Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-25 | Page 14 | The Party of Jefferson

The Party of Jefferson I 1 1 IT T Fr m is diverting dh to o observe cre the glee with which the I. I Democratic majority in Congress is preparing to spend the which will ill be produced by the income tax The constitutional amendment by which I the collection o of this revenue is enabled was initiated by a Republican Congress with majorities of that party in both houses and a Republican in the the White I House The Democracy it must be he admitted generally gen gen- gen gen- emily supported the measure despite its hereditary principle of states slates rights Now that the thc money is isto isto isto to be he available leaders of that party in Congress are arc devising various methods of disbursing it The collection of an income tax b by the general government gO is logically a 3 Republican party principle i As the legitimate heir of the Whigs which in their day Iny drew their policies largely from the Federalists I the Republican party part has always ahva's believed largely largel in inthe the centralization of or power in the federal govern govern- ment meat While Whilo conceding the sovereignty so of the states state and favorin favoring no undue interference with their proper i rights the Republican party set itself firmly to the erection of a great reat nation with wih a 3 strong central f f f. f 4 power It believes that the thc United States government govern govern- i t I ment is one not only between the states but over I i and above e tho states f 1 Since G the days of Jefferson however howe the Uie Democracy N racy has bas belie believed ed in states state's rights That party part has f r always denied that there is a national government go in ina inI f I a strict sense regarding the supreme sovereignty so a as I merely a federal government go a L confederation Under such belief it would seem impossible for it to o apI approve approve ap ap- ap- ap I prove a tax of that sort one would suppose that the J I l f Democracy would favor faor its collection by the various 1 states fo for their own purposes This however er is not the only instance in which f the Democracy has strayed far from froni its original prin prin- 1 r 1 Andrew Jackson Fackson one ono of tho the patron saints paints of that party part whoso whose New Orleans victory is anI annually ant an an- t I Dually celebrated by it was a n. strict protectionist he favored a n tariff so high as to be prohibitory In InI I 1 fact few fe feor of or the principles to which that party parl proclaims prof pro- pro f I claims adherence today would have hn passed muster 1 with either Jefferson or Jock Jackson t J 1 1