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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-02-13


Miss Bonnie, of Hamin township.
were Extra shoppers Friday.
Mrs. O.. c. Donaldson of Greeley,
Iowa, visited over Sunday with her
fn.ends, Miss Bonnie Young.
Mrs il NJ Carlson is on the sick
'ss',-ssz1' 11s .-.fe
Dorothy Riley little daughter of
G. Riley and wife, was very i'll tn
fsi st OF the week with a grippe. {.
81 Mrs Doll spoo returned home
Monday evening after carving for
the little SON of Hal May and wife.
I. M Rasmussen, Mrs. Susan Spoe
ia son, VIII, and Kirk kme0 were
business callers in Audubon Monday
Mrs Leroy Hensley of Gree.ey
township spent Saturday afternoon
With her friends, Mrs E. B. Holmes
The Ladies Booster Club OF Extra
held a business meeting in the Elk
change Bank, last Friday afternoon.
Mrs. 4. ". Bradley departed last
Tuesday Ter Cherokee. Iowa, to
consult d physician in regard to a
cancer 4
Harvey Jensen went to Atlantic
last Sunday on Ills motorcycle to
take another clarinet lesson of l..
A. Peterman.
The Epwolth League OF the NJ. E.
church held a sociab'e at the Mrs.
John Hicks ST.. home Oh North
Street, last week
Calvin Dimick and family, who
moved to Atlantic last~spring, will
move back to his farm, in oakfield
the first Of March.
Charles Bison il. and Frank
Brown of Brayton, rode up to this
city Sunday and spent the after
noon with friends
Mrs. Kate South departed Mon
day morning for Des ,Moines where
she went to lay in summers sup-
ply of millinery goods
Little Marguerite and Marjorie,
daughters of e. c. Wilson and wife
We're quite i'll last week with La
grippe and complications
Miss Alice Poage returned to
her home Saturday after a several
weeks visit with her aunt, Mrs. j.
b. Connrardy and husband.
Miss Alice Leist attended the
orphean Musical Number, Monday
might, and remained oyer might
with her friend n.al !, Golday Watterson..
Mr. E. d. Powesl' arrived here.
yesterday from ibis home in Law
renee, Kansas. ON a visit with
, friends. He informs US that he
J has sold his interest II 1.-THE garage
J there that aie recently purchased.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-02-13

Clarence Larsen and sister, Miss
oga, sundayed at the Jake Baier@s
home in the country. y
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-02-13

Miss Ward Of Woodbine came to
this city Saturday to visit few
e'ys y y her friend, Miss Johnson.
the teacher in the Fifth Room of
our Public sohoo S.
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Coquettish ParasoIs.

A LTHOCGH practical parasols viii still
"A be made of taffeta. filmy fabrics Ike
chiffon lace and tulle VIII be preferred
for decorative effects Those of gay fab
rics and colCr.ngs will be made without
lace or net covering, but yelled. printed
satins and silks which harmonic with 50
many frocks will be popular. Stripes VIII
be very much used, black and white
framed v tI d wide, black border. wei
as pin stripes with tiny bouquets of prim
flowers flung in between.
A white silk parasoI yelled with black
chiffon has a ruching of white and black
chiffon on the edge. Another model or
this kind is made of embroidered taffeta
applied in points over a deep border or
white chiffon. \ model of emerald-green
silk turns up abruptly all around the
edge. A garden party parasol has CEN
ter of ecru crepe figured with fruit and
flowers, terminating with a wide ruffie
of lace. The gayly ruffied empire parasoi
sets out like the skirts of belle of 1850.
\ palm-siiaped parasol OF white siln is
shirred 80 that the fullness spreads out
between the ribs like a palm leaf. II is
edged with black silk. sunshade
shaped exactly like lampshade is made
Of white chiffon. lace-trimmed. and edged
with crochet balls and black velvet. Also
ON the lampshade order is a parasol Of
gray chiffon, ruched and shirred on its
fiat top, encircled around the edge with
three bands OF black chiffon.
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Romantic Fiction Outdome by Law Proceedings

further thought to the matter, when. IN
idly browsing over his paper ore eNenlnS'
his eye wandered over this paragraph
..Aniline ink was invented in 1869 by
German named -." lie read II
once with no serious thought Iheh- as
he read it again the paragraph hecaihs
luminous with possibilities. What klnd
of ink was the Baca grant written in
was his thought BY permission OF thr
court he had a chemist make quiet test
of the ink OF the grant. and when ne reah
that chemists report lie cabled 10 Ger
tain German chemist in Europe SIX
months after. when the case b\ perihiS-
sion OF the court, was reoPehea on a.
count of newly discovered evidence.
white bea rdcd STRANGER took the stand anu
in ten minutes sent the case oil the haed
heirs out Of court and the heirs them
selves into the New Mexican penitentidrN
by swearing that he was the inventor 81
the aniline ink. that the invention MAS
made in 1863 and that Inc ink IN ~hich
the Bartolemo Baca grant, dated lsl',
was written was aniline.
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more than anywhere else will the man
who can afford the best have chance
to display luxurious tastes-for he can
find underwear of pure silk. costing "a
high as SO a suit. But silk underwear IS
not nearly so fashionable as ii once was,
especially i'm summer, and when II comes
down 10 actual buying il is more than
probable that our mutual friend. 'i~fe-
garding price altogether. will pick ont a
dozen suits of cool thin madras that wiz
cost him lust 81 30 a suit or SIS for the
dozen.
Looking over the various totals OF lhe
man who can afford the best-Sioi Tor
suitings Si1 for shirts. S2i for .ootweai'
Sl4 p for neckwear. 81 for hdndkerchleis,
81 for headgear and SIS for underwear
il would seem that he had been fathet
extravagant. But when we add up these
totals we find that all i'm all he has spent
only S2lS25-iust dollar or - more
than twice much as II cost the man
with only $3.50 wear
Yet certainly nobody can charge INC
latter with having been eNtraNaSaht'
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money was completed in just the nick OF
time for use by the party that had<fong
urged reduction of tariff. but which might
not have been able to materially~ reduce
the tariff had not a means been presented
to raise the necessary money in differ
ent way for the nav of governmental ad-
mnistration yawns continuously, and
nothing short of billion dollars year
will satisfy it.
So the new Congress, pledged to reduce
the tariff may do so to its hearts con-
tent 1t has but to figure out the amount
of money that will be lost by its reduc-
tons and arrange for the raising Of that
money through the tax on incomes. II
has made up it's mind. for instance. that
it may give over the $50. 1000 year ii
gets from its duty on sugar and like al
ditional sum from other sources. 1t is to
sacrifice S1G0.G00,HQ in customs as a
starter This it regards as small
amount and not TO be comp AIRED to the
ultimate reductions. 1t wants to begin
lightly on the income tax in order that IL
MAY not he made unpopular
The ways and means committee there
fore wants to know how many men there
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The protectionists We're forced to take
To cover, to compromise rather than sur
render, to postpone rather than meet the
issue Immediately. They offered corpo-
ration tax in lieu of an income tax. They
offered to submit q constitutional amend
nent providing for an income tax rather
than to allow its immediate passage.
Not even the high protectionists in any
great numbers protested against this, al
though they were receiving mortal
wound. 1t would have seemed that they
were unaware of the end that would be
actually accomplished. Probably they
did not believe that it would ever be
ratified by the necessary number OF
states. They did not even fight against its
ratification in the states.
But the income tax amendment amDled
down the lane and was ratified by one
state after another. The thirty-sixth
state acted soon after the election of a
democratic President and a democratic
Senate The new method of raising
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r AW proceedings are proverbially
dry, but there are some in which
the facts rival the most romantic
fiction and the unsupported climax
bursts forth upon court and auditors
in manner worthy of the most care
full preparation of skillful writer of
melodrama.
About the middle of the eighteenth
century a vessel arrived one day at
an English port from India. The cap
tain reported that while sailing through
the Indian ocean one of his passen-
gers. d man of wealth and rank, had
been murdered and then, for the first
time, accused another one of his pas
sengers, young brother of the muir
dered man, of the crime.
Though protesting his innocence, the
accused man was thrown into prison
and swiftly brought to trial. When
put upon the witness stand the cap
tain swore that about midnight on the
night of the murder which was Christ
mas eve. he had seen the accused leave
his own cabin, creep stealthily along
the deck to the cabin of his brother and
there enter Shortly after, he said, he
heard sounds Of a struggle and, after &
slight lapse of time, saw the accused
ing TO the cabin of the elder brother
he found him dead from stranguation.
On being croSS-eXamined the captain
said that he, himself, was concealed
from the view of the accused man by
the deep shadow cast by the sail in
the light of full moon, while the &C
cused had been compelled to creep in
the light for quite a distance, being
thereby perfectly recognizable. The sec
Ond mate, who testified that he was
with the captain, swore to identically
the same facts.
There was no other evidence. except
the denial of the accused, who. it was
shown. would profit largely by his
brothers death. Just as the case was
about to be given to the jury with the
certainty of conviction. stranger who
had dropped casually into the court
room during the proceedings asked
permission to ask the captain a single
question.
Now, said the stranger. when the
captain had returned to the witness
stand. IF you recognized the prisoner
by the light Of q full moon on last
Christmas eve, how do you. who know
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the fifteen dollar-aweek-man a suit of
clothes.
In buying handkerchiefs, the man who
can afford The best will probably insist
on real linen. Even SO. he can get them
for 81 dozen and. like the others. a
couple OF dozen will probably be as many
as he will want He probably will also
buy half dozen or so fancy silk hand
kerchiefs of varying patterns for occa-
sional use in the outside breast pocket OF
his coat And this will bring his total
handkerchief bill up to 80.
Then, the last item on the list but one:
will come the purchase of headgcar-and
here again the lead of the other two VIII
be followed and the man who can afford
the best will probably content himself
with one straw hat and one Knock
about Instead of getting both Tor
81. 80, however, it is probable that be Will
buy more noted brand OF straw. and
pay 81 for it. and also that he VIII BUY
an imported ''knocka bout which VIII
cost him s.. Total. 81.
Probably in his choice Of underwear
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three pairs. tan. white and black. but
probably he would choose bit better
quality than has been mentioned hereto
fore. and would pay 81 pair for them.
His hosiery. too. would be more eNpen-
sive. His cheapest hose would cost 10
cents a pair and his best hose 81 per
pair. Probably. too. he would have half
a dozen Eairs of each kind, making his
total expenditure for footwear shoes
and hosiery combined S24
Two dozen collars at cost Of s.
would surely satisfy this man no less
than the man with only eighteen
hundred a year. In buying ties 10 go
with them, however the former might
reasonably be expected to outlay consid-
erably more than the latter. Even at
that. though. he ought to supply his
wants with one dozen wash ties OF the
best quality. which will cost him not
more than 30 cents each three dress ties
at Is cents each, and three still finer dress
ties at 81 each. This. including the cost
of collars, will bring his bill for neck
wear up to sl4.25, almost enough TO buy
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REPRESENTATIVE,
CoRDELLHULL
Who Is RESPoNSIBLETOR
Ncor1E TAKLEGLSLATTON
HARRiS EW,naG g
HARRlS EW,NG g

minded Congress that this country
had had on its statute books a
perfectly good income tax law levied
during the civil war and operative until
1871 Through all those years taxes had
been collected under it, If the law was
unconstitutional those taxes were unlaW-
fully collected and should be refunded.
Hull introduced a resolution refunding all
those taxes amounting in all to $346,oO.-
900. Nothing came of the resolution, but
these tactics kept the matter alive.
Finally that time arrived in 1909 when
the PayneAldrich tariff bill was being
fought through Congress in the early
days of the Taft administration. One
night young Hull found himself on a
sleeping car with Senator Bailey. the one
bound for the quiet village of Carthage
and the other for his horse farm in Ken
lucky. The younger man told Senator
Bailey his fervid tale of the income tax.
garnshed with all the earnestness of "A
great conviction. Bailey saw in the sit
uation presented an opportunity to harass
the republicans who were already in a
very delicate position with reference to
the methods of raising revenue. :.
So. in the midst Of the deliberations of
a republican Congress upon tariff bill
that afterward was used club to
mercilessly hammer that party Senator
Bailey introduced an amendment provid-
ing for an income tax.
Much to his surprise it proved remark
ably popular. despite the fact that the
Supreme Court had declared it unconsti-
tutional. Congress seemed strongly in
clined to pass it. That portion of the
Congress that believed in a high protec-
tive tariff and which had long dominated,
realized that an income tax meant that
the tariff would come tumbling about
their heads for here was provided an
other way of raising the necessary funds
and that way was more popular than
raising it through tariff levies.
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something of astronomy, account Tor
there having occurred, on last Christ
mas day. a total eclipse of the sum
Trapped thus in his own circumstan-
tial lies. the captain broke down ana
confessed that he and the mate had
been hired to commit the murder by
third relative. who. upon the hanging
of the younger brother. would have
fallen heir to both their estates free
from all suspicion.
which came UP for trial about 1871, "A
Young lieutenant was accused OF hay
ing forged another mans name to Il
promissory note and obtained money
upon it. The accusing witness produced
the note in question, which was writ
ten upon a sheet of blue-ruled fools
can paper. and dated on a certain day
in 1867.
As in the case above. everything had
gone against the accused and the case
was about to he closed. when the sweet
heart of the lieutenant. who had chung
stanchly to him, and was sitting beside
him at the trial. happened to pick up the
note and hold it in such a way that a
strong light from the window shone
through the paper. There to her JOY,
Mills. 1862 In other words. the note
purported to have been written on the
paper two years before the paper had
been manufa ctured. To add to this ro-
nance, the accuSer, when nifnSeif tried
for his fraud. admitted he was trying TO
ruin the lieutenant on account OF his own
love for the young woman
The year 1869 figures in another strange
lawsuit. In the year 1880 certain per-
sons in New Mexico claimed huge tract
of hundreds of thousands OF acres as the
heirs of one Bartilemo Baca, TO whom,
they alleged, the Spanish government
had, in 1877. made a grant. They exhibit
ed the deed of grant and instituted pro-
ceedings to obtain possession. On the
trial the deed of grant stood every test
of genuineness, and a decree was entered
awarding the immense property to the
claimants. The defense had not been able
to shake the claimants evidence, and to
every one it looked as though the matter
was at an end.
To every one except John Waldron the
attorney for the Santa Fee Railroad Com
pany. VINO had been the principal losers.
Although he had no evidence of the fact.
he was convinced. in his own mind. that
the pretended deed of grant from the
Spanish crown was an utter forgery. For
he broOded over the matter. seek
ing some clue, but in vain.
He had almost determined to give no
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eminent The present idea in the
minds of the members of Congress is
will be steadily increased until 10 and
ID and 20 per cent will be collected on
those incomes that run above 100000
a year. Whenever this tax is pushed
up. these congressman hold. tax that
is being paid by the individual who
can i'll afford it may be reduced.
The present is the busiest Congress that
was ever called in the matter OF ac-
tual tariff reduction. 1t is going to actu-
ally reduce the tariff. because the income
tax will give it means of raising the
money that it will lose by doing so.
Uncle Sam needs his little billion dollars
every year to get along, and the tariff
has been playing prominent part IN
furnishing it. 1t was therefore a difficult
thing to cut the tariff because the gov
eminent had to have the money. Even
the democracy might have been consld-
erably embarrassed had it not had i'm
hand a ready means of leyying sub
stitute tax.
dent. 1t came about because one young
man in the House. Representative Cordell
Hull of Tennessee. was year in and
year out enthusiast on the income tax.
and Senator Joseph W. Bailey insisted
on heckling the republican majority in
the Senate. The story of the manner of
it is interesting.
:: :.
Representative Hull is yOungster just
turned forty-two and has been in Con-
gress four years already. When he came
to Washington from the village of Car
thage in the black land of Tennessee he
brought with him one all-absorbins idea.
and this was that the income tax was
the one great and good and Just manner
of raising public funds. Not only did he
have the idea but he had compiled vast
array of facts to back UP his arguments
and. after arriving i'm Washington, he
studied hard and steadily increased that
array of facts. Whenever, in the dellb-
rations of the House. there was per-
ceptable pause, Representative Hull arose
and addressed that body on the subject
of the income tax.
from Tennessee that legislation of this
sort, being class legislation. was uncon-
stitutional The Supreme Court of the
United States had so declared in 1894 Mr..
Hull remained unconvinced. He re-
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For the great mass ~ this Information
the collectors viii not go To the ndi-
Viduals receiving the money, hut tu its
source. Most men work for other men
on salaries. The employer knows the
saIar. OF each emrloXe. All employers
will be asked To report all salaries above
$1,000 "A year So will the bulk of the
information Ice secured. The individual
will not even be asked for his tax TN.
employer viii be called upon To hold it
out and pay it into the government The
victim will never see a tax collector
There is another great group of in
comes that are based upon dividends
paid upon stocks and bonds. The GOV
eminent may likewise go to the fountain
source and ascertain who is the holder
of those stocks and bonds and the
amounts of dividends. The tax may hr
taken out OF this dividend before ii IS
ever paid TO the stakeholder. There viii
lie a small group Of mon, such those
following the professions. at whose in
comes il will he difficult to arrive.
y
These men will he asked To give in
their assessments. They wiH be care
fully watched to determine whether ~
not they are spending money beyond
a declared income There will be
large corps of special agents of the
Treasury Department who Will watch
this class of man just they now
watch the class of individual who may
he suspected of smuggling. They VIII
get at the facts, and woe unto him
who evades, for he is most likely 10
see the inside of prison.
All of which is very new To Ameri-
can taxpayers of the twentieth CEN
fury. but was familiar TO our fathers
when those fathers had the price. This
tax is likewise an old story in Europe
as ii is in Japan. England having no
tariff. bears down more heavily on thIs
tax than any other country, and her
system is very complicated. The idea
is to begin most simply here. but as
Americans are so stupendously wealthy
a simple income tax Will result most
handsomely. 1t is even suggested that
the percentage of the tax on large IN
comes be steadily increased until 10
or 90 or 80 per cent of the big incomes
be turned into the public treasury. For
what use can a man have for more
than half an income of 320.ooo,too
wear? So might the poor be entirely
relieved of the burden OF taxes.
So we Of the fat pocketbook. stand
up and be counted. There are hun
dred and twenty of your fellows who
are escaping the tax which YOU are
paving For once the man of modest
means has the laugh on him whose
pockets bulge For this special ses-
sion of Congress is after him Of the
big income.
Copyright. 1919. 10y W. A. Du Puy)
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to get into the millionaire class. An in
divdual need have but half a million to
secure the former sum and may still he
comparatively a poor man. Four per cent
bonds to the amount of a million and
quarter would produce the maximum IN
come under this classification.
The people whose fortunes were in
these figures and whose incomes were in
the second classification would be called
upon to pay per cent upon them. The
man who drew down his S20,GtD a year
or a little better would have TO pay each
year $500 to the federal government If
he were so unfortunate as to draw the
maximum income of this class he would
be forced to separate himself from
thousand perfectly good dollars because
of his prosperity.
This individual might have one bit of
consolation. for if his income had been
but a little larger and run above the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. mark he would
have had to pay per cent. for this
rate applies on incomes between $50.
900 and 100000. The stipends paid by
these people Of the third classifications
will range from $500 a year to $4,000.
Then there is the final class, which
includes all people who have incomes
of more than 100000 a year. which
amount. would represent investments
of some two and a half millions. All
these people will probably be called
upon to pay per cent upon their in
comes. Iney Will pay income taxes
from $4,000 for the modest million
aires up almost to a million year for
the men of very great wealth. There
are men of the Rockefeller and Car
negie class. with incomes of $1,000, 900
a year. who would be taxed through
this levy alone 100000 annually. Aft
er bearing this hardship they would
have but little more than s1S,000,00
to pull through the season upon.- I'M
less they went out and made some pin
money in the stock market or happen
ed upon some good investment that
might serve the purpose of keeping
the wolf from the door.
The idea of the income tax that is
just now being framed UP by the
majority members Of the committee on
ways and means is that the very
wealthy should be taxed more heavily
than the poor. even in proportion 20
wealth. Four per cent is heavy tax
as taxes go, but this tax is merely
upon clear money. and applies only in
proportion to the ability to bear it.
Back Of it is a conviction that the peo-
pie who are greatly benefited by the
national prosperity should contribute
largely toward maintaining the gov
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WHAT tie INCOME TAX MEANS

TAX VIII Be Paid by One
i Man Out OF I2o Who
Has More Than $4,000 a Year.
Men of Vast Fortune Like
the Rockefellers Will Pay in
Nearly a Million Dollars
Each Year-The White Flag
of the High Tariff People.
The Work of One Congress
man-Counting the Million
aires-How the Money Will
Be Collected.