Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
FLYING SQUADRON :
SPEAKERS BRING
STRONG APPEALS

0!huNu ATTEAL0
Frank S. Regain, Tax Expert,
and Arthur E. Whitney, For
mer 'Y' Secretary in France,
Give Stirring Messages We'd
nesday in Campaign for Law
Enforcement and Civic
MISUNDERSTANDING at
Methodist Church Will be
Continued Today
1.-The Vets are claiming that the
| cause Of high taxation is prohibition"
said Frank S. Regain, former men,
Der of the Illinois legislature, tax
expert and cartoonist, who appeared
| in the City as one of the two speak
crS at the opening meetings Wednes-
day afternoon and evening of the Fly
| ing Squadron three-days' campaign
! OF the Green street Methodist church.
| This claim of the Vets, Mr.. Regan at
! tackled with hammer and tongs and in
i q most interesting manner he eXplod-
cd any such claim beyond dispute.
With the aid of striking cartoons
and witty remarks, Mr.. Regan in his
/ address on The Fool Taxpayer"
yshoWed that the high taxes are due
to the nal administration Of cities
and states under the rule of wet
9ympathizers ana wet officials. He
showed by means Of a glittcring array
OF facts and figures that taxes in the
United States might well be reduced
! to onc-third of their present figure,
generally speaking. One third of the
taxes arc duo. he said, to graft, dupli-
cation ana waste, ana another third
, 10 tho fact that much property Of the
wet interests and large corporations
remains unasscsscd.
"Whilc the country voted for prohi-
bition,' said Mr.. Regain, "the cities
have been in the same old hands
which were in control when saloons
existed. He showed that the taxes in
Chicago on Iaboring mans homo
valued at $4,000 had increase during
tho war from $42 to SIS, $50 and fin
ally 800. and at first the officials
claimed the increase was due to the
war. When they reached s95, which
was IS more than tile law allowed.
these same officials claimed that the
great increase was due to the fact
that the country went dry.
Cites Chicago
Mr., Regain said that the former sa-
loon town is paying about three times
the taxes it needs to pay. He went
on to prove the tax rate in Chicago
would be 60 cents on enc hundred dol
lars. instead of three dollars, if Chica-
go could have an honest and just ad-
ministration. He said these conditions
are being made worse on purpose to
make the people dissatisfied with pro-
hibition and try to get back beer and
wine for revenue. Then he showed
how the big brewery and distillery
companies evaded their own taxes.
showing one big brewery in Chicago
lad SS,000,000 of taxable property not
assessed one cent. This brewery did
not pay eight cents in taxes for ten
years This property was finally fore
cd on the tax books at 4 full valuation
! Of S1.250,000 when it should have been
SS,000,O00.
Mr.. Regan said the liquor business
| IN chicago was almost entirely in
the hands Of foreigners, 50 breweries
IN Chicago and AZ Of them owned in
England. Forty more are in the
hands Of Germans. He said the dis
tilleries were controlled by the Jews
and that this was the combination
which has been running America for
years and they are the ones who are
, trying to come back. Lord North
cliffe,' said Mr. Regain, when he
crossed America recently, sneered
about prohibition from sea to sea. He
has good reasons for his sneers. Lord
| Northcliffe was the head of the big
brewing syndicate in England that
owned string of breweries from
Boston to San Francisco and owned
the AZ breweries in Chicago. He was
also head Of the newspaper syndi-
cate in England, that controls
great many newspapers in America"
remarked Mr.. Regain.
do you wonder that Lord North
cliffe. on his flying trip across the
United States. raped prohibition
when he himself is one of the heads
of this British brewery syndicate?
He is the guiding genius of that
syndicate Of British peers who owned
breweries all over the United States.
from first to last the liquor inter-
ests were the foreign interests-the
whole thing was foreign PROPOSE
ton. The profits on these English
controlled breweries in Chicago were
more than s76,00O,0oo annually.
Has Business Values
1--WE are not fighting the VETS