Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — Taxing Wealth. [ARTICLE]

Taxing Wealth.

What militant Democracy can accomplish is shown by the vote in the house of representatives on the bill taxing incomes of partnerships and individuals. Every Democrat recorded himself in its favor, and only fofty-one Republicans, nearly all of them from the far east, ventured to vote (against it.

Yet this measure was fought to the last by the principal leaders and newspapers of the Republican party. To judge by the expressions of the usual spokesmen for plutocracy and privilege, no Republican in good standing would favor it. When it came to the test, however, only 41 out of 162 stood fast. - •'

This bill taxes property and substance, hot need and use. It makes wealth pay, not poverty. It levies on abundance rat heir than on scarcity. Some day the principle which it embodies will prevail everywhere.