The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-20
Leading Newspaper Says
sWar Tax Due to Failure
Of Tariff Bill to Pro-
duce Revenue,
.REBUKES DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
FAILS 10 KEEP PROMISES.
Leaders Fail To Carry Out the Prom
ises Made the People In 7aitl-
more Platform.

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The Cincinnati. Enquirer. one of tn
leading Democratic papers Of the ma
lion. rebukes the Democratic part.
or the failure Of the leaders to carr!
out the promises made to the people
IN the Baltimore platform
The Enquirer has the following =
say OF the levying of a war tax" II
i time OF peace:
War Faxes in a Time Of Profound
Peace.
The Administration proposal TO
place war taxes in time OF pro.
found peace upon the American
people and the expected congress
slonaI Endorsement of that pro-
posaI are arousina intense oppc-
sltion throughout the country.
The proposal is not democratic.
Il is not in the interestsSof the
Democratic party. II 10 not In the
interests Of the business ~ the
country. It 10 against the inter
est of the masses of the people of
the country.
There is no precedent for tax
Of this kind under any Democratic
Administration, even when war
was. in progress.
There Is no precedent for the
Imposition of such taxes by . Re
publican Administration, exceptin
times of war or to cover the ex-
penditures of war. 49,
The Democratic plan for dec
ades has been to use the tariff
schedules az revenue producers.
The right, the proper, the cor
rect thing to do when those scted--
uIes did not produce sufficient
revenue was to revise them. and
through that revision produce the
revenue.
The administrator and. its sup
porters in the Senate and the
House have repeatedly abandoned
the pledges Of the Baltimore con-
vention to the people, but when
they abandon the idea that the
tariff 10 for revenue they abandon
the Democratic teachings OF many
decades. "a. \, -
they adopt Republican device
Of direct taxation, but device
only used; by Republicans under
war SIFSS9 " " nsGbNS - 49,
penditures of wars.
War taxes on the business men
Of the country in a time Of pro
found peacel ,s
War taxes on the sick and the
we'll, the young and the old, the
widows and the orphans! s
War taxes on bills of Iadins that
every shipper must pay! War
taxes on the medicines that are
to relieve suffering humanity, to
restore the strength to the weak:
or to heal the wounds and lessen
the aaonies Of. the injured!
War taxes on Industry and the
Industrious, war, taxes on the pro- I
ducers, war taxes on nearly every
business operation, war taxes on
the entire people OF the United
states to take from them 500 ,o0o,-
600 II, cash through these taxes at
the very time Cabinet Ministers
and Senators and consressmen
are seeking approval Of the peo-
pie upon policies of peace and ad-
illustrative econonyi
The Inconsistency of proclaim
ina peace and at the samestlme
Ieyyinu war taxes upon the peo-
Die seems beyond belief, but these
are the cold facts Of this political
paradox.
These so-calied leaders have
placed the Democratic party in
most indefensible position bytheir
abandonment Of the Democratic
platform ID, so many instances, but
not one of such breaches OF faith
will, bring such popular resent
rnent and disapproyaf as this un-
cailed-for levylng OF war taxes and
adding by them to the burdens OF
! the. people.
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