Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-15
Tuesday Morning, May Is, 1917.
RAISING WAR TAXES.

RAISING WAR TAXES.
 There is right and wrong way of doing everything. This applies to equitable raising of tax for great an emergency the present time in this country From the press comment throughout the try it would appear that the revered Ways and Means of House of Representatives has lost it's punch" Discrimination rife in the pro posed measure and it is being taken task in every quarter. consequence.
 Embodying some principal defects of the bill the New York Sun, under the heading. "A Monstrous Rev enue Bill in Representatives" prints the following editorial:
 'The bill reported the House of Repre- sentatves by the Ways and Means Committee yesterday is an economic monstrosity
 .'No American objects taxation. Every American expects to pay bleed money for the of the war for direct costs for its sagger ing indirect expenses. No corporation hopes wishes avoid share of the tremendous burden. No complaint that would be heavy has been raised But prospective read this bill and recognize that while demorazing and even ruin- ing industry will fail produce the need that its provisions futile the outcome of dull ineficiency of the children of malice.
 of there is single principal taxation this bill does not violate the commission be credited to oversight part its authors, and their knowledge or good will
 apparently the purpose of the committee to ask for favorable action by this product of stupidity and ignorance in the expectation that ate repair and whip the into shape which submission intelligent citizens to it's terms may be asked with some chance of
 of tho committees conduct is Representatives to be asked once more to abandon function the or ginators of measures for the raising revenue shift burden inquiry discrimination and adjust ent of the Seante This the members of the House have occasionally the past tacitly admitting thereby they incapable of performing their constitutional duty but has popular assembly the presence of situation such the United States today brazenly given it's indorsement to project so inadequate the requirements of the nations for which it spoke so subversve economic laws and defiant of the necessities the draft of a revenue bill by Claude Kitchin of North Carolina -------
 "The manner in which this preposterous proposal reached its present form is revealed by the single in of haphazard drafting. The committee recom- mends that all articles imported free of duty from foreign countries duty of 10 cent ad vaoren shall hereafter collected and that there shall be horizontal 10 per cent in all customs duties imposed by the Underwood tariff law These provisions were unexpectedly agreed to-" according to the de spatches from Washington. And they most unin- telligently agreed to- it must be added
 -"Such method of revising the tariff cannot be sup ported by proteconst trader tariff for revenue only man. The inclusion materials unfinished pro ducts and manufactured articles under classification whatever purpose violates all the teachings of omics and reveals supporters utterly lacking in phlosophic conception of objects and methods o taxation.
 This system of duties must of necessity impose on one industry burden disproporionate to that imposed on others In one case would give unjust advaut age to the merchant the manufacturer. in another it will reverse the improper benefit In instances it would impose prohibitory tax because of which tn. Treasury will he deprived receives In other cases the would be sbsurdiy low and th yield therefrom would fall below the amount tha should be exacted
 he general effect of such tariff imports must be dis turbance of business revenues far under what the,