The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-10-22
ONE HUNDRED MILLION
DOLLARS WAR TAX
Will Prove a Sieve Through Which
the Resources of the Nation Will
be STRAINED.

IhS ASSpuOllSdH party anu llS represent
atives in Congress do not stand opposed
to any financial move that may be press
ed upon the government through the
extraordinary condition that exists in
Europe. The war tax, were it in fact
such, would be patriotic tax. But
the spectacle of the country seeking to
raise a hundred million of dollars of ad-
ditional revenues by means of internal
taxation, is one that causes statesmen
and economists to issue their challenge
and that should cause the general citi-
zen to reflect upon the outcome of Demo-
cratic administration of the revenues of
the country. Here is a war tax propo-
sition in times of peace. The people of
the United States will support it in any
form it may be assessed because thew
see the plight of the Treasury. But
they do not and will not concede that it
is tax that should be necessary. The
figures show that the reduction of rev.
enues, despite the exaction of an in
come tax have been shamefully below
what they were before the Democratic
so-called competitive tariff went into
effect. The reduction of revenues
from the tariff prior to the outbreak of
war were such as to lead the admins
tration seriously to consider a bond is
sue to make good the loss. 1t is an
open secret that no administration in
recent years has been more popular
with the element that is styled distinct
lively Wall Street. the element that
knows no party and is in business for
the sake of securing from the govern
m ent all the benefits that it can secure.
A big bond issue would have been fat
for their frying pans and they see that
this must eventually be resored to if
the Democratic administration of the
country is maintained.
The war tax will prove sieve
through which the resources of the
country will be strained. The money
will run out and the needs for more
money will arise. In a word, the tariff
is deficit producing measure and the
Democrats have neither the courage,
nor the loyalty nor the patriotism to
confess it so and to go about revising
it. Such revision would not need to be
upon the basis of war conditions in
Europe, as revision was imperatively
called for prior to the outbreak of the
boc civ
aggravated by the situation arising
from that conflict. Here then is the
Democratic administration seeking to
put through-a will put through-a
special war tax that will prove to be
only of emergency value and furnish no
permanent relief.
Senator Borah says the present tariff
and the practice of extravaganza will
inevitably lead to the passage of another
revenue measure. One OF the serious
additions to the cost of government
that he points to is the creation of an
Interstate Trade Commission that will
cost the government not less than a
million dollars annually. He also point
ed out that the cost of running the de-
partments of the government was three
million greater than for the average of
all the years of Republican administra-
ton.
The sitting of the facts is going on
and the public.is becoming enlightened.
1t is not question of whether the So
called war tax is not necessary. But it
is not primarily required as an out
growth of the failure of Democratic
financial measure and administration.
The people must not be deluded as to
the facts. They must appreciate the
necessity for return to the principles
of government of the Republican party
and through these to lift the nation
from the slough of deficit in which it is
laundering. The tide of extravaganza
must be Steamed and the country can
be saved in these respects only by an
emphatic announcement of Democratic
results, through the coming election.
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