Mohave County miner., 1917-09-15
A SUGGESTION TO THE RED
 CROSS WORKERS.
To the Editor:-

To the Editor:-
 How much the Red Cross has done in the present world war, speaks for itself. What the Red Cross will be called upon to do in the near future is a problem. Should the war con tinue one, two, or three years longer the burden that will fall to the care of the American Red Cross will be a big one and the question of rais- ing the necessary money will be a perplexing one.
 With the object of helping out on the raising of money I will make a few suggestions. The military enroll ment census last spring shows that here in the United States we have 1,300,000 of non-citizen aliens, men of military age. They cannot be con scripted for military duty because of existing treaties.
 The above figures do not include a big number of non-citizens who are over the military age. These people are here because of the better Oppor- tunities to make money, the better security given to life and prosperity and because, living here they do evade the military duties of their native land as well as the military duties of the United States. It is this class of which has come to us from all the different nations of Europe, Asia, Africa and Mexico, which aim to reach.
 My suggestions are that the Amer ican Red Cross Society immediately have bill drafted and put up to con- gress for enactment into a Federal law, fixing a percentage tax upon the monthly earnings of all these non citizens. With it's complete organiza- tion, the Red Cross could put such a bill through congress in a very short time, as emergency legislation. To be sure we would expect La Toilette and his bunch of pro-Germans to fight such a bill but there are Americans enough to pass it without them.
 Where the party being taxed is al subject of anyone of the nations now allied with the United States that party will have it optional to say whether the money collected rom him will go to the use of the American Red Cross or go to theRed Cross of his native land.
 For example-Ed Roe, a native of England has the privilege to say that the money collected from him shall go to the use of the English Red Cross.
 In case the subject this tax is coll ected from is subject of a neutral or an enemy nation the money so col lected would go to the American Red Cross without any say being given to the party.
 With such a Federal law, think a good large sum of money can be col lected monthly from class that are not making any sacrifice or contribu- ting to the war in any other way. But upon the other hand they are reaping the benefit of the high wages caused by the war.
 In many cases these non-citizens are stepping Into the good JobS and posi- tions which our own American boys are leaving daily for the training camps, from whence they will go to the battlegrounds of Europe, willing and ready to make the supreme sac rifice in the cause of liberty and Dem Ocracy.
 And is it right that all these non and in many cases they are citizens of the enemy countries should be left to all our benefits without a share in our burdens? Most of these are wage earners em- ployed by our American industrial companies and with a very simple card index system the tax could be monthly from their wages