The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-17
THE REVENUE POLICY.

The Revenue Bill is not yet an accomplished fact, however soon 1t may be. The question Of paylng for the war has worked up so much of the legislative intellect that some of them said really wonder ful things. Senator James Hamll- ton Lewis insists that if the rich are not made to pay for the war, an outraged people will make them by revolt It was very extreme view and must have sadly hurt the Senator from Illinois to have to sneak like an l. w. w. soap boxer.
 It may be doubted however If an | w. w. soap boxer would have any vain illusion on the subject or an outraged people. The last Tn the world to experience that con dition of mind indeed are the Peo- pie.
 However this may be we may req sonably be well sure that tn" rich will pay for the war. only TOT sensational propagandism is 1t ever urged that the poor will pay for 1t. It is only figure of speech em- ploycd by a mind capable of beilev- ing that blood can be taken rom q stone. It is not possible.
 It is quit. immaterial when it is paid. the expenses of the war Will be paid by the men who have tEe money. The workers will pro duce the wealth which will pay IL, but they have no kick as to that for they have been producing the wealth for all things before the war started
 They provide by their labor the means whereby our old and honored friends John D. father and son, Andrew Carnegie and host or others have been cutting quite a caner in the social, industrial, hn- ancial and religious world. And they can afford to consider the re- venue question as men who are re moved from these trumpcry troub- les which concern their bcttors.
 The worker has no money to pay Tor anything but for his own living. He does manage to get by once ln while with a few cents savings for rainy day. But if he were to spend what he makes in reasonably decent livile his oa'a?rse g- tas end of the year would be in the red,
 So why should he excite himself about this rev nue bill. Why should he keep awake of nights wondering whether they are going 10 tex eN- cess incomes or prodts or news paper advertising receipts? There is really no good reason in the world.
 Let it De once and for all clear ly understood how it stands in the economic world. The owner of the machinery or the lana employs John Doe or Richard Roe working men to labor for him. He gets ~vhat they make during the day, eefs sufficiency to clothe and feed Doe and Roe and to raise some more John Docs and Richard Rocs for the said owner. What is given Doc ana Foe is called wages. II ls just enough for Doe and Roe to live upon. If it is not and Dec and Roc will fail by the wayside or at work because il is not. t is compulsory upon the owner to pay enough. Sometimes he does cnd sometimes lbe does not, if he does not state, municipal O. church charity orga- -oizations step in and help, while the ownnr who failed to pay enough .srhscrTpcs to said charity to make DID Tor his short coming Tn 'n- wages question.
 W!n James Hamilton Lowls or Iafollette CT any of them 'ell us now the Does and the Roes are go- inc to pav for anything out@a2 thcir own living expenses, let aloh2 carrying the burdens of this wal exnenditure" It can not he done and it will not be done.
 The question is all mnddled ana mddlad for the workers by the DO Hicians. They arc now paying aA' beating and chewing up the air what time they make some voc"