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The Washington times., 1918-01-14
DO YOU KNOW OF TO-DAY?


There are some Of you, probably,
who will still find 1t hard to believe
that the Germany you knew can be
guilty of the crimes which have
made 1t an outlaw amongst the ma
tions. But do you know modern
Germany? Unless you have been
there within the last twenty-five
years, not once or twice, but at regu-
lar intervals; unless You have look
ed below the glittering surface OF
the marvellous material progress and
achievement and seen how the soul
OF Germany was being eaten away
by the virulent poison OF Prussian-
ism; unless you have watched and
followed the appalling transforma-
ton OF German mentality and NOR
ality under the nefarious and puis-
SAINT influence of the priesthood of
power-worship, you do not know the
Germany OF this day and generation.
1t is not the Germany of old, the
land Of our affectionate remem-
brance. 1t is not the Germany which
men now of middle age or over knew
In their youth. II is not the Ger
many OF the first Emperor William,
a modest and God-fearing gentleman.
It is not the Germany. even, Of Bis
mArck, man of blood and iron though
he was, who had builded a structure
which, whilst not founded on liberty,
yet was capable and gave promise
Of going down into history as one of
the greatest examples of enlightened
hnnnAnn,f orrfnnranu. hn
in the contemplatiye and mellowed
wisdom of his old age, often warned
the nation against the very spirit
which, alas. came to have sway over
It, and against the very war which
that spirit unclaimed.
The Germany which brought upon
the world the Unreasonable disas-
ter of this war. and at whose mon
strous deeds and doctrines the civil
lied nations of the earth stand
aghast, started into definite being
less than thirty years ago. can
almost lay my finger upon the date
and circumstances of its ill-omened
advent
And, finally, there came "the day"
in which the new course" fatally
and inevitably, was bound to cul-
inmate. There came the old tempta-
ton, as old as humanity itself. The
tempter took the Prussian and Prus-
sianized rulers up a high mountain
and showed them all the riches and
power of the world. Showed them
the great countries and capitals Of
the earth teeming with peaceful
labor-Brussels, Paris, London, aye,
and New York, and told them: Look
at these. Use your power ruthless
ly and they are yours" And those
rulers did not say: Get thee be-
hind me, Satan" but they said: Go
ahead, Satan, and we shall follow
thee" And follow him they did,
and brought upon the green earth
the red win Of hell
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
Is NOT FOOL PROOF.

Liberty IS not fool-proot. FOR
its benefcent working it de-
mands self-restraint, a sane and
clear recognition of the practical
and attainable and of the fact
that there are laws of nature
which are beyond our power to
change.
Liberty can, does, and must
limit the rights of the strong, it
must increasingly guard and pro-
mote the well-being Of those en-
dowed with lesser gifts for the
struggle for existence and success,
it must strive in every way consist
ent with sane recognition of the real
tiles to make life more worth living
to those whose existence is cast in
the mold of the vast average Of man.
kind, it must give politicol equality,
equality before the law, it must
throw wide open to talent and worth
the door of opportunity. But it must
not attempt in fatuous recklessness
to make over humanity on the pat
tern of absolute equality. If and
when it does so attempt, it will fail
as that attempt has always failed
throughout history. For an inscrut-
able Providence has made inequality
of endowment a fundamental law of
nature, animate as well as inani-
mate, and from inequality of physi-
cal strength, of brain power and of
character springs inevitably the fact
of inequality of results. Envy,
demagogism, utopianism, welI-mean-
ing uplift agitation may throw them
selves against that basic law of all
being, but the clash will create
merely temporary, confusion, de-
struction and anarchy, as in
Russia; and after a little while
and much suffering, the su-
premacy of sanely restrained indi-
vidualism over frenzied collectivism
will reassert itself.
Under the system of wisely order
ed liberty, combined with incentive
to individual effort whereof the
foundation was laid by the far
sighted and enlightened men who
created this nation and endowed ID
with the most sagaciOus instrument
Of government that the wit of man
has devised, America has grown and
prospered beyond all others. 1t has
stood as a republic for nearly a CEN
tury and half, which is far longer
than any other genuine republic has
endured amongst the great nations
OK the world since the beginning of
Ghe Christian era. Its past has been
glorious, the vista of its future is
one of boundless opportunity, of
splendid fruitfulness for its own
people and the world, if it remains
but true to its principles and ira
ditions, adjusting their expression
and application to the changing
needs of the times in a spirit of
progress, sympathetic understand
ing, and enlightened justice, but re-
jecting the teachings and tempta-
tions of false, though plausible,
prophetS,
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MISLEADING CONCLUSION.

But it is entirely misleading to
base a conclusion as to the relative
heaviness of the American and Brit
ish tax merely on comparison of
the rates, because the English tax
is assessed on a wholly different
basis from the American tax. As
matter Of fact, Congress has esti-
mated that the 20 per cent to so per
cent tax on the American basis will
produce approximately the same
amount in dollars and cents as the
50 per cent tax is calculated to pro-
5uce in England. q know l shall
be answered that we have twice the
population of England and twice the
wealth. But it must be borne in
mind that a far larger proportion
of our wealth is represented by
farms and other non-industrial
property, and that far larger pro-
portion of our people than of the
British people are engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits which are not af
fected by the excess profit tax. l
believe it will be found that the
total wealth employed in business in
America is not so greatly superior
TO the total wealth similarly en-
ployed in Great Brittany
The American excess profit law So
called taxes all profits derived from
business over and above a certain
moderate percentage, regardless of
whether or not such profits are the
result Of war conditions. The Amer
lean tax is a general tax on income
derived from business, In addition to
the regular income tax. The English
tax applies only TO excess war profits
that is, only to the sum by which
profits in the war years exceed the
profits on the three years preceding
the war, which in England were
years of great prosperity. In other
words, the English tax is nominally
higher than ours, but it applies only
TO war profits. The normal profits
of business, i. e., the profits which
business used to make in peace time,
are exempted in England. Only the
excess over peace profits is taxed.
Our tax, on the contrary, applies to
all profits over and above a very
moderate rate on the money invest
ed in business.
Apart from direct war profits,
business is taxed more heavily here
than anywhere else. 1t would seem
that it would be both fairer and wiser
and more in accord with public SEN
timent if our sO-called excess profit
tax, i. e., the tax on business IN gen
eral, were decreased and, on the other
hand, an increased tax were imposed
on specific war profits.
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The Prsds-wynn Co., New Brighton. Pa.

Molle Is to be advertised
in this paper for three
months. The first adver-
tisement appears tomorrow.
Signed, The Washington
Star. Neville d. Miller,
Manager, Foreign Adver-
tising.
Molle Is to be advertised
in this paper for three
months. The first advertise
ment appears tomorrow.
Signed. The Washington
Times. r. G.. Bryant. Adver-
tising Manager.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
TIME TO CALL HALT.


The time is ripe and over ripe to
call a halt upon those spreaders of
outlandish and pernicious doctrines.
The American is indulgent to a fault
and slow to wrath. But he is now
passing through a time OF tension
and strain. His teeth. are set and
his nerves on edge. He sees more
closely approaching every day the
dark valley through which his sons
and brothers must pass and from
which too many, alas, will not re-
turn. 1t is an evil time to cross
him. He Is not in the temper to be
trified with. He is apt very suddenly
to bring down the indignant fist of
his mighty power upon those who
would presume on his habitual mood
of easy-going good nature. Let the
militant Bolsheviki in our midst be
warned in time.
When l speak OF the militant
Bolshevih in our midst as foes Of
national unity l mean to include
those of American stock who are
their allies, comrades and followers
terest and a sloppy internationalism
above patriotism, with whom class
hatred and envy have become a con-
suming passion, whom visionary
obsessions and false conception OF
equality have inflamed to the point of
irresponsibility. But | am far from
meaning to reflect upon those who,
while determined Socialists, are
patriotic Americans.
| believe the Socialist state to be
an impracticable conception, a utop-
ian dream, human nature being what
It is, and the immutable laws of ma
ture being what they are. But there
is not a little in Socialist doctrine
and aspirations that is high and
noble, some things, too, that are
achieyable and desirable. And to
the extent that Socialism is an anti
dote to and a check upon EXCESSIVE
individualism and holds up to a busy
and self-centered and far from per-
feet world, grievances to be remed-
led, wrongs to be righted ideals to
be striven for, 1t is force distinctly
for good.
Still less do l mean to reflect
upon the labor union movement
which | regard as an absolutely
necessary element in the scheme Of
our economic life. It's leaders have
acted with admirable patriotism in
this crisis of the nation. and on the
whole have been a factor against
extreme tendencies and irrational
aspirations. Trades unions have not
only come To stay, but they are
bound, | think, to become an in
creasingIy potent factor in our In
dustrial life. | believe that the most
effective preventive against State
Socialism is frank, free and far
reaching cooperation between busi-
ness and trades unions. sobered and
broadened increasingly by enhanced
opportunities, rights and response
bilities.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14

the world by a small minority of
professional sDokesmen and perni-
cious agitators, by no means all Of
German birth. We must protect
the German name, as far as it is in
our keeping, in America. if, alas,
we cannot protect it elsewhere. 1t
has always, and rightly, been an
honored name here, and those who
bore it have ever done their full
share for the common veal, in the
works of peace no less than in every
crisis Of the nations history. Let
US do what in US lies to preserve
the names we bear in honor and
good standing amongst our fellow
citizens.
/ believe that we should speak
out, because our voices may reach
the ear and the conscience of
the German people when no
other voices can, and because
they will reach the ear of its rulers.
These, l know, counted upon the
moral, II not the actual, support OF
the German-born in America. to the
extent, at least, Of preventing our
joining in the war, and now when we
have Joined, they count upon that
support to agitate for an inconclu-
sive and unrighteous peace.
/ believe that we should speak out
to convince our native-born fellow
citizens that our fundamental con-
ceptions Of right and wrong are like
theirs, that the taint of Germany is
not in the blood, but in the system
of rulership, that we are with them
and of them wholeheartedly, single
and unreservedly; because
II we failed in conveying to them
that conviction in the hour Of our
common country's stress and trial,
there would ensue the calamity OF
a spiritual, IL not an actual breach
between them and us which 1t would
take a generation to heal.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14


D cannot be defied with impunity, and
that the resulting penalty falls upon
all sections and classes.
INTERESTS AT STAKE.
Certain portions of the people
indeed, it would seem, very con-
siderable portions - appear un-
willing to recognize that the best in
terests of the nation require that
! whilst on the one hand no extortion
must be tolerated, on the other hand
there must be a liberal disposition
toward business and a willingness
to see it make substantial profits.
To deny this is to deny human ma
| ture. Men will give their lives to their
/ country as a matter of plain and nat
ural duty; business men without a
moments hesitation, will quit their
affairs and devote their entire time
and energy and effort to the af-
fairs Of the nation, as a great many
have done and every one Of us
stands ready to do, without any
thought Of compensation. But men
will not take business risks, will not
venture, will not be enterprising and
constructive, will not take upon
themselves the responsibilities, the
chance of loss, the strain, the wear
and tear and worry. and care of in
tense business activity IL they do
not have the incentive of adequate
monetary reward, even though a
great part of that reward is taken
away again in the shape of taxa
tion.
DO not let it be asked OF business
that it shall wear a martyrs crown.
any more than it is being asked of
farmers or workmen. Let us beware
OF any tendency to relieve one or
more sections of the country of their
due share of burden at the expense
Of other sections or 10 favor one call
ing at the expense of the other call
ings. 1t is just as wrong for legisla-
tors to be unduly subservient to capi
tai and business as to the despoilers
and defamers of capital and business.
4 democracy which discriminates
against q class or a section is just
as guilty as an autOcracy which dis
eliminates in favor of a ruling caste.
Sclf-government presupposes self
restraint. Liberty can only thrive
and persist in the soil Of justice.
We shall have to meet, after the
return OF peace, both in our own
country and abroad, the onset of the
business men of Europe, spurred on
by dire necessity to put forth their
utmost efforts, trained to discipline
cooperation and inventiveness in the
cruel school Of years of desperate
war upon their own soil or at their
very door, backed by the full Vower
OF their respective governments and
the laws of their respective, coun-
tries. have no fear but thar AmerI-
can business men will hold their
own in that fierce competition; pro-
vided-not that they be given the
thorough and active governmental
backing which other nations extend
to their merchants, manufacturers
and bankers 1--WE do not ask for
that and we believe We do not re-
quire it)-but provided that they be
not hampered and harassed by the
Government and the lawmakers; pro-
vided that ignorance, prejudice. ILL
will and suspicion be not permitted
to place fetters upon them.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14

guidance upon Americans who for
generations have walked in the
light of liberty.
They have become drunk with the
strong wine of freedom, these men
who until they landed on Americas
coasts had tasted nothing but the
bitter water Of tyranny. Drunk,
they presume to impose their reel
ing gait upon Americans to whom
freedom has been 2 pure and re-
freshing fountain for century and
a half.
Brooding in the darkness of age
long oppression, they have evolved a
fantastic and distorted image of
free government. In fatuous ef-
frontery they seek to graft the
growth of their stunted vision upon
the splendid and ancient tree Of
American institutions.
We will not have it so, we who
are Americans by birth or adoption.
We reject these impudent preten-
sions. Changes the American peo-
pie will make. as their need be-
comes apparent, improvements they
welcome, the greatest attain
able well-being for all those under
our national roof-tree is their aim;
but they will do all that in the
American way and in the American
spi-tt-and. in none other. They will
not stand by and see maligned by
alien voices and assailed by alien
hands the splendid structure OF light
and order which is the great and
treasured inheritance of all those
who rightly bear the name Ameri-
cans, of which the stewardship is en-
strusted to them aDd which, God will
ing, they will hand on to their chill
dren orderly and wholesome, un-
shaken and undefiled.
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GOVERNMENT
EFFICIENCY
AND WISDOM
FUNDAMENTAL

respectively, Il per cent, 16 per cent,
20 per cent and 25 per cent. Here
the corresponding rates are two
thirds Of l per cent, IL per cent,
3Ia per cent and about 5 per cent
(or, if we add the so-called "occupa-
ton" tax, our total Federal taxa
ton on incomes of $4,000 is Ga
per cent, and on incomes of 5000,
9%).
In other words, our income taxa
ton is more democratic than that
of any other country, in that the
largest incomes are taxed much
more heavily, and the small and
moderate incomes much more lightly
than anywhere else, and incomes up
to $1,000 not taxed at all.
1t is true, on the other hand, that
on very large incomes as distinguish
ed from the largest incomes, our ILL
come tax is somewhat lower than the
English tax, but the difference by
which it is lower is incomparably
more pronounced in the case Of small
incomes than of large incomes.
Moreover, if we add to our income
tax our so-called excess profit tax
on income derived from business,
and other taxes, we shall find that
the total tax to which rich men are
subject is in the great majority of
cases heavier here than in England
or anywhere else.
1t is likewise true that the English
war excess profit tax is so per cent
Oess various offsets and allowGnces)
while our so-called excess prof. tax
ranges from 20 per cent to 60 per
The Washington times., 1918-01-14

willing, in this national emergency,
to be taxed to the very limit of our
ability, and to make contributions to
war relief work and other good
causes without stint. But we want
the people to know that capitalists in
general are now being taxed in
America more heavily than any
where else in the world.
The question of the individual is
not the one that counts in appraising
taxation. The question is not what
sacrifice capital should and would
be willing to bear if called upon but
what taxes it is to the public ad-
vantage to impose on capital, see
ing that there is point at which
the country's economic equilibrium
would be thrown out of gear with
consequences harmful to every ele-
ment of the community and detri-
mental to the successful prosecution
of the war.
l realize but too well that the bur-
den of the abnormally high cost of
living caused in part by the war,
weighs heavily indeed upon wage
earners, and still more upon men
and women with moderate salaries.
yield to no one in my desire to see
everything done that is practicable
to have that burden ightened. But
excessive taxation on capital will not
accomplish that; on the contrary, it
will rather tend to intensity the
trouble. Taxation must be wise and
sound and scientific, and cannot be
laid in haphazard way or on i'm
pulse or according 70 consider
ations of politics. Otherwise
the whole country will suf-
fer. History has shown over and over
again that the laws of economics
cannot be defied with impunity, and
that the resulting penalty falls upon
all sections and classes.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-05-25

for YOU to ask you what you intend TO
do for us women who have been left
without the hope Of fading mates
among our own PEOPLE. There are
none left whom i. speaking for my
self would care to marry. Now, what
are YOU going to do for us?"
She looked at the general. her dark
eyes seeming. MS he afterward said. to
be seeking to read his soul. After a
short silence She came to the point di-
rect by proposing that he should mar
ry her. She explained that she owned
large landed properties but, the slaves
having been set free she could not OBJ
tain the labor to TIL her lands. She
needed a man to lean upon.
General Hamilton somew hat taken
ahack by Il proposal he had not reck
Oned upon, rose to the necessity of the
occasion, however, and with all the
gallantry and sympathy inherent in an
honorable man, explained to her that
there was little woman left behind
in Ohio to whom his heart was pledged
and that he expected the wedding bells
to ring for them when the cruel war
was over which he felt sure would be
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-05-25
Test Soldiers Brains.

The psychological and brain tests to
which our enlisted men are being sub
Iected are something new in military
actics In other wars men we're not
out into the ranks If they showed
noticeable signs of mental infrmity
Now they do not stop with asking II
le Is crazy, but hey 20 further and
determine by established tests whether
1e Is "pj a. - crazy If exposed to the
strain and shock Of battle. Doctor Cor
gas Instituted this new examination,
and under 1t many men have been
uned back from the path to "over
here" and detailed to some phase Of
government service "over here" They
are not generally told why the change
made but are expected to give SOL
iicrly obedience 20 the order. 70 tell
hem would be TO set UP state OF
'elf-susplcion that would be very
harmful 49, Memphis Commercial Ap
peal.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-05-25

L make any difference II this wire
we're fastened to something's"
He arose from his imitation Of kan
CARGO about to jump down ii mine
shaft and took the wire from her fin
gers without comment. His feelings,
whatever they were, he did not dare
trust to speech. There was something
majestic about the repression OF the
man that forbade comment. In pal
plating silence he attached the wire
to place which seemed TO be made
for it, reassembled the engine, wiped
off his hands and grasped the crank.
He turned it once easily, and, "zing,"
the motor got down to business like a
clock!
Lucille hastily scrambled out of the
boat.
"Let her gor' Bopp yelled, taking
hold Of the wheel In a pose a good deal
like viking save for the grease on
his trousers. Did vikings wear trou-
sers? My memory is at faulty
l threw the line on board with a
feeling of envy for one who was speed
ing to square meal
keep TO starboardw Lucille yelled.
Keep to starboard! There's shallow
water on the port slider
Bopp spun the wheel, and the launch
turned abruptly to the left
''The other wayw screamed Lucille.
"Starboard is on your right slider
She was too late The boat stopped
suddenly. Bopp hastily took an i'm
preston of the steering wheel on the
pit of his stomach.
yelled to Bopp, do you want any
help?"
mo" he replied. bowling to me IN
Intentionally from pain. holding one
hand on his belt line where the wheel
had struck him.
To Lucille 1 explained in as loud n
tone of voice as / could command: at
is a curious thing about many deep
water sailors that they cannot tell their
left and right hands apart. Say port
or 'starboard' to them and they get
you at once"