Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1898 — WAR REVENUE. [ARTICLE]

WAR REVENUE.

War with Spain, which seems i. evitable, says the Chicago Dispatch, will make the raising of a great revenue on the cart of the United States imperative Shall this revenue be secured by taxing the necessities of Jiff ? That has been the pel cy of this government in the past. Is it to be the policy in the future? Great as has beeu tne burden of taxation, the piospect is that it will of necessity become much greater Congress should endeavor to discover some method of semiring revenue that sliall not lax to the last de gree the necessities of life. In regard to methods of securing funds with which to pay the exueuses of the government Engs land is fav more enlightened than th United States. In contrasting the English and the American method the New York Word says “Note these items it Great Britain’s net iucome from tax tion last year: Inheritance taxes 875,000,000 Stamps 38,000,000 Income tax 86,000,000

“All of item 3 —mak.'ng together more Limn one-L ml of the t'tal—come out of. superfluity... Fu-itnei, Great Britain rased in taxes upon imports and in excises both levied wholly pou luxu y r r superfluity.. no less than $27» 000,000. Alin st none of h rvast revenue came from the c ut-ump-*ion of necessity and comfort-’’ Nov/ when the sul jeot of t.*xato is to be Drought before congiess with especial emphasis, there -diould be made an earnest ttenapt to prepare a income fax law-that wdi be held constitutional by the Supreme Gourt. It is not fail, nor is ir, wise statesmanshio, to tax tie consumers of this country and to allow flic rich men who enjoy splendid incomes to escape enrry ing their honest share of ihe burden. Those who are able to pay taxes should be required to pay then ; those who ate least able should n A Do nnv’e to • uTVr. ‘ iho 1 eusceit er Journal.”

(Successor to People's Pilot.) Such is the am ouncement over the fir t column, fourth page, of the Rensselaer Journal. “Lei” must now take down that “figu ehead.” The eo-~a led Rensselaer Democrat, which made its first ap pe ranc on Fi iday of Jas. w<ek is the only “trooly Joil” and genuine ‘successor to People’s Pilot, Its ma agement, D W. Shields et al.,..the ndorsementof the mortgage which incumbers the ti tle outfit. In the Pilot, D. Vv. Srielas et. al. were stockholders, direct rs etc. See? Then the action of a leading populist, a shareholder, etc., in the Pilot, late deceased, in disco:,ti uing his support of the Journal, Wednesday, makes it moie plaini / evid nt that the Journal is not the legitim ate “succtssor to People’s Pilot.” Take it down, ‘Lei!’