Show trip questions am latiin lit at issue the instant that natural cond conditions lawful pulp oFes and just limitations of taxation are violated tho instant that the ano state takes property properly from its citizens that is is not needed or takes inequitably that w which is needed that instant the exercise exer cisa of the power becomes a matter of aia ind and might and not of law and ii light lit tho file greatest evils that characterize irce free ant p po governments of today are evil 3 that result from the abuse of taxa taxation tion and their magnitude ma Ili tudo and tendency to iti in creaso crease are so great as to make inake tho the boast of f individual freedom on the part of citizens in respect to the full ownership and 1 I C control of their property very often in little ittle more than an unmeaning li librade brase shall these abuses be recognized and tolerated an and d a 1 tendency to further progress in this samo same direction be encouraged cou raged or shall they bo be met with stern and uncompromising protests i immediate in check and ultimate complete comple to arrest and prevention those these aro are tho the real questions at it issue at the present time between tile the two great political parties of chis country and the situa tion exemplifies anew the lesson of liis his tory that all tile tho great contests for fre freedom edoin front from the alio earliest times have originated in abuses of taxation david A wella well in forum |