“Look at England,” says Collier’s, in effect.
England pays $100,000 to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, $35,000 to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and so forth and so on.
Well, let us accept the invitation, and look at England.
Who pays the taxes in England? We know who pays them here. With us the poor man pays the tax.
When he covers his nakedness, when he satisfies his hunger, when he builds his house, when he buys tools to work with, he pays an outrageously oppressive Tariff tax.
Rockefeller pays no more Federal tax than is paid by many a one-horse negro farmer in the South.
Morgan pays less Federal tax than many a Western corn-grower who fed his stove on ear corn in 1891, because it was cheaper than coal.
Blessed are our millionaires! Those of them who are neglected by Congress are tenderly cared for by the Federal judiciary.
Blessed are the rich!—they run the government, and the common man pays the bill.
Look at England!