaze of biographers, historians and critics have been upon him, but they have found no blot or flaw. Every boy and girl in the land should make his life and character a study. As the "Father of his Country," his memory will be venerated and his name will continue to grow in the affections of the people as long as the Republic endures.

That Republican majority in Pennsylvania is still growing. Yesterday it was 150,000. To-day it is 175.000. To-morrow it may be 200.000. Staid old Democratic counties yesterday for the first time in their history wheeled into the Republican column. The returns from Pennslyvania gave the Democrats in Congress the headache yesterday, and tliey were in bad humor all day both in the Senate and House.

Ik the Wilson act turns out to be as bad as the. country expects, it will be on the statute -book only three years, for the Republican President who takes his seat on March 4, 1897. will call the Republican Congress which comes into' existence at the same time in extra session to repeal the law. Rut if it should not be as bad as this it may live four years and be killed in the regular session.

Govkrnok McKinxkv voices the feeling of great multitudes of voters when he says:

The people are tired of this tarifftinkering-, bond-issuing, debt-increas-ing, treasury-depleting, business-para-lyzing, wage-reducing Queen-restor-ing Administration.

This expresses the situation in a nutshell.

Galusha A. Guow. who was elected as Congressman-at-Large from Pennsylvania on Tuesday by 175,000 majority was first elected to Congress in 1850, and was Speaker of the House from 1861 to 18t)3. Although 74 years of age he is a well preserved man and takes an active interest in public affairs.

What the Democratic party needs is a few more members like Gen. Sickles to interrupt its career of folly and mischief from time to time with candid and wholesome rebukes.

liUFKAI.O KIDUK.

Charles Goff is on the sick list. A bouncing boy at Charles Tiffany's. There are gypsies in our community. Nathan Riley is very low with lung trouble.

Protracted meeting began at Center church last week. The singing school at Elmdale closed last Monday night.

Carlton Moore and wife Sundayed with R. Vancleave. Mr. Foley attended singing at Elm dale last Friday night.

The protracted meeting at W'ingate will continue this week. The sound of sleigh bells were heard night and day last week.

Wint Swank will farm his father-in-law's farm next summer. Prof. Hicks has missed it on the weather. Come again Hicks.

Morris Beedle was in God's country last Sunday to see his best girl. Dr. Olin was in Crawfordsville last Thursday transacting business.

Joe Swank was at Newtown with friends the fore part of the week.

Christmas is Over And Trade is

Better Come and See Us. Strictly One-Price.

John P. Rible and family were the guests of G. W. Alexander Sunday. G. M. Housier and wife were the guests of G. W. Alexander last Thursday.

J. S. Goosie has come to spend the rest of the winter with James Rankins.

Winfield Palen is hauling his corn to Wingate on a contract of 30 cents per bushel.

The teachers of Coal Creek township held their Institute at Wingate last Saturday.

We received notice that John Wilson is married, but did not learn who the bride was.

There were eleven who tried the examination for graduation in Coal Creek township.

John Bible denies the charge of being one of the jurymen who didn't know the plaintiff from the defendants.

A prominent Democrat of Elmdadc made the statement that times were slowly, steadily and firmly advancing. We suppose he got the statement from the Slur.

The relatives and friends of Mrs. Ed. Goff met last Sunday to celebrate her l!5th birthday. There were about twenty guests who sat down to a table filled to the very edges with the most delicious fruits and cake, until it fairly groaned with its load. After this re past the guests returned home wishing Mrs. Goff many such happy birthdays.

DAIU.INGTON.

W. H. H. Smith is again on the road. Mrs. Eliza Custer lias moved to town. Rev. Stephens is assisting in the M. E. meetings.

Sam S. Martin was in Lafayette on Tuesday last. Dr. W. J. Owsley is moving into his new residence.

W. C. Woody will move his family to town next week. Naylor and McClaskey now play chess each and every day.

A lumber man from Frankfort was here this week selling lumber. About twenty of the boys attended the. K. of P. meeting in the city.

A man from Frankfort was here a few days ago trying to negotiate with Tom Campbell as to a hotel.

The firm of Cox X~. Faust have purchased a new ice box and meat counter and are other ways trying to keep up with the procession that is on the move here.

The meetings at the M. E. church are growing in attendance and interest under the charge of Rev. Worrell, and much good might be done if the brethren would give the assistance due anil needed.,

Ike Larrick has for years sold groceries and voted the Democratic ticket on the corner of Main and Madison streets in a dark, dingy room, but has now turned over a new leaf, hired a lady clerk. Miss Ilattie Naylor, and is now repainting, washing and cleaning up in general and will from and after this date furnish nice clean groceries at Democratic prices.

Tice and Mollie Hewitt agreed to disagree and live apart some three years ago, dividing their personal effects at the time, Tice shipping his allotment here to his father, where they now remain against the wishes of his late wife. Mollie. The case was tried and decided by a jury of six last Saturday in Esq. Armstrong's court on a writ of replevin sworn out by Mollie and assisted by Ab Austin of Thorntown, and a Mr. Hopkins, of Indianapolis, as attorneys. Hut Mike White took the Hewitt side and won on an easy gait.

I wish to remind the good people of Darlington that while we are in the throes of a great religious as well as temperance revival we have no hotel. Actions speak louder than words. Now as we have no accommodations for the outside world, be he friend or foe, they may skirmish around and get a meal, but where can they go to spend an hour? They receive no welcome at a business house, as they are not built that way, and they naturally turn to the saloon whose doors are always open and they are sure of a welcome there even if they do not spend a cent. Now if we cannot have a hotel let us at least have a room fitted up, supply the same with good books and papers, furnished in style enough to be at tractive let our own and our neighbors' boys learn to collect there. If we meet a stranger in town invite him in and make him welcome and see if at the end of one year you have not done more against the saloon trade than ever has been done by singing and signing. Yes, it will cost money. So does whisky. Money invested in this way will not net 8 per cent, in cash each year but may return an hundred fold in the years to come. Who will make the move?

COLFAX.

Subscribe for Thk Jouhnai.. Epwortli League on Monday nights. Walter Ewing's school closed 011 last Thursday.

Geo. Slaughter went to Indianapolis on Wednesday. Prof. Long was at Clark's Hill on Monday evening.

Tom Morgan went to Chicago Friday and came back Sunday. Willie McLear, of Thorntown, began schooling here on Monday.

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FAST MAIL.

Guy Evans is looking after a job. Albert Myers sports a double team. Mrs. Stewart is better at this writmg.

Ambustcr Williams is out of employment. Frank Gray is looking after the Dice estate.

The new doctor has bought a horse at last. John Morris is seen 011 our streets again.

Hill Thompson visited at Brown's Sunday. Hill Evans drives the finest team 011 the road.

Homer Stewart is interested in the Conner estate. The World's Fair scribe is allriglit, Mr. New Ross.

Old Uncle George Duke is very low at this writing. Homer Chambers will work for D. Remley this season.

The Parts Unknown scribe must be an old bachelor himself. A large crowd attedded the sab of Mr. Vancleave near Orth.

Ed Brown was hauling corn from his brother John's last week. OUic Brown and wife made good use of the snow sleigh riding.

Charley Rhoads says it is impossible for him to go with any girl. Wm. Chambers and family attended church at Orth Sunday night.

Frank Buchanan will hobble clods for Wm. Stewart next summer. Bill Conner says the items take his thoughts more than anything else.

There will be a meeting at Union Hill Sunday rr.orning and evening by Rev. Tate.

The dirt roads are in very bad condi tion. The County Commissioners ought to be called out.

Jim Buchanan will make molasses on a large scale the coming season. He will employ about 100 hands.

Marion Stewart started on the road last Monday. His first sale was 300 fiddle strings to Gilbert Gray and 81 worth of toothpicks to Lizzie. We wish him success.

Au Kditor's ltecommendutioii.

Mr. C. F. Davis, editor of the Bloomfield, Iowa, Former says:

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JEWELRY AUCTION.

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Monday Evening at 7:30 p. m.

Sales Each Day at 2 -p. m.t and 7 :jo -p. m.

Sales conducted by Mr. J. II. Harill, the well known jewelry auctioneer of Chicago, and everyone will bo treated with the utmost courtesy. 1 he ladies aspecially are invited to attend every sale Caairs will be provided and everything possible done to make these sales attractive.

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Protracted meeting commenced M. E. church 011 Sunday evening. There is talk of another masquerade social here after the meeting closes.

Rev. Martin, of Mulberry, will assist Rev. Smith in a series of meetings here. The Junior Epwortli League met in the M. E. church Saturday afternoon.

Jessie and Albert Dukes visited in Thorntown 011 Saturday and Sunday. Miss Nellie Watt, of Clark's Hill, was visiting her sister, Mrs. E. L. Darby, last weelc.

The. citizens here are trying to get up a petition to to stop the Rig I fast trains as they go through.

Mrs. Adam Hill, living east of here, had a stroke of paralysis not long since which paralyzed half of her body.

John Slieats. living east of here, had a stroke of paralysis Saturday, which made him unable to speak or move,the first part ol' the week.

F. M. Hewsey and wife issued invitations to the young people, asking the pleasure of their company to a social given at their home, east of here, last Tuesday evening. An enjoyable evening was spent.

Last Saturday night about 10 o'clock Chever Parser missed a horse and buggy which lie had lied to the hitch rack of this place while he was doing some trading. It was not known who the guilty party was. The next day it was leanied that Elmer Fleming was also •ising. It is not known but it is supposed that Elmer had concluded to •go" and just climbed in the buggy and drove off. Telegrams were sent to officers in adjoining towns to watch for the rig. On Monday evening word was received from Lebanon, stating that the horse and buggy had been found near that place. Mr. Parson went up Tuesday and brought the rig home. There is 110 clew to the thief, however, and it is supposed to be Elmer.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.

Diimont Kknnedv '•vill be a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for tho 2'2d Judicial Oiruit, composed ol Montgomery county, subject to the decision ol' the Republican convention.

Kinmsy P. Mount will be a candidate for Prosecutinir Attorney for the 'Z'Zd Judicial Circuit, composed of Montgomery county, subject, to the decision of tue itepublicau convention.

William M. Hkevks will be a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the 22nd udlcl&i Circuit composed of Montgomery county .subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTICE.

Danusl H. Gilkey will bo a candidate for Trustee of Union township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

William A. Hick, of North Union, will be a candidate for Trustee of Union township, subject to tho decision of tho itepublicau convention.

Ham D. Symmes will be a candidate for the nomination of Trustee of Union Township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

Capt.H H. Talbot will bo a candidate for Trustee of Union township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

Ei'iiriam E. Vanscoyoo will be a candidate for trustee of Union township subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

COUNTY TREASURER.

Jamks O. McCohmick, of Brown township, will be a candidate for Treasurer of Montgomery count.", subject to tho decision of the Republican convention.

William Johnson, of Scott township, will be a candidate for Treasurer of Montgomery county, subject to tho decision of the Republican convention.

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OTTCE OF DISSOLUTION NERSH1P.

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JlOn account of continued ill health of Mrs Arch Martin the firm of Tinsley & Martinis this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts and notes due said tlrm and all claims against said firm will be settled by either at the old stand. Mr. H. R. Tinsley will continue tlie busluess at the same place. We thank the public and all our friends for their trade duting the past twenty years, and hope the same will be continued. With Mr. linsiey and his able assistants, who will try and please all our friends and the public in general as heretofore, and by fair dealing, good goods and lowprices will merit tho trade.

Feb. 10. 1804. H. R. TIN'LK'i ARCH MARTIN. The style and name of the new firm will be H. R. Tinsley & Co. '„'-8w3t.