_Collier’s Weekly_ thinks that the United States should pay higher salaries. Ambassadors do not get enough. Neither do cabinet officers. The President also is underpaid. How lamentable! “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! All right, we now look. This is what we see: _She compels her railway corporations to pay an Income Tax_ upon the assessed valuation of $190,000,000. _She compels the Coal Barons and the marble quarry owners to pay Income Tax_ upon an assessed valuation of $95,000,000. _She compels the landlords, bankers and merchant princes to pay Income Tax_ upon an assessed valuation of $900,000,000. In this manner _she forces her wealthy classes_ to pay on property and income nearly _two hundred million dollars annually_ toward the support of the government! _Her tariff duties are levied exclusively upon articles which are NOT necessaries of life._ Not a dollar of Tariff need the poor man pay to live in perfect comfort. This tariff upon the non-necessaries amounts to $170,000,000. From intoxicating liquors the revenue is $150,000,000. Thus it will be seen, by a look at England, that _the poor man can feed himself, clothe himself, build a house to live in, and supply it with necessary furniture without having to pay one dollar of national tax_. 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_.