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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-16

In spite of the fact that II was one
OF the hottest days OF the summer,
there was no shrking or no complains
ing yesterday among members of the
oklahoma ambulance company No /
when IT was put thru two long. siren
uous drill sessions. Realizing their
period of training will be short and
determined to report in condition to
make crcditable showing when the
division is modified on Long Island,
the men are eager to learn and quick
to pick up the training points schooled
into them by their officers
Virtually the entire morning was
spent i'm drill in marching IN squad
and company formations In the ar
ternoon captain Lareau gave another
of his lectures this time on "PhysioIo-
gy,' as applied To the field work OF
the ambulance men.
Following the afternoon lecture an
other long drill was engaged in, which
closed with an hours workout with
the litters. More and more compli-
Gated are becoming the movements
with these equipments. and more and
more proficient are the men becoming
day by day.
Nor were the engineers less busy
during the entire day. Aside from "A
detail which resurfaced the oval of
the road about the parade ground,
the engineers were lined up most OF
the day in squad and company drill
formations.
Men of both companies were put
thru a regular physical examination
yesterday and the medical department
Is constantly looking after the physi-
cal welfare of the men.
The taking of Identification photo
graphs was completed also yesterday.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-16


A. NJ. Burdetto
Howard w. Cooper
David J. McHenry
NJ. Alike Kelley
T.. W. Curron
Chris Mcpherson
Raymond II. Meyer
Roy Delmer Henley
4. II. Wyatt
John 4. Little
il. w. Perryman
! j. Conner
Walter W. Wyatt
win A. Brown
Thomas G. Williams
Luther Arnold
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-16

Oliver Oliver
Irwin Richard son
samuel Moore
Jesse W. Davis
Mercie Kelley
Lewis Casada
Wayne Mikel
j. II. Archer
j. l.. Brown
Lawrence X. Lytle
Walter Adams
r. ID. Trees
Jesse Kersey
Fred l.. Crossgrovs
George Clark
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-16

When you finish reading this pa
per place l-cent stamp on this
notice, hand same TO any postal EN-
rloye and it viii be placed in the
hands OF our soldiers or sailors at
the front. NO WRAPPING, No
ADDRESS. As Burleson. Post
master General.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-16
GOSH

GOSH
After the police officers have su.-
ceeded IL ridding the street corners of
tho evening congregations we suggest
they turn their attention 10 tho male
quartctes who make the nights hid.
'ous when social dutie, permit them
to get together.
The sun., 1917-06-03
BY MARY B. MULLETT.

[" HERE is a man in New York to-
day who is followed by won
dering glances wherever he
goes. If he appears in the lobby of his
hotel men and women stop short with
. little gasp of surprise. If he steps
out into Broadway dozens of heads
turn to look after him.
Yet not one in hundred even knows
his name. To tell them that he is
Benjamin Chaplin would mean nothing
To them he is a great figure out of the
nations history. appearing as by a
miracle fifty years after his tragic
death. He is Abraham Lincoln, again
walking among men.
After the first shock OF surprise
many remember having seen him on
the stage in his Lincoln plays. And
not few of them give shrug of dis
pleasure and dislike. They accuse him
OF having made his resemblance to
Lincoln a commercial asset on which
he has traded to make money.
They do not know of the years of
struggle and Of sacrifice he has gone
through in his devotion to an ideal
which has become q passion with him.
They do not know that when he began
his attempt to present the great Presi-
dent he did 1t without money rewards.
The sun., 1917-06-03
CIVIL BASIS
dhe eunTd

which the public insisted upon having
but which II could very we'll get along
without.
Luxuries were hit especially hard,
but practically everything fell into the
grab net. All vehicles not used In
husbandry OF IN transportation of
merchandise valued at $50 and not ex-
ceeding 500 were taxed 81. up to 5000
they were taxed 81. up to $500 they
were taxed SO. up to $500 the tax was
So. and II valued at more than $500
the tax was $40. Gold watches worth
500 paid 81, those worth more paid 81.
Each pianoforte. organ or other parlor
musical instrument worth 500 paid
81. and the tax rose to s6 II worth
above S400.
Pleasure yachts of ten tons paid IS,
OF more tonnage UP to 800. IL exceed
ing 40 tons: billiard tables were taxed
$40; gold plate paid 80 cents per troy
ounce. silver plate cents per troy
ounce Cosmetics, matches, perfum-
cry and playing cards were taxed from
4 cents a package to 80 cents. Jew
elry, gems, parasols. umbrellas, hoop
skirts. millinery, hats and gloves,
dresses all paid a proportionate tax.
Such a tax levied now would result IN
Fifth avenue paying into the Treasury
perhaps a hundred millions a year.
It Is easy to get an idea OF this taxa
ton AS revenue producer ~ applied
on Injuries now. Think OF the revenue
such tax as was imposed on musical
instruments would bring II imposed
now. The highest tax on carriages in
1865 was $40. Such a tax II imposed
yearly on the 100000 pleasure auto
mobiles and graded as to cost would
produce an enormous revenue. As
Stunning tho average cost as $500 the
tax would produce ss6,00o.oo0 a year.
but running It up on a scale of cost
price 1t would produce several times
that amount. Such a tax as was i'm
posed on gold watches and jewelry
would produce many millions. Prof.
seligman of Columbia University says
that II luxuries were taxed now as
they were during the civil war the
revenue would be $4,000, 900 900.
Nothing escaped the tax gatherer
under this act OF 1864. Licenses were
taken out by bankers, auctloneers
wholesale dealers. retail dealers. horse
dealers. liverymen. pawnbrokers, real
estate dealers, distillers, custom house
brokers. hotels. inns. eating houses
oonfectioners, employment agencies
insurance agents. pedlers. butchers,
apothecaries, tobacconists, circuses
Jugglers. bowling alleys. owners of
stations. physicians. builders, contrac-
tors. gashtters, plumbers--these all
paid license fec Of from 50 to $40 and
then a percentage on their business
Newspapers paid per cent. on gross
receipts for Advertisements. telegraph
companies paid 6 per cent. on their
gross intake. Express companies paid
3 per cent.
Railroad tickets were taxed in pro-
portion to the Journey. Water trans
portation paid per passenger from
nifty cents TO one dollar up to fifty dol
lars fare and an Additional dollar for
every fifty dollars. Every bill Of sale
receipt, conveyance. transfer contract
or insurance policy paid Its tribute OF
from five cents up into the dollar liz I,
according to the amount involved
The sun., 1917-06-03
When Chaplin Knew the Pinch Of
Actual Poverty.

When Benjamin Chaplin talks of rid
ing in a cab and dining In a private
room he is dealing with the years after
success came to him. There had been
the earlier prosperity when he was
giving his dramatic representations.
But between the two there were years
so lean that he and his sister, who has
been at his side through It all. knew
the pinch Of actual poverty.
They were poor because they were
obsessed with the Lincoln idea. At
any time. II no had given that up. he
might have gone back to his old work
with its ample rewards. But he would
not give up. The time came when
they could not pay their rent; when
the gas was turned OF because they
could not pay their bill for lights. A
friend offered them the chance to oc-
cupy a house In the country as care
takers. But they did not have even
enough money to pay their moving
expenses.
When that crisis came Mr.. Chaplin
went to the lyceum bureau and took
an engagement just long enough to
enable them to settle their bills and
to move. Then ne went back to his
writing Of the Lincoln monolosue and
play.
Even when tho monologue was
finished their troubles were by no
means at an end. No manager would
The sun., 1917-06-03
of the Struggle of l86l-65

spond very literally to this assessment
and much OF 1t was not paid. Congress
suspended all other internal taxation
indefinitely. The Government was
spending on the war money at the rate
OF $60.000,000 a month and the income
for the third year of the war from all
sources of taxation was s3S,o00. 900.
To show how inexperienced the off,
cials were in this matter Of taxation
David A. Wells recites how Secretary
Chase employed n competent person to
estimate the possible amount OF reve
nue. to be derived from each source Of
internal revenue for the current year.
The estimate arrived at was $S5. 1885,
So3. but the actual receipts were $37.-
640.7s8!
Tho Southern Democratic statesmen
had long since gone to their homes
and Congress was almost exclusively
In tho hands Of the Republicans. There
were a few Democrats from Northern
States with Democratic constituencies,
such as Fernando Wood and s. 8. Cox
of New York, Samuel ]. Randall OF
Pennsylvania, Clement Vallandigham
OF Ohio. But the Republicans were in
the saddle fighting the Administration
and investigating the conduct of tho
war, but lodging the ever pressing
question OF taxation.
For the first two years of tho war
Samuel Foote of Vermont was preei-
dent pro tempore OF the Senate. and
Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania
Speaker Of the House OF Representa-
tives. In tho House such men as Ros-
coe Conkling of New York and James
q. Blaine OF Maine were coming to
tho front. The outbursts against the
Governments fiscal policy were at
times most bitter. When tho proposal
was made to issue legal tender in the
form Of Government notes that need
not be redeemable in either silver or
gold a storm burst like a deluge Of
wrath.
Justin q. Morrill, Of Vermont said l.
1T is of doubtful oonstitutionality: 1t
is immoral; a breach OF the public
faith; It will Danish all specie from
circulation: It will degrade us In tho
estimation of other nations"
Roscoe Conkling said: 'Tt viii pro-
claim through the country a saturnalia
OF fraud, a carnival OF roguee"
oouhtOE cbbcHucH btlus III my
opinion It Ii a confession Of bank
ruptcy."
Owen LoveJcy said: TT is not in
tho province of Congress- to make
something out OF nothing"
But tho legal tender act was passed
only to be declared unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court OF tho United
States.
But somehow Secretary Chase got
the money needed to keep the war 60
ing. Bonds were always being issued
The banks refused to pay for them In
coin. but insisted on having the inter-
| est paid in coin. The idea OF havinR
a "hard money war" was abandoned
Specie payment was dropped. Bonds
were issued at 8 per cent. then at I
per cent. ana then at 78-10 per cent
Cold easily slid 70 . premium. but the
The sun., 1917-06-03
Gave His First Lincoln Mono.
logue for Nothing.

When he wrote his first Lincoln
monologue he gave 1t for nothing. II
ne got $40 night he was lucky. He
had been with a lyceum bureau Civ
ing Interpretations of Shskespearian
plays. When he talked OF the Lincoln
monologue everybody discouraged him.
His best friends called 1t "sacrlegious."
He fought prejudice and misunder-
standing at every turn.
But he himself had a profound belief
IN his purpose. He followed II with a
seriousness which was almost So
lemnity. And his audiences, of the
common people so dear to Lincoln
himself. responded in a way that
finally convinced the most bitter of his
opponents.
From having to give the first mono
1ogue for nothing he became one Of the
highest paid men in lyceum work.
Then he wrote an entire Lincoln play
IN which he appeared. And finally
-FOUR years ago he set to work to make
the moving pictures for the Lincoln
Cycle, which was shown in New York
Tor the first time last week. It is esti-
, mated that these pictures cost more
per foot than any other film play that
has been made. Eight reels are shown.
But many times that number were
made and discarded.
"All the time have been working
On this CYCLE" he said the other day.
Il had tempting offers to lend myself
to other Lincoln pictures. I was prom
ised as much as $1,000 a week, with
no financial risk. no need to concern
myself about the work Of the rest of
the company. no responsibility about
<the play.
But that was Just the thing I could
not do. 1t may seem a pose. but so long
- try to represent Lincoln I must
be responsible for the manner in which
It Is done. 1t isn't a thing I under
took lightly. And my sense Of the
gravity and dignity Of 1t has grown
with the years.
Some persons say I trade on my
resemblance to Lincoln. As a matter of
fact do not resemble him any more
than hundreds Of other men do. / am
tall. but am rwo inches below his
height Of six feet four. My frame is
The sun., 1917-06-03
He Coed Poverty When He Might Have Lived Ease Because of
Determination Make Emancipator Live Again
for Stage and Cinema

end in time he managed 10 get TO
Boston. There he saw his first play.
He had read shakespeare. but had
never visualized the characters as real
human beings.
That night he saw RosdHmd in the
forest Of Arden and ne was so carried
away by the rapture Of It all that
when It was over and the audience
had left he sat there until an usher
came to rouse him and tell him to 60.
He got up bewildered. stumbled out Of
the theatre and had reached the street
when the usher ran after him and
presented him with his hat, his foolish
high silk hat, which he had left be-
hind.
ut is incidents like these that show
thu manner of man he IL. AS some
one said OF him the other day. Men
tally he is q million miles from Broad
way" He thinks slowly. talks slowly.
But when ne gets hold Of an idea 1t
possesses him absolutely.
1t IL that way with the Lincoln idea.
1t has held him for years. until II Is
The sun., 1917-06-03
To Go About With Him a Curou,
Experience.

It u q curious experience 70 q
about with him. Elevator boys turn
suddenly serious as he steps into their
car. 1t seemed to me that they shu,
the door more gently. that they stood
back with unwonted Difference for him
to pass out. Walters take his order
with q respect which Is subtly dtffer.
ent from their usual manner. Tar
drivers touch their caps with a QUICK
change Of expression. Children clutch
at their mothers' skirts with startled
movement. And other strange thing,
happen.
II had a remarkable experience u.
other day" said Mr.. Chapin. with
my camera man was leaving an ofic.
building by way Of the main entrance
when two men passed in through the
swinging door as went out II.
first man and I were face to face FOR
a second or two and saw in his eyes
look Of puzzled recognition; the nook
We have when We see face that Is
familiar but which We cannot definitely
place.
THE strange thing about tho en-
counter was that the man did not real
ize that the face he was reminded o.
was Lincolns. He got only an assc-
ciation OF ideas. For my camera man
who was behind me. heard him say TO
his companion:
"'Was that Christ
at war. n curious case Of the blend.
ing OF associations He WAS reminded
of Lincoln. But all he was conscloIs
of was the suggestion of some ore
who had been his ideal of goodness
All I ask people to believe ~ that =
trying to represent such a man a.
Lincoln was I have a fun sense ~ n,
obligation to do 1t as worth!ly as pos.
sible"
The sun., 1917-06-03

nous war Governors. These were WASH
burn Of Maine. Fairbanks Of Vermont,
Goodwin Of New Hampshire. Andrew
of Massachusetts,, Sprague Of Rhode
Island, Buckingham Of Connecticut.
Morgan of New York. Olden Of New
Jersey, Curtin Of Pennsylvania. Den
nison Of Ohio, Morton OF Indiana,
Yates of Illinois. Blair of Michigan.
Randall of Wisconsin. Kirkwood Of
Iowa and Randall of Minnesota. These
men, with great clearness Of vision,
had prepared within the States. Money
had been raised for the arming and
eQuipping Of troops and such an Of
fensive as the North was able to make
against the Confederacy in the first
year of the war was due in very largo
part to these Governors.
When President Lincoln selected
Salmon p. Chase for the post of Sec
retary Of the Treasury he did so moro
on account Of political expediency than
because Of Mr.. Chase's fitness for the
post. Mr.. Chase had been one of the
principal opponents OF Mr.. Lincoln for
the Republican nomination for the
Presidency. He was ono OF the most
prominent abolitionists of tho day.
had been Governor Of Ohio and was
a Senator at the time of his appoint
ment.
The most important outstanding
fact at the beginning OF tho war was
that the country had Just entered
anew upon the policy OF protection.
The Morrill, tariff bill had been signed
by Mr.. Buchanan and the duties 1t i'm
posed were from time to time raised
as much for the purpose Of increasing
revenue as to encourage industries at
home. So not only did tho Govern
ment create an army but It created a
host Of now industries which were to
arm, clothe and supply It in the neld.
+ The seas were free to Northern COM
inerce and remained so except for a
few Confederate privateers like the
Alabama and the Shenandoah. and raw
materials for American workshops
poured in from every section Of the
globe. In consequence Of this a period
Of the greatest prosperity ever known
set In. On a larger scale II was dupli-
Gated soon after the outbreak OF the
European war. It IL true that the
tariff in 1918 had been lowered. but
the shutting off OF the exports from
Europe by the war was as complete as
though a prohibitive tariff were In
operation. and having no competition
this country had an unrestricted field
in furnishing supplies to the Allies.
The war acted as . potential tariff
wall.
Further than this. at tho outbreak
OF the civil war no attempt at taxa
tlon was made. No one dreamed that
the war upon which the country was
entering would last more than q few
months. whereas It was to last four
years. 1t was felt that the money
which could be raised by loans and
the issuance of Treasury notes would
meet the emergency and these could
be paid Off when peace was restored
by means which could be considered
and perfected at leisure. So tho coun-
try went to war for the Union. en-
thusiastic over the war. untaxed and
protected against foreign competition
with millions being poured out fol
every conceivable thing under the sun
The sun., 1917-06-03
Mark Twain Has q Humorous
Word Of Approval.

He handed me a printed extract
from Mark Twain's letter. which read:
I'm the beginning OF the first act
while Mr.. Chaplin did seem to me to be
a very close and happy imitation Of
Lincoln. 1t was only an imitation. But
at that point the miracle began. Little
by little. step by step. by an imper-
ceptible evolution the artificial Lincoln
dissolved away and the living and real
Lincoln was before my eyes and re-
mained real until the end. I apply to
It that strong word miracle because
think II justified. think that have
not before seen so interesting a spec
tacle as this steady growth and trans
formation of an unreality into a
reality"
1t seems that Mark Twain's visit to
the theatre to see Mr.. Chaplin had been
an unwilling one. According to a
member OF the party August Belmont.
Clarence II. Mackey. Robert J. Collier
and others OF the executive committee
Of the Lincoln Farm Association were
holding a meeting in New York when
the Chaplin play was running at the
Liberty Theatre.
Eroup Of these men dined together
and some one proposed eoing to SEQ
the play afterward. Mark Twain re-
fused. He said ne didn't want "some
young buck in stage costume and
makeup to muss UP his mental picture
and memories Of lincoln" Tho others
persuaded him to 80. but at hrst he sat
far back in the box. ready to escape II
the thing was too impossible
Little by little, however. he edged
forward. After tho third act he went
behind the scenes and in his charac-
tertstic drawl said to Mr.. Chaplin:
II am very glad to meet you again.
Mr.. President. You haven't changed
much in all these years"
Mr. Chaplin himself never saw Lin
coin. But when ne began giving the
monologue there were many persons
still living who had known the great
war President. Their most frequent
criticism was that while the face and
manner were true to reality the voice
was not.
To achieve this resemblance IN voice
was difficult thing. Portraits helped
him to initiate face figure and atti-
tudes. Friends Of Lincoln could give
him details of manner and gesture.
But to reproduce a voice he had never
heard was another matter.
That he did succeed many Of Lin
coins old friends gave their testimony.
One night Mt the Hackett Theatre here
In New York Gen. O. o. Howard stood
up in his box between the acts OF the
Chapin play and told the audience that
when he had first seen the impersona-
ton several years earlier the voice had
seemed to him different from the real
one he had known.
But tonight" ne added. "even the
voice seems like that OF my own Lin
coin"
The pictures which Mr.. Chaplin has
made are quite different from his play
in that they deal largely with the bow
The sun., 1917-06-03

It's close. Untf1 that time almost moth
ing had been done 10 disturb business.
Unlike tho present Congress, which
purposes in the first year OF the war
to sell $4,000 100000 OF bonds while
taking out Of the pockets Of those
whom II expects to buy the bonds ST.
900. 100000 in revenue. the civil war
Congress waited until the country IT.
self was -hog fat" and then applied
the knife. and then only on the de-
mand Of the taxed
Tho income tax which had been first
applied at 3 per cent. on incomes
above $500 was now made per cent.
on all incomes under $4,000. with ex-
eSnption OF $500 and house rent ac-
tually paid. Incomes in excess OF $6.-
900 and not moro than $4,000 were
taxed 2h per cent in addition; and
incomes in excess Of $4,000 were
taxed 8 per cent. additional without
any exemptions whatever. The woolen
industry In Massachusetts paid a tax
OF per cent. on it's output Of s4s.-
10000 in ls64-s6. amounting 10 nearly
The boot and shoe industry OF the same
State in tho same year paid a tax
equivalent to 80 per cent. on the whole
capital employed.
The tax extended to nearly every
product. Cotton paid . cents a pound; !;
salt 8 cents per 100 pounds: tobacco
from Is to rs cents per pound: sugar
from to 81 cents a pound: cigars
paid as high as $40 per 1000. A tax
was imposed on all progressive stages
of manufacture. The lumber in a. piece
of furniture was taxed. the finished
wood was taxed. the hardware was
taxed. tho varnish was taxed ana the
completed product was taxed. The
manufacturer in addition took out a
license and at the end OF the year
paid a tax Of one-tenth of one per
cent. on the amount OF sales. Large
concerns paid 6 per cent on capital
invested and per cent. on profits.
Luxuries Hard Hit.
With business firmly established
under the expenditures made during
1851. 1852 and 1868 the country stood
the imposition OF these taxes without
CULVER. Tho added cost was merely
passed along to the consumer or pur-
chaser. Prices mounted with every
increase in taxation and every new
issue Of paper money. They increased
at first 25 per cent. then 80 per cent
then eS per cent. and finally more than
100 per cent. Wages mounted. but not
in proportion. The revenueu Of the
, Government also mounted.
Tho country had accumulated It's re-
sources and was ready TO do its part
and It did 1t cheerfully. In 1858 the
internal revenue had been but $41,-
0Oo.o In 1864 It rose to SIT 100000
and in 1865 TO $21l.000.000. The cul-
mination came IN 1855. when 1t reached
3S1O, ,000, 900. which added to impost and
other taxes made the Income from
taxation that year 35bs. 100000. OIL
equal to tho expenses OF the first yeaI
Of the war. Congress showed grea,
wisdom IN heavily taxing those things