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Speaking of inquisitorial taxes,
what tax is it which sends a grimy
fin gared customs officer groping through
your valie as you pass from Canada
into the United States 'i
lioVEKNtiK Lkwelling is doubtless
convinced that a moitgage is a great
del easier to cancel than the Lease he
lias on hand. A mortgage can be fore
closed, but the Lease can neither be
closed nor foreclosed.
Mrs. Lease telegraphed across Kan
sas from the scene of battle to her
anxious ones at home: ''First blood
for your mother." The emotions of
Mr. Lease were not described iu the
dispatches. St. Louis Republic.
Andrew Carnegie, after making
a protest against the Wilson bill as be
ing un-American, has gone back to his
catle in Scotland. Mr. Carnegie's in
tense Americanism brings him to this
country occasionally to warn us against
the foreigners.
McKinleyism taxes the poor and
exempts the rich. It taxes a man's
liberality to his family and exempts
his skinflint neighbor's hoards. It
taxes marriages and births and ex
empts the man who is too mean to have
a wife and children. We need an in
come tax.
Representative Tarsney, of the
Kansas City district, the other day was
discussing the bill to tax incomes, and
in answer to the statement that it
would meet with tremendous opposi
tion from the class receiving incomes,
replied: "There are more men driving
drays than receiving incomes." And
he was about right.
From a number of protectionist or
gans it is learned that a petition
against the Wilson bill, signed by 75,
000 citizens of Troy, N. Y is to be
presented to congress. As the last
census showed only 60.956 people in
Troy, including children of tender
years, it would appear that somebody
has been perniciously active in signa
tory labors.
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CAriT.1. CORKKSI'ONUESCE.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 5, 1S94.
Conversation on the weather is always
a standard topic for small talk in social
circles, but hardly worth while to write
about. At the risk of wearying the
patience of the reader 1 will say, how
ever, that the weather here for a fort
night has been phenomenal. Not a day
in that time has the mercury ranged
lower than 35, and most of the nights
have been of a part with the days.
There is not a particle of frost in the
ground, and today a gentle September
like rain has been falling all day. Al
though at home there would be mud
every wheie, here, in this marvelously
wcil-paved city, one could walk a
hundred miles without doubling on
one's tracks, on the sidewalks or
streets, and not be able to get the sides
of one's shoes muddy. The pavement
is mostly of asphaltum, but there is a
generous quantity of brick and stone.
Congress is dull as yet, because the
democrats have not been able to muster
a quorum thus far the republicans re
fusing to vote. This is rather dis
couraging to democratic hopes on the
tariff, but it is only a temporary set
back, for it will only take a few days
of republican abuse and vindictive
assault in debate to bring the demo
crats all into line for the Wilson bill.
The democratic members of the ways
and means committee held its final
meeting .Tan. 2d relating to its busi
ness connected with the pending
revenue features of the new tariff bill,
at thetreasuy department, taking into
consideration the questions of an in
come tax, the whiskey tax and the tax
upon playing cards. The committee
has been divided on several proposi
tions and it was only after a long
struggle and the most persistent fight
that the final determination now given
out was arrived at. The result as to
the income tax is a pronounced victory
for Mr. Bryan, who has persistently
advocated an income tax. The decision
was in favor of an income tax, not only
in favor of a tax on corporations, but
of individuals, on all incomes of more
than $4,000. The vote in the com
mittee stood C to 5 the minority
agreeing to stand by the majority in
the house. The committee also agreed
to increase the whiskey tax 10 cents a
gallon, and extend the bond period to
eight years. This tax is to apply to all
whiskey now in bond, and therefore
that
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will add to the revenue, it is estimated,
510.000,000.
The income tax feature, it is be
lieved, will apply to 50,000 persons
at the least in the country, be
sides all of the corporations. This tax
has been favored by Mr. Bryan for sev
eral years, in his campaigns before the '
people, and is unquestionably a popu-
lar measure throughout the whole j
country except in the large cities. Iti
is :t measure which w ill put the capi i
talist on more of an equalty with thej
m isses of tax-payers men who keep j
up the revenues of the country by the!
tax they pay under the operation of j
t li tariff Inn' !
The vote in the committee was some
thing of a surprise, and a most gratify
ing one to Mr. Uryan, as he really
anticipated before the meeting of the
committee that the proposition for an
individual income tax would be de
feated, and in that case it was his
purpose to make a minority report in
its favor. The vote in the committee
stood: Those in favor McMillan,
Turner, Whiting, BryaD, Bynum,
Tarsney. Those opposed were Wil
son, Montgomery, Cockran, Stevens
and Breckenridge.
Mr. Bryan is preparing a speech on
the tariff, including the income tax
feature of the revenue bill, and has
been exercising his usual care in its
preparation. His speech, it is safe to
say, will include much information
not given by anyone else. His inten
tion at first was simply to offer his
views for printing in the record, but
his fello-members of the committee
insisted that he must be heard in the
house. He is in high feather over his
victory on the income tax proposition,
and it is apprehended that his oppon
ents will not get much consolation in
the result of the fight he has made.
The income tax proposition is gain
ing friends as the people are heard
from. It is remarkable, however, with
what unanimity the eastern press is
denouncing it. The N ew York papers
are howling like dervishes over it, as if
it would be their ruin. When it is
known that only about 20,000,000 is
to be raised by this provision, which
will be the only tax on property which
the government levies, while some
250,000,000 are to be collected from
the necessities of the masses, this tax
cuts an insignificant figure, and can in
no sense be a burden on any man. It
is worthy of note in this connection to
recall the fact that Senator Sherman is
on record as saying in the senate, in
1870, when the repeal of the income
tax was under discission, that of all
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tuxes an income tax was the least in
quisitorial of any.
The president has as yet taken no
action as to the presidential postoffice
appointments in the First district of
Nebraska. When he will ct is a
problem. lie sterns to be peculiarly
blessed with the gift of continuance
that is, he takes up one of these cases
occasionally, and after considering it
awhile, puts it back on the riles aud
continues it indefinitely.
AsTiie Journal readers are aware,
this paper has not taken an active part
in the contest for the l'lattsmouth
postoffice. Up to the time that Con
gressman Bryan made his recommenda
tion of Mi. Butler The Journal ed
itor was an active friend of Mr. Fox.
but as that recommendation was made
upon the endorsement of the county
committee and of the chairman aud
secretary of the state committee, the
editor concluded that that ought to set
tle the matter, and any further contest
would only lead to party disorganiza
tion and personal ill-feeling. The
writer has hail ho reason to change his
opinion in that respect, albeit he is
none the less anxious to see Mr. Fox
properly rewarded for his straight
laced democracy and excellent personal
q ualities.
The democrats of the house are hav
ing a party caucus tonight, and it is
remarked that several of the kickers
against the Wilson bill have fallen into
line, and it is safe to say there will be
no concerted action on their part
against the bill. C. W. S.
The Lincoln Journal ought to be in
better business than to permit worn
out political imbeciles to throw mud
through its columns at the distin
guished jurist who has just retired
from the supreme bench of this state.
Everybody recognizes that Judge Max
well is unfortunate in having been
hounded by a pack of spotted office
holders who have been exposed for
their stealings in open court. Those
fellows naturally have the sympathy
of other spotted ex-officeholders, but a
state paper which stoops to the prac
tice of opening its columns to such fel
lows to squirt their odor at decent
men, commits an offense against good
morals as well as fair journalism. The
effusion of old man Thayer in a recent
issue of the Journal was doubtless
written by some member of the late
impeached state house gang, as the
old man himself is known to be al
most a paralytic in both his mental
and moral make-up. Judge Maxwell
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retues from the supreme bench of
tlii.- state as the leadintr character in
the first quarter century of Nebraska's
history, and with a national reputation
which no man of the Thayer stripecan
tarnish. The fact that he has nothing
in common with boodling politicians
and spavined office-holders really adds
to the great respect aire dy entertained
for him by the people of this state. If
old man Thayer and a lot of other
'. high-smelling politicians up about the
state capital are masquerading to save
funeral expenses, the Lincoln Journal
; had better pass the hat aud have the
; fetid gang quietly and speedily interred
land thus lelieve the overtaxed nostrils
of the people of this lonz suffeiiiig
! commonwealth. Bury them, we say.
! and be sure ;md place them with
the right portion of the anatomy
undermost !
State Auditor Moore has shown
a disposition to be fresh and flossy ever
since he took possession of the office.
His late-t wild break was made last
week when he declared that there was
a deficiency of $222,000 between his
books and those, of Treasurer Hartley,
and that his books were a! solutely
correct. This stirred up a hornet's
nest in a short time, and an investiga
tion showed the books of Tre;surei
Hartley to be all right and the mistake
was located in Auditor Moore's office.
Instead of making an apology for his
break, Moore tries to hedge.
Again Congressman Bryan has
shown the strength of his personality
in congress. The dispatches note that
he has persuaded the ways and means
committee to favorably report on his
income tax measure, which was so
violently opposed by the members from
the eastern states. Even the Omaha
Bee concedes that "young Mr. Bryan"
is a power in congress. Such a victory
as Bryan has secured m his fight
against the wealth of the east is worth
more to Bryan than would be the ab
solute control of federal patronrge in
Nebraska. Papillion Times.
The supreme court has decided that
the state's case against ex-Treasurer
Hill must be tried in Lancaster county.
That settles the matter. The poor
plundered stateof Nebraska can never
win an action in Lancaster county.
In the name of high heaven will the
Lancastei farces cease ?
Wouldn't it be frightful if free coal
should bring the American miner
born in Hungary down to foreign
pauper wages instead of his present
munificent 40 cents a day?
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CARNCIilK'S 1 1 K N E VO I.K S V K.
Andrew Carnegie says that he will
give 51,000 a day to the poor of Pitts
burg if the people of that city will give
a like amount. Furthermore, thai lie
will give a dollar with every dollar col
letted by public subscription. That's
benevolei:ce. But for some years An
drew Carnegie has been a If ader in the
work of Kcrewirg down the wages of
emplovesin iron and steel woiks to the
lowest, possible point. That's business.
It v iil be, urged by mme that but for
his business policy Carnegie could rot
novv be so benevolent, but it may be
urged by others that but for his bus
iness policy there, would be little or no
need for his benevolence. When the
judgment day balance sheet shall be
struck it is n- t likely that the balance
due Carnegie on account of benevolence
will be very great.
Being a farmer who works the farm
instead of a politico-agriculturist who
works the farmer. Secretary Morton
has not hesitated to declare the gov
ernment system of seed distrsbution
an expensive affair tlat does not justify
its cost. By so doir.g he has incurred
the hostility of a good many congress
men, who looked to their brilliant ser
vices in distributing garden seed as the
chief evde:ice of their statesmanship
and the leading argument in favor of
their re-election. Louisville Courier
Journal. The Astor family has 5200,000,000,
principally in real estate, and the
Vanderbilts follow with nearly as
much, chiefly in railroads. In what
way do these enormously rich men pay
their share of the cost of the federal
government In what earthly way can
they be marie to pay it except through
the operation of an income taxV
Guand Sachem Croker of Tam
many Hill is opposed to an income
tax. Mn Croker has lately been put
to the urpleasar.t necessity of reveal
ing his ssets. An income tax follow
ing close upon such an exhibit would
be a discrimination against Croker as
one of the many New Yorkers who
have more than the law ought to
allow.
Gov. Fennoyer may blather about
hard times in Oregon, but what does
he think of this from Macon, Ga: "For
Sale One monument, situated in
Riverside cemetery, Bibb county, Geor
gia, with granite tiase and figure on
top."
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