The West Side Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1893 Page: 4 of 4
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federal taxation
The federal government at 1 r« *«nt
recognizes two general systems of tax-
ation. First, duties levied on import.-
of foreign goods, called a tarifl. Sec-
ond a specific tax levied on <•« , inin
manufactured articles, which is known
us the internal revenue tax. A taritl
tax is a tax upon consumption. ' 11'''''
who consume the article upon which
the duty is levied pay the tax. If a
poor man consumes as many of the ar-
ticles bearing the duty as a rich man
he pays as much tux to the fcdernl
government, although one may l ' a
pauper and the other a millionaire.
Corporations, except they b< consum-
ers of protected articles, pay no tariii
tax whatever, yet a largo per cent of
the wealth of the country is invested
in corporations, such as joint stock
companies, railroad corporations, loan
and trust companies, insurance com-
panies and other combinations of capi-
tal: although they enjov more of the
protection of the federal overninent
and are sustained more bv the perma-
nency of our federal institutions than
private individuals, yet. contribute
nothing w hatever to its support in the
way of a tariff tax.
The internal revenue tax i- a direct
tax upon liquors, tobacco and ole«>m;i
gar inc. Those who consume the o nt-
ticlcs pay the tax whether th \\ 1
millionaires or paupers. All of tlio
capital of the country inv ' ''1 ii; <
poratlons are exempt fr< it >t x lor
tboy are not consumer^ of an\ article
bearing the internal revenue tax.
It is an established prine pie lai-l
down by all political economists that
every individual should contribute
to the support of the government to
which he owes allegiance in proportion
to his ability, that is. in proportion lo
the revenue that he derives under the
protection of the government.
The wealth of this p>vernmeiit do-
not pay its proportionate share of the
federal U\ xatlou, and b\ the continu- ,unity
ous system of taxing the poor and e\-1 pr< uc
empting the rich for a Ion;- - ri. • of
years has resulted in the accumula-
tion of vast fortunes in the hands < f the
fow and in poverty and dlitre of the
man v.
In the preparation of the tariff bill,
the ways and means committee f the
House are confronted with the fact
that if they attempt to redeem the
pledges made to the people in the dem-
ocratic platform adopted at t hiea^o
and to reduce the tariff upon all the
necessaries of life, there will beau in-
sufficient revenue to support the '.ov-
erninent without providing some other
means of raising a tax. They have had
several measures under consideration,
to meet the deficiency but the one lik«
ly to be reported will be an income tax
that is a tax upon the income or annu
bill embodying the principles of an in-
come tax, or devise some other jne-ion
to compel the weiliih of the country to
contribute to the support of the • ov-
erninent, it will have the support not
only of the united democracy of the
west, but men of ail political partie-
who believe in equality in federal tax-
ation.
The revolution in Brazil is <iraging
along, but a revolution in Sout h Amer-
ica is not as destructive of human life
us a foot ball game in t his count .\.
The Democrat is a farmer
paper and will in the futurt
the past, be a
their interests.
careful guardian of,
"We favor commercial relations
with all nations, upon equal terms,
ever willing to give a fair equivalent
for advantages re< ived. Martin
Van Huron's message to < ingress.
That was the democracy of 1880 ; nd it
democracy of the W ilson hill.
HP WAS ALWAYS "'ON
_-Truth.
THE MOVE."
inmiil(
allow in
want
rnment
Al the To]> < l 31011 ill Ilium1*
America lias her !•* rononiical observ-
atories upon Mount Washington and
Pike's j.eak, whi re ti e t la rmometer of-
ten slid« down to lo be'ow zero. Eu-
rope has 1 ad nothing to match these un-
til now. w h< n the «1 mpletion of the ob-
bervat' i y upon Mount Blanc brings her
into line with progn - sive America.
The establishment of Mount Blanc ob-
servatory is an event of unusual interest.
The building itself i* in a measure a
house under the snow. The structure is
88 feet high, but only about 13 feet of !
this is visible. Th^rest is buried within ;
snow walls. Itwasii^ ndrd to construct
the house upon a sc i.-l rock foundation,
but the projectors bored down and down
through the ice till • ! • me I as if they
would never find a solid foundation.
After boring down 25 feet into the snow
and ice, they found themselves still at
least .30 feet from solid earth and gave it
up, concluding that they could not in any
caso get a much solider base than that
afforded by t lie granite hard snow and
ice cap of the mountain.
The iir>t materials for the building
Oklahoma Lumber Company,
DEALERS IN
PLASTER;' BUILDING PAPER, ETC,
EISTI3D
OKLA.
R. KIRKPATRICK.
BRUCE SANDERS.
KIRKPATRICK * SANDERS.
ATTORNEYS
' and thei
c( ngr« >-
in one y<
its mone
wlio prefer to pay up. It would make
more taxable property, relieving- the
cities aud towns, and tho (V ulopment
of tin; country would bo much more
rapid. Alva ('hivnipif.
ready boon tiled Hi
more thiui half tin'
tilings
ofilc •
tier* of
feud >. i
murder
The t
tlio ht rip ovt
mil will resu
fton ending
nd Woodv.i
I (lift the
II onemities
bloodshed
Sugar Bounty.
.- ugnr refiners of this country
<poring to make a big kick ti
ritmnu* Llm-nln, I .1 tin r of tin, Dimmt-t-
I ml or, Wim of u Migratory IiUpoHltlon.
riie country has heard much of the
oddities and weaknesses of Thomas Lin-
coln, lather of ti " Liberator; liow lie wan
ever 011 thi move and invariably sue-j were carried up the steep paths upon the
ci■otled in making about as bad a location backs of men. Afterward windlasses
were rigged, and a part drawn up in that
way. The lionse itself was built in Paris
in sections and shipped to Chamonnix.
The complete structure is in the shape
of a pyramid. This ^ives the greatest,
strength. At this death cold height only
anthracite coal will furnish heat enough
to keep lb*.frost 1'.it, even in summer.
It is not intended to inhabit the observa-
tory except in warm \vt ather—from May
no .i.c.un.Mw .. «■ ...o ... ... to November. The rest of the year the |
ffoTttiv !. v 11ml InrllftTifL liiiA heen L'iven i.i lone pyramid will take care of itself.
Automatic then; meters and barom-
eters will, however, tell tlio story of
weather and temperature when no man's
eyo is there to note it. Automatic elec-
trical transmitting wire-; can convey the
report to C'hamonnix the year around.
The thermometer registers sometimes :
80 to 10 below zero at the observatory.
Tlio building will have shelter and rooms
for tourists, so that the ascent of Mount
Blanc will now be undoubtedly more
popular than ever. The next step will
be to construct a railway up the frozen
heights. With the observatory already
Special Attenticn to all Matters Before Territory Courts,
United States Land Offices and Townsite Board.
ENID,
OKLA
7he Leading Bottiing Works in the West.
tit the
eniovul
m;;.' :i r at kI tie ■ v 11i r< ;• Um
Wilson bill if that elans
on out. There has lie
f th
the United States Tr
passage « I ti 10 McKinl
bounty i n
> dofent the
j not rttriek-
paid out of
• the
usury sine
y bill more than
11 ton. dollars to the sugnr
tind refiners of the Unitec
•venteen millions of it h:i
;mt in the yearn of JW)2-93-
great, monopoly, the sugar
d the greater portion
States. Sc
been paid <
and that i
t tiM. has l
of it. It Is not to bo wondered at that
9
with such lawi upon our statute bock
The Wilson bill provide- that thi-
bounty shall be gradually abolish" J.
one-eighth taketj off each year until it
is removed. It should have been re-
moved at once, for it would be juntas
reasonable for Congress to enact a law
giving to the farmers of this country
ten cents per bushel for every bushel
of wheat they produce, as it is to giv--
to the sugar producers two cents per
pound upon their sugar, yet this is the
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president.
WHERE LINCOLN 8 PARENTS DlKD.
as circumstances allowed His lifo in
Kentucky and Indiana has been given l.i
minute detail because his son was still
with hiin then, but very little has been
said of his various removals in Illinois
His first location was in Macon county
a few uiiles from the present city of
Decatur, "in the timber," as the phrase
was, for in those days no one imagined
that the prairiis would be settled in the
lifetime of living man. Indeed several
of the early gazetteers of Illinois stated
that "those broad grassy plains would
remain for ever as common grazing
grounds for adjacent farmers. In a
few years, however, it was discovered
that the priiries were more fertile than
the woodland, and Thomas Lincoln was j
Scda Fop, Mineral Water,
Ciders, Etc., Etc.
Can Supply 1 lie Trade n1 all points on short notice.
E. S. DOUGAN&CO
all in a fever to tnove again, and did i th«®. ,llis should be an easy matter.
In It'll he made a second removal, but
to what, pi :ce is not recorded, as lie did
not remain lo K. "Hostill listened/'says
Hernd' ii, "to the glowing descriptions
of prosperity in «.ljacc:;t counties
His third and last move was to the new
est part til Coles county, then called
(Joosu Nc t prairie, near the |iiv;-pn!
hamlet of Farmington and eight utiles
south of Charleston, the county town
His last plaintive utterance to his fa
mous sun was that his little tract til
land bore "the usual incumbrance a
mortgage for A200.'
Then Mount Blanc will be robbed of its
terrors, perhaps of its fascination too.
THOMAS & HOBBS.
Livery, Feed,
AND
Sale Stable
Special Rates to Commercial Men
ENID, O. T.
What l>i(l He I)o It For?
A very disagreeable looking figtire in
tlio shape of a man lately applied for ad-
mission to tlio private office of a wealthy
gentleman. The gentleman was a "self
made man," though not particularly
proud of tlio job. But when the dirty,
whisky smelling and disagreeable look-
ing creature wished to see the gentle-
man he was not admitted. Thereupon
On the 1 m h of January, 1H51 lio died )ie went away, his breast swelling with
tbi re III the a;;o ui .-venty three years bitter anarchistic feelings, declaring that
and eleven days. l> rom a lot tor u rit ien his old friend, whom he had known fa-
the followin-r November by Ahrnhnm ... .1111 , 11„„< 1
, , r 1 . miliarly in vouth, had become a bloated
Lincoln to Ins stepbrother, Johnston, we 1 , u- u
lean, that . > writer ;,;i 1 tlio mortgage ' aristocrat, and had "snrronnded himself
and second "the e;>'u in forty acres for with a cordon oi fltinkjs, refusing
mother." There the president cleet saw longer to see plain men.
her early in 18G1 for the last time, anil The fact that the plain man in this
there she died April 10, 18(10 A hand I caso was now a common tramp, wlio
gome lnarble shaft erected by Robert T only wanted to see the successful man in
Lincoln marks tlio burial place ol t lit? order to beg from him, was a view of tho
ATTENTION!
VETERANSl
OBHBtKD 1
PENSIONS,
Liberator's father.
j ii n
al net earnings of indivldual.i and of , •
corjK)rations. It lin- boon suggested
that no one shall bo subject to an in-
oome tax who does not havo an annual
income of more than $1000, anil that a
certain per cent shall be levied on all
income in excess of this amount.
Tho principle Involved in this kind
of a tax is a just one in as much as it
compels those who are the most bene-
fitted to contribute to the support of
tho government.
It is estimated that 25,000 people in
the United States own thirty-two bill-
ions of the wealth of the country. \
this vast sum of money under our
present system Is almost entirely ex-
empt fromfedoraltiu tioii. An ii-mme
tax would roach ti is wealth uial would
lift the burden of tExai on from the
]Mior and put it iijh'ii the shoulth i of
those who are most able to bfar it.
This is no new theory upon the sub-
ject of taxation. It is the same prin-
ciple that was recognized in the tithe
tax of tho Mosaic law. Knglnnd lias
raised a portion of her revenues by a
tax based upon this principle for many
yoars, and wo lia\ i a pre, , dent in um
own country. July 11,1803 Congress
passed u measure for the raising of rev-
enue to carry on the war that was in
all its essential features the same as
the income tax that i- likelv to be
Populists and Tariff.
. I Now that the great tariff light i
we will watch with somcint rest to
what position the populist inenihr.
jf
upon the question.
It will be remembered that the people's
party platform took no position upon
this vital question but spoke of the
subject of taxation as a "sham battle"
between the old parties. Hut wo will
soon come to a "show down" upon tin
tariff question and wo will see whether
these would-be champions of the rights
of the laboring men, or with the peo-
ple, or with the trusts and corporations.
Major Moses Neal, alloting agent for
the lviekapoo Indians has succeeded in
enrolling about 150 of them leaving on-
ly about 100 yet to bo enrolled. Iiig
Jim, the Shawnee, has been up in the
Kickapoo country trying to persuade
them not to take their land in allot-
ment, but he ha • 1> en ordered off the
reservation. As soon as the enroll-
ment is completed the Indians will re-
ceive their lirst payment upon their
land and the work of allotment will be-
gin. Major Neal has built a log house
for winter quarters and will staj with
the job until they are all allotted. The
reservation will not bo opened for set-
tlement before next April or Mtiy.
The Wichita country will likely he
opened at the same time.
Consolation.
Now, us tho brown leaves softly fall
Ami round about the pavement swirl,
In memory sweet «lo I recall
My Bumuior £irJ.
Their wedding hells l ing merrily—
I envy not her wealthy churl.
Site never was and ne'er can be
llis sninmer girl. Life.
It Worked.
Fond Parent (on suburban train)—Does
mother's little Tessie want a nice banana?
Tessie—Met I do!
Fond Parent—Then, cry, pet, real hard.
There's a dear little girl on the other side
of the aisle with a paper sack full of them,
and she'll give you one to quiet you.—Chi-
cago Tribune.
Living I p to It.
Husband—My dear, don't you think
we are living rather too extravagantly?
Couldn't you practice a little economy?
Wife Good gracious, John, I do. There
hasn't been a bargain sale for the past six
months which I have not attended.- IV, K.
& Co.'s Monthly.
Every Time.
The prophet hath a curious way
His wonders to perform,
For ho predicts a sunny day.
And straightway comes a storm.
—Kate Field's Washington. I
Correct.
Teacher (hearing arithmetic class recite)
—Mike, if* you should see seven birds on a
tree and should ,-hoot three of them, how
many birds would remain?
Mike—Nary one, mum. The rest o' them
would he lift her fly in away. — Boston
Courier.
If Congiv^s should pass an enabling
act this winter it would be eighteen
months or two years before Oklahoma
could l>e admitted. We would first
have to call an election to elect mem-
bers of a constitutional convention, and
the convention would have to meet and
form a constitution; this constitution
adopted by the ways and means com ",m!d U,}" -,,l nitt" < l" the peo-
ple for their adoption or reie, Hon, and
case that did not occur to the fellow who
had wasted splendid natural gifts in deg-
radation. The world was jnst as wide:
and fair to him as it had been to tho
rich man when they two started.
A pathetic poem has been much copied
lately describing how a wealthy lady of
title passed by in her carriage without
recognition:
Your old time love in sad disguise,
The tramp.
That followed you with longing eyes.
What did he go and be a tramp for?
There is something melancholy in tlm
fact that from now on, in spito of the
enthusiasm of the G. A. It's, in rallying
their forces, there will be a steady ami
rapid falling off in tlieir lists. The same
is true of names on the pension rolls. |
The declino is already apparent. In the;
two months from July 1 to Sept. 1 there
was decrease in tho pension list of 1,004 |
names. Comparatively few of these
were of those who had been suspended j
from tho lis t pending investigation, so
it must bo concluded that death has j
been busy with the old soldiers the past
summer.
A remarkable feat of mechanics was
recently accomplished at Hamburg. Two
of the great iron steamers of the Lloyd
company were sawed in two amidships,
and actually pieced out to give them ad-
ditional passenger room and tonnage.
Fifty feet of heavy iron and woodwork j
were spliced upon the separate ends, then
they were put in place again as neatly
BOUNTY
BACK PAY,
AND
COMMUTATION
OR RATIONS OBTAINED.
Certificates of Service Procured.
gum oi Desertion Renioved
TEN
■it ' ammv ■ ,zr?E5&Fs ltchs
Years Experience in Pension Office
\Y
CALL ON OR ADDRESS
At Kcgular Intervals.
Patient Old Lady (to elevator hoy read
iiiK dime novel)—Ucw often does the ele- and sccurely us they had been at first,
vat or go up, hoy
Elevator Hoy—It goes up at the end of
I .F. HENSLE / & BRO.
every chapter, ma'am.—Texas Sittings.
A Dilemma.
I've lost my heart this summer,
Ami I'll never get it back,
For I don't knon w ho 1ms got it-
Tom or Jim or Will <>r Jack.
—Harper'i Basar.
Tuhen Literally.
Mot her—Clara, I can't tell you how
shocked 1 was to see you kiss that scamp,
Jack ManU \
Daughter Why, mamma, you told me
to set my face against hint.—Truth.
Basil Loekwood, the heroic colored |
man who rescued a number of clerks
from death at the timo of the Ford's
theater disaster in Washington, has re-
ceived at least a small recognition of his
service, lio lias been appointed a mes-
senger in the United States war depart-
ment at Washington.
418 2d Street. N. W
WASHINGTON, D. C.
mittee today. This system of luxation
raised many millions of dollars from
those most able to Ix'iir it: but soon af-
ter tho close of the war, by a comblnn
tlon of enterosted parties this liill was
repealed and capital has been exempt
from federal taxation ever since.
If tho democratic party will fram a
If adopted Congress could then passu
bill admitting the territory into the
Union. By that tiino iioarK all of the
land in old Oklahoma will lie patented
and snbjnet to taxation and all of the
remaining Indian reservations will he
settled. Congress should not delay in
this matter for we aro entitled to
the consideration of that bod v.
"If this thing keeps on, I'll go and get
married," exclaimed a Philadelphia
working girl who was out of employ-
ment. "I'd rather do that than starve."
What are we coming to when girls only
'c.i- 1\ -Oh, well, Mi- accept matrimony instead of starvation?
you know, everything
United States senators ore old enough
to know better. Morrill of Vermont is
8a. He is tho eldest, and the average
ago of this frisky and pesky old body is
68 J years.
The trouble at Washington is too many
opinions.
Ala., .N<>!
Mr. l.ingal
Marie, in tlti:
goes.
Miss Muriel 'iineillgwi arily at the clock
—Some tilings deii't.—Life.
"Slourtlern Takiii In."
Thy farmer has a little tin,
Which ho has saved with c
All summer he took honrih-r
And now taki * in the full
Xrv
C. B. WEEKS.
Attorney - at - Law.
Enid. - Okla.
Will prnctlce in all the eotuts. before the
1'. s. land otfleo and department at \\ ushltiK-
ton.
HOTJSTIN JAMES.
ATTORNEY-AT-I AW.
OFFICE NKAII OKMOCUAT OKI H IJ.
Kit id. O. T.
W. S. DENTON.'
DENTON & ('
ATTORNEYS
ENID,
T. C. CHAMBERS.
IAMBERS,
AT LAW.
OKLA.
Legal blaine^ in all
fore tho land olliee
tended to.
•ourts and be-
carefnllv n4-
F. E. McCLANE,
Physician J Surgeon
tin-il l. Ni aii I imi i
Enid.
Okla.
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