The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-28
BEATING THE INCOME TAX.

BEATING THE INCOME TAX.
One of the wealthiest men in Wal
Iowa county, Oregon, was indicted by
the grand jury last week for having
failed to give in all of his income to
the tax collector. He stands a good
chance of going to the penitentiary
ard he will have to pay the income
tax with a % per cent penalty and
PROBABLY heavy fine. 1t did not
pay him to try to beat the income
tax. fa
A citizen of Latah county, with
Land in Whitman county, failed to
report his income from his Whitman
county land. An internal revenue
collector learned the facts and it cost
this man go per cent penalty to es-
cape criminal prosecution. This did
not pay.
The man who tries to beat the in
come tax is playing dangerous
game. He is almost certain to be
caught and the penalties are severe.
He will have to pay rs per cent adj
ditional and is subject to fine of
$1,000 to $4,000 and a term in the
penitentiary.
The government needs the money.
1t is going to get it. Men are en-
ployed for the sole purpose of fer
reting out income tax dodgers and to
see that they pay their full income
and make full report.
The time for making income tax
reports expires March Is. Every
man or woman earning $1,000 or
more, if single, or $4,000 or more, if
married, must pay income tax and
must file a report. The government
has extended the time As days after
March Is provided the person liable
for the tax writes to the collector
and states, in writing, that he or she
cannot possibly make the return on
March 15 But this is almost as
much trouble as to make the return
and the easiest and safest way is to
make the return not later than March
49,
W. A. Cole, of the income tax de-
partment, will be in Moscow Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, March 6,
and 8, to help income tax payers
make out their returns. He will be
in Troy on March 10, Kendrick, March |
IL; Juliaetta, March IL and Genesee
March 10 and IA. 1t will be wise |
plan to see him if you have not your
report made out before that time
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APPEAL TO MR.. TAFT.
Former President Taft having said
that the proposed Constitution of the
League of Nations makes the Monroe
Doctrine worldwide, Senator Borah
respectfully asks him to urge upon
the Peace Conference an explicit
statement to that effect or at least
\ formal acknowledgment of it in its
original terms as applicable to the
Western Hemisphere.
If the Senator had read the propos- {
r., Constitution carefully he would not t
rcye troubled Mr.. Taft with his de- /
<s.1d. Article XII. provides that dis {
outes which cannot be adjusted by di-
,lomacy must be arbitrated and that |
no member nation shall resort to
..ar against another member which
complies with the awards of the ar +
,itrators. Article XVI. provides that c
my member disregarding its coven- Z
int under Article XII "shall be deem c
ID to have committed an act of war l
lgainst all the other members of the c
eague,' which are at once obligated
0 subject the offending member to
financial and commercial boycott ?
If the League of Nations had ex- $
sted in President Cleveland's day he g
you'd not have been forced in the a
'enezuelan matter to threaten Great Q
Britain with war single-handed The r
efusal of that Government to arbi- n
rate would have been deemed an act
war against all the other members :
the league, and if persisted in !,
'ould have led to the severance of all
numerical relations, and ultimately 0
erhaps, to the use of force by the n
hole world against the aggressive 2
over. ~ g
This is what is meant when it is
I'D that the League Of Nations will A
AXE the Monroe Doctrine universal
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