The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-10
LOngwOrth Says
 New Tax Is Very
 Near Danger Mark
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 30 per cent on war profits and the ,rnaxtmums of 70 per cent. on excess profits and TT 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 a tax which amounts to plunder," said the Ohio representative, "'just so surely do you over shot one mark and render difficult if not impossible the f1nanc- ing necessary to effectively prosecute 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 a bill designed to raise $8,- 000, 900, 900 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. next will cause a. loss of $500,- GOO, 900 in revenue under the new war tax, MT. Longworth said congress may be forced to impose consumption taxes sooner than had been expected. In 1, O4 seven cents a pound on coffee, 25 cents on tea, 10 per cent on rubber, 20 per cent. on wool, IS per cent. or hides and one cent on sugar. He es. timated that these would yield $240,' 900. 900 annually.
 The Ohio representative also warned that the proposed wartime nationa prohibition legislation would reduce the estimated revenue returns iron beverages by $500. .oOO, 900, which witl the lost revenue on beer from Dec. until the national prohibition measur, becomes effective would reduce tht estimated revenue under the bill tC 5000. .OOo, 900.
 Although criticising some of it's fea lures, MT. Longworth commended tn biH as a whole as a vast improvement over the old law.
 In concluding, the speaker DOT trayed the conditions under whicl the German people gagged an bound, pay bloody tribute to the in satiate ambibtion of the house c Hohenbzollern," and said that "n citizen of the eTlIbattled nations, nc even the son of the great pacifs Henry Ford, is more surely immun from bodily harm than are the Ger man emperor's six sons "who will b preserved undamaged for posterity."
 Sons of the presidents of the Unite States, he said. have been less timol ous. Without mentioning by name h father-in-law, Col. Roosevelt, M Longworth said:
 All four sons Of a former preside1 have been at the real front, three them married men with children, upo whom there was no possible legal ol hgation. One has perished glorious on the field of honor, two have bee wounded, one so seriously that he h; been invaHded home; the only oI who has escaped has been decorate for conspicuous gallantry in action. "
 He added that a son of the on other living ex-prestdent. referring Mir. Taft, is at the front and that President Wilson had been blesst with sons of lighting age they, to would have been on the firing line.