Republican farmer., 1918-09-13
LONCWORTH SAYS NEW TAX !
 VERY NEAR DANGER MARK
Wealth is Taxed to About straining Point by New
 Revenue biiI. NEW GENERATIONS
 MUST PAY SHARE Plan to Tax Table to Re place Revenue Formerly
 Gotten From Beer.

Washington, Sept, 1O-- Wealth is taxed to about the straining point by the new war revenue bill, Representative Longworth of Ohio declared in the house today when debate on the huge tax measure was re- sumed. He warned his hearers that any additional taxes levied hereafter must be borne by people purchasing articles of daily necessity and said that as the cost of the war mounts a
 greater proportion of it will have to be borne by future gen. erations.
 Pointing cut that congress is about to exact from the American people a sum which would have more than paid the entire cost of the Civil War, both to the Union and to the Confed eracy. MT. Longworth said the tax of so per cent. on war profits and the maximums of 70 per cent. on excess profits and v per cent. on incomes was mighty near the danger mark" He added that this is a bill ''to raise war revenue and not to reorganize so- ciety."
 ''Just as surely as you impose ta~ " tn nI1 Ohio representative, '"just so surely do you over shot one mark and render difficult if not impossible the f1nanc- ing necessary to effectively prosecut$ i the war" !
 Most of the coming issue of Liberty bonds, MT. Longworth said, will be purchased by individuals and their purchasing power will be affected di- rectly by the taxes on their incomes
 Although he and other members had doubted it's possibility, the com mitee on ways and means, MT. Long worth continued, had succeeded in framing bill designed to raise SS,- 900, 100000 by taxation without resort to consumption taxes and increased tariff rates. These remain he added, as additional sources of revenue in case some of those now counted on are destroyed by legislation or other wise.
 Contending that the Presidents or der stopping the making of beer after Dec. 1 next will cause a. loss of $500,- 900, coo in revenue under the new war tax, MT. Longworth said congress may be forced to impose consumption taxes
 
 that connection he suggested a tax of seven cents pound on coffee, 25 cents on tea, 10 per cent. on rubber, 20 per cent on wool, IS per cent. on hides and one cent on sugar. He es- timated that these would yield $240.- 000,O00 annually.
 The Ohip representative also warned that the proposed wartime national prohibition legislation would reduce the estimated revenue returns from beverages by s1,500000,000, which with the lost revenue on beer from Dec. 1 until the national prohibitions measure becomes effective would reduce the estimated revenue under the bill to s6, GOO. 900, GOO
 Although criticising some of its fea- lures, MT. Longworth commended the bill as a whole as a vast improvement over the old law.
 In concluding, the speaker DOT trayed the conditions under which the German people, gagged and bound, pay bloody tribute to the in- satiate ambibtion of the house of Hohenbzollern," and said that mo citizen of the enlbattled nations, not even the son of the great pacifist, Henry Ford, is more surely immune from tlodily harm than are the Ger man emperor's six sons, who will be preserved undamaged for posterity."
 Sons of the presidents of the United States. he said have been less timor- ous. Without mentionirg g by name his father-in- law, Col. Roosevelt, MT. Longworth said:
 "All four sons of former president have been at the real front, three of them married men with children, upon whom there was no possible legal ob- ligation. One has perished gBoriously on the field of honor, two have been wounded. one so seriously that he has been invalided home; the only one who has escaped has been decorated for conspicuous ga1lantry in action
 He added that a son of the only other living ex-president, referring tn MT. Taft, is at the front and that if President Wilson had been blessed with sons of fighting age they. too, would have been on the firing line.