Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

With free raw materials for ship building, the American merchant marine will be re-established and and the United States will again come to the front as a leading mar* atime power Ship building will again become a leading industry that will give employment to thousands of men.

Replying to some frivolous objections to the proposed levy on large incomes, the .N Y. World forcibly remarks: “An income tax is not even a tax on capital. It is a tax on superfluous accumulation, which does not touch capital at all, or in any way cripple industry. It is nothing more than a fair dis* tribution 01 the burdens of govs ernment among citizens, according to the ability of each to pay, and according to the gains each makes under the protection of government It is theony tax which does not and cannot in any degree impoverish tne men who pay it. It is *he only one which in no degree abridges any man’s enjoyment of the necessaries of life, the only tax that fal s exclusively upon superfluities and not very heavily even upon them.”

On the other hand, an exchange well says: “A tariff is the woist kind of class legislation. It selects the man who has a home, wife and children, and charges Mm a big price for being a Useful member of society and for rerring new citizens to contribute to the vigor of the nation. The more he does tor the general good in private l'fe the more the nation expects from him as a taxpayer. JJJhe more comforts he provides for liis young citizens, the more tenderly he smooths the road of life for the woman he has wooed and won, the more he must surrender to the federal treasury.”—Or, let us add, 10 the monopolies, trusts and combines.