The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-02
EMOCRAIIC PLATFORM
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DODGES NJ ISSUE
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Hncy system back into the arena
party politics.
Tax Revision
We condemn the failure of Tn.
,resent congress to respond to the Oft
epeated demand of the president anu
he secretaries of the treasury TO re-
rise the existing tax laws The con.
anuance in force in peace times OF
axes devised under pressure of i'm
'erative necessity to produce revenue
or war purposes is indefenslble ana
IAN only result in lasting injury to
he people.
We advocate tax reform and
searching revision OF the war revenue
icts to fit peace conditions so that
he wealth of the nation may not be
withdrawn from productive enterprises
md diverted to wasteful or non-pro.
iuctve expenditure.
We demand prompt action by the
iext congress for complete survey
,f existing taxes and their modifica-
ion and simplifications with view
% securing greater equity and justice
n tax burden and improvement in al
ninistration.
Public Economy
Claiming to have effected great
economies in government expenditures
he Republican party cannot show
he reduction Of one dollar in taxation
Ss a corrollary of this false pretense.
n contrast, the last Democratic con-
tress enacted legislation reducing taxes
rom eight billions, designed to be
aised to six billions for the first
rear, after the armistice, and to four
,nlions thereafter, and there the total
$ left undiminished by our political
.dversaries. Two years after armistice
lay a republican congress provides
or expending the stupendous sum Of
i5,4OS, ,39O, ,327.SO.
Affecting great paper economies
~ reducing departmental estimates.
which would not be apparent in any
f''ie' anu W I'uuClis luIIndl dppTo-
,riations, the republican statement OF
expenditures omits the pregnant fact
hat congress authorized the use of
me and half billion dollars in the
lands Of various departments and
bureaus, which otherwise would have
jeen converted into the treasury, and
which had been added to the repub,
tC1D total pvngpIft1lr4a
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s" 'os' oi Living
The high cost OF living and the de-
i,reciation of bond values in this
ountry are primarily due to war it,
elf, to the necessary governmental eN-
1enoitures for The destructive pur'
'oses Of war, To private extravaganza
md credits and IN larg degree, to
'onscienceless profitelring.
The republican party is responsible
or the failure o. restore peace and
oeace conditions in Europe, which is
principal caus ol postarmistice in
lation, Inc wor'c over. Il has denied
ne demand IF Inc president for nee
'ssary legislation 90 deal with Sec
'ndaiy ana local causes The sound
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surtdi pubhc expenditures and 10 /
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"ApayefS great sums oil money WhiIe
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'ic"s OF I'ePul'lica" puilueia"s To cope
Ni'h inc PiopleiHs' peihahulhs lha' |
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'url oses oi ie'NJ us''i'e"t' 'Ie congress .
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