The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-29
THE PRESS AND The GOVERN
MENT.
louisville Evening Post.)

louisville Evening PoSt.)
In common with other newspapers
throughout the country, the Evening
ceipt of the following communica-
ton from the Treasury Department:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Bureau of Publicity of the Lib
erty Loan of 1917 notes with pleas
IRE and appreciation the excellent
assistance you have rendered and are
rendering in periodically promoting
the sale of the
LIBERTY LOAN BONDS.
Please accept sincere thanks for
your cooperation.
r. w. WOOLEY,
Director of Publicity,
Liberty Loan, 1917.
Washington, June %, 1917.
The labors of the press in pro-
noting the registration preparatory
to the draft have not been acknowl.
edged by the War Department.
The efforts of the press consistent
ly enlisted for and constantly applied
to, the Development of profitable bus
mess for the Postoffice Department,
have never been acknowledged; the
overworked staff of that department
seems determined to punish the press
| for its work in this direction. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the public
is more more appreciative than the
Postoffice officials.
Heretofore the representatives OF
the people in Congress have rejected
the proposition of the Postoffice De-
partment to make it improbable for
| the newspaper to use the POstoffice
| Department at all. If they succeed
| in this, there will be less business
| imposed on the men now Frustrated
under the burden of an eight-hour
day, one month holiday, numerous
sick leaves with substitutes, and a
life tenure of office.
The press is entitled to the thanks
of the Navy Department and the War
| Department in connection with the
recruiting of the army and navy dur
ing the past sixty days. The press
has received no thanks of any kind
from these two departments; but 1t
will continue the work of expounding
the principles upon which these two
arms of the service are organized; Of
explaining the honor that comes to
men who enlist voluntarily in these
branches of the public service; of
protecting these recruits from impo-
sition from any quarter, and of hon
oring them at all times for their
achievements.
These are but a few of the many
services rendered by the press as =
direct representative of the people to
the government created by the peo-
pie, paid by the people, directed by
the people and existing only by the
consent of the people.
1t was Jefferson who said: Were
| it left to me to decide whether we
should have a government without
newspapers, or newspapers without
: government, / should not hesitate
: a moment to prefer the latter" To-
day it is the press that expounds to
the taxpayers the new tax laws and
the principles which the trainers OF
the laws have ignored or violated.
It is the press that reconciles the tax
payers to the burdens that war
makes necessary; reconciles them to
the taxes essential to the conduct of
government. 1t is the press that
without compensation, informs the
taxpayer when his taxes are due,
!, when his returns are due, how he
can make his returns with the least
annoyance to himself or the agents OF
the government. 1t is the press that
is to be especially burdened with tax
alton, punished for these services. II
is not to be subject, we suppose, to
retroactive taxation, but it is to be
subjected to triple taxation where
other branches Of business are sub
. jected only to one form Of tax.
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