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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1894)
f EDITOR IA I. NOTES THE INCOME*TAX. the expenses < f a pleasure trip t<» JvrUta- lem and gets lauded to the skies for his princely gilt. Who wouldn’t lea Mil lionaire'* .* The people will watch with no little interest the debate on the Income Tax in the U. S. Senate. It is pretty safe to predict that it will not pass. Too many gold bugs in that aristr cratic body. Of course they will be a unit against it But what valid objections have they to offer? Not one that Lafe Pence couldn’t knock out in two minutes. It is true too true perhaps—that it takes money to make money. A man with $1000 can make ten dollars while a man with noth- ing can earn one; a millionaire can gain a thousand dollars as easily as the man with the thousand can add $10 to his wealth. And so it g< cs in geometrical 'ratio. Then is there anything unjust or unfair about a graduated inconiS tax? No one can successfully contradict the fact that as it now is those with sma!i means are taxed out of all proportion t theridb. A “t’l n about” f<rr. fe.v c< n II turies would be no more than fair, fact it would be justice. A tax on th large incomes of the rich will not l»e <»I . pressive. It will ¡»lace th^ burden upon those best able to bear it. A tax on tin incomes of the poor will almost invariably result in a sacrifice of comforts and per haps necessities. In our view’ Congress can ¡»ass no bill that would bring about greater and more permanent relief than a graduated income tax. As said before, the plutocrats will light it but let the graduated income tax ¡»lank be kept in the People's platform. We will work for • it and bide our time. ’ ‘ * ♦ O ♦ — i »* , « C A R N EG 1 E S 1J E N E VOL E NC E Senator Peffer says- “The President a of the United Static and their secretaries of finance have be« n and are now fastened by golden chords to a combination of the worst men in the world. They have stood and now stand helpless in the power of this imperious , plutocracy.” Pcffer has n’t put it any » too strong. The most valuable word in .Jackson county’s legal vocabulary is “inclusive. It Indeed it ¡»lays in to the tune of about $1000 a letter. A treasurer skij s with $6CC0(in round numbers,'of the count) s money. His bondsman very naturally don’t like to pony up. A suit is brought against them by the county. Able (!) lawyers are secured on both sides. I he pleadings are so fixed that the day that the defaulting treasurer entered upon Ids second term of office, and upon which day * about $’1,000 were turned ove r to him, is left entirely out of consideration by omitting the word “inclusive.” As the case now stands Bloomer owes Jack- * • son countv $<»,000. The word “inc’usiv< being left out in the complaint, the .Jud* <• who was both court and jury, deeidtd that the county owes Bloomer $1 I .<¡00 Balance due Bloomer!’».000. The whole affair is a first-class joke ■ n either Bloomer, the bondsmen, the judge the lawyers or or it may be the tax payers of the county, Anyway. f< r * ; s m- “ways that are<1.irk” etc, soniel ody titled to a cake as big as the World s Fair cheese. TO HIMSELF. I ▼ A ' A À • A*!* Carnegie makes a cut in wages in all his great establishments, equal to $‘J(XX) DENTIST, ' a day, then gives $.’»(XM) per day to relieve the poor of Pittsburg. So his laborers (by virtue of the cut) give $9000 a day to Carnegie; the latter donates $o(MX) of this • Ulive <»wi 1'itiik to the poor, retains theothei KMX) to pay P * * p » ’ ▼ V i*» r* » V V » I < < 4 » < I , a A À lA ' ASHLANI». OREGON * •