Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-04-28

sus, was about evenly divided between
industrial values and land values, the
federal tax burden in 1919 was about
$4,O00,0OO,000 on Observation-Disclosures and
only $600,000,000 on the privilege Of
land ownership. Between $5O,000,-
100000 and $60,o0O,O0O,00O worth Of
vacant lands and natural resources
IN this country now escape the federal
tax collector altogether!
Their campaign will be divided into
two parts. The first will be one of
education of the American voters to
the folly of Encouraging nonproduc-
ton by levying practically no taxes
on the monopoly of natural opportuni-
ties" They will show that the pres
ent scheme of levying most OF the
taxes on farm and factory production
tends to discourage the producers.
When the public begins to wake up
to the need of taxing land and coal
and oil and other resources held out of
use the organization will move on con.
gress.
A CONVERT TO PUBLIC OWNER
SHIP
Senator Jones of Washington, who
Is firmly opposed to these labor rad
1cals" who want the railroads to be
owned and operated by the public, is
compelled to ride on street car. He
does not operate an automobile every
day. Using street cars, he Is op-
posed to the robbing of the street car
public by the street car company.
And this week his principles have
forced him to offer a bill limiting the
price of rides in the District of Co.
lumbia to four for Is cents
Now, the public utilities commission
of the District has just ordered that
the two companies here shall charge
30 cents for four rides-a jump of
5 cents on the price of four tickets.
Its reason was the wage demands
and threatened strike of the employees
OF one company, which refused to
meet the wage scale paid by the other.
The company which paid the higher
wages has always been prosperous,
and gives good service. The other is
heavily overwatered in it's capitaliza-
ton, and two years ago spent $500, 900
In fighting strike.
Jones says he favOrs government
ownership and consolidation Of these
two street railway systems, under
the circumstances" but he must not
be understood as indorsing the prin.
c1ple OF public ownership anywhere
else.
OUR WAR RECORD
Chairman Kahn Of the house COM
mittee on military affairs, pleading
for a bigger army, reminded the
house the other day that this country
has spent a great deal Of it's time in
war.
Zone hundred and forty-fve years."
he said, "have elapsed from the date
of the Battle of Lexington, in Its,
until this year 1920. During these
years the United States has been en-
gagged in either civil or foreign wars
for almost 38 years, or Is per cent
Of the time.
1.-THE length of the peace periods
during those 145 years are as follows:
1.-The War of the Revolution to war
with France, Is years months: the
war with France to war with Tripon,
3 months; war with Tripoli to war
with Great Britain, years and /
month; war with Great Britain to war
with Algiers, Tunis and Morocco,
about year; war with Algiers, Tunis
and Morocco to war with Mexico.
about 30 years and 6 months: war
with Mexico to Civil war, IL years
and 10 months; Civil war to- war with
Spain, 81 years and months: Phil
tppine insurrection to Cuban pacifca-
ton, 4 years and months; Cuban
pacification to .Nicaraguan expedition,
3 years and 5 months; Nicaraguan ex-
petition to Tera Cruz expedition, 6
months; Vera Cruz expedition to Mex
lean punitive expedition, l year and
3 months; Mexican punitive expedi-
ton to World war, 2 months, making
total of about 1O7 years peace out
of the 49,"
THE MEXICAN SITUATION
Diplomatic representatives OF all
South American countries are much
depressed by the turn Of events in
Mexico. In spite of assurances from
our state department that we have
been pursuing officially a policy of
nonintervention, these diplomats see
the great imperialistic interests of the
strongest nation in the world making
another and perhaps a successful
thrust at the independence of sister
republic.
They see in the present revolution
only the cover whereby the oil inter.
ests and others hope to make interven.
ton acceptable to citizens of the
United States and with that the TAX
ing of considerable Mexican territory
Since 1900 we have thus seized Pana
ma, Haiti, San Domingo and Nicara
qua, and have most of the rest Of
Central America under our thumbs
financially and politically to the great
profit of the United Fruit company.
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Every member Of the family with
the exception Of the growing boy will
sometimes wake up in the middle OF
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