Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-09-04
COMMENT

sumer has paid all the war tax The !
consumer knew this all the time but
there is some satisfaction in having
it officially proclaimed that the hum
bic people have really paid all of the
big income taxes which have been
accredited to John D. Rockefeller and
other magnates.
How does it come that the consum-
err paid the bills? some one will ask
John D., the beef trust and the coal
barons added their income tax to the
price of their oil, their beef and their
coal.
Another thing the Investigation will
result in and that is the creating of a
lot of expense which will be paid by
special taxes and thus while the PEG
pie may finally get little reduction
| in the price of some articles of food
they will dig up the price. in way of
| increased taxes.
Most of us small fellows think the
big boys ought to be able to get the
country back onto pre- war basis
prettyareadily and without much COM
motion, butt am beginning to think
thatssit is man sized job. At the
same time they ought to hurry things
/ a little more.
IF pair of shoes did not cost so
much a greater number of us could
I afford trip in areoplane.
According to the schedule as pub
lished President Wilson will not even
pass through Wa-Keeney while on his
speaking trip through the west. It
can not be understand why such an
error was made by the program com
mittee.
No, this is no joke. While Presi-
: dent Wilson is crossing the prairies
of the mid west he ought to be per-
mitted to see the beauty spot of that
territory andsthat beauty spot is the
Trego County Court house lawn.
It begins to look like there will be
no joke about the scarcity of coal this
winter. Even the local bins which are
, usually filed at this season are en-
tnely empty. Some say there is {
good surplus at the mines but i
seems to be pretty hard to move i
away from them. s
, The oil men and the coal men pro
QuCo JUST enough OF the InlSn0O pro
duct to keep the supply short and tn,
demand high and yet when the cotton
: producers proposed last spring to pro
duces just enough cotton to Keep tn
demand brisk and the price high Their,
was an awful howl made and the nam
: of siackers and gougers were freel.
: used. The same would be the case j
: the farmers would cut short the acre
age of wheat and corn,
There are more people killed in tn
n United States each year from auto
mobile accidents than from aerop1an
. faccide because there ar. so man
more people ride in autos. Howevel
r most of us would accept free rid
5 in an automobile much more readil
: than we would an offer of a free rid
q in a flying machine. eF'amiliarit
breeds cont - As soon as tI
s aerop1ane becomes more in use Il
q more readily we will ride in it..
g We are travelling at a pretty rap
rate just now but if the next fiji
years shows as much increase.
" speed as the last fifty years have dor
On we will be going at the rate of aboa
five or six miles a minutes The ne
,se born babe viii find itself gray head
= and with one foot in the grave soon
than the present generation seeks II
marriage altar
- And not only then will ssThe fires
- " -bak ed funeral meats furnish co
the wedding feast, but the fresh
= printed birth ANNOUNCE nents viii al
serve as funeral cards. It viii
truly a case of .tHowdy do and tn
d good bye Too fast for me y
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