The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-12-04
Formal Opening o.
the ReIChstag
Or. kaempfe, President, conerstu.
lates Germany on the Highly Sat
isfactory Military Situation. War
Profits Will Be Taxed

Berlin, Dec. LINE opening OF
the reichstag yesterday was marked
by an address of welcome by the
president, DR.. Kaempfe, in which be
complimented Germany on the high.
ly satisfactory military situation in
the west and east and the successful
conclusion of the Serbian campaign,
and speech by the secretary of the
imperial treasury, DR.. Karl Helffer-
ich, in introducing bill arranging
for the preliminaries for the taxation
Of war profits.
DR.. Helfferich urged the speedy
adoption of the bill so that no war
profits could escape taxation and he
promised an actual measure on the
taxation of war profits for the next
sitting Of the reichstag in March. He
intimated that it would propose a
graduated scale of taxation based on
the amount of the war profits and al
so would include a tax on incomes
which had increased during the war,
but he gave no indication of the ex-
tent of the prospective taxation.
The secretary said that the govern
ment itself has as yet reached no
conclusion on the taxation rate, and
II would obviously be unfair to make
II confscatory or regard the project
as some wish to do, as a punishment
for daring to make profits during the
war. The primary object of the
measure was to raise revenue toward
covering colossal expenditures of the
war, and for this purpose consider
able percentage of war profits must
and should pass into the govern
ment's Golfers.
The bill was referred to a commit
tee.
Presidents Opening Remarks
The presidents op"ring remarks
to the hou~o ~Nich. as on previous
co-~~,cus, showed large proportion
/ Of members in army gray were heard
/ with enthusiasm. lie said:
while in the west the enemy's
attempt to break through undertaken
with strong forces, failed when con
fronted with the contempt OF death
Of our troops and their commanders;
while in the east the German anC
Austro Hungarian armies hold in al
iron grip what they have won in bat
ties, which were boldly planned ant
heroically carried out; while on thu
Isonzo the Italians by force of arm
are attempting to conquer the leas
part Of what before the war the,
could have got from Austria withou
striking a blow in the Balkans feat
OF arms have been accomplished an
events have occurred which, bot
from. a military and diplomatic poin
OF view, have been carried throug
with splendid and unsurpassed ceI
tainty and which have enabled us 1
combination with our allies and wit
the Bulgarian army, to avenge tn
murder of. Sarajevo and to bring
an end, as we hope, for all time Sc
bian intrigues, which have proved
be so mischievous to Europe.
an close union of arms with III
brave armies of the king OF Bulg
ria and the Bulgarian people, We hay
crowned our victory. We WELDON
this from the bottom OF our hearts
The Serbian army has been triumph
antly defeated. The Turkish arm
has lived up to it's old reputation an
has brought about the failure OF tn
Dardanelles enterprise.
Proud England Worried
proud England Is troubled abol
the key TO her supremacy. All o,
enemies have recognized that we al
invincible on the battlefield; so IL
more eagerly do they cling to the
hope to destroy us economically,
conquer us by hunger. AS they
low them selves to be deceived r
garding our financial strength, whiC
has been proved by the astonishir
results of our war loans, so thu
have also been deceived by their c
innate OF our economic strength.
1--WE have corn for bread. Pot
toes the most important food OF u
people, are abundant. II in 9th
things there may be scarcity
cannot be disputed, yet the hardshi
thus caused to a majority of the poe
est population viii he surmounted
the organization of the provisi
market. We, therefore, financial
and economically, have every reas
to contemplate the future with FL
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