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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1907)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4. W THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OltEGON. Hli)t thn result of lit extravagance. When an luillvliliml mm'Uinjjni bis Jioim to buy 1111 Huluuitiltlln h Invito disaster) mKl'wlxm e.ltJty iih'ii, or men who pole tu iticli, or era unwriipuloiiitly or foolishly eager to liwoin sui'li, Indulge In mili'i speculation especially If It 1 accompanied by dishonesty tliey leo imrdltu not only tliel own future but tlx luturg of nil their Innocent fallow olUr.en, for they xpoe tin whole bual ne community to nnnle and dltres. Incom Tlx and Inherltsnct Tlx. M inn our tux law are revised the quettlun of an Income tux ami an In heritance tux thould receive the eariiful attention of our legislator, i it my Judgment both of these taxe should be part of our system of Federal taxation. I pels Ullldetitiy almiit tlw Income tax because oue sflheui for an Income tax w declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court 1' while In addltlou It U a illtlU-ult tux to administer In It) uracil- eel wrk!i and great vara would haw to IK exercised ig see mat it wa not evaded bv I ho verv men whom It wa most desirable to Iibv taxed, for If ao vadd It mould, of counts be wore than iiu tux at all) aa the fotrt Mr tble of all taxe U tlio tax which bear heavily iikpii the honest aa compared with the dishonest iimn. Nevertheless, a graduated income tax of the projMii ttH would I'f a desirable feature ol Federal taxation, and it l to b hoped that 0110 may be devised which the Hup rem Court will declare constitutional. Tim Inhei llanee lax, however, U both a far better met ho. I of taxation, and far mui Important for the purpose of hav ing the fortune of the country War in proportion to their1 increase In sls a corresponding Increase and burden of taxation. 'J lie (iovernmcnt lina the ab solute right to decide aa to the term upon which a man ahall receive a Uoquoat or devise from another, and thla point In the devolution of property la rspcelal ly appropriate for the Imposition of a tax. Law imposing audi taxe have rexatdly Iwu placed upon the National (tatute book and a repeatedly eomtl tutloim) by the courti and these law contained the progressive principle, that la, after a certain amount i reached the bequest or gift. In life or death, l increasingly burdened and the rate of taxation i Increased lu urojmrtlon to the remoteness of blood of the man re ceiving the bequest. The principles are rveoguUuJ already lu the leading clvlllwd nation of the world. In Oral HrlUm-all the estates worth 13.000 or less are practically exempt from death dutle. while the Imrvaae I aueh that when an estate exceed flv million of dollar in value and pae to a dittant kinsmen or etmniier in blood ttie Govern' ment receive all told an amount equi valent to nearly a fifth of the whole estat. In Frame o much of an Inheri tance a exceed SIO.000.000 pay over a fifth to the 8tat If It paw to a dis tant relative. The Orman law I es pecially Interestln to u because it niaket the inheritance tax an imperial measure while allotting to the individ ual Mat of the Kmplr a portion of the proceed and permitting them to im pose taxe in addition to those imposed by the Imperial Government. Small In heritance! are exempt, but the tax I ao aharply progressive that when the Inher itance i it'll nt very large, provided it I mt an auriciiltuml or a forett land, it I taxed at the rate of 25 per eent If it goe to dixtant relative. There I not reaaon why lu the United State the Government ahould not impoae inheri tance taxe In addition to thoae Inipoi d by the State, and when we lat had an Inheritance tax about one-half of the Stat levied inch taxe concurrently with the National Government, making a combined maximum ' rate, in tome caoea a hlxh a 23 per eent. The French law ha one feature which I to be heart ily commended. The profreive prin ciple I o aptilicd that each higher rate I imposed ouly on the exce above the amount aubject to the next lower rate; o that each Increaie of rate will apply only to a certain amount above a cer tain maximum. The tax ahould if po aible l made to bear more heavily upon tlioe reatding wit-hout the country than within It. A heavy rojrreilve tax upon a very laty furtmie i in uo way men a tax upon thrift or induitry a a like tax would be on a email fortune. No dvantuge coin 01 either to the country a a whole or to the Individual Inherit ing the money by permitting the tran mUtton In their entirety of the enor mous fortune which mould be affected by auch a tax; and aa au incident to lU function of revenue raining, auch a tax would help to preaorve a measurable equality of opportunity for th people nf the generation growing to manhood. We have not the ullghteit yniath,v wlth that socialistic , Idea which would try to put hutne, thriftlcnea and in efficiency on a par with luduntry, thrift and elllcloncyi which would atrive to break up not merely private property, but what 1 far more important, the home, the chief prop upon which our whole civilization stand. Such a the ory, if ever adopted, would mean the ruin of the entire country a ruin which would bear heaviest upon the weakest, upon those least able to eblft for them selves. But proposals for legislation aueh m this herein advocated are direct ly opposed to thl clam of aoclaliitic theories, Our aim 1 to recognize what Lincoln pointed out: The fact that there are torn respects in which men are obviously not equal: out also to insist that there ahould W an equality of self-respect and of mutual respect, an equality of rights before the law, and at leant an approximate equality in the condition under which each man ob tain the chance to show the stall that it in him when compared to hi fellow. Capital and Labor, It is certain that for aome time to come there will be a constant Increase absolutely, and perhapa relatively, of those among our oitizen whq dwell in cities or towns of some eiro and who work for wages, Thi mean that there will be an ever-inoreoing need to con sider the problems inseparable from a groat industrial civilization. , Whore an iniiiense ana complex dusiiiuss, epeuiiu- ly In theso branche relating to manu facture and transportation, is transact ed by n krge number of capitalist who tmpl'oy a very much larger number ol wago-earncri, the former tend more and more to combine into corporations and the latter into union. ,Th relation of the capitalist and wage-worker to on another, and of each to the gen eral public, are not akay enay to ad Jut and to put them and keep thmu on a itlfavtory bal I on of the most Important and one of tho mot dclbul task before our whole civilization. Much of the work for the accomplishment of thU end must be don by the Individual concerned themielve, whether singly or in combination 1 and the one fundamen tal fact than m'ut never le Iot rack of U that the chnmcter of the average, man whether he be a man who work with hi hand, I the moat Important factor in solving the problem aright, Hut it U almost equally Important to remember that without good law it U also ImjiOioillile to reach the proper solu tion. It I idle lo hold that without good laws evll auch aa child klHir, the over-working .of women, a the fall urn to protect employee's front lose of life or limb, can lie effectively reached, uiiy more than the evil of rebate and stock-watering can be reached without good law. To fall to top these practice by legislation means to force Imnest men Into them, beentian. other wImi the dishonest who surely, will take advantage uf them will have even thing their own way, If the Stat will cor rect these evil, well and good) but the Nation mnt stand ready to aid them, No quel hoi growing out of our rapid and complex industrial development i moi iniKirtant than that of the em ployment of women and children. The prenence of womer in Industry reacts with extreme direi'tiies upon the char acter of the home and upon family life, and the condition surrounding the em ployment of children bear a vital rela tion to our future citizenship, Our legi Intlou In thnoe area under tho control of the Cougren I very much behind the IcgUlntlon of our more progressive Slates. , 'thorough and enmpii-hcniiv measure should be adopted at this aes Ion of the Congress relating to the em ployment of women and children in the hUtrk-t of Columbia and the Territories. The Inveotigation into the condition of women and childivn wago-eumera re cently authorized and directed by the Congress l now being carried on in the variou Stntcn, and I recommend that the appropriation made last year for be ginning thl work be renewed, in order that we may have the thorough and cninprehenoive inveotigation .which the niliject demands. The National Covcrn ment ha as an ultimate ivsort fr con trol of child labor the use of the Inter state commerce clause to prevent the product of child labor from entering into liitcriitate commerce. Hut before using thl It ought certainty to enact model law on the subject for the Ter ritories under its own immediate control. There is one fundamental protoition which can be laid down aa regard all the matters, namely 1 While lioueaty bv Itself will not solve the oroblcm, yet tile lnltenee upon honesty not merely technical honesty, but honesty in pur pose and spirlti an essential element In arriving at a right conclusion. Vice in it cruder and more archaic form shocks everybody! but 'then la very urgent need that public opinion ahould be jut a sever In condemnation of the vice which hide itself behind class or professional loyalty, or which denies that It I vice if it can escape conviction in the court. The public and the repre sentative of the public, the high offi cials, whether on the bench or in execu tive or legislative position, need to re member that often the most dangerous criminal, so far aa the life of th Xa tion i concerned, aiv not tboae who commit the crime known to and con demned by the popular conscience for centurie, but those who commit crimes only rendered possible by the complex condition of our modern lnduatrlai life It make not a particle of difference whether these crliuea are committed by a capitalist or by a laborer, by a lead ing banker or manufacturer or railroad man, or by a leading representative of a labor union. Swindling in atock, cor rupting legislatures, making fortunes by the Intlation of securities, by wrecking railroads, by destroying competitors through, rebate these forms of wrong doing in the capitalist, are far more in famous than any ordinary form of em bczzelcment or forgery 1 yet It is a mat ter of extreme difficulty to secure the punishment of the man most guilty of tbtMii, most responsible for them. The business man who condones auch conduct stands on a level with the labor man who deliberately upporta a corrupt de magogue and agitator, whether head of a union or head of some municipality, because he Is said to have "tood by the union." The member of the business community the eduoatora, or clerjry men, who condone and encourage th first kind of wrongdoing, are no more dangerous to the community, but are morally Wen wors than the labor men who are guilty of the aecond type of wrongdoing, because less Is to be par doned those who have no auch excuse a is furnhdred either" by ignorance or by dire need. Inland Waterway. The conservation of our natural re- l sources and their proper use constitute nie iiiimanieniHi prouiem wmcn under lies almost every other problem of our National life, We mint maintain for our civilization the adequate material basis wdffliout which that civilization cannot exist. .Wfe nut show foresight, w must look ahead. As a nation we not only enjoy a wonderful measure of present prosperity but If this prosperity is used aright It i an earnest of future success such as no other nation will have. The reward of foresight for this Nation as great and easily foretold. But there must bo tlicf look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of lining It so as to increase it usefulness, will result in undermining In the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them ampliiicd and developed. For the last few years, through several agencies, the (tovernment has been endeavoring to get our people to look ahead and to sub stitute a planned and ordeHy develop ment of our resources In place lof a hap hazard striving for immediate profit. Our great river systems should Re deve loped as National water highways) the Mississippi, with i tributaries, stand ing first in importance, and the Colum bia second,' although there are many others of importance on the Pacific, tho Atlantic and the Gulf slope. The Na tional Government should undortnke this work, and I hope a beginning will be made in the present Congress) and the gnu test of all our rivers, the Mississippi, should receive especial attention. From the (ircut Ijikcs to the. mouth of the Mississippi there should be a dnen water may, Willi deep waterway leading from it to the K.imt and the West. Huch a waterway would practically mean, the extension of our coast line into tho very heart of our cwuntry, Jt would be of liicnkiihible benefit to our people, If begun at once It can be carried through In time ajipwclably to relieve the con gestion of our giet freight-carrying II of railroads, The work should lie systematically and continuously carried forward In accordance with some well ooncolved plan. The main stream should be Improved to the highest point of efficiency before the Improvement of the branches I attempted) and the work slrould be kept free from every taint of iwkWncs or jobWry. The inland waterway iwhioh lie just back of the whole eastern and southern coast slinild likewise be, developed. Moreover, the development of our waterway in volves many other imNrtant water pro blems, alt of which should bo coiwiderud a part of Ilia same gcncrul scheme. The Government dam should be used to produce hundreds of thousand of horse power a an incident to improving nav igation; for the annual value of the un used watcr-pvMser of the United State perhaps exceed the annual value of the products of all our mine. At an Inci dent to ciVfitlng .the deep mutcrway down tho Mississippi, the Government should build along it whole lower length b'wes which taken together with the control of the. headwaters, will at once and forever put a complete stop to all threat of flood in the Immensely fertile felt region. The territory lying adja cent to -tho Mississippi along it lower !mii will thereby become one of the (most, prosperous and nonulous, a it al- ready is one of the most fcrtik-, farming 'region in all tlio world. I have appoint- I-.. 1 .. t..i-...f ,., r- "1 HH llllllllll 11 l.,T WU.) 9 IVUIIMIsaiMU tu study and outline a comprehentive scheme of development along all the line Indicated. Later I shall lay it report before the Congres, Tn addbon to the foregoing paragraph the President also favora the preserva tion of our forests; a removal of the tariff on wood pulp; regulation of min eivl bind; government construction of tho Panama canal; the adoption of a postal savings bank system; the exten sion of th parcel poet to cover rural routes; local government for Alaska; Federal control of public grazing lands; other paragrapli treat on irrigation, farmer and wage worker; eight-hour law 1 compulsory invesftlgaitian of in dustrial dispute; accident on railroads 1 employers' liability; injunctions and their abuse In luoor disputes; enforce ment of all law; the revenue ami tariff; Hawaii, l'orto IticO) the pthilippines; mining; home of Andrew Jackson; Vkksburg National park; the 13th census; the public health; Presidential campaign expense; national art gallery; blologicul urvcy; ocean mail service; the army 1 tit navy; foreign affair; the Hague conference; Cuba; the Jap iinese exposition; the German tariff agreement ; China and Chinese tuJents; Mexico and Central America; and the International Bureau of American Re public. 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HAMMOND..... ..WABRENTON ...Ar "'.XT ...Ar 1".'lt U.05 U.81 12.40 12.40 p.m. I 1067 115.7 118.1 iLT. WARREKTON Ar ....GBABHART 5KABIDE Ar. EOLLADAT IT Miles I sa I 2S t tt 1H.1 79.7 78.S es.s 58 M 8 47. 40.4 19.S 19.S 18.4 xm.ip.m.sjn. 12.1610.001 It lO.BSi t.4tf S 10 401 s Vt B t-W S3. 7.6 7.4I 7.1 17.t lot 18 4 18.4 8.4 1.0 o.e 10.15! 1005 9.62 9.81 .li), S.20 I. IS 7.041 t.m 7.t6 (.861 7.611 7.451 7.42 T.41 7.88 7.281 M H 14SII net. 7.271 6.671 (.46 l.l.4 I.101SJ I.OSjlSJt ft, tA is tt'.XH.0t 12.2MM. 12.10it.U 11.2fH. Ml. 6.00lML3 . 4.w!w;idfjs p.m.Kt.m.a Kos. 20 and 28 run from Astoria to Clatsop Beach ria Ft Sterena. No. B runs from Portland to Astoria and Clatsop Beach direct. No. 24 run frsaa Portlaiid to Astoria only. No. 80 runs from Astork to Clatsop Beach direct. No. 21. 28 and 29 run via Ft Sterena. No, 23 runs from Clatsop Beach to Astoria and Portland direct Additional train will b run from Astoria to Ft Stevens and return on Sundays, leering Astoria 11:30 a. m arrire Ft Sterm 12:26 p. m. Returning leave Ft Sterens 2:00 p. m., arrives Astoria t:4S p. as. Trains marked run daily; f Telegraph stations. . CONNECTIONS At Portland, with all transcontinental lines. At GoUs, with Northern Pacifie Railway Co. At Astoria with steamers for San FraacUa nj Tillamook and Dwaoo Railway & Navigation OVs boat and railway. Through tickets sold to and from all points in the Bsst and Europe, far further particulars apply to, R. H. JENKINS, Gen. Ft & Passngr. Agt, Astoria. On, There is Ossiy Ono Thzt I 3 Lmiatiuc Mronm Quinina USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURB A COLO III OWE OAT. Always remember the full name. Look for this signature on every box. 25c. Morititig Astoriait .... o . 69c per moHth. f A dose at bed time usual- Ilrt rOlT " 1 lOl ly relieves the most severe iLILS? 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