Evening journal., 1918-10-25
Now, the Huge Fourth Liberty Loan Drag
ged Across Knh Heroic Effort, Put
Kitchen Our and Make The
Mex One Easy
Mex One Easy
tFrom the New York Sun Of oct. 22.)

All the land is filled with rejoicing
that the Fourth Liberty Loan is sub
scrlbed to the full six billions OF dol
lars. The sense OF elation over this
colossal financial achievement here at
home is second only to the spirit OF
triumph over the Incompatible feat at
arms OF our sons and brothers abroad.
But there Is no one OF cool Judgment
that can ignore what was done with
incessant effort and sLrlia. what had TO
be done, TO put the loan through II
was like sweating bloo1 There Is no
one Of clear dlscernment that can fail
10 see the cause and 10 apprehend the
succeeding events, swiftly approaching.
They loom bigger by far than this six
billion loan just closed They wear a
vlsage Infinitely more grim. They
breathe danger indescrlbably blacker.
Think Of eight billions OF dollars for
taxes collectable while the subscribers
for the six billions OF a Liberty Loan
are stlll paying upl Think, while those
taxpayers are bending double under that
tax load OF eight billions, OF a nth Lib
erty Loan Immediately required OF per-
haps another six billlonsi Then, In this
engulnng, one after the other, Of funds
which stagger the Imagination, funds
equal, every one Of them, to the total
wealth Of whole nations beyond our
boundaries, think OF Kitchln OF Scot
land Neck, North Cardinal
With a chairman OF the House Ways
and Means Committee capable OF COM
pretending even the elementary prin-
clples OF taxation there never would
have been need Of the struggle through
which we have Just gone to finish the
Fourth Liberty Loan. With a chairman
laying taxes. not TO vent his spleen
against sections, not TO prescribe pros
perity, not 10 terrorlze business, but
TO raise revenues, the country never
would have turned a hair over the
Fourth Liberty Loan-never would turn
a hair over the billions yet TO COME for
taxes on the top Of the billions for this
Liberty Loan and again the billions for
stlll other Liberty Loans TO come on
the top OF the billions for taxes.
But, with a chairman sworn TO lay
on the territory north Of Mason and
Dixon's line the cost Of the war as a
crushing fine, like fines laid by the
Prussians four years ago on Liege,
Brussels, Antwerp, Lllle-with a chair
man wreaking his sectional vengeance
In such ways, the greatest lending
power In the world was dynamlted, the
greatest taXpaying capacity was sacked,
the greatest agency Of producti0n-the
source Of all taxes, all loans, all sup
port OF human needs and desires-was
thrOttled.
With his economic superstitlons and
his intellectual deficiencies. Kitchin. Of
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, did not
have enough gumptlon about taxation
without extinction Of the thing taxed
% know how and where 10 begin right
on the task OF raising revenue II he
had wanted so 20 do. But his oppor-
tunity 20 carry out his threat as as
sesslng the cost OF the war on that
part % the country north Of Mason and
DiK0n's line was a good enough job for
him. With al the impassioned section
alism that was IN him he went as far
as there was tine FOR him 10 so.
But Kiichin cannot be permitted 10
80 further on his mad-hstter course
without utterly smashing the c0un-
trys business, confcunding the govern
mant's undertakings and impeding the
worlds settling OF the Hun For the
fruit0n OF our lsbors In Europe, for
the safety OF this nation. Kitchin must
be shot out Of the chairmanship OF the
WAYS and Means Committee as the Hun
Is shot out Of France and Belgium. Over
there the work is for our soldiers. Here
at home il is for our voters.
Two. weeks from tomorrow elections
for members Of the House OF Represen-
tatives viii be held in every Congress
district IN the United States. Every
voter in the United States, therefore,
can use his vote to get rid Of Kitchin.
Elect a Republican House OF Repre-
sentatiyes and Kltchin, as a national fig
ure, will shrink from the dimensions Of
America TO the limits Of Scotland Neck,
North Carolina. A Democratic majority
in the House made Kitchin chairman
Of the Ways and Means Committee TO
the torment Of craftsmanship, TO the
mangling OF business and TO the bedeyil-
ment OF Americanism. even its bread