Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — TAX INCOMES. [ARTICLE]

TAX INCOMES.

With cheerful hypocrisy t lie j republican tax tinkers under; the lead of Dingley assert tha„; t ey are going to re rain from i taxing the necessities of lile. | Coffee and tea, therefore, have been exempted, and so also have incomes. Rich men are fii mly convinced that their incomes, ranging fiom a thousand dollars a day down to five thousand dollars a yoar,are absolute “neecessities or me. Dingley and the republican administration agree with the rich men, and what have the masses to say when their case has been amply looked aft or by the omission of coffee and tea from the tax list? During the war between the states incomes vvere. taxed.— It had not been discovered then by one member of the supreme Court that an income tax was “unconstitutional.”— There has be n no change in the constitution in this particular matter since those da s Put tlieie have been changes in the supreme Court. Are men’s lives cheaper in tiie eyes of the supreme court judges than men’s dollars? if a man may be f reed to face the rifles of Spain without an infraction of the constitution of the Uni.ed States, may not a maids dollars, especially those that are received by him in the way of an income, be forced to aid in the battles against Spain?

There is an income law on the s ati te books—that of ’94 —which has never been repealed. Tale the question once more before the supreme Court. Let a new hearing be li d. Perhaps the judges may now think it constitutionalAt any rate, the judges might rejoice at an opportunity to go on record once mo -e in regard; to this important matter Are the masses to pay a 11 th cost of t bs war, and ar ■ the rich to escape their fair share of the burden? .