South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23
WOMEN MUST BEAR BRUNT
OF WAR ON LIVING COST

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can and must increase our efficiency
and earning capacity and then lay a
little bit aside for a rainy day"
l.. +. Lybarger Heard.
The seven-day program was
opened Wednesday by Lee Francis
Lybarger, celebrated lecturer and stu
dent of economies and the author of
number Of books on social ques
tiOns, with his lecture, "PickpOckets
and Plutocrats."
Preceding the lecture, the famous
Dunbar quartet and bell ringers gave
number of selections which were
well applauded by the large audience.
The DUnbars are clever mimics as
well as talented musicians and sing
ers,. SO that their executions were
especially delightful Their voices
are perfectly blended and their sing
ing shows "a remarkably exact inter-
probation. The instrumental num-
bers. particularly the violin duet,
which is their own ARRANGEMENT from
the opera Madam Butterfly" proved
them perfect masters Of the instru-
ments
Perhaps the most noteworthy of
the vocal numbers was the well known
ballad. Ashes of Roses" by Robin
son. The Southern Lullaby" and
Little Red Drum" were highly
amusing. as was the comic skit, "A
Barnyard Romance" still, Still
With Thee" the beautiful and well
known sacred hymn was rendered
with great feeling.
Repeat i'm Evening.
AS musicians of the bells. the Dun
bars are absolutely unsurpassed, their
evening concert which was given be
fore a large audience. calling for re-
peated applause. The bells mum ber-
ing 200. were manufactured in Europe
and are of extraordinarily sweet and
mellow quality Played in perfect
harmony, the peals furnished a rare
treat to South Bend people.
Mr.. Lybarger has spent years in
conscientious study of economic con-
ditions. particularly the long disput-
ed problem of the tariff, and advO-
Gated the policy of graduated income
tax. rather than tariff taxation, which,
according to Mr.. Lybarger is a sys-
TEN of secret and indirect taxation,
protection only to the home man.
ufacturer. whose products are pro-
pOrtiOnately increased in value by the
tariff on foreign imports.
The consumer. says Mr.. Lybarger,
pays because Of the tariff revenue on
every day necessities. on an average
of so per cent over the value Of the
product 10 himself. The remaining
so per cent goes TO pay the tariff on
the article, a small margin Of which
finds its way into the government
treasury. OF the millions of dollars
extracted from the masses annually
through revenue taxation. by far the
greater number goes TO swell the
riches of private persons.
Poor Always Poor.
the more open forms of plundering
and robbery, but the masses are un-
able To cope with the subtle and
underhand methods employed today
by the unlabOring classes to increase
their possessions at the expense Of
impoverished tOilerS 1t is the eternal
injustice, said Alr. Lybarger. that
those who labor for wealth must re-
main forever poor, while those whose
lives are spent in unearned comfort
and luxury, are rich through the
efforts of the laboring masses.
The belief that the tariff is pro-
lection 10 the consumer. is. accord
ing to Mr. Lybarger, a superstition.
As a secret and unlawful means of
plundering the laboTing mans pocket
when il is impossible 10 commit the
act openly. the tariff should be abOl-
ished. and would have been long ago
II people dCluallA knew the Colossal
burden OF tariff taxation imposed up
on the articles they are forced 10 buy.
Without realizing the millions of dol
| lars they give away annually. they
! feel themselves benefited. even pro-
tected by a system OF taxation which
/ serves TO maintain and build 10 the
fol tunes OF the aristOcracy and a pri-
waite few.
'rhe system OF income taxation is.
' r,a e ~ I
barger. the most fair and just sys-
tenn OF taxation ever proposed. He
believes that the rates should be ca