People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — THE INCOME-TAX DECISION. [ARTICLE]

THE INCOME-TAX DECISION.

The Arrogance and Insolence of Plutoerecy. The income-tax decision of the Supreme court is one more step in the direction of our growing American plutocracy. The great struggle between plutocracy and democracy is now on, and the battle is being fiercely waged. A majority of the leading politicians and the rich fashionable churches, backed by the military and the courts, are arrayed on the side of the money power, and while this decision goes far to protect and build up the greatest menace to liberty, of ancient or modern times, it will prove at the same time the entering wedge which will destroy plutocracy. It has grown arrogant and insolent, it has thrown off all disguise, and from this on the issue is clearly defined. The question is, Bhall those who produce the wealth of this nation enjoy the fruits of their labor, or must they toil in poverty while the favored few absorb their earnings. Plutocracy has forced this issue, and is hastening to swift destruction, and all the courts in the land cannot check the rising tide. M. W. HOWARD. 29 Park Row, New York city.