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THE DAY BOOK N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. BOO S. PEORIA WTJ CHICAGO, ILT- Tplonhnnot Editorial, Monroe SS3 1 Viepnones Cireuialiollt Monroe 3S36 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier in Chi cago, 30 cents a Month. Br Mall. United States and Canada, 33.00 a Tear Entered as second-class matter April 21. 1914. at the postofflce at Chicago, 111., under the Act of March 3, 1873. STOP THIEF! Three hundred million dollars, at lowest estimate, was stolen from the United States treasury last year. Two hundred and fifty thousand men and women suc ceeded in eyading the income tax. There are the big facts that have been revealed by the searching in vestigation of the federal income tax, just made by Basil M. Manly, who directed the investigations of the United States commission on in dustrial relations and wrote the fa mous "Manly Report" The rich have succeeded in evad ing their just taxes. What does this mean to you? It means just this: You will have to pay your share of increased taxes to replace the millions which were virtually stolen from Uncle Sam last year by millionaires and multimillion aires! Think of this every time" you put a lump of sugar in your coffee, and re member that you are paying a tariff on sugar this year, because the rich refused to pay their taxes on incomes last year. Think of this every time you pay the penny tax on a telegram; every time you have a long-distance tele phone call; every time you put a stamp on a legal document Stamp taxes caused the American revolution. The tax burden upon the common people in America is already too heavy. They cannot evade the payment of the indirect taxes to which they are subject There must be no increase in the present federal taxes until the stolen' millions are recovered. This is a Democratic adniinistra- I tion pledge to the income tax and' pledged also to pitiless publicity re-' garding all national affairs. Will President Wilson, with the aid' of his Democratic congress, lift the veil of secrecy which now shrouds the income tax and turn a white light upon its whole administration? Will President Wilson call "Stop Thief!" so that all the world may' hear? PRESSURE OF POPULATION. War, with longer and more wide spreading intervals of peace, seems destined always to obtain on the planet The intervals of world peace may be a generation long, or even several generations long. But they will inevitably be broken in ujion by wars that will be commensurately as terrible and widespread and destruc tive. Here are the reasons in a nutshell: 1. Man is animal and lives upon the earth. 2. Man must eat, and, like any other animal, he is fecund. 3. The habitable planet is only so large and its size cannot be increased by man. 4. Malthus' law of population still holds for man. Despite its wars and heavy emigration of the 19th cen tury, Europe increased its population from 170,000,000 to 500,000,000 be tween the years 1800 and 1900. 5. Man being an animal, a fecund animal, a fighting animal, he will be pressed against the means of subsis tence, and when he is pressed too hard he will again and always draw the sword to carve out of other men's lives a place for himself on the earth and in the sun This is his en tire past history. A present he la fighting more horribly and more cc lossally than he ever fought before? btaHUri&M-. .