Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-09-18

$27S,S56; France, $97,937; Belgium,
$70,065; the Netherlands, Norway and
other countries, the remainder.
Among the South American coun.
tries having less demand for coal may
be mentioned Uruguay, whose I'm
ports amounted to $2,647,17s, no &C
curate statistics as to source being
available. Peru imported $1.09s,609
worth. $7S6,214 Of which came from
the United Kingdom; $15s,0s1 from
Germany, $SS,690 from Australia. and
$55,O58 from the United States.
"A direct benefit to the people OF
the United States from the European
,,.... war will be its al.
Resources OF feet in making the
American Mines. people OF TINS
a greater extent the value OF its
mineral resources" says Franklin
X. Lane, secretary Of the interior.
"Of an Importance second only to
that Of the food supply" says Mr.
Lane, is the supply OF, mineral prod.
ucts necessary to meet the require.
ments Of twentieth-century 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 inde-
pendent in the possession OF essential
mineral resource, and that the inter-
ference with manufacturing caused by
interruption of the flow of importa-
tons 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 -
tablished this independence. Business
is established along certain we'll
marked channels, and usually follows
the line of least resistance. 1t mas
been easier, and perhaps cheaper, %
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, ! believe
that American enterprise and energy
will almost at once turn to the devel'
opment 81 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. 1911 1914 tn ia , eyer o.. DC.
tory, according to . preliminary re-
port by the commissioner OF internal
revenue. 5e.
From all sources, other than income
and corporation tax, the collectors
brought in $308, 627, 619-less by $780,
1886 than collections from similar
sources the previous fiscal year.
From the corporation and the in
come tax, however, they collected
$71,3s1,275. SURPRISING the revenue
from the corporation tax in 1918 by
more than $36,o00,00o.
The total internal revenues amount
ed to $3.50, zoos, 1874 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 OF by 49,
S1,165.
From the corporation excise tax the
government received about $l0,67l,'
OFT; from the corporation income tax
about $32,456, 663, and from the indi-
vidual income tax about SIS, 253.b35.
New York state paid about $4,000
900 in internal revenue taxes and I'LL
nois about $61 100000, Kentucky was
third with about $35,000,000. and
Pennsylvania fourth with $50, 600, 600.
Legislation now pending in congress
which creates a volunteer officers re.
tirement roll is
War OFFICERS being favor ably
ooo.;oc Awav considered since II
"So"s Is discovered that
the number of those now living Is less
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