Show INCOME TAX NOT NEW our democrat frienda talk of the income tax as a ajust discoverer by democracy they act as if it was the only colaco that can bo applied to the great wound chiji democracy lias cut in the body of the american people income tax is a discarded republican experiment the income tax was first enacted into a law in 1861 when alt incomes in excess of were taxed at 3 per cent the cry was that W man should pay his batt proportion for maintaining the general government whether hie income was large or small and in 1832 the law was amended eo that the tax was levied on all incomes over will alie provision that all money actually paid out for rent and other taxes should not bo taxable in 1861 a special income tax of 5 per cent was levied later on tha law was amended so that all incomes over paid a 10 per cent tax so unpopular was this direct tax on the poor people that congress in 1865 again amended the law EO that all incomes over 1000 were taxed those people whoa income were under 2000 claimed alio tax was very burdensome and so oppressive and unpopular became the tax that congress again amended alie law in 1870 so that ane tax was only 2 2 pei cent on all incomes over 2000 with alie provision that all losses in business all interest on loans all money paid for labor for rent impair ic pair etc should not bo considered as an income oc be deducted from faw then the income tax of 1870 was levied on all who made a clean profit during abo year 0 2000 or more it will be seen that according only the rich man wae taxed as a man who had an in corro of oven 2000 over and above his living expenses could hardly be classed among the poor who paid this last tax the rich man no the poor man paid it how that is easily shown alo railroad corporations who paid the tax raised the price on their passenger and freight rates and taci made the people pay it back when the last law was passed the farmers as a rule very happy they thought that for once a law liaa been where the rich man paid the bulk of the tax but what wa his surprise alien he took liis to the milt to be ground and alie weighed buthis ou this flour he found eliat lie grot breo pounds of flour less to the buebel the miller 1 farmer that he was not mill for the farmer nor for the government and that as long as he paid the tax he must have more flour to get even and so it will bo again if passes a law to tax corporal ions alio corporation will simply raise the arico cf its goads in trade or reduce jaees in cither case the poor people will bear alie burden the income tax is a great democratic scheme the democratic party loves to present a question to the poor man L which on the surface appears rich and full of hope but which actually is sucking the very life blood from alie poor vitals let the people read the laws of our country from 1880 to 1872 and they will find that the most obnoxious law ever placed upon the statutes of alie united states was the income tax the democratic party is always hunting for some scheme to achieve temporary success euc cess athe republican peaty lets temporary expedients go to the wind and for the of the whole people and lor permanent success the party be SM lietea that every man pf twenty one and a citizen of thia country though his incline is only year is just as good and la of as much bilue to the united states as la alio richest man who resides within its con lines the poor man if an american citizen is an independent man A man who asks no favor from the ach or poor he is aman who belaev ei it nis duty to pay a proportion of the tax necessary to sustain the administration of bis country for example laiq a farmer in utah whoso income is year and richest corporation in utah choso whoso income is a year at 2 percent alie farmers tax be 4 and the corporation tax would be per year would tho farmed hesitate to pay ilia tat no but tha corporation po ration would it would make false returns it suppress and keep iti fund in a try and the result would be that the poor roan would aaen a the barden of he tax party passed alie income tax law as a war measure and the people of the united states will not submit to a direct tax on the people unless it mastbe to eave the country when they vr ill not only give their money but their liven also |