Show OPPOSITION TO CORPORATION TAX The rt tux law Ia iii en state inherent rights as existed In the really sovereign before tb the of the and which no longer exist In the thet t states tates but the rights guaranteed to the states by y the sovereign people That Is the Ule position taken lalen b time San Francisco Chronicle paper says All ow that the constItutionalIty of the thc corporation tax will be contest contested ed cd bitt the the attorney general and Senator Root all law lawyers ors of the highest standing are aro firm In inthe the belier that It bo b upheld b by bythe the courts It is folly to discuss this tax lax on Its Ils merits morits as u tax for It Is not nor unjust and the great injury whIch it do to the hun hundred dred of thousands or of corpor corporations by making theIr financial af affairs affairs fairs a matter of public record can be begot begot got rid of Jt It Is of the very CI importance fot fOI it il strikes at atthe the thc very root Of our national polIcy j If this tax Is sustained the ties tics of the people of the tho United States to time the Individual states wI have been beon fin and time the United States Is legally a centralized government and wll wIly become so as fast as the tho national government chooses to exert Us its authority It must be that time the su promo premo court Is not nol expected to lo sustain this tax as an in tn tax I If f that welo eI done dono the discussion would turn tIme merits of the tax fOI no fundamental of our govern government meat ment would be bc involved It Is expect expected ed to be upheld as an excise tax upon the privilege or of existIng and do doID ID business as a corporation Nt N None ono one denies the th Justice and propriety of tIlls this tax if paid to the authority gront lIng ing the The Is as ag to the or of nn any to levy a tax or of this on a privilege granted by h a gO gov As to lo thIs the supreme court has hold first that thal one state stale cannot such a tax on a corpor or atlon allon chartered by state and second that tha t no state can so tax a red II ly the National And tIme tho gl of oC this I decision emphatic In tIme tho Case caso where holo IL a United States corporation was In involved vol veri was that macli a tax was fill aai or of the dignity and sovereIgnty of time the granting the tho charter and that thal the tho to tu tax being the tho power to lO no Ie If a 1 state slate could tax a Federal corporation at nil all It could tax It out of exIstence It Il will ho be on lh thIs Is ground that the constItutIonality of time tho cor Uon tax will ho contested |