Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-04-21

offer one cause can be attributed the
apprehension of law breakers the past
COUPE OF years in West Virginia.
THE province of Ontario. in Canada,
voted tor bone dry prohibition last
Monday. Fifteen months ago the bar,
or importation OF liquor, winch had
beSn imposed as war measure. was
lifted. The vote on Monuay was to
permanently ban the manufacture ana
importation OF all liquors. and the
temperance forces have won great
vIcIory.
All the world is going dry.
The National Coal Association, the
mSmoers OF winch are the DuumlnouS
coai operators, nave maze an appeal
to Inc country to Duy more coal ana
thus Keep Industry going. lney SHOW
tnal the pruuuClIOn vi coal mas urOp-
PIT from i1,1Io, Uuu IONS week iaSd
tain to o,ioU,uUO tons Inc nrst week
ia April
~ taxes a GOOD deai OF nerve 10 ask
the PUBIC to BUY coal at the cXorbi-
tadt prices that the operators continue
tn demand. lney can't reanze that
their greedineSS is an oftenSe 10 tho
people OF MS country, VINO i'll many
varun rauner than submit to the de-
nianaS of the coal operators. 10 renew
activity in the coal business Will re-
quire the operators TO accept far
wages, the railroads to haul 1T fan
rat-s and the retailers to charge mod
craze profits.
THE present session OF Congress
wi. nave long wTest.e Wi the qIes-
ton OF taxation, noIWithIan ing that
tins law now On the statue books,
placed there by Democratic aiminiS-
trttlOn, IS about as fair and equitable
aS a AK ), stem C.L be. The wealthy
corporations that have been paying eX-
cess profits taxes and the enormously
rich who have been paying in proper
ions to their incomes are trying to
shift the burden TO others, and in this
effort they expect The help of the pres
emf administration, We hardly dare
hope that their efforts will be success
fuzzy resisted, but it is a shame tina;
ordinary folks are 10 have forced upon
them the taxes that the rich are so
wdL aole TO bear. AT least the Food
things in Tie present tax system shou:I
be retained, but when has an opposi-
tidfi party ever had the moral courage
TO give credit to the other side?
IN a report Just made public the
FIeral Trade Commission tells lis
snpIetning that we all know-!that the
cog of living is still too high IA
makes some recommendations on this
subject that are very sensible, bu.
which will probably not be followed
TOT the reason that everybody wants
10 pass the buck" TO some one else.
AS general conclusion the commits
siI regards further Shrlnkage Of
values as inevitable because OF the dis
ordered affairs OF the world. There.
fore it holds, and so informs President
Harding, normal conditions will DC
moe quickly restored if the producer
the laborer, the manufacturer, the
jObber and the retailer will each share
at once in the unavoidable loss, and
further, that any effort by any element
to place its share of the common losl
OF the shoulders of others, and partic-
niarly the consumer, can but result in q
elimination of the conditions under
WITCH the coutry is now suffering"
The one thing to do TO relieve tine
present situation is for all classes to
shut their eyes and take their mcdi-
cine. 1t is an unusually bitter dose
it may be admitted, but it vii! be