The Income Tax Decision

New York, 1895

The income tax law turns out to be a tax that only the poor must pay. Senator Hill said it would be so in his opposition to the bill. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that rents from real estate and the interest on state and municipal bonds are not subject to taxation. Thus the millions of the Astors, Vanderbilts and Goulds will go free of taxation, while every person who has an income of over $4,000 from his labor must settle with the revenue collector. It makes the odious law more odious still. The next Congress should repeal it.


Boss Youngs

Boss Youngs seems to have joined the Guerilla Gang at Albany. Is George Wallace working with the gang? He is not at the Capital attending to the county's business, for the Supervisors have never given him that authority.



Abuse of Supervisors

The Standard continues to misrepresent and malign the board of Supervisors. The reason for the Standard's malignant abuse of these honest officers is that they refused to let the Standard swindle the county out of $255. The people understand the situation perfectly.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 12, 1895, p. 2.