In this land of the free he must pay the Tariff tax, or go naked, eat grass, and live in a hole in the ground.
But let us “look at England” again.
We see her operating her Post-Office, carrying parcels as well as letters. She does not allow express companies to amass fortunes by robbing the people in the carrying of light freight.
Thus she makes $70,000,000 instead of letting the corporations make five times that amount.
She owns and operates the telegraph lines, and makes $18,000,000 per year instead of letting the corporations make it.
What, therefore, is the net result of the “Look at England”?
We discover that the government supports itself upon the possessions of the people rather than upon their necessities.
Give us the same system of taxation—compel those who possess the wealth to pay the expenses of government—and I, for one, will say, “Make the salaries what you will so long as you, who make them, have to pay them.”