New Britain herald., 1917-08-21
LET RICH PAY FOR
 WAR'-LA TOILETTE
Public Has Paid Enough Through
 Unpopular Draft, He Says REVOLUTION FACING ITALY

REVOLUTION FACING ITALY Wisconsin Senator Presents Minority's
 Views on War Tax Bill-Predicts
 Bread Lines and Cold Homes This
 Winter.
 Washington. Aug. 21.-Conscription or wealth to pay for the war was urged in the senate today by Sena- tor La Toilette of Wisconsin in pre- senung the minority plans of the f1n- ance committee for higher rates in the war tax bill on war profits and incomes. He suggested increasing the S2,OO6,0 100000, bill to more than s3,- 800, Oo0,0OO by such increases with elimination of consumption taxes. He also urged that less bonds and more taxes be authorized.
 Senator LaFollette delivered his speech in his usual vigorous style and several times pointed out senators talking together and asked them to stop, saying 1t caused him annoyance.
 The Wisconsin senator declared
  ing war while their peoples were asking for peace. and contended that S5 per cent of the men drafted are protesting. Large bond issues in- crease the present high cost of liv- ing, which, he asserted already inn poses a 50 to 100 per cent. war bur- den upon the masses. The Liberty loan, he said, was made possible by 'an iron hand within a kid glove'' and persistent advertising methods.
 The pending bill. MT. La Toilette stated, provides by taxes but IT per cent of this years war expenses, which he predicted may reach $30,- 900, 100000 or $40,oO0, 1000 and he urged that huge war profits and in comes of wealthy persons by higher surtaxes be made to bear the burden of the war.
 Wealth Not a Patriot.
 Urging a larger proportion of taxes, the Wisconsin senator said:
 Tt is part of the history of all great wars that wealth has demanded the minimum of taxation and the maximum of loans, while the poorer classes have desired the maximum of taxation and the minimum of loans
 
 since war profits and excessive in comes are being forced by taxation to contribute some portion of the rev. enues which war makes it necessary to raise.
 "Wealth has never yet sacrificed it. self on the altar of patriotism in any war. On the other hand it has ever shown itself eager to take advantage of the misfortunes which war always brings to the masses of the people. That has been true of every war we have had, and it is certainly true of the present war;
 He argued that the poor equally with the rich, will have the opportu- nifty to purchase war bonds. Tt Is small comfort to have the opportu- nity to purchase war bonds if you have little or no money to invest in bonds," he said. The late Liberty loan is a good example of bonds sold to those of limited means. All the machinery of the government was set in motion to sell these bonds to the small investor
 We all know that these bonds were a poor investment to the man of small means in mparison with the advantages which the owners of large incomes could secure from in- vesting millions of their taxable in- comes in these non-taxable bonds. The government has made them the equivalent of an investment paying from five to nine per cent, and more, to persons with large incomes who will escape the income tax on every dollar thus invested, while to the wage earner and the man with a sal to ho Inv the income tax, who pinched and saved and sacrificed in order to pur- chase them, they return but meagre 3h per cent. The result is that these bonds will soon find their way wholly into the hands of the wealthy. But this is not all. Paying for war mainly by selling bonds inevitably forces imitation. Imitation raises prices greatly increasing the cost of living to the masses.
 We are counselled by the highest economic authority, we are admo1l.. ished by all history, we are com manded by every consideration or justice to the American boys who are marked for slaughter, to the Amer ican homes already in the shadow of death, to declare here and now by our votes on this record that the wealth of this country will be taken as mercilessy through the power of taxation as men are taken by force.
 '.If the billions of our peoples money which We are now smilingly tossing into the furnace of the Euro pean war was all we had to consider, the question would not be so serious. But if this war should last another year or two years, think what 1t will mean to the financial resources of this country. It is not improbable that the (Continued on Ninth Page) WEATHER.