Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1909 — SENATOR EXTOLS COL. ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

SENATOR EXTOLS COL. ROOSEVELT

Says Ex-President Created the Present fi. 0. P. TALKS ABOUT INCOME TAX Borah Declares Present Occupant of the White House Told the People It Would Be His Aim to Have Adopted a Provision Which Would Get Around the Rulings of the Supreme Court—Quotes Speech Made by Taft. Washington, May 4. — During his speech on the income tax in the senate, Senator Borah referred to former President Roosevelt as having shaped the destinies of the Republican party. “No man,” he declared, “is politically so short-sighted or politically so blind as the man who thinks the steamer Hamburg carried away the policies, the principles, the public interest, the aroused public conscience and the searching public concern which this remarkable man bequeathed to his countrymen.” Borah quoted President Taft’s speech favoring an income tax. “Does the senator believe,” Senator Sutherland asked, “that President Taft believed in the constitutionality of the income tax law—in other words that he believed that the law pronounced unconstitutional by the supreme court was in fact constitutional?” “I only know,” responded Borah, “that he said he was in favor of an income tax which could be drawn to be made constitutional.” Referring to Andrew Carnegie's statement that an income tax would encourage perjury, Borah said: “Mr. Carnegie did not make the Republican party and I wish I was just as sure that the Republican party did not make Mr. Carnegie.”