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The Lamar register., 1917-06-06
WASHINGTON NOTES


-N1NN 80
Washington, June 6. Especial Cor
respondence)-"Here is a pretty state
of affairs: We actually have been
eating off of German plates" ex-
claimed Lord Beresford the other day
while speaking at a luncheon of the
British Empire Productions Associa-
ton at Havery Hotel, London. The
correspondent writes that this state
ment was followed by a succession of
crashes rs the guests seized the
plates and hurled tham to TIE floor.
This association must sec to it that
such a state of things snever occurs
again" declared Beresford.
The joke was or John Bull, but II
pointed to n tariff moral. 1t was an
instance of the conquest which in lat
er years highly protected Germany
had been making of the free trade
English market, not only in china but
in countless other commodities. And
Germany and other countries have
been doing thai self-same thing in
the American market. If you don't
believe it tura your plate over and look
at the stamp oil The bottom.
Al the time he present tariff law
was being framed $4,000 persons were
dependent on the pottery industry in
this country, ir New Jersey, Ohio,
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York, Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland
and Massachusetts,. There is no mo-
nopoly, and, to quote the words of the
chief authority in the industry, Mr..
William Burgess: at IS an industry
in which capital ard labor arc in the
friendliest relations, having learned
that arbitration is better than war
and friendly converse than strike. :"
Ninety per cent of the cost of pottery
represents labor. Since the establish
ment Of the industry in this country
competition has reduced the cost al
most two-thirds to the consumer, at
the same time improving the quality
of the ware Before the war less than
two-fifths in value of the total con-
sumption in tho United States was
produced here, and the average not
profits were less thar per cent on
actual cash invested.
Busy Men Not Dragging
On March 81, the Portland, Oregon,
chamber of comerce gave q banquet
in celebration of the launching Of a
steel merchant ship just completed 1T
that place. The builders Of the ship
took occasion to congratulate the city
upon the establishment Of an indus
try which includes the building Of
both steel and wooden ships, ind gave
the credit for the success Of the en-
terprise to a local banker, ]. c. Aims
The Lamar register., 1917-06-06
Jacks RED CROSS GIRL t
BY JOSEPH 7. Resell.

He, on the Texas border, called her
his RED Cross Girl" we, in the big
government hospital, Merry Sun
shine" Indeed she was to US a ray
of sunshine. Moving among us with
her CHEEKY good morning." she ar
ranged a pillow here and there, while
beaming into upturned faces.
Nature had made her light. She
was light of complexion, and beneath
spotless cap of white, in the bright
morning sun, her light hair shone like
newly beaten gold. She had laughing
blue eyes that sparkled like ripping
waters.
The big ward-our ward-was filled
to its capacity. The sudden call of
the militia to the Rio Grande had ex-
acted its full quota of sick men. AS
each pain-racked figure was brought
in, Merry Sunshine could not conceal
her anxiety. 1t might be her Jack.
dear old Jack, so noble, good and
handsome, who had been one of the
first to leave for the border. Wishing
to be near him and also TO serve her
country, she had followed her sweet
heart the day after his departure, but
many miles still separated them.
One bright August morning they car
ried Into the ward a khakl-clad, de-
lirious figure, who waved an imagin-
airy saber with his unbandaged arm,
shouting wildly, up and at them,
Jack; up and at them. Good boy,
Jack; see them run. They're break
Ing, they're breaking. Wen chase 'em
into the gulf"
With eager, trembling hands she ex-
amined the reglmental number on the
sick mans uniform. 1t was the same
regiment as her Jacks. Was 1t pos
sible this tossing, fever-stricken form
knew her sweetheart
Far into the night she sat by the
wounded mans side.
In the cool quiet Of the early morn
ing n few days later. Merry Sunshine's
attention was rewarded by n gentle
sigh from the new patient. He was
freed of his dellrium and his eyes
slowly grew clearer. A wan smile
parted his lips as she bent over him.
Jacks sweetheart, the Red Cross
GIRL" he whispered Joyfully. Il know
you from the picture in his watch
case"
The Lamar register., 1917-06-06

A number of wealthy business men
are donating their gasoline yachts to
the government. They are tired of
them. There are not enough people
walking around on the ocean and
lakes to make running them down any
sort of sport at all.
The Lamar register., 1917-06-06

worth. Just two weeks later, the fed
eral shipping board announced that il
had authorized builders to ccmmcncc
that governmental agency. Two years
hence the board will be pointing to its
success in restoring America to her
former place az builder of ships.
The department of commerce has long
been assuming, if not asserting, credit
for much work done by Il prominent
New York bank in the development of
commercial relations with South
America. And, since the publicity
bureaus Of the government work over
time at public expense, quite likely
the people of the country will over
look the real accomplishments Of in
dividual initiative and individual cap
ital.
Civil Service Secrecy
The Civil Service Reform Associa-
ton Of New York City has found 200
persons on the city pay roll in viola
ton Of the civil service law. When the
National Civil Service Reform League
tried to make an investigation of the
national payroll, the officers of that
organization were refused access to
the records. Even the Civil Service
Commission, supposed to be guarding
the interests of civil service reform
would not grant an inspection of the
records in its custody. II New York
City officials would only pattern after
national authorities, the 200 illegal
appointments would not have been dis
covered.
To the Knockout
There has been considerable dis
cussion as to the arrangement of the
terms upon which we shall fight Ger
many in cooperation with the allies
and the timid ones who remember
Waskington's counsel against zen
tangling alliances" arc declaring
against any form of a treaty which
will bind US to the nations by whose
side we must fight. A treaty is not
necessary. Great Britain and France
have none. They have an agreement
against a separate peace, but all their
other relations are determined by the
course of warfare. So it may be with
US. An exchange Of notes relative to
a separate peace and providing for
the things which we shall insist upon
when peace is made, will do the trick
John Hay set njar "the open door" in
China without treaties. But some form
of "a gentleman's agreement" against
a separate peace is absolutely essen
tial. For Germany now to make
terms with us would by no means let
us out except for the time being
while it would let US in for untold
dangers later. We cannot come late
into the war and quit it early as well.
We must see it through.
The Lamar register., 1917-06-06

-Decnuse Jhck-SthuOneu long way
from post Office" His eyes closed and
he lapsed into peaceful slumb.r.
"a letter from Jacki Oh, how
goodi" A bell rang the call to duty.
The letter must wait. With n long,
sweet kiss she placed 1t over her
heart in the folds of her Immaculate
uniform.
Months passed and the strained stu
alton at the border had calmly sub
sided. A long troop train pulled into
the station Of a northern city amid
shrieking whistles and the hoarse
shouts OF the multitude upon the plat
form.
Accompanied by the grinding of
brakes and release of air, the train
came to n full stop.
At the edge Of the crowd n fair
faced woman energetlcally waved her
country's flag with a small, ungloved
hand.
Shifting her intent gaze continually
over each vestibule as man after man
descended the expression in her eyes
showed eager expectancy while she
scanned each healthy, sun-browned
face.
Why did he not appear7 Could It
be possible he had not come? 1t was
his regiment. Had anything hap
pened1
It seemed to her tension-wrought
mind that they had all disembarked.
The flag of her country was firmly
clnsped In her hand, as with her head
erect she tried to force her way
through the crowd.
A tall, well-bullt mllltiaman, who
noted the look of anxiety on her face,
politely lifted his hat and asked If he
could be OF service. She thanked him
and explained. In a quiet, even tone
he said, "Passageway, please" The
crowd respectfully fell aside and he
conducted her to the cars.
Merry Sunshine arrived with him at
an open vestibule, just as three figures
started to descend. A big man in the
center, supported by his two COM
panions, saw her coming. He at
tempted to rush forward, but his un-
certain steps were checked by his
comrades, who sang out, STEADY,
JACK, steadyi"
A deep flush of color shot to his
cheeks. His eyes, clear and bright
watched the figure that came rapidly
toward him and eagerly sprang up the
steps. Strength returned suddenly as
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pie OF weeks ago. the British chan
cellor Of the exchequer declined, so
am Informed, to consider an Increase
in the income tax rate, because of the
damaging effect which such increase
would have on the country's business.
In France and Germany the burden
laid ON incomes is much lower than in
England In Canada where war loans
have been raised equivalent on the
basis Of Compartive population To
what would be more than 10000
000, 600 for America no federal income
taN exists AT all.
doubt whether this latter fact Is
generally known in this country and
whether its significance Is rccci,i ing
the measure of serious consideration
which IL deserves.
understand that Il l. the deliberate
policy of the dominion government not
to impose nn income taN In order Ia
attract capital To Canada.
There can he little question that II
our income taxation Is fixed at unduly
and unnecessarily high rates. whilst
Canada has no or only II very moderate
income tax. men OF enterprise will seek
that country and there will he n large
outflow To IL of capital--a develop
mcnt which cannot he without effect
upon our own prosperity, resources
and economic power.
The financial dislocation. the dis
couragemcnt and the apprehension
caused by unduly heavy taxation of
incomes will not only act as "A drag on
enterprise and constructive activity
but will make il exceedingly difficult
If not impossible, for corporations To
sell securities in sufficient volume and
thus to obtain adequate funds to con
duct their business especially also as
Investors will he fearful that high rates
of taxation once established will not
easily be reduced to normal levels
even when the present emergency is
passed
Extravaganza, log-rolling, the un-
wise and inefficient expenditure of
money by governmental bodies are
amongst the bosettinG sins of democ-
racy. The formula once found, the
machinery once employed for the
raising of huge revenues, are apt {,
make the way of wasteful govern
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less OF whether such profits have any
relation to war conditions or not, is
unscientiflc and unsound.
incidentally, II is a strange provi-
sion of that law that II applies only
to cOpartncrships and corporations,
whilst an individual engaged in busi-
ness, however profitable, is not taNed)
II is unquestionably right and in ac-
cordance with both good morals and
good economies, to prevent, as far as
possible the enrichment of business
and business men thru the calamity Oh
war
But the recently enacted so-called
excess profit tax which IL is now pro-
posed to augment largely does not ac-
complish slat. II taxes not merely the
exceptional profit, /. c., the war profit
| II lays a burden not on business due
to war, but on All business
II does this at "A time when It is
more than ever necessary that energy
enterprise, efficiency. the commercial
and financial brain and work power Of
the nation. be stimulated to their ut
most in order To make good. as far as
possible. the waste and destruction
which go with war.
Any scheme OF taxation which Inn
poses an unnecessary burden upon
| commercial enterprise and thereby
handicaps the nation In its business
activities especially in world compe-
/ tition with other nations is unsound
and bound To be gravely detrimental.
both to the business men and still
more to the wage worker; in fact, to
every element of the population.
II is worth noting that England, the
conduct OF whose finances, based upon
! the experience of many generations as
the leading financial power. has always
been a model for other nations to fol-
low, has imposed an excess profit tax
on business during the war merely to
the extent that such profits are at
tributable to the war |. G., to the eX-
tent that they exceed the profits of
normal years.
In principle, direct taxation of busi-
ness activities should be avoided as
much as possible. apart from n war
profit excess tax.
Care should be taken lest the
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(THIS SECrl0N)
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mental spending all too temptingly

mental spending all too temptinsly
easy.
1t must not be forgotten that taxa
! tion must necessarily by that much
diminish the surplus income fund OF
the individual and that both theoret-
ically and actually the spending of
money by the government cannot and
does not have the same effect upon
the couutry's prosperity and enterprise
as productive use of his surplus funds
! by the individual.
The sentimental, and thereby the ac-
tual, effect of extreme taxation viii
not bc confined To the relatively small
number OF people In possession OF very
! large incomes The disturbance and
fear caused by the contemplation Of am
excessively high ratio Of taxation, even
when applied to a relatively few is
bound To spread to those also OF more
moderate incomes.
Capital is pruVerbially timid. II will
not take risks, except in the eNpccta-
/ tion of commensurate reward. and II
/ IL sees the danger of its reward being
unduly infringed upon by taxation, II
/ will anticipate that menace by with
drawing from the field Of constructive
/ investment to the greatest extent pos
sihle and find means to avoid the eX-
/ tremc rigor Of taxation.
So much is this the case that in
cline to the belief that taxation 50
graded rs Ia result In u maximum total
of say ~ i-3 per cent would produce
at least as great a revenue as u maxi
mum of 80 per cent.
1t Is one of the oldest principles of
! taxation that an excessive impost de-
stroys its own productivity.
Tho fiAnH ,r eaattritiag which would
he coming for sale In order to escape
extreme income taxation would create
/ a grave condition OF decentralization IN
the investment markets of the cOun-
try, with the resulting inevitable effect
upon the countrys general business
and upon its capacity to absorb gov
ernment bonds.
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of those qualities OF brain and dispo-
sition which beget success, is rare.
1t Is In the interest of the com
munity. whilst carefully guarding and
fostering the rights, the opportunities
and the WELL being Of all OF its mem
bers, to give liberal incentives to men
possessing those gifts TO put them to
active and intensive use. II is hardly
open TO doubt that, generally speaking,
the work of able men, engaged in scri-
GUS and legitimate business Il am not
speaking of gamblers and parasitcs)
whilst naturally benefiting them, bene-
fits the community great deal more.
The income of hospitals, orphan
asylums, institutions of learning and
Of art and many other altruistic enter
prises depends largely upon the voluu-
tary taxation. aggregating great
many millions annually. to which
those men in America who have at
tanned financial success have always
willingly submitted themselves more
so, probably, than in any other coun-
try.
Who is to take care OF all of those
institutions If extreme taxation COM
pels the rich to cease their contribu-
tions?
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Don't Be Selfish or Narrow
With Your Views on a
Great Problem.
M0NEYED MEN DON'T GAIN
Wrong Impression Abroad
That Financial Powers
Caused the War.
lBy OTTO II. KAHND

In time of patriotic eXaltation
and of universal obligation and readi-
ness to make great sacrifices to bring
a most lust and righteous war to Il
successful conclusion, the voice of
sober argument and matter of fact
considerations is apt to CRATE upon
the ears of the people.
The voice is all the less likely to
be popular when the arguments it
puts forth may easily lend themselves
10 the Interpretation of being ac-
tuated by solicitous care for selfish
interests.
am fully aware that by publish
ing the following observations | am
exposing myself to that interpreta-
lion and to criticism of, and attack
upon, my motives.
Yet, seeing that certain measures
now under consideration threaten to
take shape in IA way which from my
: practical business experience and
after mature deliberation, | am bound
to regard as faulty and as indeed
harmful toNthe country, | believe it
to be right and proper to contribute
my views to the public discussion
OF the subject, for whatever they may
be worth.
| can only hope then that in what
/ am BblnS TO say ! snail ne gwen
credit for endeaVoring to speak con-
sciertiously and to the best of my
knowledge and judgment from the
point OF view of the welfare of the
entire country and not of the welfare
merely OF the well-to-do.
shall address myself to the prac-
tical aspect and to a few phases only
of tho question and shall not attempt
to enter into the economic theories
and the broader and deeper consd-
erauons involved.
shall assume in my argument that
what congress is seeking to accom-
pllsh is to impose taxes justly. eff
tcct'NelY and scientifically with the
desire 10 disturb the countrys trade
and commerce as little as possible
and to avoid as much as may be the
evils Of financial dslOcation.
| shall take it for granted that at
a time-when more than ever the unity
of the country should be emphasized,
sectional selfshness will find no place
in the taxation program, and that
should il be attempted nevertheless
the congressional delegations of the
states which would be unjustly af-
fected would resist, regardless Of
party affiliations, harmful discrimi-
nation against their constituents and
their states.
| shall assume that it is not the
purpose and intent of congress, un.
der the guise of the necessities of
the war situation. TO embrace the
doctrines of Socialism.
our present economic system, our
present method of wealth distribution
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CHAPTER TWO.

There appears 10 prevail amongst
not u few people the strange dclusiOn
that Americas entrance into the war
was fomcntcd by mOncycd men, in
part at least, from Ahc motive and
for the purpose of gain.
Were there any such men, no pub
lie condemnation of them could he
too severe, no punishment would be
adequate. am absolutely certain
that no such hidcous and dastardly
calculation found lodgIncnt in the
brain of any American, rich or poor.
Moreover, is II not perfectly mani
fest that any rich man in his senses
must have known that his selfish in
terest was best promoted by the con-
tmuancc of the condition of the last
three years in which America fur
nishcd funds and supplies to Europe
at huge profits, whilst our entering
the war was bound to diminish those
profits very largely Ondeed, to en-
tircly eliminate some of them). to
interfere with business activity in
many lines and to compel the impo-
sition OF heavy taxes on wealth?
II is to the credit Of our rich men
that, tho fully realizing the extent of
the monetary loss and Sacrifices
which war between this country and
Germany must necessarily bring to
them, there were but very few Of
them who supported the Peace-at
any-Price party or favored the avoid
ance of America entering into the
war when it had become plain that
our participation in that war could
not be avoided with honor and with
a due regard for our duty to our own
country, as to the cause of right and
liberty thruout the world.
Yet somehow, the pacifists seem to
have singled out the rich as mainly
responsible for the war.
1t may be due, consciously or un-
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CHAPTER THREE.
;

The arguments above set forth APP
ply equally TO the proposal of levying
an income tax rising To an excessively
high level, as, for instance, the sug-
gested tax of so per cent on incomes
over 100000. There, again, the test
should be whether so radical tax is
wise and required by the necessities
of the country.
The nations in Europe have been
fighting for nearly three years and
have been under an infinitely greater
financial strain than our country is
or will be, yet none of these nations
have resorted to extreme taxation of
income.
Even i'm Great Britain. wh"ae finan-
iial burner is the heaviest OF an, whose
debt is many times the total of ours
and who has loaned about $1,000, 600,
coo TO her allies the income tax on
maximum incomes is today no NOR,
than approximately 40 per rent
In the last budget, introduced a cou-
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Comments About War Taxation


may or may not stand in need of
change; the fact remains that con
gress has no mandates to effect a fun.
damental change.
The consequence of such a change
would be so immensely far-reaching
that no government has the right to
sanction steps to bring 1t about until
the subject has been fully discussed
before the people in all its bearings
and the people have pronounced
judgment thru presidential or other
election.
/ VIII first s>,te what in my opin-
ion out not to be done:
CHAPTER ONE.
take II that not many words need
be used to expose the fallacy of the
argument. heard even in the halls of
congress: IF men are to be con-
scripted wealth also must be CON
scripted."
Men will he conscriptcd 10 the cx-
tent that IL Is wise and just and need
ful. So, and no other. should wealth
and the country's resources in gen
cral bc conscriptcd.
And. are not the children of the
well-to-do conscripted equally with
the children of the poor?
Indeed, the proportion of the sons
OF the Well-to-do on the actual fight
ing line is bound to be Il predomi-
mating one, because vast numbers Of
wage workers in the industries and
on the farms will necessarily have Ia
be retained at their accustomed voca-
tions In order to maintain the output
of our factories and farms.
Have the children of the well-to-
do been backward in volunteering ?
Were they not, on the contrary,
among the very first to offer to serve
and to fight?
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CHAPTER FOUR.

The tax recently enacted by congress
imposing a burden of per cent on
business profits over and above = per
cent on the capital employed, regard
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-01
WELL KNOWN
IN THIS CITY
Joseph ShuIz Died Yesterday After
noon In Kansas City After
Three Weeks
Illness.

German O'Brien and George ID.
Baur left this afternoon for Kansas
City, Mo-, to attend the funeral of the
late Joseph Shultz, whose death oc.
Cured yesterday afternoon at 500
o'clock. He had been i'll for the last
three weeks with neuralgia of the
heart.
Mr.. Shulz married Miss Grace
O'Brien of Keokuk, thirteen years
ago. He was president of the U. S,
Stock Food company, and quite prom
inent in business way. While never
resident of Keokuk, he was well
known here, having frequently visit.
ed this city. He was about sixty
years of age.
Funeral services will be held IL
Kansas City tomorrow morning with
interment there.