I am not in favor of levying an income tax such as that which was provided in the bill, in times of peace.
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Address at the Armory in Portland, Oregon
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We have made great progress, almost within our own memory, in such ideals.
But there is another, and a very important, reason why the bill ought not to become a law, and that is that in many instances it adopts the principle, rarely permitted in any revenue system, on whatever theory constructed, by which the finished product is made free from duty, and the raw material and the machinery necessary for its production are kept on the dutiable list.
In other words, the resolution approves the admission of Arizona with the judicial recall, unless the voters themselves repudiate it.
It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.





