The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-30
Get Rid OF Kitchin!

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The last man in Congress who ever
ought to have been chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee OF the
House Of Representatives is CLAUDE
KIrcHIN. In time Of peace, to place
Mt the head Of that committee, SO
deeply and powerfully involved in the
industrial lot of the American people,
a man Of such limited intelligence.
Of such economic ignorance, was folly
and mischief.
A man who doesn't know any more
about the elemental principles Of tax
alton, for example, than to pile such
heavy burdens upon thousands Of
poor prospectors for oil that they
could no longer go out and search
and bore for oil wells.
A man so destitute Of business
sense that he would compel corpora
tlons, big and little, to distribute all
their earnings, when no business can
he safe unless, to take care Of future
needs and hazards, 1t sets aside and
holds a reasonable proportion of its
profits instead of squanderlng them.
A man so blinded by his unlicensed
prejudices that, sinister toward all
prosperity, he cannot see the differ
ence between extraordinary profits
snatched out Of abnormal war bust
ness and ordinary profits plodded out
of normal business.
A man SO mentally topsy turvy
that in his revenue measure last year
he heavily penalized workers for
earning their livings, when he i'm
posed upon salaries special tax,
calling 1t a war profits tax, which not
even the leisurely person having in
herited fortune in stocks and bonds
was asked to pay.
In time of war to keep such a man
at the head Of the Ways and Means
Committee is both a wrong and a
peril. When he was violently oppos-
ang the entry of the United States
into the war to save. before it was
too late, its honor and its life as well
KrrcH1N proclaimed that II We had
war 1t would be n cold blOoded war
engineered for profit by American
plutocracy. When we entered the
war KIrcHIy swore that he would
assess It's cost on that part of the
country north of Mason and Dlxon's
line. And, rs far as he has been able
10 90 up to now, KITcHIN has made
GOOD his threat. What his economic
Lerversity has fallen short Of doing
his malignant sectionalism has don't
with a vengeance.
II KIrcHIN made fool taxes merely
because he did not know any better
he deliberately drove those taxes, like
poisoned spikes, into the vitals of the
industry, the trade, the earnings, the
savings the bread and butter OF the
interests and the people north OF
Mason and Dixon's line.
KITcHIN's economic Authorizations
and superstitions were bad enough
1t was worse, hideously worse, that
his passions and hatreds, distilled
along with his stupidlties and follie.
into the nations revenue policy, should
have made the industrial fields NORTH
Of Mason and DixOn's line tax OBJ
3ects of pillage.
Thus KITcHIN, the economic igno
ramus. but the sectional avenger, has
with his mania for destruction--al
ways north Of Mason and Dixon's line
come to be the most dangerous mar
in Congress, the most dangerous mar
in the United States. KITCHEN Is Z
danger to the very Government o.
President WILSON because his fren
zied policy must cripple resource
which should be permanently avail
able for the support OF the Govern
ment. KITcHIN Is a danger to oul
valorous armies In France because h
must weaken the national power Il
back them up with munitions nn(
food and clothing. KITcHlN Is a dan
ger to the future of the nation, il
peace no less than in war, becaus.
he must paralyZe Its very arteries.
Wherefore it becomes the cardina
duty of American voters to get rlt
OF KITcHIS.
KITCHIN comes from Scotland Neck
n. c. But you do not need to llv,
In Scotland Neck, y. c., TO vot
against KITcHIN. You do not neet
10 live in North Carolina to vot,
against KIrcHIN. Any man or an,
woman that has n ballot in any dis
trict of the United States can vot
against KITCHEN. All that American
voters have to do to vote agains
kiTcHIN Is TO vote for Republican
nominees for the House Of nepresen