The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-08-16
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| to stir up class hatred. or that Will tend
to draw vote. Ii he does not absolutely
| falsify he misrepresents, which Is looked
| upon the same as lying by all honorable
men. In one instance he goes further
| than Misrepresentation, he simply m
| dulges i'll II statement that Is 1aise. lie
| has made the statement time ana again
| that the reason that the spokesman
| Review is opposing his candidacy Is be.
cause he (DilD fayors an income tax ana
| the Spokesman Review owner, VINO mas
| is bitterly opposed to the government
| taxing incomes. OF course there are
| men who hear Mr.. Din boldly make this
assertion who do not read the Spokes-
never succeeded in life, are terociousiy
down upon any man who mas had Drains
enough to accumulate, believe that MT.
Din is stating fact. Such men never
take the trouble to investigate IN oruer
to ascertain if charge OF TINS kllu Is
true 1t corresponds 50 closely with their
bolshevki idea that if any man has so
much us a dollar and half ne Is IN
duty bound to divide up with his lazy
financially embarrassed neighbor that he
accepts Mr.. Dills declaration ana cneers
him to the echo. Now we are not holdins
any brief in the case OF DIN VS.. tne
Spokesman Review, but We do not pro-
pose to let Mr.. Dils unfounded state
ment go undenied Besides in showing
up Mr.. Dills mendacity in this instance
ii proves to the public, If the pubic VIII
accept proof, that If man VIII misrep-
resent on one subject he will not hesitate
to misrepresent on others. a,
Last week the Gazette stated that the
Spokesman Review time and again III
able editorials urged both the income
tax and heavy tax on war pronteerLis.
This advocacy of an income tax Is not u
position taken recently by that paper
AS far back as in April, 1870 before Mr..
Dill was ever heard Of the SpoKesnial
Review complimented President aai' w
on advocating an income tax. lhat cur
f..tln
president Taft has consistently urged
the people to adopt the income TAX
amendment to the constitution thIoush
ratification by the various sta.e ssisa
the income tax a part OF our regular taA
system, but simply gives congress ine
power, under the constitution, 10 lay
such a tax if desired. Whether such
tax should be levied in time of peace
and prosperity is question TO De oe
cided by the people through their iegs,
lators, but that these legislators shoulo
have the power to levy a tax on tne
great aggregations of wealth by means
of taxing incomes in case OF emergency
such as war there is little room Tor argu-
ment -, ..o
civilized nations in the world have such
power in one form or another ana nase
held it for years. Our own cohsless
passed an income tax law several years
ago which was declared unconstitutional
nv the supreme court by the close vote
OF five to four. The amendment pro.
posed would remove this disaDlltv ot
congress 1t is a reasonable ana just
and should be ratified by the
Again in April, 1918, the Spokesman
Review contained the following reiereHce
TO the same subject: -
"The income tax is an admirable ad-
lition to the fiscal methods ana nnanclai
of the country II mas peeh
adopted by the most intelligent. progress
,ive and prosperous nations of Europe
md has worked we'll. The graduation
# the rates of taxation according 70 the
Proportions the burden according to the
,earer of the burden" e., |,
on Wednesday of last week the fol-
owing editorial appeared in the Spokes-
War taxes, as shown by the report |
f the commissioner of internal revenue. Il
or the year ended June 80 brought tne |.
overnment 1884. 702, 900. Collections Tor
he entire year , mere only enough 10 pay
months of the war at the rate the gov
rnment Is now spending money.
Congress must lay heavier taxes Tor
he coming year. The government must
lot be crippled for want Of war funds
md the increases should be sought In
anger income taxes and very largely IN
sound principle will be the taking by the
government of the lions share OF war
Profits, leaving war industries only suf-
Ierprise and production.
War taxes last year brought less
than $4,000, OOO,O OO The house ways and
means committee is now working on "a
year. 1t is none too much to raise by |
taxation, and If yet greater sum can
be raised without Gripping industry, so
"There never was a time in the his
tory of the republic when greater need
held for sound financial judgment and
edge of political economy and under
standing of the lessons OF history are
qualifications now needed at Washingt ton
as they have not before been needed in
this generation.
Some of the members of the ways
and means committee are obviously lack
ing in that knowledge. For example,
Representative Green of Iowa Is press
superimposed war profits tax with
maximum of 80 per cent on corporations
having more than 100000 capital. Eighty
per cent may be the right measure. 1t
is the British maximum. and seems to
be- working well in Great Britain But
why draw the line at $200.O0O capitaliza-
t tom saoo corporation 0"d capitalized for less
dozen wealthy stockholders, while cor
poraton of $2,OOO,OOO or $40. OOO, 900 viii
have thousands Of small stockholders.
against them and in favor of the war
profits of smaller but close corporations
that may be owned by few persons of
large wealth.
Now in the face of this evidence what
Is Mr.. Din going to do, about It? VIII
he go before the people and acknowledge
that he Intentionally misled for the pur-
pose of winning votes from an element
that Is willing to accept any charge
made against men of means? Not on
your life. He will go on repeating the
same story knowing that thousands of
people do not see the Spokesman
view, have no means of checking up
such. statements. or will accept such
spurious charges without the desire to
verify them. We are not fighting the
Spokesman Reviews battles. It IS far
more able to defend itself than "a coun-
Try paper Is to put up defense on it's
behalf We only make plea for fair
play. In the past this paper has often
been opposed to the policy OF the Spokes-
mani Review, but we admire the stand
it has taken in this war and honestly
believe that It's intense loyalty has been
thorn In the side of Dill and he would
not hesitate to say anything that might
discredit and weaken the patriotic in
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