The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-06-02
SENATORIAL FISCAL PLANS.

There's dignified nobility about the senatorial plans to tax neces- saries like tobacco and tea and coffee and sugar and cocoa. It af- lords all all opportunity of contri- buting to the glory Of the nation in the war and will without doubt be cheerfully paid.
 It affords the workers an equal opportunity with the millionaires of financing the affairs of the na- ton: most glorious opportunity indeed,
 Ii it is sweet and grand to die for ones country, it also ought to be as sweet and grand to pay a few cents on every pound of tea, coffee sugar or tobs eco consumed, ana without doubt the masses will deep ly appreciate the favor and the ho- nor conferred upon them by the senators.
 The plans to place surtaX upon profits and graduated inconS tax, removed the opportunity or paving towards the revenue which the people are so eager to have share in. and the correction of this original error will without any doubt be properly relished by those in whose favor the correction has been made.
 Rightly these equitable apprais- CTS saw that Mr. Rockefeller, MT Morgan, Mr. Schwab and the rest had already too many privileges and 1his privilege of paying all alone she costs of the war was too much for the finance committee of the senate to endure. They saw these men endeavoIing to effect another monopoly, not possibly of very great material consideration, but surely from a sentimental point of view beyond price. They were denying 10 the lowly workers a chance, the chance of life time, to contribute their portion towards the great re- mobilization of the universe, and as far-seeing and fairminded and just men they put their foot down and denied that new monopoly any right to exist.
 They visioned the stalwarts of brawn and brain who had been pro ducing the national wealth, serving faithfully as those also serve who meekly stand and wait, watching with sinking hearts the privilege de nied them of giving of their wages and the salaries towards the funds of the nation. while those men who already had more than sufficiency of privilege were being afforded the chance 70 pay all or nearly all ex- penses. Then these patriotic sen ators, worthy patres conscripti, rise to the occasion with tears yelling in their hearts, and insist that such must never be. Rather let the trea- .sury go empty while waiting the passage of the revenue bill, than that these simple heroes should be allowed to wait in vain for the op- portunity to share the privileges oi those already more than favored ir material things.
 Commendable therefore is that policy of these modern Daniels il politics legislating with iron righte- ousness and vigorously, despite tho outraged feeling of the powerful defiant of the spirit of resentment they may excite in the highest circ les, regardless of the anger of those those well able to visit their anger upon them-rigorously insisting that Justice be done though the Heavens fall.
 Food for thought, in truth, is there in this fine example of modrer altruism.
 Although, it may well be that the Penroses and the Lodges and the rest may be denying themselves tho privilege already theirs of paying 2 surtax upon their private incomes still the nobility of sou that exercises the activities ot these men in Congress insists that the poor as well as the rich vii have the not ignoble privilege oi paying the war tax in uniform pro portions.
 It so easily might have been