Show MONTANA SENATOR DEFENDS THE RICH Collator Clark o Opposed I to tn HOf cit's h Plan Ilan to tu Tax Tu irge I-irge Pmt Fortunes New York YOlk May Ia 13 i J think Pre reel l- l cent Roosevelt n a great man mun and ant n a great thinker said ld Senator r Clark of oC Montana a n visitor In N New w York to to- to da day In 10 his ability to lu group grasp l the tl trend of oC popular sentiment he lie h Ji is J absolutely a poor peer I The llie Wu worst vorst 1 1 of great groat thinkers Is I that hat tW they timey BO so I often think wrong wrong- Just now there thero Is a n a particularly virulent epidemic u of if socialism all over u the he world The Time old Slogan that ownership own Is theft thun Is iM again being being heard both oth here and abroad Because u some semite Particularly unscrupulous corporations corporation ha c been unmasked the tIme possession of oC wealth personal or corporate has hUB a L 11 heinous offense To have lived a lifetime without laving ha amassed anything s' s save the time i bare jare uc essentials of oC life now Insures Insure re respect respect re- re anti anil consideration Instead of constituting con con- SUt a reproach anti and ad an atm al Indict Indict- men t to for I I and amid sloth The President proposes something much nuch In the nature of ot a n scheme to ender all al men equal b by iy cutting ore oft he the heads of or a few fes' giants Cutting tutting off of the time heads o of the time giants Is IJ not nut gong go go- o- o II lug ng to tu add udd to tu the stature of the time ti 1 warts Men of great groat grat wealth I I I speak peal of COU COUrSe courte t of those whose fortunes fortunet are alU active and productive and almi ana not hot of oC the time Idle die i aro ae Ich arc a agencies for tir or good The They create cleate and develop The proposition llon to tl discriminate I mate a against them Is not nol altogether altogether alto alto- alo- alo gether gethel In accordance with wih m my view Ie of justIce In tim II one way vay It would be putting put limit ting a penal penalty on 01 large Initiative which only those po possessed of oC great wealth can cami CUl put limit forth CorO Aside side from that I am ant opposed cd to direct taxation as a mutter matter mater of principle and amid general nerl gf Jui public c policy Indirect taxation fals fais upon time the whole hole while direct taxation falls upon a aty very ty small class a U condition likely to engender a of class Interests |