The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
JAN ES M. COX

interpretations are unnecessary. That
may be true, but they will at least be
| reasSuring TO many Of our citizens,
who feel that in signing the treaty
there should be no mental reserva-
tons that are not expressed in plain
words, as a matter of good faith to
our associates. Such interpretations
possess the further virtue of supply
ING q base upon which agreement can
be reached, and agreement, without
injury to the covenant, II now OF
pressing Importance.
II was the desire to get things
started that prompted some mem
bers of the Senate to vote for the
Lodge reservations. Those who
eonsoientiously voted for them in
the final roll calls realized, how
over, that they acted under duress,
in that a politically big6ted minor
ity was exercising the arbitrary
power of it's position to enforce
drastic conditions" ...
Happily the voters Of the Republic,
under our system OF government, can
remedy that situation. and have the
faith that they will, at the election
this fall. Then organized government
will be enabled to combine Impulse
and facility in the making OF better
world conditions. The agencies of
exchange will automatically adjust
themselves to the opportunities OF
commercial freedom. New life and
renewed hope will take hold Of every
nation. Mankind will press a resolute
shoulder to the task of REIMBURSEMENT
and a new era will have dawned upon
the earth.
GOV. COX TAKES UP DOMESTIC
QUESTIONS.
I'VE have domestic problems to be
settled. They are most pressing.
Many conditions growing out of the
war will not and should not continue.
The work of readjustment will call
Tor our best energy ingenuity, IN
seltshneSs and devotion to the idea
that n is the general welfare we must
promote.
"One OF the first things to be done
Is the repeal OF war taxes The
entry OF America into the world war
projected our people into an an
paralleled financial emergency, which
was faced with n determination to
make every sacrifice necessary to
victory. Billions in liberty loans
subscribed by patriots regardless OF
their financial condition were in
stanly placed at the disposal OF the
gladly paid into the treasury through
many forms of taxation To have
paid by current taxes more than one
third OF the expense of the greatest
war In the history of mankind, is a
reflection on the high sense of ma
uonal duty with which we of America
view the obligations OF this genera
uon. Immediately following the ar
mistice, measures to modify onerous
and annoying taxation should have
been taken and the Republican Con-
gress in which all tax laws must orig
mate, and which for almost two years
has exclusively held the power TO
ameliorate this condition, has not
made a single effort or passed n
single law to lift from the American
people a load OF war taxation that
cannot be tolerated in "a time of
peace.
MIGHT CUT $2,OoOooo,ooO FROM
FEDERAL TAXES.
Federal taxation must be
heavily reduced, and il will be
done at once, IL a Democratic ad-
mlnistratlon is chosen in Novem-
Der. Without hamperins essential
national administrative depart
menta, by the elimination of all
SN'NSN OsoVOVl1 every
where, national taxes can be re-
duoed in excess of $4,000, 900 900
yearly. Annoying consumption
taxes, once willingly borne, now
unIustified, should be repealed.
Tho incomes from war made for
tunes, those Of nom producers and
those derived from industries that
exist by unfair privileges may be
able to carry their present load,
but taxes on tho earnings of the
wage-earners, of the salaried and
professional man, Of the aarioul-
tural producer and OF the small
tradesman should be sharply
modified.
| believe that better form OF
taxation than the so-callod excess
profits tax may be found, and / suE-
gest small tax probably / to ~
per cent, on the total business OF
every going concern. Il is 10 be un-
derstood that the term 'business' as
used does not include income re-