Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-10
'lONGWORTH WARNS
Of TAX DANGERS
Wealth Now Levied On to
About the Limit, House
Is Told.

ing point by the new revenue bill.
Representative Longworth Of Ohio
declared in the House today when
debate on the huge tax measure was
resumed. He warned his hearers that
any additional taxes levied hereafter
must be borne by the people purchas-
ing articles of daily necessity, and
said that as the cost of the war
mounts q greater proportion of it
will have to be borne by future gen
erations.
Pointing out that Congress is about
to exact from the American people a
sum which would have more than
paid the entire costs of the civil war.
both to the Union and the Confederacy.
Mr.. Longworth said the tax of 80 per
cent on war profits and the maximums
per cent on incomes was mighty
near the danger mark" He added
that this is bill ito raise war reve-
nue. and not reorganize society"
Warns Of Thunder Tax.
"Just as surely as you impose a tax
which amounts to plunder.' said the
Ohio representative. "just SO surely
do you overshoot the mark and rem
der difficult. If not impossible. the
financing necessary to effectively
prosecute the war"
Most of the coming issue of liberty
bonds. Mr.. Longworth said, will be
purchased by individuals and their
directly by the taxes on their incomes.
Although he and other members
doubted its possibility the ways and
means committee. MIR. Longworth con-
n cd iy,f yov {nxr HI
designed to raise $4,000, 100000 by
taxation without resort to consumption
taxes and increased tariff taxes. These
remain. he added. as additional sources
of revenue in case some of those now
counted upon are destroyed by legis-
lation or otherwise.
der stopping manufacture of beer after
next December will cause a loss of
SoOo,0O0,0O in revenue under the new
war tax bill. Mr.: Longworth said Con-
gresS may be forced to impose con-
sumption taxes sooner than had been
expected. In that connection he sug-
gested tax of cents a pound on
coffee. % cents on tea, 10 per cent on
rubber. 20 per cent on wool, Is per
cent on hides and l cent on sugar. He
estimated these would yield s240,0OO,-
900 annually.
Loss of Liquor Revenue Heavy.
The Ohio representative also warned
that the proposed wartime national
prohibition legislation would reduce the
estimated revenue returns from bever-
ages by $500. 100000. which with the
until the national prohibition measure
becomes effective would reduce the es-
timated revenue under the bill to &c.
000, 100000.
lures. Mr.. Longworth commended the
bill as a whole as vast improvement
over the old law.
In concluding. the speaker portrayed
the conditions under which the German
people, gagged and bound, nav bloody
tribute to the insatiate ambition of the
house Of Hohenzollern," and said that
no citizen of the embattled nations, not
even the son of the great pacifist, Henry
Ford, is more surely immune from bod
lily harm than are the German en-
peror's six sons, who will be preserved
unchanged for posterity."
Last of all the Wilhelms in Germany
to give his life for the Vaterland" Mr..
Longworth continued. will be Wilhelm
the Kronprinz; last of all the Fritzes to
berts, the August Wilhelms, the Oskars
and Joachims."
- Praise for Americans.
Sons of the Presidents of the United
CeolSSS ho Sdiu ny SollipdI lSoIIp have
been lest timorous. Without mention
ing by name his father-in-law, Col.
Roosevelt, Mr.. Longworth said:
"All four sons of a former Presi-
dent have been at the real front, three
OF them married men with children,
upon whom there was no possible
legal obligation. One has persisted
gloriously OH the field of honor, two
have been wounded, one SO serious
ly that he has been invaded home,
the one only who has escaped injury
has been decorated for conspicuous
gallantry in action" He added that
a son of the only other living ex-
President, referring to Mr.. Taft, is at
the front and that if President Will
son had been blessed with sons OF
fighting age, they, too, would have
been on the firing line.
Let patriotism" Mr.. Longworth
said, continue to Danish all selfish
and partisan spirit from uor DELHI
erations and make US brothers in the
cause. so that We may stand shoulder
to shoulder. northerner and south
erner. republican and democrat, unit
ed indissolubly during this war by the
passionate resolve that government
of the kaiser, by the kaiser and for
the kaiser shall perish from the
earth"