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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-11-15
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-11-15

United states District Judge.
United States District Court District q
New Mexico,
l. Harry f. Lee. Clerk NJ the United states
District Court for the District ~ New Mex
leo, do hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is true and correct copy OF an
order Of court filed In the office Of the clerk
and entered Of record In the minutes II
said court ON the 2lst day Of October, 1916.
Witness my official signature and the seal
Of said court this &st day Of october. 1915.
HARRY T.. LEE,
(SealD Clerk
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
By CONGRESSMAN EDWARD KEAT-
ING. of Colorado,

Washington, D. c., Aug. 21-The
new revenue bill, framed by demo-
cratic ways and means committee and
passed this week by a democratic
house of representatives, is one of the
greatest triumphs of the democratic
administration. Every dollar will
come from the purses of those who
are most capable of making the con-
tTibution-the very rich men of this
country.
An increase In the income tax will
produce more than 100000, 900. An
inheritance tax is expected to produce
$17, 000.0 900 the first year and $54 ,000,-
600 each year thereafter, and a tax
on munitions of war will bring in ST.
600 900 while the European war lasts
A total of $225, 900, 900 of new revenue
and not one dollar levied on the nec4
essitfes of life
The passage of this bill marks a
fundamental change in our fiscal leg
fslation. Heretofore the cost of con-
Quoting the federal government was
met by the imposition of taxes which
increased the cost of the things men
must have in order to sustain life.
Men did not contribute in proportion
to their wealth but in proportion to
their consuming power. Every time
you purchased a hat, or a suit of
clothes. or a pound of meat or sugar
for your table, or furniture for your
home, or Cgiar. or sack of tobacco,
a certain sum was added to the price
On account of the tariff or the internal
revenue tax. OF course, you did not
know you were paying something for
the upkeep of the government, be-
cause the manufacturer quietly added
the tax without annoying his customer
with discussion of the matter But
every dollar of the vast total required
to keep Uncle Sam in business came
out of the pockets of the consumers
1t was the indirect, the republican, the
easy way Of raising revenue
One Of the worst features of the sys-
tenn was that it took as much from the
poor man as from the rich We all
agree that every citizen under the flag
should contribute his just share Of the
money needed to keep that flag flying
in security over nation Of free peo-
pie. But no one will contend that the
man of moderate means should give
as much as the multi-milIionaire.
Yet 1T was not until the advent of
the Wilson administration that any
serious attempt was made to equaIize
the burden by compelling wealth to
bear something like its just share.
The masses Of the people still con-
tribute to the support of the govern
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
PROPERLY VETOED.

1t is generally understood the pro-
vision in the army appropriation bill
exempting retired army officers from
punishment by court-martial had its
origin IN an army squabble. It was
slipped into the bill in conference and
passed without discussion, so that the
bill was ready for the presidents sig
nature before anyone outside the inner
circles in congress knew that the ex-
emption was there.
The bill was one Of the most impor-
tant measures of the session, but IT is
now back before congress without the
presidents signature and must go
through the legislative mill again sim
ply TO get this pestiferous child OF
trickery out of it.
1t will come out, because 1t Will not
stand the light of discussion and can
not again avoid that light. The presi-
dents veto message is a conclusive
argument against Chairman Hays
plan to turn every disgTuntled officer
on the retired list loose to stir up dis
sension and weaken discipline in the
army. 1t shows clearly that retired
officer is something more than plain
citizen. He IS, by more than one act
of congress, an officer of the army, re-
ceiving pay as an officer, entitled to
wear the uniform, subject to the or
ders of his superiors and liable to the
call to service.
What sort of discipline should we
have in the army if a retired officer,
ordered to report in Washington, were
permitted to write to the newspapers
telling why he thought the president
fool when he made the order? The
president is commander in chief by
authority of the constitution, and, as
President Wilson points out, congress
gets out of its constitutional sphere
when 1t makes a retired officer part
of the army but exempts him from
army discipline
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
PAPER SCARCITY

The scarcity of paper has become
such a serious matter that when chem
ical week is celebrated in New York,
from Sept 25 to 80. the American
Chemical society and the Electro
chemical society. as well as the mem
bers of the American Pulp and Paper
Makers association, will go into the
paper situation thoroughly The Off
GERS of these associations say that
great deal of information is likely to
be developed in reference to the flu
ture of paper. They also say that
whether paper is to be cheaper or
more expensive is a matter entirely of
chemistry. The American Chemical
society recently issued the following
statement:
Paper is expensive nowadays for a
number of reasons. The demand is
great Formerly we imported large
quantities of sulphite pulp "a needed
ingredient of nearly all papers, news
papers requiring 20 per cent of it,
from Sweden and Norway. We make
some here, but not enough. We can't
get Scandinavian pulp now; they're all
sold out. Chemicals needed in the pa
per industry have scared in price, and
so has copper, of which large guam
titles are needed for the screens In pa
per uldCulllc6 men, paper L1CiEtSt .
are very human and like to get the
highest market prices for their goods.
and in this they apepar TO have sue
ceeded And we Americans are just
beginning to learn how to utilize our
waste products.
The uses of paper are extending
very rapidly Bags made of spun pa
per are a growing Swedish product,
and American manufacturers are be
ginning TO produce them. Coffee bags
are made of a single strand, open
weave, with a sheet Of paper pulp in
side. Onion bags are being offered.
Several firms are engaged in making
some very attractive furniture of wa
terproofed paper reeds woven over
wooden and rattan frames. The Swedes
are making a three-stranded spun pa
per rope for general use that is we'll
spoken of. Paper horseblankets sound
queer. but they are being made. Fire
proof fabrics sound still more odd. but
they are making them, nevertheless,
on a paper basis. Cement sacks are
announced as coming soon. The Jap
anese, who are the most expert of all
in the utility Of paper, are making avi-
ators' suits of oiled paper that are very
light and resistant to cold"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23

the race, it goes without saying. is
quite as important as mans. The old
notion, too, that suffrage and service
go hand in hand is a sound one, and
women may well appeal to II. though
ii has long been invoked against them.
The war in Europe has forever set at
rest the notion that nations depend
in times of stress wholly upon their
men. The women in Europe are bear
ing their full share of wars awful bur-
den in the daily activities Of the
struggle, and more than their share
as sufferers. Their fathers and hus
bands and sons are fighting and dying
in the trenches, but they have taken
up the work on the farms, at the mill
and in the workshop and counting
house. Theq bury the dead, care for
the sick and wounded, console the
fatherless, and sustain the constant
shock of wars appalling sacrifices.
From these hideous calamities we in
this favored and beloved land of ours
have thus far been shielded. l shall
be profoundly thankful if, consistently
with the honor and integrity of the ma
ton, we may maintain to the end our
peaceful relations with the world.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON,
ITO the officers and members of the
Jane jefferson club of Colorado"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
WILSON TO AID WOMEN.

In a letter to the Jane jefferson club
Of Colorado. the pioneer organization
of democratic women voters in the
United States. President Wilson eX.
plains fully his interest in woman stuff
rage and pledges his support of the
cause along the lines of state action.
This letter was delivered to the club
at its banquet recently held at Denver,
Col. by s. H Thompson, assistant at
torney general. who went TO Colorado
on this mission for the president. The
letter follows:
The White house, Washington.
Aug :. 1916. My Dear Friends: I
wish I could meet you face TO face and
tell you in person how deeply I ap-
preciate the work your organization
has done and purpose to do for the
cause of democracy and popular gov
eminent.
Il am told that yours was the first
woman's democratic voters organiza-
ton in America. and I am sure that as
such it must have been the instru-
ment of impressing your convictions
very deeply upon the politics of your
state.
"One of the strongest forces behind
the equal suffrage sentiment of the
country is the now demonstrated fact
that in the suffrage states women in
terest themselves in the public ques-
tions, study them thoroughly, form
their opinions and divide as men do
concerning them It must in frank
ness be admitted that there are two
sides to almost every important public
question, and even the best informed
persons are bound TO differ in judg
ment concerning II. With such differ
ences of judgment, it is not only nat
ural, but right and patriotic that the
success of opposing convictions should
be sought through political alignment
and the measuring of their strength at
the polls through political agencies.
Men do this naturally, and so do Won-
en-, though il has required your prac-
teal demonstration of it to convince
those who doubted this. In proportion
as the political development of wom-
en- continues along this line, the cause
of equal suffrage will be promoted.
Those who believe in equal suff-
rage are divided into those who be-
lleye that each state should determine
for itself when and in what direction
10 extend the suffrage and those who
believe that il should be Immediately
extended by the action OF the national
government ny means Of an amend
ment TO the federal constitution. Both
the great political parties of the ma
ton have in their recent platforms
favored the extension of the suffrage
10 women through state action, and
10 not see how their candidates can
consistently disregard these Official
declarations. ! shall endeaVor to make
the declaration Of my own party in this
matter effectual by every influence
hat ] can properly and legitimateIy
exercise,
'Women's part in the progress OF !
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
SAFETY FIRST.


ASLEEP at the switch" Is a phrase,
Enthusiastically American, that con-
veys the idea that some one has made
some great error. Some one was
asleep at the switch" and the train
was wrecked, lives were lost, traff1c
impeded. And yet every man
must sleep some time. If he is forced
to remain on duty long enough every
worker will sooner or later be found
asleep Without any consideration be-
ing paid to the mans side of the ques-
ton, one of the workers that the pub
lie cannot afford to have asleep on the
Job is the railroader. The lives OF
thousands are in the keeping of rail-
way engineers every day. The rights
of way of every modern highway are
lined with signals. If one is disre-
garded a disaster may ensue. The
public cannot afford to run the danger
of having an engineer at the throttle
whose brain is numbed by fatigue and
who is likely at any moment to go
asleep And neither can the public
afford to run the risk of travelling in
the care of conductors and brakemen
who have been worked to the break
ing point The railroad men
of the country, in contending for an
eight-hour day, are not contending
simply IOT themselves 1HSy are
part of the great railroad machine that
must protect millions of travellers
every year. 1t is essential that the
machine have no weak links.
The rails must be adequate to bear
the burden upon them, the roadbed
may be built along scientific lines, the
cars may be of steel construction and
the locomotive may be the last word
Of the skilled builder, but If the en-
gineer weakers all OF the other pre-
cautions are rendered unavailing.
Railroad men say that IL and 16 hours
on the job involves too great a strain
under modern conditions. There was
a time when an engineer could pull
out of a station with g. through train
knowing that he could run for miles
without encountering a signal of any
kind Nowadays the engineer cannot
allow his attention to flag for min
ute. He has longer trains to haul,
larger locomotives to handle, more
signals to watch. His job has been
growing with leaps and bounds. AS
a result of the changing conditions
railroad men are asking that their
working day be cut to eight hours
Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat.
AN IRISH PATRIOT.
The following letter from Patrick
H Pearse, the president of the Irish
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
The Daily Story
Striking Firstly Elinor Marsh.

could not bring herself 10 rnaka 4,
After trying various methods ~ -,
II out OF her Tom wrote dozen nansos
on a slip Of paper, showed them -
her and asked her N the name N ~
other man was among them a.,
ran down the list TIL she came y
Legrand Atwood, when the exuresst,.
changed Toms eyes we're fixed nns.
her, and he saw that he had rot nv
secret.
"That1l do" he laid. tearing mn n.
paper. This name has been concsaf-
ed from me by your mothers ordsr.
because she does not consider ma
proper person 10 critlciss the man 49,
approves instead Of me I wifi M.
honor the party by considering hin, =
rival for your love. But your nofhs-
is right in assuming that from NV
past position toward you / am not
competent witness against "a man uho
has downed me. / have but one 20.
quest 10 make OF you"
What is it?" said Lucy in an Al.
most inaudible voice.
THAT you take no definite actin,
with regard TO Mr.. Atwood for ons
month from today"
Lucy made the desired promise. And
Toms manner changed toward her a,
once. When he left her he assumes
none OF lovers privileges, simpIv
pressing her hand. Lucy begged hin
wood. She had met him during a ylsIt
to tell her how he had hit on Mr. A.
to another city and was not aware
that Tom had ever heard OF him Tom
declined for the present 10 crafty her
curiosity.
90 g.
when the status was suddenly
changed. Mr.. Atwood was arrested
for misuse OF the mails, the charge
being that he had sent circulars and
received moneys for investments In a
fictitious company.
Lucy at once sent for Tom. This
time her note began, Dearest Tom"
and ended, your loving Lucy" Tom
answered the summons at once.
Did you know anything about this"
She hesitated
Rascal" supplied Tom. Il did
heard through a chum OF mine that
during your visit 10 A. he was en-.
deavoring 10 be attractive 10 you; that
he was lavish in his expenditures and
was under suspicion. When l parted
from you recently I made Inquiries
and found that several persons whom
he had swindled were getting after
him. l then simply waited for what
has occurred"
1T was very unkind OF you not 20
tell me OF your suspicious" said
Lucy. pouting.
You mean that IL was unkind OF
me not to tell your mother of them
through YOU" was the smiling reply
That was the end OF the opposition
to Tom as a husband for Lucy, and
they were married.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
New York World.

The republican national committee
is circulating editorials printed in the
World while Mr.. Hughes was governor
in praise of his administration. 1t can
find many of them, and it is welcome
to make the fullest use of them.
When it has finished, perhaps the
committee will try to explain not ONLY
the extraordinary change that has
taken place in Mr.. Hughes but in his
supporters.
The independent press OF New York
which supported Mr.. Hughes as gov
ernor Is now opposed to him as a can
didate for president. The reactionary
republican press which was his viru-
lent opponent as governor is now sup
porting him as a candidate for presi-
dent
One thing is certain. The World has
not changed its political principles or
its political ideals since Mr.. Hughes
was governor. 1t stands for the same
principles of government that it stood
Tor then. 1t is fighting the same battle
Tor public rights against private inter
ests and special privileges.
The present difference between Mr.
Hughes and the World is that we have
kept the faith while he has sacrificed
II In order to be the candidate Of a re-
dictionary republicanism. II is not the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
THE NEW REVENUE BILL

ment through tariff and internal reve-
nue. taxes. In fact, they are paying
practically as much per capita as they
did in former years, but the demo-
Gratis have refused to add to those bur-
dens by piling on the costs Of pre-
paredness."
That item will be taken care of by
the income, inheritance and munitions
taxes. AS | have explained, the NUM-
tions tax will end with the war, but
the income and inheritance taxes are
permanent institutions-at least, they
will remain on the statute books II the
democrats remain in power. What the
republicans would do with them, if
they should secure control of the gov
eminent, l do not know.
Judge Hughes, the republican can
didate for president, is earnestly OPP
posed to both taxes, and as governor of
New York he urged the defeat of the
income tax. He has not indicated
that he has changed his mind.
During the last year the income tax
produced $124 900 900. AS amended. it
will bring into the treasury during
the fiscal year at least 1925, 900 900.
All of this will be paid by those whose
net incomes exceed $4,000 for married
men and $4,000 for single men. The
records show there are 173 individuals
in this country whose gross incomes
exceed $500,000 a year Their gross
income for 1914 was $246,327 900, and
under the new law they will be com
PEELED to contribute IL per cent Of
that staggering amount, or about $780,
100000, to the support of the govern
ment which safeguards their lives and
property. Is that unreasonable? If
they lived in England they would pay
three or four times that amount
The new inheritance tax law is
really very mild statute 1t will not
erect estates with a net value Of less
than $4,000. The trainers did not
feel that il was necessary to Cypress
WIDOWS and orphans in order to sup
port the government, so they made a
very generous allowance for their
maintenance. The tax is graduated
from one to five per cent, the larger
amount being levied on estates above
$4,000, 900. Some idea Of the number
OF large fortunes in this country may
be gathered from the fact that even
this moderate tax will produce, ac-
cording to experts, $54 100000.
so far as the inheritance tax is
concerned said Democratic Leader
Kftchin during the debate on the bill.
we are only making beginning.
Future congresses will increase the
rates very materially. We did not
feel that we need the money just
now"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23

Tom Barnes received note from
his fiancee, Lucy Edmonds, asking
him to call upon her. There was
nothing in the note except the bare
request, and instead OF being signed
your loving Lucy" IL was simply
Lucy" Tom had noticed GOODNESS
of late on the part of hts fiancee's
parents and had a foreboding that he
was summoned TO receive a dismissal.
He took time enough before answering
the summons to prepare himself for
the ordeal After much thought he
resolved that If he must be stabbed he
would stab first. The principle Of
the superiority of an initial force is
as true in the game Of love as In war.
so on meeting Lucy, without giving
her time to say word he spoke him
self:
We'll, who is the party who is to
take my place."
That's very unhnd."
What's unkind, throwing me over?
Would you have written me that cold
blooded note for any other purpose2"
Worse and worse. Cold blooded
motel What was there cold blooded
about it,"
Let us not waste words. Since
know why you have sent for me, you
need not explain. / come, firstly, in
obedience TO your summons; secondly,
for a purpose Of my own"
Toms assuming the upper hand in
the matter had it's effect on Lucy.
What she had to say to him was really
from her mother, not from herself.
What is it?" she asked IN a low
voice, in which there was suspicion
of tremolo.
ITO ask the question I propounded
when l entered. Who is the party that
is to take my placer"
Lucy made no reply for awhile. She
sat with her eyes cast down to the be-
trothal ring which Tom had given her
1t was on the third finger of her left
hand, and she was turning 1t as
though it troubled her. Thoughts, re-
grets, duty, indecision were coursing
through her brain like water through
fiume.
I've asked you a simple question"
Tom added. 1T calls only for a sim
pie answer"
Mrs. Edmonds, who had worked her
daughter up to do her bidding, had
foreseen that If Lucy gave the name
of the new sutton Tom would probably
riddle him and thus undo all that had
been done, so she had enjoined upon
her child that if Tom suspected he
was thrown over for another he was
not to be told who that other was.
Mother has very Justly said that
you would naturally be prejudiced"-
Il did not ask what mother says.
asked you for the name of the man
who is to take my place"
Whether it was through obedience
or that Lucy shrank from an admis-
sion that he had been supplanted, she
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23
BEHOLD THE CHANGE

World but Mr.. Hughes who is 100
per cent candidate"
In the Hughes of 1916 the World can
find none of the great qualities of the
Hughes of 1908-none of the frankness,
none OF the courage, none of the fervor
or conviction, none of the devotion to
nigh principle. none of the inspiring
leadership. He is merely a republican
ofhce-seeker, lodging and twisting and
eVadlng and angleworming his way to-
ward the White house
Mr.. Hughes cannot complain II we
hold him to higher standards than we
should hold an ordinary republican
mack politician. If Sherman or Cum
minis or Harding or Weeks had been
nominated at Chicago and were MAX
Ing the kind of campaign that Mr..
hughes is making, we should take ii
as matter of course. Nothing better
could have been expected of any OF
them; but something decidedly better
was expected of Mr.. Hughes.
The Hughes OF 1908 is submerged in
the slough of Wall street republican
ism never TO emerge again. No man
can fali from the eminence from which
he has fallen and recover himself If
our friends OF the republican national
committee were honest with them
selves and with the country they would
reprint the Worlds Hughes editorials
not as campaign document but as a
political obituary.