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INCOME Til-Coasti- j ill Aieiteii; (Continued tnun page 1.) •while not only the life and liberty of the latter is sheilded by the Government, but his .broad acres and long lines of fac tories ate mole secure by the courts ami great armies. The dormer costs the Government while upon the latter it .oftimes spends thousands of dol lars. In time of war, the former .hares his brest as a target to the enemy, while the latter hires a substitute and hikes away to the mountains of Switzerland. But, Mr. Speaker, the boldest .declaration in opposition to the income tax yet heard comes from the distinguished gentleman from Massac by setts [Mr. McCall], It is indeed hard to .understand how a statesman pos sessing bin known intellectuality .could advocate such a political principle as to.oppose this meas ure upon the grounds that it is violative Of the principles upon which the Government was founded, 110 discussed at length the proposition that the fathers of the Republic, to make secure iPemocfatic equality among the estates, intended that when a di rect tax was levied, it should be apportioned amoung the several States according to their popula tion. This doctrine might have appealed to reason at a time when the pro rata wealth of the States was practically equal. Had the framers of the Constitu tion known that the present policy of spoliation and greed -would have been so long saddled t-upon the country, that one State would have been drained of its -wealth to enrich another, I dare say that ntrsuch provision would have been in the Federal Consti tution. Can anyone believe for a moment that when our patriotic forefathers founded this Republic They thought that tfi e time would ever come when, by a system of unjust taxation, the .jier capita wealth of Massachu setts would be increased to more than £1.500, while that of Missis sippi would be reduced to less than $l5O, or t that they intended that the individual owning £l6O should be forced to contribute as fnuch to the'support of the Gov ernment as one owning $1,500? In the light of these facts, any one who now advocates a direct sax levied on the several States according to the population there of exemplifies a statesmanship js tyrannical as it is indefensi ble. .„ i Sir, there is another reason •why system of taxa tion by States should and must be forever abandoned. When the Constitution was adopted our ■vast negro population was in slavery was pot counted as a -basis upon which this tax should -be levied against any State. Now there are more than six millions -*>f them in the Gulf States alone vtnade citizens by the Constitution ;nd who, however penniless they may be, must be counted in esti mating: ,the population any .State against wljich a direct tax i* sought to he levid. Such a .system of taxation would force the white property owners of the South to contribute ten times as much a* those living in other aactious of the Union. We aboil Id remember that since the adoption of the Constitution many changes have taken place in thi Republic. -fins system of was adopted to make Blteadrast the doctrine of state Kwreignty. Bipt the integrity ff state hood was partly destroyed by the results of,the civil war, and now it has hpen completely annihilated by liepnblican exe cutive and judicial encroach mentupon the Constitution. At One time the fjniyn existed by the grace of the States. Now. the States suyyiye; by the m**rc of the Federal Government. The States were the source of all power, but now they have been reduced to I mere boroughs in the great federal system. Sir, if your party will give back to the South the constitutional privileges she enjoyed fifty years ago, and I do not mean African slavery either; if you will give her the right to admin ! ister her own affairs unhampered and j unmolested by the usurpations of the | Federal Government; if you will give her back that system of tariff taxation under which she grew rich and powerful, I dare say that but few statesmen from the South would op pose the present constitutional provi sions as to direct taxation. [Applause.] Mr. Speaker, however much I may favor this measure and however much I may advocate the corporation ' tax now pending in the conference i committee, still I must confess that I ! am at a loss to know how either! measure is going to profit the great masses of people in this country, un less the tax burden imposed by the tariff is decreased in proportion to the amount of revenue .derived by the in come and corporation taxes. My idea of an income tax has always been that its adoption would relieve the necessity for high tariff taxes, and un less it accomplishes this purpose, in my judgement, but little good can or will come to the masses of the peo ple. If the rich are to be taxed by these measures to run the Govern ment, and the poor are to be taxed by high protection to enrich the man ufacturers and trusts, then, in the flame of reason, what good can you expect from -this legislation? The income tax is right, ; and it is the only fair means to raise revenue to run the Government, and, when it is adopt ed, it is to be hoped that the Ameri can people will rise in rebellion against your infamous protective sys tem, which is designed for no other purpose than to enrich the rich. The proposed tariff measure is the lirni 1 of high protection, and yet you say it will not produce sufficient revenue for the Government. In this contention you are correct, and the reason for it is as plain as the noonday sun. You have taxed everything out of the country by high schedules. Scarcely i anything is imported, and hence the Government gets nothing, while the manufacturer puts the full amount of the tax in his private purse. It is conceded by the best authority on this subject that if you will reduce your tariff schedules one-half, the Government will receive twice the revenue therefrom, and the people wdll be releived of a tax burden for the benefit of the manufactureres and trusts to the extent of not less than 87,000,000,000. Then, Mr. Speaker, there is an other thought. Ihe reckless extrav agance in the appropriations under she Republican rule is appalling to the Nation. In the last decade it has al most doubled, amounting to quite a billion of dollars annually. By ,your j reekless extravagance you have in creased the burden of taxation so greatly that your most experienced financiers in this House are at a loss to devise ways and means for the maintenance of the Government. You are levying the highest tariff tax known to the world. Ihe corpora | tion tax and the income, tax, if adopt ed, together with the increase of the internal-revenue tax, will, in the judgment of many of your own party, , be necessary to meet the growing ex | Ponses of the Government. It is al | ready noised in the atmosphere that , two or three hundred millions of dol lars of Panama bonds will have to be sold to fill the already empty coffers ' of the Government. Mr. Speaker, when your party took control of this Government it took Jess than $100,000,000 to defray its annual expenses. From official sta tistics we learn that' in 1860 there was appropriated *71,718,943. In 1880 it was increased to $298,163, 117, In 1900 it amounted to $590, 068,371; in 1907, $762,488,752! And it continues to increase, it now being a billion dollars or more. These startling figures unfold the story of your reckless extravagance. Now, sir, is it not time for the peo ple to become alarmed? Is it not time for your party tg be dethroned and for the party of the people to take charge of the Government, in order to sate it from the maelstrom of bankruptcy and ruin? Another decade of power by the Republican party means the indissoluble union be tween the Government and the trusts. It means that centralized wealth will | subordinate every function of the Government to the behests of avarice. This is as plainly written upon the destiny of this country, unless there I be a radical change, as was the hand -1 writing upon the wall of the Baby lonian palace. Onward we are rush ing to a national crisis. The same i evil winds that wafted the shipwreck ! ed republics of the past are fast swel ! ling our sails. [Applause.] I The SPEAKTR. The gentle ; man's time has expired. 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