Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-08-12
DEMANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT
MAKE REDUCTION BY CON-
GREss DIFFICULT.
BURDEN IS ON REPUBLICANS
seemh. sIy Unavoidable Expenditures,
Including Huge Sum for Shipping
Board, Will Make Savings BY Cen
eraI Dawes Look Exceedingly Small.
Nv EDWARD B. CLARK.

ing to put good face on the matter.
but taxation is looking at them with
not altogether a pleasing countenance,
Taxation is an ugly customer. Con
gressmen do not like to deal with it,
and the people do not like to have ii
dealt with although they know that
the dealing Herewith is inevitable.
Congress has taken note of what
Chairman Lasker of the shipping board
has said concerning his Forthcoming
request that congress appropriate
$30O,0O0,0O0 to pay the boards ex
penses for the coming fiscal year. The
chairman's words were: "This may
throw sand on the gears of taxation
revision, but l cannot help it."
Every political party when it is in
power looks dismal-eyed at the prob
lem of tax revision. Fairly definite
promises were made by both parties ir
their national conventions that the
taxes of the nation would be reduced
It turned out that it is the lot of the
Republican majority to do it. How is
it going to be done?
There are those in Washington who
easily can understand why the house
put off tax revision until after it had
finished with the tariff. 1t was simply
a. case of postponing the most disagree
able and probably the most disappoint-
ing work that was to confront the law
makers during the present session.
Not only the probable request fol-
$500, 000, 900 for the shipping board, but
dozen other things have been drib-
bling sand into the gears of the tax
revision machinery. Congress has cut
out adjusted compensation legislation
at the request Of the President, but in
the earlier researches into what it was
to cost to run the government. the
bonus was given no consideration
Therefore the relief is not material.
Makes Dawes Savings Look Puny.
Here is Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes
hard at work in the sweltering Wash
ington weather trying to save money
for the country, and yet every day he
gets news which means that though
he shall accomplish what the boy
called a Herculaneum job, the results
with a dollar sign before them will ap-
pear pitifully small when placed side
by side with the enforced expenditures
Of government General Dawes will
deserve just as much credit as if con
gress were not compelled to spend its
tun, and also its ton of good money
but it probably will be a little bit dis
couraging to know that the huge sum
which he probably will save may ap-
pear like a shriyeled shrub alongside
of a sequoia of compulsory expendi.
lures.
Members of the Republican majori.
ty are asking themselves today how
taxes can be cut with the demand fol
money which is constantly being heard
through the hole in the cashiers win
dow There are expenditures which
can be cut off, but there is day Of
reckoning for the government, just as
there is for the small business man
The administration through its selec-
tive commissions and committees like
those of which Dawes and Walter f
Brown are the chiefs, has done all thai
it can apparently to produce offsets
against expenditures, but the grim
fact remains that congress must make
provisions for huge governmental eX
penses, and that in order to do il
must make provisions for taxation.
Republicans Have Some Hope.
The leaders of the Republican party
seem to feel, and justly so probably,
that if they can make a showing Of a
reduction of taxation, relieving the
burdens where they fall heaviest, not
only on the big fellow but on the little
fellow, they will be secure in the con-
tinued confidence of the country. AT
the same time they know that taxa
ton and other sources of revenue, if
there be any such, must produce a suf-
fcient amount of money to meet in full
the running expenses of big govern
ment with all kinds of work in hand
and with all kinds of debts to meet.
Interest Ill lcAdlIOH 1CSISIdl4Ol1 Is
one hundred times keener than in any
tariff legislation. An American puts
his hand in his pocket and draws out
cash when the tax collector comes
round. He may lose some cash through
the tariff, but he does not know much
about it. OF course, also, he may gain
little something through the tariff,
but perhaps he knows less about this
than he does about the loss.
The house will put through tax legis-
lation under a rule limiting debate.
The senate will talk taxes through the
twilight and darkness of many days.
If taxation could be talked to death
the senate is the body to do it, but it
is in this day an extremely lively, we'll
developed, hard-fisted subject An
American can be taxed to death, but
he cannot retaliate on his adversary.
Madden Wants Constitution Amended
Another amendment to the Con
stitution has been introduced. 1t
DOCUMENT OF EARLY CHURCH.