The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-06-06
AT THE AISNE.

AT THE AISNE.
THE Germans have crossed the Aisne' says
a recent newspaper headline. How many have
crossed and over how long a line the cablegram
did not say. But crossing a river against a
foe awaiting the assault is a thing that shows
the German momentum is not on the Wane.
The answer to the cablegram is in the Pres
ident's address calling for more taxation to help
pay for the bloody work of keeping the Ger
mans from crossing the Atlantic-more tax
alton and another huge bond issue in October.
from incomes, from excess profits and from
l%uxuries: The people must stand the strain.
It is right that those who make money out of
the war should be heavily mulcted by the gov
eminent. Distinction should be made between
incomes earned and unearned, but probably
right, if they do not degenerate into consmp-
ton taxes.
The President says nothing of the taxation
of land values. They are not earned by those
who get them. In land much money may. be
sunk and hidden from the assessors. Idle land
the increment of value escapes. Land values
are free, industry is taxed. The country's
land values, created by everybody, held by a
few who give no service for them, would yield
billions If properly taxed. They yield nothing.
? However, the Germans have crossed the
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.of correct economics. The Germans must be
stopped.
Everybody is going to know that he is
helping to stop them. How much soever the
big income men, the big war profteers, the
luxury users may pay, the little fellow will con-
prices ~.>. a.. :
> The raise in railroad passenger rates viii
work havoc with the hotels through reduction
of travel. No matter, the government wants
to discourage passenger traffic to clear the
tracks for freight. Increased freight rates will
increase the prices of everything transported.
The masses Of the people will have to deny
themselves many things. Thy will have to save
in order to pay taxes and buy bonds. They
will have to work for the country as much as
for themselves. If their country loses the war
what they may have will be OF little worth;
Every American must be a fighter on the bread
line, now that the Germans have crossed the
Aisne.
Our ships are coming along rapidly, our fight
ers are going abroad about 100000 a month,
supplies are moving in a vast steady olume
the carrying on of the war is just reaching It's
acme of speed and sureness. And it ten MIL
lion more men are needed in arms they will be
Forthcoming. This country will win the war
whether our associates can hold out until we
can strike with our full force or not. They will
probably hold the line, and then the Germans
will be driven back beyond the Aisne-yes, and
the Rhine.
The task is not going to be easy. All OF US
will feel the strain and a little of the pain of
the doing of it. The congress is asked by the
President fairly to distribute the tax strain by
drawing chiefly from the sources which would
be likely to demoralize credit by their abund-
ance."
We will have to pay the price, a bitter one,
but it y is we'll to remember that we pay for the
sweetest thing there is-liberty for ourselves
and all the world.-St. Louis Mirror.
Three rousing cheers! The political milen-
MUM is at hand, if, indeed, it is not already
here. Listen to this from the Pembina Pioneer
official mouthpiece of the old gang, but which
has evidently come to see the error OF it's way,
and which has recently issued the following ipse
dixit under the caption: w are all Nonparti-
sans"
There is a wide spread feeling that this
year all party lines be ignored and that the
sole partisan issue should be loyalty and
win the war; Just now, we nave
but one great issue on which all loyal men
are united, Now it is for self-preservation
and against autocracy from without. Later
we can fight dangers from within. ***
The old parties are really dead, and we may
as well recognize the fact-right now and
take on the new alignment as far as de-
veloped. That development as yet consists
in the one issue, shall we win this war?
That is the line on which this falls elections
and parties should be run. AS a matter of
fact. Just. as we stand, with only loyalty as
an issue, we are all snonpartisans."
The Courannt,s corps of anonymous CORES.
pondents appear to have fallen down on their
job" Possibly they are engaged "a attempting
to locate the Advocates anonymous stock
holders.