Had this policy arisen on account of a general condition existing in the country that the public mind seemed to think re!luired remedy or relief. or if it were for the purpose of trying to adjust conditions In all the States of the Union. not merely one. it would be a little more pardonable and less reprehensible. But we all know well why the 80 per cent clause was written into the law. Last year and the year before and for several years past there las b)een a great tide of immigration from other States to the State of Florida. There has been a marvelous growth and development in that State. Men and women have gone there from throughout our entire country. They have gone there oil account of the advantages and opportunities which they thought they would enjoy by changing their domicile to the Sunshine State. They have gone there as pleasure seekers and as home seekers by the hundreds of thousands. Tlat State has enjoyed a prosperity and growth un(qualed throughout all the history of the country. and this .fact seems to have Impressed some Congressmen and some Seiiators with the idea that Congress must belittle itself and attempt to cheek the tide of immigration to Florida and If possible retard the growth and development of the Peninsula State. It seems that it appeared to them that the only convenient method of trying to check Florida at the present time was to write a clause into the tax bill. which by indirection was intended for no other purpose than a step toward the control of State taxation by the Federal Government. These foes of State rights said: We will write a clause Into the bill and try to make every State in the Union Iniliose an inheritance tax.
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