San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-29
Today
Mellon Was Right.
Men and Animals.
Wilson's Promise.
BY Arthur Brisbane
: Copyright. 1925 by Star Co;

Il Copyright. 1925 by Star Co
ECRETARY MELONS predic-
ton that a cut in tax rates
would produce higher tax revc-
nue. comes true.
In spite of the tax cut of 1925,
Uncle Sans tax receipts for this
July were $15,0O0,00O above last
year.
You can make taxes so high as to
cut revenue, and just high enough to
give maximum revenue. There is no
doubt that taxation much below the
present rate would yield revenue more
| than ample for all government needs.
nR. FOSDICK, who will soon pray
- for the League of Nations at
headquarters in Geneva, is Modern
list. He thinks it unlikely that any
man could live long in a whales
belly.
The Rev. Arnold Gabelein says
DR.. Fosdick is descended directly
from the ancient tribe of Sadducees,
a harsh thing to say of anybody.
The Rev. Gabelein cannot endure
philosophers, especially if they teach
evolution. "There are three distinct
types of beings" says the reverend
gentleman, angels, man and ami.
mails" And IAN animal could become
a man no more easily than sman
could become an-animal."
If the Rev. Gabelein could watch
the effect of bootleg whiskey, he
would know that man can become an
animal very easily.
THE Presbyterian church is pros
= porous, and growing. Forty-two
thousand nine hundred thirty-one
new Presbyterians were enrolled last
year. The total church membership is
now 1,S73,S59, big army and a gen.
erous one. The church income is ST.
100000 week, 81 cents per men,
Der.
If Satan trembles when he secs
'-pne sinner on his knees, how must
he, SILVER and shake. when he reads
thoss, Presbyterian figures?
CENAToR BoRAH objects to the
~ debt settlement with Belgium,
not because it was generous, but be-
cause it was based on the assumption
that war President, mistaking him
self for Divine Providence, could
bind this nation by promises, that
he had no legal right to make
:. Senator Borah's objection is sound.
The fact that Woodrow Wilson
promised what he had no right to do
is no excuse for the present govern
ment basing any action on President
Wilson's illegal acts.
THERE is no knowing what in
i flated Presidents we may have
wandering around the world in days
TO come. Other countries should know
that the United States is managed in
accordance with the wording of the
United States Constitution, not in
accordance with the philanthropic
hallucinations of men in office or
their "delusions of grandeur"
cardinal DUBOIS. Of Paris,
>criticized for urging all French
! Catholics to subscribe generously to
the new loan, explains his reasons:
"The safety of France is in ques-
ton. Can we with indifference see
her credit founder in revolution AMI
anarchy"
The cardinal says that failure of
the French loan would mean the CON-
ing in of a violently radical social
ministry and "blood-stained oppres-
sion."
To France, England, Italy, Spain,
the possibility of revolution, so far
away in this country, is an imme-
date, pressing danger.
A N able German chemist has pro-
"A duced half ton of fine oil from
one ton of coal in II minutes. That
will interest the Standard Oil COM
pany, coal mine owners and all deal
ing with fuel and other industrial
problems here.
In this country we burn up the
coal, let three-quarters of its valde
20 up the chimney. The Germans
know better.