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Show IU. 4- .- There if no truer, kind-- . average, collected from the smalles . tier spirit than that which incomes, and the smallest per cen ''r prompts a woman to aid from the largest incomes. Impor fa the comfort and uplift- duties collected on consumption ing of her own sex or physical. are also tin effect graded income as heroines admire We taxes, bearing heaviest upon those Who make it women those with smallest incomes. It mas a lifers purpose to rescue or be evident to the most casual ob nurse or teach their unfortunate sisters, but equally admirable server that. the .burdens of the be is of that spirit which Impels a woman instead federal government, ' who has found help and comfort in sicking borne according to the rule ness to use all her influence in bringing laid down by Adam Smith, are too the same relief to others. shall be utad, -writes Mrs. Bety. H. heavy upon, the pOQSnd JoqUgb Buonborr;tax Franklin Co. VU, fa j) upon the rich. The income fyf; -cordial letter to was bill "Wilson the provided by Dr. R. V. pierce, of "if intended as a partial compensation Buflalo, N. V..to the my testimony other the done the success of your treatfor by injustice ment will help to influence systems. The 2 per cent assessed other women, troubled the diseases peculiar upon individual incomes above with to our aex, to write you. I $4,000, while not sufficient to am glad td be able to tell of the great good your medicines nave done me. bring the rich up to an equality you I had been troubled with with the poor in taxation, was a ulceration and its attendbotird ' aches and pains and step in the right direction. Much ant nervousness several times; fault was found with the exemp and yq&hb &h .Tiffll finally made worse by I wrote you. bells u$e tion laid upon the possessors of aI miscarriage, fAnct took Dr. Pierces Favor, revenue internal ite Prescription and the small incomes by Pride 'of 'Golden Medical Discovtaxes and import uuties, it would ery for about three or four and can truly say, be manifestly unjust to continue months cured me. I shall never cease to be grsto they the inequality by making them fuk The lacoAix. No woman afflicted by snch agonizing for de pay a per cent equal to that collect- and discouraging complaints need hesi, Is there any ed from the possessors of large in tate to write to Dr. Pierce. She may termining the proportion in which comes. feel assured, no matter what her circumcitizens should. contribute to the The 2 per cent tax upon the net stances may be, of his respectful, earnest, support of government? defend- fatherly sympathy and best professional Adam Smith suggests a rule income of corporations was efforts in her behalf. He stands among which must commend itself to ed on the ground that the corpora- the most eminent practitioners of the He tion enjoys special priveleges pro- century in this special field, and his person. every advice will be given absolutely without The subjects of every state vided in that law. Mapy who do charge. Bays: the for understand the not reason A free paper-boun-d ought to contribute to the support copy, of Doctor of the government as nearly as exemption protqstejirpgainst it and Pierces thousand page illustrated Cominsisted that the2per cent should mon Sense Medical Adviser will be sent ' possible iff proportion to their re"or ai one-cestamps, to pay the mere apply to all incomes, large and cost spective ability; that is, in propor- small. of mailing ; or for 31 stamps, a Just prior to the passage tion to the revenue which .they red handsome leavier, copy will of the Wilson I obtained, through e sent. under the protecspectively enjoy tion of the state. In the observa-tio- n the courtesy of Secretary Gresham, or neglect of this rule consists statistics from a number of Euro- jeen found of the productive propgovernments. erty of the country .what is called the equality or in- peanfound inPrusia the in that I Senator Howe said; There is other equality of taxation. In been come tax in had not a tax on the books so little felt, operation words, a direct tax upon incomes inand about that so twenty yearB, absolutely unfelt in the payment is the fairest tax that can be sugexwere 900 comes under marks of it, as the income tax by the gested. All taxes are really infrom while tax the assessors of great fortunes upon ranged come taxes, because all taxes are empt, less than 1 per cent to abont 4 per which it falls. There is not a poor of an indirect but out income; paid man in this country, not a laborer tax may work great injustice, be- cent on larger incomes. income tax has the Austria In in this country, but what contribcause its operation is concealed been in about utes more than 2, more than 10, operation thirty from the public view. Incomes under were $113' more than 20 per cent of his earn-ng- s years. Local taxation in city, county rate from while the to the treasury of the United ranged and state is usually proportioned exempt, S per cent up to 20 per cent on States.onder these very laws against to the property of the citizen; but found incomes. I in that which am I and now we larger objecting, of instead being entirely equitable, incomes under were $77.20 are to invited increase their - conItaly collected is often & property tax almost entirely from visible prop- exempt, while the rate ran as high tributions and to release these as 13 ger cent on some incomes. rifling contributions which we erty, leaving the invisible property In Netherlands the income tax had iave been receiving from incomes free. Those who own real estate, in been operation since 1823. When xeretofore. horses, cattle, hogs, machinery and the Bat in spite of these protests the investigation was made incomes household goods cannot evade the were under and the $260 was repealed, and during the ax exempt, whose those wealth assessor,' but 3 3 cent to form tax ranged per of years that have followed the govconsists largely money and cent incomes on sum. over that ernment has continued this disper evidences of indebtedness too frethe income crimination in favor of the rich In Switzerland, Zurich, quently escape. Where visible property is taxed tax had been in operation for more and against the poor. Why? Beand the invisible property escapes than half a century At the time cause wealth has been assuming a the possessors of visible property the investigation was made in- arger and larger share in the con in order to make comes under $100 were exempt, rol of the government, and the are over-taxeevasion of those who and the rate on larger incomes rights of the masses have been lees up foM-hBut varied from 1 per cent to 8 per antTlesB considered. A tax system possess invisible property. even when a property tax is hon- - cent. In England the rate for which overburdens some and lightly 1892 was a little more than 2 per jurdens others is larceny by law; estly collected upon all forms of cent income above $2,000, t is an indirect means by which property, real and personal, it is and aupon less on incomes under one maos money is transferred to little not as fair a tax as an income tax. All under $750 another mans pocket. In 1896 incomes $2,000, Property may be temporarily were those who objected to an income exempt. unproductive. and ten For years daring nearly tax, instead of arguing against the If a farmer pays taxes on his income civil war the an after tax righteousness of the law, shielded land the tax goes on, even though cent 10 from to 2$ themselves behind the decision of per per ranging fail. If a the crop may money collected this in was cent the snrpreme court and asserted country. tax lender pays a upon his money from to $600 ranged that any discussion of the tax was Exemptions his security may fail, or there may . $2,000. an assault upon the honor of the be default in 'the payment of the Sherman of John Ohio Senator v court." interest, while an income tax ad- was opposed to the repeal of these At present the government can justs itself to the condition of the taxes, and in the course of a speech draft the citizens, but cannot draft when the taxpayer, being large' income is large, and small' when said: The Senator from New York the pocketbook. Slowly but surely and the senator from Massachusetts the dollar is being exalted and the the income is Bmall. have led off in man debased. Justice in taxation Then, too, a property tax does the income tax. declaring against de- must be restored. have They not reach those who enjoy a conThe sentiment prevailing among siderable income under the pro clared it to be invidious. Well, all taxes invidious. are who advocate an income tax sir, those They tection of the government and yet is think it inquistorial. Well, sir, justifies the prediction that the consume the income without in there never was a tax in the world Democrats, Populists and Silver or vesting in real personal property. that was not inquistorial. Republicans will, in the campaign, The income tax reaches all. The least is of all advocate an. amendment to the r inquistorial While our local taxes are not income constitution tax, specially authorizing collected with absolute justice, we here never was so just a tax an income tax, and no one who has makt a nearer Approach to justice ed as the income tax. There is faith in the final triu( '"h of in local taxation than, we do in every no objection that can be urged righteous cause will douot the ulthe collection of our federal revenue. Until the beginning of the. Spanish against the income tax that 1 can- timate success of the effort to make war almost all of the revenue col not point toln every tax. Writers an income tax a permnanent part lected for thesupport of the federal on political economy, as well as of the revenue system of the federal our own setiments of what is just government W. J. Bryan in the . government came from two sources and right-,- teach us that man ought New York Journal. . namely, internal revenue taxes to his into taxes according pay and duties. Internal rev; import enue taxes, being; "collected on come and in no other way. Bisaarrs iron Nerve . Senator , Sherman pointed out liquor and tobacco, Are not collect-- ; that at Was that time only $20,000,000 health. the resnlt of his splendid ed from the people in proportion wei-Indomitable will and trecollected upon incomes, while to their incomes, but in proportion mendous. energy are not found to the liquor and tobacco they con- the. food and clothing of the people where Stomach,. Liver Kidneys were taxed $300,000,000, -sume, and as the consumption of Bowels and of out are order. If f liquor 'and tobacco does notin- - , Senator Morton of Indiana in opwant these and the you qualities crease according to income, the posing the repeal of the, tax, said; success use ,Dr. Kings they bring, The income tax is, of all others, New. Life Uxes collected through this system Pills. ' They develop are in effect graded income" taxes, the most equitable, because ; it ia every power' of brain and body; the largest per cent beipg, on the the truest measure .that has yet Only 25c at Riter Bros. 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