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Show B PROPOSED INCOME TAX B Intonso Interest Is reported in Washington us H to tlio Income tax which It Is assumed that Con- H grcss will ImpoBo upon tlio pcoplo of this country. H Hut vso nro confident that tlio States ratifying tho H incomo tax hud no expectation of Its being inline- H diately applied, it was felt that such n tax tihould H ' bo open to imposition by tho Government, but that B It should bo lovlcd only In soma great emergency, B nB tuo former Incomu tax was levied during tho B Civil War In this country. H It was all tho more nssumod that tho Demo- B cratlc party would not Immediately levy nn income B lax since that party had been loud in Its dcnuncla- H tlon of tho cxtrnvnganco of tho Republican party, B I claiming that tho Republicans wcro spending vast- B 'y moro money tlinn was necessary to conduct tho B Government, and that If tho Democrats wero put i ' Into power they would seo that economy nnd a lessening of tho public burdens would bo put Into lmmcdlato effect. With this in vlow, who could H ' have supposed that nn Income tax would bo pro- B ' poced tho very first thing by tho Democrats? And B yct' tlint wtlnt wo nro confronted with, accord- B 'nK to tno dispatches from Washington. B These dispatches show tho interest in this pro- B posed tax to center upon tho rata of tho tax and H upon tho amount of incomo that Is to bo exempted B rom tno tnx- Surely, hero wo havo reason to ex- !pcct great consideration for tho public on both accounts; ac-counts; first, that tho rato of taxation shall bo low, since, ns a matter of fact, tho Government docs not need tho money that tho tax will bring; second, that tho amount of Income exempt from this tax BH 1 shall bo put nt n high figure. Undoubtedly n very B , great revenuo could bo raised by tho lmpoultlon of BBB n Hovcro Income tax, but why should it be Imposed? BBB " Uioro Is to bo nn incomo tax at all, since tho BBB Government does not need thi monoy, nurcly wo BBB 'lnvo a right to expect a very low rate and n very BBB IiIkIi exemption. BBB -'-VCI1 lf tno Democrats, In their revision of the BBB tariff, should cut ofT conslderablo re veil mi on tho fl customs side, tliero would still, with proper econo- B I -' u"l cnro tor tll Pu-lc Interests, bo sufllclcut B r money to pay tho necessary oxponscs of tho Gov- B B ( Tho proposition made right nt tho start to lm- B ! 1)09 nn Incomo tax shows anything but an Inten- B tlon to observe tho pledges of economy. It shows BBB ' n tendency to extravagant expenditure, nnd to tho BBB collection of a largo revenue that is largely unnec- BBB 1 cssnry for tho purpose of conducting tho affairs BBB ot tho Govornmcnt "economically administered." B&B On this point tho Democratic plcdgo was emphatic B ' and specific. Let that plcdgo bo kept in good faith BBB ' v'lth tlio American pcoplo, or tbcro will ho n reck- BBB oning for tlio bad faith as shown Salt Lake Trl bbb |