Joseph H. Choate Quotes
... communistic, socialistic ... as populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.
Referring to principles underlying the income tax:
Joseph H. Choate, 1832-1917, U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, President, New York State Constitutional Convention, Quoted in Dulles, The United States Since 1865, University of Michigan Press, 1959
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The Income tax had been ruled Constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1881, but the then “new” Court—the one that would render the Plessy v. Furgeson decision—was a more conservative one. By a 5-4 partisan decision, the Supreme Court reversed itself and killed the income tax until a Constitutional amendment could be passed 19 years later in 1913.
This is a classic quotation of political techniques during the Red Scare of the 1950s and 60s and to a lesser extent continues today. Whatever a politician disapproves of is labeled as Communism or Socialism. If a major communist documents was in favor of the target of the politician, that is offered as ‘proof.’ At the time this statement was made, almost every single one of the democracies and dictatorship that were in the Anti-Communist block led by the U. S. had an income tax. There were a number of communist countries that did NOT have an income tax. Racial discrimination was prohibited in many Communist documents, so any one who urged an end to legal discrimination was accused by Southern segregationists of being communists and urging communism for America. See {619998} for the same technique used for the same opposition to the income tax almost a century earlier.
Many American ideologues assumed that the Chinese Communist Revolution would lead to an economic collapse. They did not realize that historically a competitive business economic system had been operational in the Chinese culture for thousands of years. In reality the economy was however really being suppressed somewhat by the Mau style of communism. When Deng loosened up the economic rules in China, their “Communist” system not only functioned as it had under Mao, but then thrived and China became a world economic power in just a relatively few years.
The Republican convention delegates tended to be older than the Democratic convention delegates.
Joseph Hodges Choate Jr., was an American lawyer who chaired the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, a group established in 1927 that promoted the repeal of prohibition. Upon repeal in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt named Choate the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration (FACA).
