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auminttrlzort by Uio Cincinnati En
quirer in this way:
SUito-wido primary for prcstdon
tlftl prefcrenco open to all demo
crats. Separate ballots and ballot boxes
to bo provided.
Candidates for president to secure
place upon tho ballot through peti
tions signed by 5,000 democratic
"My Clioico for President" to be
the only beading permitted.
Facilities for each elector to vote
his choice through making cross
mark in front of the name on ballot.
Results to bo canvassed by elec
tion officers and certified to the sec
rotary of state within ten days.
Secrotary of state to certify the
results to stato convention's tem
porary chairman.
Candidato receiving highest vote
to name six 'delegates and six alter
nates at large and submit them to
the state convention for ratification.
One hundred and five lives wore
lost in a coal mine explosion at Mc
Curtain, Oklahoma.
ADOPTION OF THE INCOME TAX
Following is a dispatch to the
Louisvillo, Ky., Courier-Journal:
Washington, March 19. Republi
cans almost lell over each other in
their haste to vote for tho Under
wood excise bill in the house today.
Eighty of the 120 republican votes
recorded on tho measure were in
favor of it. Representatives John
W. Langley and Caleb Powers were
in tho grand rush. Tho bill went
through, 250 to 40, every democrat
voting for it.
That the republicans should vote
two to one for tho bill was a great
surprise to the leaders on both sides.
ana it is freely predicted tonight
that as a consequence the senate can
not well refuse to pass the bill, and
that President Taft must think care
fully before refusing to sign it.
This is the bill which places a tax
of 1 per cent on all net incomes over
and above a $5,000 exemption. It is
intended to conform to tho recent
favorable opinion of the courts on
tho corporation excise tax, and to
avoid tho court's constitutional ob
jections to tho income tax in 1895
The estimate of tho democratic lead
ers is that it will raise $G0,000,000
in revenue each year, which will
2,tan mfko up for the loss that
would bo sustained if the democratic
free sugar bill should ho nnnnf,i i.
Every democratic member of the
vo.!10 de, egation resent and
Il,ed , a'0' excePt Representative
nit. m i wh0 had g0UG to Lin
coln, Neb to speak at the Brvan
WilaSf Tmi?a,iand ,Rem'etative
William J. Fields, who is ill Mr
James was "paired" for tho biil with
"vuMuauuuiuve saamuel W MoPnii
.wiuaciiB) against Mr
A CIIAKCli TO MAKE 310N14Y
xcs, oloRant Free Homesteads In the
banana district of Mexico, adJoinliiK
improved land, can still bo had. Hun
dreds of acres aro in production in this
district. From 10 to 25 per cent beine
received from tho first year's produc
tion. Tho market for bananas is un
limited. You aro required to havo five
SSlivo oCr,baninl Planted within live
yeaVs. Pepplo living in tho United
States and Canada, can socuro this land
by addressing Tho Jantha Plantation
Co.. Block 913. PittHbin-r- p mu"
ill have t.hn hnnnnna nin.,t,i 'n.. ..y
lid cnrofl fnv nn alini.nci r ou
not so to Moxico at all. Bananas bear
In from 12 to 10 months and should
yield a profit of about $200 per aero
Producing banana orchards are worth
about one thousand dollars per acre
?i?illmat0 ,s tlellRhtful and health
conditions good. Tell vnm f, !i.t. V
about this chance, if is ffl du "to
help one another. . -".. ..utJ. .to
a majority of my party colleagues
here, but I can not conscientiously,
merely for the sake of party exped
iency, abandon tho convictions of al
most half a lifetime.
"I had intended to participate in
tho general discussion of tho bill, but
the condition of my voice would not
permit it, and for the same reason it
must be evident to you that I can
not discuss it further now. I wish
to take advantage of tho privilege
which has been accorded of extending
my remarks in tho Record, in order
to give my reasons for supporting the
bill. I have risen now to make this
brief explanation in order that my
party colleagues may understand
why I cast my vote for the bill."
Democrats greeted this speech
with enthusiastic applause.
In order to conform to the decision
of the supreme court the proposed
new tax is called a tax on the right
to do business measured by the size
of the net income above the exempted
amount. Renresentative Oscar W.
Underwood, majority leader, believes
it will reach such men as Andrew
Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller,
although somo "idle holders of idle
wealth" may escape. At a later
time, when the house does not face
a question of raising revenue at once
to make up for proposed reductions
in the customs tariff, or when tho
states shall have ratified the pending
income tax amendment to tho con
stitution, Mr. Underwood favors the
enactment of a straight income tax
law. He believes tho supreme court
will not again hold such a law to
bo unconstitutional, even though the
amendment should not be ratified.
He is not willing to take the chance
now.
The bill now goes to the senate,
where its fate is a guess. Manv
senators today declared that if upon
analysis they found the house meas
ure would tax all classes of people
alike, they would support it. Demo
cratic senators, with a few excep
tions, are expected to vote for it.
Democratic Leader Martin expressed
the hope that the democratic senators
and the progressive republicans
might put tho bill through. Republi
can leaders aro depending upon the
president's veto to check revenue re
vision bills from the house.
With tho excise bill out of tho
way, tho house is likely to pass but
one more important tariff measure,
and that is for the revision of the
wool schedule. It became known to
day that several democratic members
of the ways and means committee
have suggested that it would be well
uo pass uio wool hill, which was
finally agreed unnn In tim nnnfn
between the house and senate last
summer, and which President Taft
vetoed on the ground that the tariff
board had not yet reported. Such a
measure would be higher than the
democrats would enact if thev had
their own Way, but it is believed that
It WOUld Show tho lrnnrl fnin, o it.
house in its effort to reduce taxes.
It is too early to say whether this
plan will be followed.
Chairman Underwood is known to
be opposed to a free wool bill be
cause he thinks the revenue lost from
nnn 7Z? WJmately $21,000,
000, could not be raised by putting
a duty on raw silk and i ',.: !5
The anti-free wool democrats say
they can demonstrate this.
tho man who combines all of these
qualities to a degree which no other
man in our public life since tho civil
war has surpassed.
"The man to trust is tho man
who, like Judge Taft does not
promise too much, but who could not
be swayed from the path of duty by
any argument, by any consideration;
who will wage a relentless war on
successful wrongdoers."
Could a man who makes such hor
rible mistakes of judgment be trusted
in a place where he would have the
chance to repeat them every day in
the year. Will Theodore pick up his
hat and offer his hand to "Dear Bill"
after it is all over and a democrat in
the White house? San Francisco Examiner-Star.
A HOLD-UP GAME EXPOSED
Before you pay charges on an ex
press package again, it might be a
good idea to make sure the charges
have not been paid at the other end.
The extent to which the express
companies have been robbing tho
peoplo by collecting charges at both
ends of a shipment, as revealed be
fore the interstate commerce com
mission, is amazing and outrageous.
In the case of one company alone
it was shown that it made 3,000 over
charges in one day and collected in
one year $67,000 as overcharges! .
And in addition to the cases of
overcharging which havo come to the
attention of the commission, it is be
lieved' that thousands of shipments
are paid for at both ends of which tho
commission never hears, owing to .the
fact that the victims do not know
they are being fleeced.
An officer of the company above
referred to admitted that tho system
employed to identify prepaid' pack
ages was faulty, but had no particu
lar apology to make.
"Demand for transportation charges
on prepaid shipments must cease,"
declared Commissioner Lane, who
was plainly provoked. "The com
plaint of this practice by" express
companies is universal." San Fran
cisco Examiner-Star.
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Fields was paired with Mr. Langley
but released tho TYmrh ,n -?"?.. '
her by wire when he learned that
he was in favor of the bill m.
Powers did not explain his vote. Mr'
hLlL3 or saidi
thte measure originated on tho ot er
side of the house, and notwithstand
ing the fact that I am a proteSst
republican, I intend to vo?e for tlf
Smiltao." " WaS rePOrted by the
"Nearly twenty years ago I parti
cipated in an intercollegiate debate
upon this question, and I was on fht
affirmative side. In preSnir fo?
that debate 1 gave the a uesLL as
borough a consideration a I was
hen capable of giving to it, and m?
investigation thoroughly -convlnSS
me of the wisdom and Justice of thla
method of raising revenue. I still
entertain the same opinion.
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"The true friend of reform tho
iffnine f abl,ses' is th0 2w
steadily perseveres in righU 2
hnf05,8 in earring against abuses
but whose character and traininc ar
such that he never promises wlmt ho
m?i n0t peI?orm that ho a ways a
little more than makes good what hi
does promise, and that, while ateadi
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