The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-17

as the distillers and brewers pay into the Treasury.
 'The distillers and brewers aren't | anxious to have the levy repealed l Uncle Sam gives them a measure of
 prof"ction against the enforcement of l cer T state laws in return for the | tax. They are willing to pay it.' | Pence proposes to solve the prob | lem by repeating the measure and | substituting as revenue producer | the income tax. He has figured out | that this will more than cover the | receipts which the government gets l from the internal revenue taxes. He | contends that it will give the states
 free hand in dealing with the liquor | problems.
 l The former congressman is planning | a non-partiSan campaign of education | to put his plan before the people. He | will head. a delegation which will meet | Roosevelt and try to get him to en-
 dorse the scheme. He also will seek
 the approval of William Jennings 1 Bryan.
 1 Are the members of the Life-Saving 1 Service, who patrol the coasts day and | night in all kinds of storms and after a period of. enlistment as soldiers l and sailors? This question is being | decided now in Congress and the life- savers have found an ardent champion | of their cause in the Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, whose department | directs their efforts.
 1 Defining retirement as granted to ] the Army and Navy as 'thee acknowl- ! edgment by the Government of mor- | al obligation on account of past mer- 1 itorious service, and a compensation l for the loss of earning capacity in- l cured through injury, disease or the l devotion of the productive years of life to the performance of duty Sec l retary Mac Veagh. writing to Sena- 1 tor Frye, Chairman of the Senate | Committee on Commerce, says: Relative to the dangerous nature | of the service, it may be said that the risk of death, injury and disease in- l than that of the soldier Or naval sail or. If his service is less dangerous in time of war, it is much more so in time of peace, which is the generally prevailing condition that has been in- terrupted but four times in our na- tional history.
 Extra hazard, therefore, is incurred by the soldier and naval sailor only at intervals of many years, while the perils of the life-saver run through the entire period of peace as we'll as war. Every enlistment of the life-sav-
 
 posture to extraordinary danger, while the vast majority of those who enlist in the Army and Navy do so with scarcely a prospect of mourning the dangers of war service.
 "The life-saver's habit and course of life are very, similar to those of the soldier and naval sailor. He is enlisted for specified term of ser vice after a rigid physical ,examina- tion-to which is added professional one not required of the soldier and sailor-is subject to rigid discipline, to constant guard duty, the perform ance of daily drills, and when occa- patrol of the life saver, however, in-. volving long, difficult and wearisome marches in all conditions of weather, is one of especial hardship and expos ure which finds no parallel in the corresponding duty of the soldier and sailor.'
 In this connection the Secretary points out the admirable adoption of life saving stations for military out posts or pickets and recalled the good work done by them in the Spanish American war, saying:
 'They formed the principal part of the Naval Coast Signal Service throughout the campaign, and accord ing to the report of Captain John R. Bartlett, U. s. N., Superintendent of the Coast Signal Service, rendered aid of great importance by advising the Navy Department of the movements of government vessels by means of the Service telephone lines, which are connected with the general telegraph systems of the country.
 "It was at the lifesaving station at Jupiter Inlet that the message of Cap tain Clark of the battleship Oregon was received when he made land off i6rna ho Cof a rix al of his ship, with all on board well and ready for battle. In a few moments the welcome news was in the hands of the Secretary of the Navy.
 Had the vessels of the enemy seri- ously threatened the coast, the ser vices of these station crews would have been invaluable in making prompt discovery of their appearance and notifying the authorities at Wash ington and also in transmitting or ders and intelligence to and from our own fleets.
 "The military disicpline of the Ser vice. the familiarity of its men with the International and service signal codes, and their training in keeping an alert outlook, eminently fit them for such duty. Upon the occasion of any future war the stations would be again utilized in the same way, which, in case of an attempted invasion by theenemy, dould subject the men to the actual dangers incurred by sol- diers in time of war, since the sta- tions, on account of their importance as outposts, being on the skirnish line as it were, would be the first to invite the attack of the enemy for the suppression of their activities.
 ''Indeed so well is the availability and usefulness of these life-saving stations understood by the Navy that cooperation with them is already pro- vided for''
 Referring to the principal objection raised to the proposed legislation, namely that it might prove the open ing wedge in the creation of a pension list for civil employees of the govern ment generally the Secretary says that the foregoing ought to dispel this apprehension as the arguments would apply to no other civil branch and would seem to justify the grant by Congress or the same rates and