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Show I O M 1. I . lUl. 2st. w Vftk 'J'n'.u;,' is by no means it. f.vor of the continuance of the in- 0 t:.s. Ike t !.u:ii.;es which are made ty L'i L..:'e-.-io;:al action ia the law it - '-.r- in the light of vahiab!.? re-i" re-i" : Jtc-ii only ui'optho far as the 1 t". ;- ci :.ci rued, Hamlet'd adjuration: ' 0. , iti'oiiu it aitogether." Itremarks: "It L is 1 .-en stea lily ur-fal that the tax v.e.s uiitady paid only by rn-ti men. 'Ihe . X'-::.; n ol an additional thousand doi- ai's eai. ii..!, therehi re, be considered a-i ',,! -"' "s c ihseijueiiee, save m the t'-'.i f,r t-e.ve U...I1..J1, reductiou in our Revenue v. r. '...lit by it. Certainly notbinj; of that a. sil .ri.d character wtiic'a has utade the k- so oliiioxious is removed. I is ten-..:ei.i. ten-..:ei.i. to ieiiioraiio still exists. J js as n. n raieulated as ever to mako Us a ia-! ia-! :t .d iiarsaud oath-breakers. Itremaiui a s'.aii.tin- premium on fraud and lalse-i. lalse-i. o i. it is tiot less, for this realui'tn n, an in :o''iuieL,t to decepli'tii. Jluue.st men are ii.l lo pay it, w hiie rogues avoid it. Men ousinesH credit requires thetn to 'j. a-al impending bankruptcy ia crime in l.ion ui.'.ry ir.dti which wo borrow the idea ' ' lix '"'" tilled by u us stromdv as i.-l-iD la Ir.tud and deception. Jntho : aluie as 1:1 the j.asi , it w ill serve to lower s:.im.Urd, at In. mm and abroad, ol" Ame-i. Ame-i. an commercial umralitv. '1 n.-ia- i no policy m coutiiniin tho tax. .1 either is there any rij'ht to do so. As Mr. 0a ,.s sitnl iu Ins urtituiciittm Thursday, .leatiiiot bo continued without a breach ol on ill viiih tho nation. When the tax was .:eu,an !,-d by tho imperii us exi-eneies ol ti,.i win-, Congress in imposing u K.ive a s jo mu ledeju to tho countrv that it shotiM lo t bo continued or renewed. Tho lan-L-ui a o! the act i,: 'Tho taxes on incomes beta m impost d shall bo levied' ' 1 and mcludimr tho year 1S70, and no i Jiaior., Jo renew it in "any form will bo lo j.. tt a stain upon the. honor of Congress. Toiei.ew it in to jiroclaim repudiation as . L ai iy as to ridiiso the payment of a debt. An i n l.iit Ii ii not to be kept with our own peon!,, w.td whom shall it ho kept? I: is an t.r.ument which every foreign bond-l.o bond-l.o al..i v. ill ask himself, mul it is a view w-.ich iiib'ii-iitbl private morality demands sh.bl not l)i wholly lort;otten by ttioSenate as lias been by tiie House. To tho Senate tt',. nj.j.eal."' In another at 'licit? concerjuiniv the tax .mi the tinkering of the law which is ;...i);awt.a!, it say.: "This lull forces an iucomo tax from the 't rk, u hose s.doo salary is known, while it ( teas in any doors of escape to his em-piover, em-piover, whoso fJoo.Otn.i iucomo is not so eabi y reached. It punishes him who dates to own I'm roof over tho heads of his fam-. fam-. ;.' In- not allowing him to deduct from his '.;..:' o income the interest annually paid . i any mortgage which ho may have there-'i. there-'i. uni.e it aliow a premium, in tho sii.ij.rt i.l'a do.luctiou of SoOH, to his neighbor, neigh-bor, who, unlike himsoll, prefers paving mi extravagant rent. It recognizes gam-i.i.nn gam-i.i.nn hi lis and lottery swindles by lui posit' pos-it' upon them a tax which can never be i t'fio.l. Alllnjugh pronounced by its ni . i.esto lioameastiro that discriinin-I'.a-. :-. ...mst tho rich in lavor of tho poor, :ie pimcipal taxes which it removes are t ax upon railroad, companies, gas composes, com-poses, upon rich legacies and a accessions i i C.d estate, upon auch luxuries as gold i.:i 1 is !vit j late, carriages, gold watches .i i 1 riv ito biliiard tables. Under thr-se :: rc a nv atli'es, sliotild tho Sonato tlecida to inn: ui'.ii tho llot'soin the passage of tho i. :;i, us members must bo prepared to give b-'ter reasons for so doing than those w!.o"b have hitherto been advnncetl." |