The sun., 1918-10-28
When Mr.. wilson Asks for Another
Kitchin Congress He Asks
for National ShlpWReek.


Mr.. WILSON may declare the ad-
journment of politics to suit his own
purpose, Mr.. WILSON may declare the
resumption of politics whenever he
feels like it; but the business of the
American people one week from to-
morrow still remains to get rid Of
KITcHIN.
The intellect and the courage of
Mr.. WILSON'S own Administration
testify to the need of the Congress
change, for Mr.. WILSON'S Secretary
of the Treasury constantly and man
fully opposes the economic follies and
the sectional outrages Of KITcHIN.
The ability and the character of the
Democratic Senate testify to the
same thing.
No more excoriating brief could be
written against KITcuIN's tax mon
strosities than has been written
against them by the Senate Finance
Committee in its sweeping revisions
of the Kitchin schedules. No more
damning indictment has been drawn
against KITcHIN's whole revenue bill
than has been drawn against it by
that same committee in its repudia-
ton Of KITCHENS deliberate plan of
using ruthless tax provisions to raid
the country north of Mason and Dix
ons line. No one could show q deeper
apprehension Of the political evil
which KITCHIN's freak economics
would work. No eye has been more
open to the baleful effects on the ma
ton of KITCHENS venomous sectional
ism, with its avowed purpose of fix
ing the cost of the war north of Ma
son and Dixon's line.
In its amendments the Senate FL
nance Committee labors to correct
virtually every one of the Kitchin in
equities and dangers which this news
paper has exposed. The committee,
for example, has cut out the tax pen
, atty loaded on industrial plants and
business houses for saving some of
their surplus for rainy day.
KrToHIN says all earnings must be
distributed, though inevitably such a
programme, when any storm arose,
would force industry and business
upon the rocks; the Senate Finance
Committee says this fatal policy
should not prevail.
KITCHIS says the prospector for oil
must be so heavily taxed that he can
no longer go out and search and drill
for oil the Senate Finance Committee
says when the nation Ii crying for oil
TO serve both our war needs and our
peace needs only suicidal policy
could think of shutting of the very
supply Of oil.
KITcHIN says normal business, nor
NAL production, normal work having
nothing at all to do with war should
be loaded with crushing taxes exactly
like war business making it's abnormal
profits out of war contracts; the SEN
ate Finance Committee says what no
clear mind can fail to see-namely,
war business can stand any load be-
cause war demand must and will pay
any prices; war business can disap-
pear off the face of the earth when
war disappears and no harm Is done
10 country or TO Its people; but nor
NAL business cannot be crushed under
costs and taxed to extinction, in peace
or in war, without causing through
years and years to come, public destl-
tuition and national disaster.
The Senate Finance Committee, in.
deed, has shot KITCHIN's revenue bill
10 pieces. And yet for how much will
the Senate's attempted work of saliva
ton count II the thick headed and
sour souled KITcHIN persists in his
impassloned purpose to fine the hated
interests and individuals north of Ma
son and DixOn's line the cost of the
war, whatever ruin he spreads? II
KITcHIN, who Is as mullsh as he Is
malignant, refuses to yield in the con-
ference committee of the two Houses,
the Senate's corrective work will
count for nothing at all
If the thick headed KITcHIN and his
thick headed majority In the House
stubbornly hold out for the revenue
measure which they concccted and
handed over to the Senate as the eco
homie doom of the nation they can
not be bldged by any law or by any
authority in the national capital.
The Treasury Department knows
the bad in kITCHIN's bill and breads
us eNect upon the country; yet the
treasury Department Is powerless to
30 anything. The Senate revise,s and
Ee''ses the preposterous thing, yet the