Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 April 1894 — Page 7

AN INCOME TAX. Beaton* in ltd Furor Extract* front Con* ffressman Hall’* Article. The following are extracts from Uri^ S. Hall’s article in the March Forum: “The wealthy classes of the eastern states, who are now opposing us in the enactment of this bill, are embarrassing the best friends of a peaceful government The principle that the wealth of this country should help to bear the burden of national taxation is too well settled by logic, by authority and by experience to justify extended argument now. Too often already hare ntembers of this congress tcea waffifid that, whenever the richer class should be asked to share the burdens of government, they, prompted by avarice, would denounce the suggestion. It is their position, not mine, that needs defence. 1 “In a recent speech in the house of representatives, 1 said: " ‘Were I called upon to frame a law that would keep down demagogy, that would take the last grain of justice from the conglomerate mass of populistic heresies, it would be an income tax law.’ I sincerely feel that ev^ry word I said was true. Under our tariff system its burdens are put upon con

sumption (the necessaries of life that the poor must have or perish), and a poor man with a wife and five children Is forced to pay out of his small income % larger sum for the support of the government than is the average man of, great wealth with a small family. “All the greatest authorities on taxation say that the subject of a nation should be taxed to support that nation according to their ability, not according to the seetiob in which they live; recognizing that we should all be common bearers and common supporter- of & common country, ignoring sectionfdism. “Senator John Sherman, in a speech | delivered in the United States senate, March 13, 1881, used the following language: ** ‘The public mind is not yet prepared to apply the key of a genuine revenue reform. A few years of further experience will convince the whole body of our people that a system of national taxes which rests the whole burden of taxation on consumption, and not one cent on property or income, is intrinsica(ly unjust “ ‘While the expenses of the national government are largely caused by the protection of property, it is but right to call property to contribute to its payment It will not do to say that each person consumes in proportion to his means. That is not true. Every , one must see that the consumption of the rich dot's not bear the same relation to the consumption of the poor, as the income of the rich does the wages of the poor. As wealth accumulates# this injustice in the fundamental basis of our system will be felt and forced upon the attention of congress.’ “Thorold Rogers says: ‘Taxation itf proportion to benefits received is” sufficiently near the truth for the practical operations of government’ Rousseau and Mira beau, J. B Say and Gamier, have approved of this system, while SiSmondi, in laying dotvn his canons of taxation, declares that “every5 tax should fall on revenue, not capital.’ and that ‘taxation should never touch what is necessary for the existence of the contributor.’ Join Stuart Mill declares that ‘equality of taxation, as a maxim of politics, means equality of sacrifice’ “If this income tax bill is defeated one will be passed in the near future that will be far wider-reaching and involving far greater danger of injustice toward wealth.”

THE TRUST AT, WORK. fh« Sugar Syndicate Bound to Have Its Found of Flesh. A small map of this large country is distributed gratuitously where it is expected to serve its purpose best, with the jompliments of Delgaco & Co- It is instructive in various ways, besides being1 in some respects picturesque It shows how all roads lead to the sugarcane fields of Louisiana. An explanatory remark in manuscript states that it shows how “other sections” will be “effected” by the murder of the sugar industry "by the Wilson bill as.it now stands- ” Upon its face are depicted numerous trains of cars said to be loaded, some with fruit from California, others with meat from the wild west, others with •oil and coal from Pennsylvania, others with grain from various section, others with manufactures of different kinds from the east, others with cow peas from the Caroltnas, rthd so on, all destined to the cane-fields of Louisiana. Besides the trains there are vessels on the exaggerated bosom of the Mississippi, on the gulf and on the Atlantic careering majestically toward the same destination. The inference suggested is that if the cane-growing industry should be slain by the Wilson bill all this commerce would cease, and all sections of the country would be involved in the Louisiana ruin, even as the Philistines perished with Samson when that mighty man pulled down the pillars of the temple. A summary statement in the margin conveys the information that the total • value af the cominodites shipped annually to the cane fields from all parts of the country is $29,910,000, and that those fields yield $25,000,000 worth of products. It follows that the fields do not produce enough to pay for what they get from other parts of the country, the deficit being $4,910,000 annually. This is an instructive exhibit It # would be more so if accompanied by an explanation of the way in which this deficit is made good. Perhaps it is not •made good. In that case the loss mustfall upon the people of other sections who supply the beef, wheat, oil, mules, cows, peas and other things, an£ the trade might better be destroyed than not The further information is imparted th$t the $25,000,000 worth of cane products support 000,000 people. That gives each of them $41.66.%’ annually for support This also is instructive. It shows at'once how unprofitable the aane growing industry is, and how lit*

tl i it takes to support a person in south* cm Louisiana. The point of it all is that a bounty of 2 cents a pound must be kept up or the market for $-29,910,000 worth of products from all parts of the country will be destroyed. Calling 25 per cent of that st m profits, which is a liberal allow* ance, the entire profit of this trade would be $7,477,500. But the bounty last year exceeded$10,090,000 a year for trade yielding a profit of less than $7,« 500,000. The people would be better oif to let the trade go and keep in their pockets what they pay as bounty to the cane growers. But there is no danger of losing the trade. The people of Louisiana cay produce less sugar if they get no boun* ty, but they,will produce more cotton, more rice P.nd rw of various other things. They arc not obliged to Stop producing if the bounty is stopped They will produce about as much as ever and will be able to buy about as much from the people of other sections. There will be about the same trade and the same profit, and the bounty will be saved to taxpayers. ^-Chicago Herald. OPPOSING ‘ FREE^ COAL. Why Certain Senators AreSln Favor of k t Tax. The objections raised by a few senators against certain important parts of the Wilson bill’s free list have a very flimsy foundation or no foundation whatever. There is not the slightest warrant, for example, for an argument J against the removal of the duty on bituminous coal, in behalf of flrodu^ers I of such coal in the interior o. the coun

try and west of the Alleghantes. Wo received yesterday from Knoxville, Tenn., a copy of certain resolutions signed by twenty-five coal companies whose mines are situated in Tennessee or Kentucky. These resolutions urge the senate “to retain the tariff on coal, is order that the mining and manufacturing industries of our respective states may continue their prosperity and be further developed, instead of being sacrificed for tlie special benefit ■of foreign coal and iron producers. We further protest,” say these coal companies, "“against the destruction of an investment of at least $10,000,000, and the reducing of our labor to the impoverished standard of that of other countries.” * It is upon such protests as this that a part fef the opposition to the free-list-ing of coal is based, and yet the removal of the duty would not have the slightest injurious effect upon the industry in Kentucky and Tennessee. It would not reduce the value of that investment of $10,000,000, nor would it; cut down the wages of the miners. This talk about labor in the resolutions, by the way, is rather amusing in view of the fact that the attention oli ’the whole country has repeatedly been drawn by bloody riots to the employment of convict labor in the mines of that region. The only effect of the removal of the duty iveuld be to relieve manufacturers on the Pacific coast of the tax which they now pay on coal which they are obliged to import from British Columbia and Australia, and to enable New England manufacturers to procure a part of their supply from Nova Scotia. These results of the change would not affect the producers of coal in Kentucky and Tennessee. They would not even affect the producers of coal in the region lying between these states and the Canadian boundary, for therd were exported last year from the coal mines of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio into Canada 988.605 tons of bituminous coal, in spite of the Canadian duty of 60 cents a short ton. Even with this protection Nova Scotia cannot compete in the central provinces of Canada with coal imported from the states we have mentioned. We are not sure that a part of this coal exported into Canada was not shipped from the mines of some of these very companies in Kentucky and Tennessee that address this silly protest to the senate. The only opposition to free coal for which there is the slightest excuse of any kind is that of one or two senators who are pecuniarily interested, or who are associated with capitalists who are so interested. in two or three railroad and mining companies which are now engaged in shipping coal from West Virginia and Maryland to New England, and the manufacturers of New England and the Pacific coast ought not to be taxed heavily for the benefit of their pockets.—N. Y. Times.

The Income. Tax. The senate will bring itself much nearer to the people by a prompt majority for the income tax.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. The proposed assessment on incomes for raising revenue for the government would be a rich man’s tax.—Toledo News. The eastern democrats will have a larger responsibility in defeating the tariff bill with the income-tax measure attached than they would have in opposing the income tax as a separate measure.—Atlanta Constitution. The question has been raised as to how the imposition of an income tax will affect the conduct of impecunious foreigners seeking the hands and fortunes of American heiresses. This is a patter worthy of congressional investigation.—Detroit Free Press. A fairly laid ineeme tax is the most just tax that can be levied by the government Who has a greater interest in the execution of laws for the protection of property than the rich man with a big income, and who is better able to pay for the protection he gets than such a man?—Fort Collins Courier. The people are becoming very tired of seeing all the national revenues raised by taxes on consumption, so that an income cf *1,000.000 a year pays its percentage only on what one man eats and drinks and wears, while a thousand incomes of ¥1.000 each pays on all that a thousand families eat and drink and wear.—San Francisco Examiner. _ —It will be noticed that the manufacturers who reduce the pay of their employes “on account of the Wilson bill” always forget to reduce the prices of their products This is the McKinley idea of protection to American labor.— World. ' (

FARM AND GARDEN. CARTS WITH BARREL. Two Strict Which Con Be Et«U]T Constructed at Home. 51 A subscriber asks how a cart can be cons tructed so that a barrel of slop can be di-awn about by hand. We illustrate herewith two such devices. No 1 is made as follows: For the axle use 2x2 or 2x3 inch pieces of white oak pr othe r hard wood, upon which fit cultivator or other wheels which may be at ham . To this gxle fasten two handles, ♦root plow handles will answer. At A distance from the axle a little less than the * iameter of the barrel at the middle, jolt a 3x2 thus forming a square in

SLOP CARTS WITH BARREL. which the barrel is placed and will remain firmly upright. If after a time the barrel seems inclined to slip down, this may be prevented by putting on a couple ' of cleats. Legs are put on wheelbarrow fashion merely for support, In No. 2 the barrel is so placed as to more nearly balance First make a square by firmly mortising together four 2x4-inch timbers the desired length. To put on the wheels bore holes in the side pieces about the middle of each and in these insert pieces of hiekory shaped to fit? the opening in the wheel hub. Bolt handles to this, put on legs and braces and the cart is complete. In making both these carts they must be so constructed as to permit the barrel bottom to be several inches from the ground, but not so high as to make it difficult to remove the slop with a paii An old kerosene or vinegar barrel with the head removed and used as a cover serves very well. It is not necessary to use plow handles, but they are the best. Ordinary straight pieces of lumber with the one end slightly rounded off will do. The size of the square, length of the axle, etc., will depend upon the barrel to be used. —Orange Jude* Farmer.

HOME DAIRY PRODUCT. Unless It Is of the Best There Is No Profit In It- * la the fight against oleo every dairyman has a part to perform. Not the least of this wi|h many dairymen is the improvement of their own product. Oleo advocates claim, not without some show of reason, that oleo finds ready sale because there is so much poor butler on the market. Oleo, flavorless, or nearly so, colored and put up in attractive form in imitation of the choicest butter, is fraudulently offered to consumers as butter. Thinking that it is butter, consumers buy it in preference to genuine butter that is off flavor. For months past, during the lowest business depression ever known, choice dairy products have brought remunerative prices. What stronger inducements than good prices and fair profits are needed „to encourage improvement in the quality of the product of the farm dairy? Better care of the cows, better methods of handling the milk, cream and butter will make the desired improvement, and they are within the reach of every butter-maker. Improved dairy apparatus saves time and labor and makes it comparatively easy to turn out a gilt-edged product. There is no profit now in,any thing else. There are profits in making choice butter.—Farm and Fireside.

. Gardening by Electricity. By the use of electric light Hon. W. W. RawsoQt of Arlington, Mass., claims that he makes a gain of five days in each of his three crops of lettuce —that is, two weeks in a season—that the gain on one crop pays all the expenses of the electric lighting for the season, thus givihg him the gain on the other two for extra profit. His attention was first called to the usefulness of the light by the advance made in the growth at the ends of his greenhouses next the street and in the glare of the electric light. This was so marked that he introduced the light through his lettuce and cucumber houses. Dr. Bailey, of Cornell university, says as the result of his own experiments that the influence of the light fs greatly modified by the interposition of a glass root Plants injured by a naked light were benefited by the protected light. Five hours’ light per night at a distance of twelve feet hastened maturity a week or ten days, but proved injurious to young plants and those newly transplanted. Cows Need Frequent Watering. It is the almost universal practice among dairymen in this country tc turn their cows out to drink once a day. They say the cow can then drink all she needs until the next day. My word for it, it can’t be done, says an east* ern writer. Their actions and appetites show very plainly to anyone who will take the trouble to test their drinking apparatus that they need water oftener than once a day. Please Note the Contrast. It is said that a ton can be moved on ti good, level macadam road with but forty pounds of power. There are times when it would take four-horse j ower to move a ton on (or in) the mud road.—Agricultural Epitomist

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FOREIGN STATISTICS. The yearly salary of the president of Mexico is $30,000. A maid of honor to Queen Victoria receives $1,500 a year and has thirteen weeks of attendance at court. Ax enumeration of the population of Aggershuus, Norway, in 1763 showed that 150 couples had been over eighty years married. Insurance statistics have shown that in England, if the wife dies first, the husband survives nine years; while, if the husband dies first, the wife survives eleven years. According to official statistics recently published, 8,510 persons died in Germany during the last cholera epidemic; 7,614 of these deaths occurred in the city and state of Hamburg. There were 892*deaths in Prussia. The metropolitan and city police districts of London, according^ to Whittaker’s Almanac for 1894, cover an area of 443,421 acres with a population of 5,633,803. The total length patroled by the police reaches 8,860 miles. GEMS OF THOUGHT.

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As a shell has struck before you hear the report of the, gun, so Slander does its fatal work before the calumniator can be located. When' a speaker has a whole train of thought it takes him some time to unload,— Cleveland Plamdealer.

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