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'&&K LAST EDITION ONE CENT r WILSON SPEAKS FOR LARGE CITIZEN ARMY BLAME TEUTONS FOR SERB OUTRAGES AUTOMATIC SALE PUSHED BY ALDERMEN THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sundaj VOL. 5, NO. 34 Chicago, Friday, November 5, 1915 398 TO GET GOUGED OR NOT TOGETGOUGED That Is the Question That Is Keeping the Eyes of the Rich Bugs Peeled The Whole Crew of Smooth Millionaires Who Dodged Taxes May Draw Fines. There's a case in the appellate court that is being closely watched by some of our richest taxdodgers and smoothest millionaires. It marks the climax of Hoyne's fight to gouge a little coin from "our best citizens." The fellows that trust papers de light 'to quote on serious matters, the men whose wives and daughters fig ure in society columns and in big charity stories will watch the papers carefully next week to see what was done with the Jake Kesner case. On this vdecision -depends the se curity of some of Chicago's largest fortunes and the fate of the Hoyne anti-taxdodger war. When Julius Rosenwald, our phil anthropic Sears-Roebuck gentleman who donates so much to charity and pays so little taxes, had his indict ment which accused him as a tax dodger quashed, Hoyne was balked. He had brought up for trial many of our xich men and corporations and had assessed fines against them un der Sec 24 of the internal revenue act, which provided a $20Q fine fQC taxdodgjng. . - .,- ulk..lJ.i. rtit t-v ir -'-ii -taan.- fr -fcii t fiL-T. g , ft. .---- .-. . . -. . . . . a.,.... .AmMsaag .a,bfl,aa