The daily sentinel., 1914-07-07
WON RAISE
SUGAR DUTY
Keating Says big Business" is
ThunderStruCk at Big Surplus
Wilson Leaves
d. c., July T.-I
NJ by Edward keating, Con-


w gresham at Large from Colo
RADIO. l-Ou June 80 the treasury de-
partment closed its books for the
first fiscal year under the Wilson ad-
ministration, and found, after all
bills had been paid, the tidy balance
of $50, 100000.
+ This was another bitter pill for
the "standpatters" who have been
predicting that the Democrats would
be compelled to sell bonds to meet
the current expenses Of the govern
ment. Instead OF bond issue, Pres
ident Wilson produces surplus of
generous proportions.
And this in the face of the fact
that we have revised the tariff
downward. have given the country a
modern banking and currency sys-
TEN and are proceeding with the en-
actment OF trust legislation which
will put dishonest business men in
jail and afford honest business men
S ~iae. Fia'a n thsh Legitimate ne-
tiyities.
Through its manipula tion of tariff
schedules, the Republican party
placed the burden of sustaining the
government on the shoulders of those
least capable OF bearing it, The
Democratic party has changed all
this.
A few years ago, Congressman
Prouty of Iowa, Republican, de-
clared on the floor of the house that
a section boss living in his district
supporting a wife and five children
on salary of $50 month, contrib
uted as much to the upkeep of this
government as did John d. Rookie
teller with an income of more than
$4,000, 900 year. The statement
could not be successfully contradict
ed then, because the Republican
party insisted on supporting the gov
ernment through a tax on the neces-
saries of life and the section boss had
seven mouths to fill while the oil
king had only himself and his wife
to provide for.
Under Democratic rule the tax on
the necessaries of life has been re-
duced and has been replaced, at least
in part, by a tax on incomes This
latter tax hits Mr. Rockefeller and
his associates on the tenderest spot
in their anatomies-th pocket nerve.
Dispatches from New York the other
day told how Uncle Sans agents had
collected SIS, 100000 in income tax
/ from the residents of one square mile
/ of Manhattan Island. OF course the
men who paid this money protested
| but the section boss out in Iowa has
not been heard to complain.
! Clark Back of Wilson.
! AS predicted in these letters two or
1 three weeks ago, the effort of Big
Business to block the presidents an
THRUST program has proven a flat
| failure. Congress will remain in
session until we have executed the
contract entered into between the
people and the Democratic party
two years ago. 1t is pretty hard on
those of us who are compelled to
undergo the heat of a Washington
summer but it will enable the party
to go before the voters this fall with
an unequaled record of constructive
Legislation.
This result was assured when the
! Democratic senators met in confer
ence a few nights ago and unani-
mously adopted resolution pledg
ing unwavering loyalty to the pres
idential program. A short time be-
fore the Missouri delegation, led by
Speaker Champ Clark, had adopted
similar resolutions and had present.
ed them to President Wilson. The
speaker : participation III inc I1uNt-
ment was regarded as highly signifi-
cant Since the debate on the Pan
anna canal tolls question, opponents
of the administration have persist
emily endeavored to cause a breach
between the president and the spea k
er They have failed because Will
son and Clark are both big men and
they have demonstrated that differ
ences on minor questions will not be
permitted to interfere with proper
team work on the main issues.
Sugar Trust Active.
The Sugar lobby" has re-appear-
ed in Washington. The old offices
have been opened up, the old press
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