The sun., 1918-10-21
Now. the Huge Fourth Liberty Loan
Dragged Across with Heroic Ef-
fort, Put Eitchin Out and
Make the Next One Easy.

Make the Next One Easy. !
All the land is filled with rejoicing |
that the Fourth Liberty Loan is sub |
scribed to the full six billions of
dollars. The sense of citation over !
this colossal financial achievement !
here at home is second only to the
spirit Of triumph over the incompa
rable feat at arms of our sons and
brothers abroad
But there is no one Of cool judg-
ment that can ignore what was done
with incessant effort and strain, what
had to be done, to pull the loan
through. 1t was like sweating blood.
There is no one Of clear discernment
that can fail to see the cause and
TO apprehend the succeeding events.
swiftly approaching. They loom big
ger by far than this six billion loan
lust closed. They wear visage inf
nitely more grim. They breathe
danger indescribably blacker.
Think of eight billions Of dollars
for taxes collectible while the sub
ser,bers for the six bill ons Of Lib
erty loan are still paying up! Think.
while those taxpayers are bending
double under that tax load Of eight
billions, Of fifth Liberty loan imme-
diately required Of perhaps another
six billions! Then, In this engulfing,
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 boun-
daries. think of KIrcHIN of Scotland
Neck. North Cardinal
With a chairman Of the House
Ways and Means Committee capable
Of comprehending even the elemen-
tary principles 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 prosperity. not to terrorize
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
billioDs yet to come for taxes on the
top of the billions for this Liberty
Loan and again the billions for still
other Liberty Loans to come on the
top of the billions for taxes.
But, with 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, Lille-with q
chairman wreaking his sectional ven
geance In such ways, the greatest lend
ing power in the world was dyna-
mited. the greatest taxpaying capac-
lty was sacked, the greatest agency
Of production-the source of all taxes,
all loans, all support Of human needs
and desires-was throttled.
With his economic superstitions and
his intellectual deficiencies, KITcHIN
of Scotland Neck, North Carolina. did
not have enough gumption about tax.
alton without extinction Of the thing
taxed to know how and where to
begin right on the task of raising
revenue If he had wanted so to do
But his opportunity to carry out his
threat of assessing the cost Of the
war on that part of the country north
Of Mason and Dixon's line was q
good enough job for him. With all
the imprisoned sectionalism that wa.
In him he went as far as there wa:
time for him to 60.
But KITCHEN cannot be permitted
10 go further on his mad halter cours,
without utterly smashing the coun
try's business, confounding the Gov
ernment's undertakings and impedin,
the worlds settling of the Hun. To