The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-16


ground of crimson tapestry, IKE
solemn court, the members Oh the
house committee on ways and means
are trying to agree upon the war
revenue bill. Chairman Kitchln re-
ports to the public at the END Of
each days sitting, and tries to DIS
cover, each morning, new source
of easy and painless taxation. VI
course this new taxation must De
neither radical nor must it "dls-
courage production"
One of the curious developments
of the past few days has been the
declaration by Governor Brumbaugh
of Pennsylvania in favor OF the dras
tic plan of taxation proposed by the
Farmers National Committee on Wa
Finance, of which Benjamin Z.
Marsh is secretary. This plan calls
for the taking of all personal m
comes above 100000, and for a war
profits tax of at least 80 per cent.
Representative John nj. Baer OF
North Dakota, who is watching the
work of the ways and means COM
nlittee, continue to point out that II
would be a much more sensible pro-
cedure to stop profteering than to
tax the profteers.
He says that if profteering is an
evil, then the only logical treatment
of it is it's abolition. He believes
that the cost of enforcement of anti
| protiteering legislation-laws thai
| would leave something in the pocket:
of the producers of food and othel
goods of the country-would be IA
Hess than the cost of collecting int
the treasury a part of the none.
taken from their pockets by extor
] tionate prices. And when the mas
: of the people are not bled white b.
profiteers, he urges, they Will D
mighty glad to pay an income ia
: that will fill the treasury.
Taxation of speculative values
= land held out of use will not be at
q tempted in this bill, due to the usus
constitutional difficulty. lnherltanc
taxes will be tuned up few points
but not enough to make our oldes
n1illionaires refuse to die. Congress
is still long way from wanting t
put the millionaires' sons to work.
THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN COMFOR
We may as well prepare ourselve
for the charge, which will be mac
+ in due season by the big bushes
s. press, that the national war labt
board is becoming the American s.
Wet.
This board, of which William How
ard Taft and Frank P. Walsh al
Joint chairmen, and in which ~
trade union officials and five repr
sentatives of employers association
are the others members, is settlir
the industrial disputes of the who
r nation. 1t is the court of last reso
in American industry. And day
day broader and broader consider
tons are being brought into the sc
n Element of the issues before it. L.
question of the wage necessary :
n maintain a, mans family, in heal
and comfort" for example, is beIl
N decided, in order to set mlnlmu
wage for common labor. For tN
q weeks the board is to discuss t
\ possible elements in the Amerlc
D idea of family health and comic
They are talking of education,
music, of entertainments outside t
q home, or vacations, of the quail
and variety of clothing, of hun
red things which come to the fam
that looks up from its daily toll
take a part in the life of mode
community.
Mr.. Taft is reported to be as eas
to set this standard high-to h
to enunciate new declaration of
right and duty of an American fal
N " to really live and enjoy life,
gardless Of the fact that the bre
winner works for day wages-as
ii the most untamed labor leader on
II board.
H Every concession to labor sugge
III better things for the farmer.
II The Russian revolution got I'm
way when the soviets began to