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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGU5. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1013.
SENATOR LEWIS' REPLY
T0SENAT0R ROOT
(Continued fror Page Tw1t.)
ct government such proportion at the
Incomes bear to the wealth ot the
country. And why? Why. Mr. Presi
dent, there is a rumor In the air here
and there, sometimes voiced by the
distinguished senator from Massachu
setts (Mr. Lodge) whose erudite learn-
fing Is always a source of joy and a
tribute to the body in which he sits.
( that Mexico broods for the moment in
"the shadow or serious conflict with the
United States.
In such an hour, sir. If war should
be declared in this country, whom will
we find rushing to this capital, through
their emissaries, asking for the protec
tion for their wealth by the bayonet
and gun, demanding to be barricaded
In safety by the lives of the sons of the
republic? Whom shall we see rushing
to the government asking that navies
be put out to the waters bordering
their possessions to protect them de
manding that they may be fortified
with protecion in every wi6e, safe
. against all assault?
Tt will be these delectable gentle
men who for a while linger in Ameri
ca, absent from the polling booths,
their names seldom seen upon the tax
collector's list, while they flit from
here toEurope, and there in their lux
urious yachts or in speeding joy auto
mobiles ensconce themselves along
the Riviera in the Mediterranean in
the winter or in the mountain fastness
of pleasure resorts in the summer.
Th'se who contribute little to this
government and yet who would de
rrand promptly that every man of the
poor who could give his life from the
farm, the factory, and In the mill
Fhall be summoned to die to save their
wealth from the assault of those who
intrude upon the nation or threaten it
with invasion. It is such as these who
will be found crying for the navies
with their gallant men to go out upon
the broad seas with their batteries to
fcavo them and theirs. Yet, sir, shall
it be said that the "Senator's people"
shall not be taxed because, forsooth,
tliey are able to pay and are his
chosen people? Shall they be exempt
because they will not be able to swear
off the tax upon the one hand or swin
dle the collection of it on the other?
The time has not come, I say, speak
ing for myself, when the democracy
of this country will tako anv man's
property because he is r'ich; but it
will allow no rich man's property to
escape its just burden because it is
wealth and its owner powerful. The
doctrine of democracy, sir, is not that
we make war against wealth for that
it is wealth. The theory of democracy
inn be well stated: We do not make
illegal war against legal wealth, but
we do make lpgal war against illegal
wealth. Thero we utand. If these
privileged and superior gentlemen for
whom the senator elects only to speak
are those who feel that they will have
tills government to protect -them, that
tliey will have this government to sus
tain them in the possession of their
riches, that tliey will have this govern-!
inent send its young sons to death to I
save them and their wealth, then, sir,
I demand that they shall contribute
to help to build the navy, to maintain
the army, to save the honor of the na
tion of which they are a part and many
of them so little credit
The senator speaks of "my people."
I would invite to his respectful con
sideration the fact that my observa
tions through New York are those
which would apply in any-tate of
tliis Union. There is the burdened I
farmer bending in toil during the heat
of the day, w ith his blistered hands
and bowed body, striving for a mere
existence, lie pays his tax ot from
100 to 200 per cent upon the mere
necessities of life, ostensibly in order
to maintain a government, but really
to give fortunes to these for whom
the scntaor speaks as "my people."
There is the" toiler in the milt, the
man In the factory, and the man in
the workshop, all with small wages,
all these being constantly reduced in
' their possessions andwhose substance
is being consumed for the mere privi
lege of living. This man he, too, pays
tho tax 'and also bears the burden of
the tax that is evaded by those who
nre the senator's "people." Why, then,
shall not they the senator's "people"
be forced to pay a little out of that
which they filch from others and as
sist to maintain the government which
protects their wealth which they now
seek to have shielded and exempted
from any responsibility.'
The senator says "my people" wilj
have to pay the tax. What law is there
here which specifically applies the in
come tax provision to New York only?
Where are there any people who will
escape? The tax Is paid by all those
with incomes exceeding $3,000, wheth
er tliey are in the imperial state of
Illinois or the splendid state of New
York, whether in a state demeaned by
the poor representation I may give my
stato or honored by the magnified
position the distinguished senator
gives his. None escape. All, I say to
the distinguished senator, wherever
they are. from ice-bound Alaska to
the tropical rones of Torto Rico and
the Philippine Islands; from the fields
of toil, w here they garner the grain in
sadness; in the machine shops; In the
factories, where the lives of the little
ones are ground out in order that from
their sacrifices privilege may coin
money for "his people." Sir, I answer,
they are all our people, these poor and
broken lives spent with toil, and it is
for these I speak. It is. for these all
of us should speak.
New York Is a great state. Her im
perlal magnificence I certify. The
grandeur of her position in the repub
lic I am delighted to admit. The no
ble statesmanship evidenced by every
declaration on the part of the dis
tinguished senator, that, too, I pay
tribute to. But I can not permit the
doctrine to go out that the democracy
is pausing for a moment to listen to
the direction of the distinguished sen
ator from New York as to how "his
people," limited by Wall street la the
daytime and the Waldorf-Astoria ho
tel at nlghtlme or capering upon the j mm
shores of the distant seas of pleasure 1 1
or amidst the allurements of the tropic
isles, shall be exempted from the just
burdens of taxation because, forsooth,
these select few he has selected as
only "his people."
As far as I am concerned, sir, I say
I cannot see how such a doctrine can
have place in a legislative hall where
the doctrine is the law, just the law
that equal law that applies to all
mankind. Mr. President, it is remem
bered that Sir James Mcintosh, In a
very celebrated utterance, exclaimed
In that certain great assemblage:
"My lords, give me emi justice.
With that, all things will be equal and
just, and to all men. Deny it, and
liberty will be deprived the humble,
and not a crown in Britain safe from
revolution."
No people, Mr. President not the
imperial state of New York, w ith its
pretensions, nor any other has a
right to come Into this chamber
through the voice of any man, how
ever distinguished, and demand, be
cause they are that which they are,
that they shall be exempt from paying
their debts to' humanity. If th people
of New York have been enabled, by
any manipulations of any legal policy
on the one hand, or any machinations
of financial trickery on the other, to
gather together the money of the peo
ple throughout all the great West, for
which I honor myself in speaking, and
have been able through these means
not only to amass it but to hide it
within their coffers, away from the
eyes of the tax-administering officers
of the law, then let them understand
there will be a method obtained In this
government by which it will be Justly
reached. If the states have failed to
do their duty, as the senator well said
In his splendid speech, lately referred
to, no state has been more marked in
that peculiar violation of democracy
than the state of New York. It was
no doubt because it did fail to do its
duty In collecting its personal tax that
here arose just such sentiment
throughout this country, crying out
for the very retaliation against which
the senator now begs salvation. I join
him in his now adopted theory of gov
ernment There is no hour In this
country, under a constitutional gov
ernment, when any true citizen can
give his approval to the doctrine that
merely because a man is rich he shall
be assailed and his possessions taken
from him by any policy or process of
confiscation. There is no place In this
land for creed or statesman whose
theory is that because another man
prospers he shall be destroyed.
THFl 93,000 EXEMPTION.
The senator says this exemption of
$3,000 means the exemption of all of
the people in the West and putting the
burden upon "his people." Why?
There must be some form of exemp
tion. Shall I assure the senator that
he did not pause in his usual judgment
to reflect on the reason of that exemp
tion? The exemption 6f $3,000 is not
put in this bill in order to give a man
$3,000; but since the senator admits
the equity of the principle that there
should be an exemption, claiming
$1,000 as proper, I answer him, then,
if any exemption is equitable, the ex
emption should be just such an
amount as is necessary to the main
tenance of the individual for his mere
living. This in order that he may not
be doubly taxed. It is upon that great
army of unfortunate citizens unfor
tunate because of the great oppression
that has been laid so heavily upon
them; unfortunate because of the yoke
that chafes on their shoulders; unfor
tunate because they have been sub
ject to the obedience of such masters
as the distinguished senator refers to
as "my people" that taxation prin
clpally falls. They must pay upon
their bread a bread tax, upon their
meat a meat tax. upon their shoes the
tax of the shoe trust, upon their gar
ments the tax of the woolen trust
Upon their very existence they pay a
double tax, and the exemption is made
' because of that tax that they must
pay in so much greater proportion
that the great wealhy, because the
heavier tax seems to have been laid
upon them. The theory is that those
people should be exempt from this in
come tax in order that they may not
be doubly taxed. It is not because
they may have $3,000 a year that they
are not taxed, any more than because
the distinguished senator's constit
uents, having $3,000,000 a year they
should be taxed.
Mr. President, 1 merely rose, ob
serving that the distinguished mem
bers qf the committee had other things
to occupy their minds, and possibly
not being drawn to the observation of
the distinguished senator. I arose to
state a view of the democracy, that
the Record may be set right; that
the distinguished senator from New
York may not labor under the appre
hension, however flattering to his
soul, that he has frightened or humili
ated this side by referring to "hto
people" and picturing the awful ca
lamity that will befall them Bhould
justice be done them. I speak that he
might not think that his side could be
moved from its duty as it saw it un
der the laws of men, under the doc
trine of justice, under every duty to
its party and to the constitution by his
declaration of the superiorities of "his
people."
I join the distinguished senator In
every effort he will assume to make
in this chamber, as long as he honors
it with his presence. In bringing back
the people of this government to the
constitutional theory of this govern
ment ' v
We bave beard lately In a campaign,
from a dislnguished gentleman who
was the chief of the distinguished sen
ator, the great war shibboleth, "Bring
the government back to the people."
But I say the hour has come, sir, when
our cry' should be "Bring the people
back to their government" Sir, there
should be something more learned and
something more known of the theory
of equality upon which this govern
ment was founded by the fathers,
that it may be preserved to the sons.
I join the distinguished senator in
the hope that every movement and
every act of oars may serve to pre-
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This Beautiful 9x12 Oriental
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TERMS: $2.00 Cash; 50c Weekly
Rio ebb feu n.B r n yhiroJ mtlm&
. IiLMii p got pnnn thai a a 30f4sS.lMmtt
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The only r
conven
tional thing
about this
entire offer
is the size of
the rug. Surely
the rrice is not,
nor is the quality
of the. rug. Each
rug measures full
9'xl2'; there has
been no skimping any
where. They are par
ticularly adapted for the
dining-room, though they
can be used beautifully in
the living-room, the. size be.
ing standard for both rooms
Like Bug
; very uectuvoxig.
Two' rugs k ed alongside of
each other,: and ; apparently of
the same quality, may, prove to be radically
dis-similar when nut to the test of service. As
sured guarantee is not so much in the feel of the tex
ture as in the label stamped on the back, and whenever you
find the name V. J. Sloan stamped on a rug, all doubts as to its
TTPnrino-mialities can be cast out of vour mind, for, as the mills in
which thev are made are the finest and most modern of all, so are the pro
duct of these mills the finest grade of rugs possible for you to secure at the price;
therefore, we say, "Like Mill, .Like Rug." - ;
We Wouldn't Think of Offering These Rugs at the Above Prices
Without An Explanation
If we did, you might be tempted, not without reason, to doubt our truthfulness and sincerity and to suspect
that there is some atch in this offer; therefore, we take you behind the mercantile scene
while we give you a full explanation of the event that led up to this
offer and a complete description of the rug itself.
The W. J.Sloan O- - ' rn?s ,are
never sold at suction ani ar onitnarily sold
In only a limited quantity of any one par-
tlcular design. It was during the recent
New York Auction Slarket, however, that
the W. J. Slcan Company established a
Vr nn. precedent to offset auction
HOW Tiiey buying, offering to certain
Were Secured dealers, a large quantity of
thege rug8 a. an excep
tionally low price. This pool of dealers in
which we were included, got together and
bought the entire lot and then they were
distributed pro rata among the different
dealers. They are now here. The rarest
rug bargain we ever bought ever sold, or
ever expect to sell again in a long time. .
Tha richest of Oriental colorings known to tho
men of the far "Eafet find themselves vying with each
other for your approval in these rugs. When you
look at one of these rugs from one angle, the 6oft
mellow tones , of tans and
browns blend- A DeSCTiptlOIl Ing Into each
other stand of tJjg Rug out above all
others. When t viewed from
another angle the- deeper and more solid colorings
predominate. There Is a never-ending change of
colorings that' delights you at every turn. The tex
ture is of a rich silky Quality that will stand up un
der the hardest usage.
While our share of these rugs was 0,
about 10 of them have been sold already
without a word of advertising, finding a
determined owner in everyone seeing them
on ouf sales floors," and In consequence,
these 50 that remain
should melt away fast,
too fast, we are afraid,
to accommodate all that
would like to share In this event We are
powerless, however, to avoid disappoint
ment on the part of the late comers, and
can only warn you to place your order early.
Just. a
Limited Quantity
We want to 6till further extend Its scope of operation, otherwise we
might have sold these rugs In the regular way at the regular price and
have pocketed our saving at the auction market;
but we ruled otherwise, not through generosity on
our part, but because we think it good business
policy to sell these rugs at the special price to ac
quaint those who have never dealt with this store
with the character of our business, the extent of selection In rugs, etc
feeling certain that we will be repaid bj- the continued patronage cf
every person buying one of these rugs.
We Are Ambitious
To Develop Our
Bug Business
It very often happens that just when the choicest, rare bargain's are
advertised, you happen to be out cf ready cash, and cannot avail yourself
i . : of the saving opportunity presented. With thla of
The Terms fer, however, lack of ready cash makea absolutely
$2.00 C&Sh - no difference.' All we ask and expect you to bring
50c Weekly with yon tomorrow is $2.00. You will not be asked
. to pay down one penny more. The rug will be
delivered to your home immediately and you need pay but 50c weekly
thereafter until the $18.50 la paid. And in the meantime you will bave bad
the joy and satisfaction from (he rug on your floor, - -
People just going to house
keeping should see our little
Princess Outfit. Four rooms
furnished complete, $185. .
If you ; are looking for
cheaper or-a higher price
rug you can find it here, al
special prices.
SEE
serve the line of demarcation between
the right and privilege of the states
on the one hand and the privilege of
the federal government on the other.
That we may not teach the multitude
that they bave the right, under the
name of the national government, to
Intrude upon the states, depriving
them of any government, robbing
them of the right of their clt'-iens to
home rule. Let us try again to edu
cate the people in the doctrine of the
fathers, that they may not have to
hearken to these protests from dis
tinguished sources, warning states
that the are liable to destruction by
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indulge the false creed that if they ing the rich. Let ua teach the otnef
shall not do their duty as some out- and nobler creed of the Christ, ot
.. . .i .i. . .v,, o. .n rMnvbr ot oersous, anf
tt fn IKum that Ih.v .ra rirht HM BO resnecter of persons, an4
their own bands, through their own threatened with the federal govrn-J say with Lord Mausneia, ai. uw
carelessness and the usurpation of meat chastising them, by a system of be done, though the; heavens lau.
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