Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-09-18

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ports amounted to $2,647,179, no ac-
curate statistics as to source being
available Peru imported $1.09S,509
worth, $7S6,214 of which came from
| the United Kingdom; s159.081 from
Germany, sSS.690 from Australia. and
$55,05S from the United States.
"a direct benefit to the people of
the United States from the European
| war will be its eff
resources OF feet in making the
American Mines. people of this
country realize to
a greater. extent the value of its
mineral resources" says Franklin
K. Lane, secretary of the interior.
"Of an Importance second only to
that of the food supply says Mr..
Lane, lis the supply of mineral prod
ucts necessary to meet the require
ments of notwithstanding civiliza-
| ton. One of the first effects of the
war has been to make US realize the
| interdependence of nations in The mat
| ter of food supply. Most of the coun-
tries now at war are dependent upon
| importation of foodstuffs, and we have
cause for self-congratulation in the
United States that we are able to
| feed ourselves.
What we have possibly not so fully
realized is that we are nearly as indie
pendent in the possession of essential
mineral resource, and that the inter-
| ference with manufacturing caused by
| interruption of the flow of importa-
lions of many necessary raw mate
rails may be overcome almost wholly
by development of neglected re-
sources in our own country.
"The main difficulties to be over
come are in the Encouragement of the
distribution system necessary to 81
tablished this independence. Business
is established along certain we'll
marked channels, and usually follows
the line of least resistance. 1t has
been easier, and perhaps cheaper, 20
import mineral products and mate
rails from other countries than to
go to the trouble and expense de-
veloping our own resources Of the
same nature. Forced to the latter
course by the suspension OF COM
merce with other countries, 7 believe
that American enterprise and energy
will almost at once turn to the devel-
opment of the native resources, rather
than permit production to lag and sup
ply to be diminished in any Industry"
Receipts from internal revenue, In
Guiding the income and corporation
taxes, were larger
u. S. Tax Brings in the fiscal year
in Big Income. 1914 than ever be-
fore in it's his
tory, according to a preliminary re-
port by the commissioner of internal
revenue.
From all sources, other than income
and corporation tax, the collectors
brought in $308, 1927, 619-less by $780,
335 than collections from similar
sources the previous fiscal year.
From the corporation and the in
come tax, however, they collected
ST. 1881 ,275, surprising the revenue
from the corporation tax in 1913 by
more than $36,000,000.
The total internal revenues amount
ed to $3.50, 008,S94 to June 80, 1914, or
about $35, 100000 more than the
previous fiscal year. The principal
item of decrease was in the tax on
distilled spirits, which fell off by $4,-
7S1 ,165.
From the corporation excise tax the
government received about $10,671,-
OF; from the corporation income tax
about $32, 456,663, and from the indi-
vidual income tax about $28,253,535.
New York state paid about $62,0O0,-
900 in internal revenue taxes and ILL.,
nois about s61, 100000, Kentucky was
third with about $35,000.000, and
Pennsylvania fourth with $33,000,000.
Legislation now pending in congress