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in a condition of disturbed nerves; old j
habits are broken up; the machinery of
production, transportation, trade and
finance through which industry pro
daoes prosperity has been dislocated.
"After years of sustained excitement,
witn nerves keyed to the highest pitch
of effort, old occupations seem tame
and distasteful; there is a widespread
desire for something different to be
attained, no one knows how. Multi?
tudes of people are neglecting their
own affairs and distressing themselves
over the shortcomings of others. It is
a prevailing state of mind.
"It is an epidemic. It. will run its
course, like other epidemics, and some
day the world will realize that the cure
is for each man to go to work himself,
attend chiefly to his own business, per?
form his own duties, pull his own
"weight in the boat. Then the high
cost of living will go down.
"Our business as a party is to ad?
dress hourselves with chocrful courage
and confidence to the public prob?
lems demanding solution and to bring
our country back to normal.
People Must Earn
More Than It Spends
"To prosper, a people?like a private
individual?must earn more than it
spends, must really earn by contrib?
uting to the wealth of mankind more
than it consumes. It cannot live long
by borrowing, nor can it live long by
a system of taxation which absorbs the
accumulations of the past and gradu?
ally dries up the source of supply.
"It is true that a political parly can?
not make individuals thrifty; but a
political party can produce the shining
and potent example of thrifty and
economical government. The useful
thing is not to have a government that
? preaches thrift, but a government that
practices thrift, a government which
makes people understand that their
money is being saved, so that it will
be worth while for them to earn and
eave.
"All the wonid has ocen confused by
the amazing financial figures of the
war. IncredibLc amounts were raised
by taxation and by loans, and were
spent like water. There has been prof?
ligate expenditure. To some extent
that was inevitable. I am not now
criticizing that. There would have
been less if our government had begun
to prepare for war-years before it did,
and when the plainest common sense
demanded that it should begin; but
I am not going to talk about that.
"There would have been less if when
we entered the war the men whom the
process of natural selection in Amer?
ican business had pointed out as com?
petent to deal with great business
affairs had been promptly called to
Washington, and given power to act
in that greatest of all business under?
takings, instead of leaving authority
in the hands of a group of men quite
untrained in business ;>ffairs and dis?
trustful of all who had achieved bus?
iness success; but that is past.
Officials Have Habit
Of Spending Money
"The important fact now is that the
officials and agents of the present Ad?
ministration have acquired the habit
of spending public money with both
hands and they do not know how to
stop. The government departments are
still running for the most part under
the war-time appropriations made by
the Sixty-fi th Congress, which was
elected in No.vemb'T, 1916, and they
arc going strong.
"The American people may perhaps
recall the fact that Republicans hud
no opportunity to acquire tho bad habit
of spending too much money undei
war-time appropriations; and the>
may well feel that the way to changi
the practice is to put out the men wh<
have the habit and put in those wh(
have it not.
"With a party in power free fron
responsibility for defending the mis
takes and bad methods which aro to b<
reformed, three great things can h
done.
"First, the vast mass of figure:
through which tho finances of the gov
ernment are presented in s,uch a waj
that '-hardly anybody can understanc
to what conclusions they lead can bi
reduced to practical and instructiv?
form by the establishment of an ef
fective budget system, under which th?
government will be obliged to star
with its resources in order to deter
mint- its expenditures, under whicl
the cloth will be measured before th'
coat is cut, under which, when a neM
or enlarged expenditure is proposed
the question will have to be asked
'Where is the money to come from'
and under which responsibility for es
travagance can be fixed. It was quit
right during the war to say: 'Such an
ueh things must be done immediately
We will lind the money somehow'; bt
no nation can afford to conduct it
peace expenditures in that way.
Stop Urging Congress
To Make Appropriations
"A second thing to be done is to s<
cure executive departments that \vi
stop urging and a Congress that wi
stop appropriating money for thing
which need not be done now or nee
not be done so expensively or need n?
be done at all. Wo should have bot
in the executive and legislativ
branches men who will not be conter
with the assurance that a proposed e:
penditure is for a good purpose, bi
who will also inquire: 'Are we justifie
at this time in adding to the airead
oppressive weight of taxation upon tl
American people in order to secure tl
money for this expenditure?
. Aie present Congress has done we!
It has made e#?>rmous reductions in tl
? t u?ates submitted by tho executh
^departments for their expenditure i
the next fiscal year, which will begin c
?ho first of next. July. After that tin
L any reductions will be forced by tl
J lit? of appropriation?.
("It is, however, very difficult f<
ngrttssional committees to cut dov.
expenses of u vast and complicati
smesV like that of. the United t?tati
?v vernment without assistance fro
m ?? hetuls of the various depurtmen
and bureaus. It is easy for a bureau
chief to make expnditures appear ab?
solutely necessary when they are really
absolutely useless, and when hla er?
ror can be discovered by nothing short
of an investigating committee and
cross-examining counsel,
"Effective economy requires coopera?
tion between tho executive and legis?
lative branches. It requires courage
and a sense of public duty to resist ap?
peals, and it requires open public in?
sistence, declaration of the policy in
aid of that resistance.
System of Taxation
In Need of Revision
"A third thing that can be dono is
to reviso the system of taxation, and to
make some serious changes in it in?
dicated by experience of its effects.
"It is a very difficult thing to make
a good tax law, even with the most sin?
cero purpose to distribute tho burden
fairly; but, if the men who mako the
law have other purposes, and are in?
spired by a desire to punish somebody
by the imposition of taxes, they are sure
to get into their law provisions which
work badly. .
"The men who framed tho revenue
laws of the 64th and 66fh Congresses
did not conceal the fact that they looked
with suspicion and dislike upon- the
great body of successful business con?
cerns of the United States, and upon
the men who were conducting and had
conducted them, and that they meant
to take away as much of these men's
money as they possibly could.
"Now, tax laws are curious boome?
rang-like things, and it requires some
intelligence and knowledge of affairs to
know where they are going to strike.
No statute can determine who is really
poing to pay a tax. The most danger?
ous post is' that of the innocent by?
stander who goes home grumbling about
the high cost of living.
"It is time for the Republican by?
stander to ascertain how far these war
revenue taxes are really paid through
the cost of living by everybody who
eats and wears clothes. Let him dis?
cover how far the excess profits taxes,
for example, are being added to cost,
like other business expenses, so that
we all pay them together with a profit
on them, and then let him act.
"The review of taxntion will involve
the tariff. In this, new conditions are
to be considered. Beforo the war we
were a debtor nation, paying annually
interest and dividends upon from four
to seven billions of American accuri
ties held in Europe, paying hundreds
of millions upon letters of credit to
American travellers and in tho remit?
tances of recent immigrants to their
friends at home, and in freight and
passenger rates upon commerce both
way across the ocean, and we were
much pleased to have a favorable
trade balance which reduced the amount
of gold drained away from us in these
ways.
"All this has been changed. The
United States lias become a great cred?
itor nation. Our debts to Europe have
been paid. Europe does not merely
owe the billions loaned by our govern?
ment to European governments, or the
hundreds of millionssof foreign securi?
ties sold in the American market; but
the exhaustion of European supplies
of the reccssarie.-. of life and the raw
material for manufacture has led to
enormous purchases and exporis of
American products during the past
three years.
New Tariff Needed
To Meet New Problems
"All these things r.ave to be paid
for. There is not gold enough in the
world to pay, and we already have a
very large proportion of what gold
there is. That is one reason why ex?
change has gone down, so that a pound
ordinarily worth $4.80 in American
money was a few days ago worth onlv
$3.37.
"The only way in which Europe can
pay America and continue to buy from
America is by producing goods and
selling them. Thus, we have acquired
an interest in the prosperity of Eu?
rope. It is our interest to facilitate
her production and trade just as a
merchant is interested in the prosperity
of the customers to whom he sells on
credit.
"Our new tariff law must be framed
to meet the ?ew and difficult problems
presented by this change of conditions.
It must be framed so that American
industry will not bo ruined, especially
so that the manufacture of things
which the war has shown to be neces?
sary for the independence of the coun?
try shall not be stopped, and it must
bu framed so as not to destroy the
export trade of Europe, which directly
: or indirectly will enable Europe to pay
her debts and remain solvent.
"All these things, if done well, must
be done by a pary which really sym
! pathizes with American business and
; wishes it to prosper.
"More important than all is the
necessity that we shall restore om
republican form of government, with
the liberty of the individual citizen
preserved by limitations upon officia;
power, and put an end to the dictator?
ship which we created in order tc
carry on the war.
"By a series of statutes unprecedent
| ed in scope and liberality, with single
! ness of purpose and patriotic devotion
' worthy of all praise, the American peo
| pie conferred upon the President pow
1 ers broader and more autocratic than
were possessed by any sovereign in
j the civilized world.
"Our capacity for effort, our for
' tunes, our liberty of conduct, our lives
i were freely placed at the disposal o:
an Executive wh/;se authority was s?
? vast that its limits were imperceptible
? The authority was exercised by the
I President, by his heads of departments
! his bureau chiefs, his government
j agents and his personal agents to the
? full, without question, because the peo
? pie of America were ready for any sac
! rifico to win the war.
Strip the Executive
Of Hi? War Powers
"Peace, has come in fact, if not tech
nically, but tho war powers of the Ex?
ecutive still continue. They should bi
brought to an end. It is not a simph
thing, for new conditions have beet
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created which should be dealt with at
the same time by new statutes adapt
i ed to tho conditions of peace and sub
j ject to the limitations upon power of
I our constitutional system.
f "There is a double immediate pur
! pose to be served. One, to restore the
| habit of freedom. It is dangerous for
1 a people to acquire the habit of bow
j ing to power without limits. They
j soon become subservient, and then
character essential to freedom degen
I crates. The other is to stop a multi
I tude of interferences, iii-j-idged al
| though well meant, with the natural
course of business, through which alone
natural laws can operate to restore
normal conditions.
"It is not in human nature to relin?
quish' readily power once possessed.
Excuses for continuance readily sug?
gest themselves to the possessor.
"The appeal of President Wilson in
October, 1918, for the election of a
j Democratic Congress, which the people
! refused by so great a majority, was
i not merely an injustice to the Repub
I lican Senators and Representatives
who with splendid loyalty had sup?
ported every forward step of the Ad?
ministration und had responded to
1 every suggestion for the grant of in
! creased powers.
"It was a demand for the continuance
of supr?me power by this election of a
! Congress which would submit itself to
I the orders of an executive acting at
? once as a party leader in politics and
a dictator in government.
"It was the. instinct of the Ameri?
can democracy that repelled the de?
mand. Such has long been the gov?
ernment of Mexico. Such must not be
the government of the United States.
A government with a Louis Napoleon
at one end and a plebiscite at th?
other and with naught but subservi?
ence between is not a free republic. It
is autocracy by consent. . , ?. .
Praises Senators Whd.
Opposed Peace Treaty
"The President's defiance of the au
? thority of the Senate to advise upon
I the covenant for the league of nations,
and to give or withhold its consent to
I the ratification of the treaty contain
I ing it, was an assertion of a right to
' continue the" same, autocratic power.
? It was not a question of Senatorial
dignity or consequence. We need care
little for that.
j "It was a challenge to the right of
j any officer of the government of the
i United States to exercise his powers
| in any way which had not the approval
I of the Chief Executive. The President
j had the constitutional authority and
I duty to negotiate a treaty. The Senate
j had the constitutional authority and
duty to advise and to consent or re?
fuse to consent in accordance with
I their judgment.
| "The right to perform that duty was
challenged. By all the tremendous
power of a President commanding mil?
lions of civil and military subordinates
and controlling the expenditures of
billions of money, Senators were
I threatened if they did not submit their
j judgment to the Presidential will.
Many questions were difficult and
j doubtful.
| "1 personally differ from many gen
i ' ?? i i ?? .nil ? m i K ? ii i| . lu ii
tlomen In the Senate upon some of
those questions, but. whether their '
conclusions are right or wrong. I
should have despised them if they had '
yielded their honest opinions to Ex- '
ecutivo threats, and I honor them for I
the courage and fortitude with which {
they have maintained the authority of
the Constitution they wore sworn to
support, and discharged the duty of
independent judgment imposed upon
them by the people who elected them
to office.
"Nor have the long and painstaking
discussions of the Senate been without
most useful results. The trenty which
it was their duty to consider was fa- j
| tally defective in Bevornl respects, not
only from the standpoint of the vital
interests of the United States, but con?
sidered as an instrument designed to
secure tho future peace of the world, i
"In private life wo are at liberty to
discuss the treaty without reading It,
and to form and express conclusions
based upon what some ono else ha3
told us. Not so with the Senators.
Duty of Senators
To Weigh Treaty
"They were bound to test the true
meaning of every paragraph, to con?
sider tho conditions which tho pro- ?
visions were to meet, to estimate the j
human forces of self-interest and prej?
udice and passion under the influence
of which the treaty %vas to be applied
and to form their own judgment upon
tho results which would be produced
for America and for civilization.
"No man ever lived who could be
trusted to negotiate a complicated and
important treaty without having his
work tested by the independent judg?
ment of men who were not direct
parties to the negotiation. Because in
I this particular case tho President him?
self was the negotiator of the treaty,
the dilate alone had the authority and
the duty to perform this necessary
function of independent review.
"The reservations adopted by the
Senate remedy, so far as the United
States is concerned, the chief objec?
tions to the treaty. They prevent our
entrance into the league of nations
from being an abandonment of the
Monroe Doctrine, with irreparable in?
jury to the United States and no bene?
fit to the rest of the world. Especially
important is it that they prevent the
incredible mistake of Article X.
"That article contains an express
agreement *to preserve as against ex?
ternal 'aggression the territorial integ?
rity and existing political independence
of all members of tho league.' If
that stipulation means anything and is
not mere sham and false pretense, it
will, if ratified, bind the United States
when occasion arises to defend every
member of tho league, by armed force
against external aggression.
"It will bind the United States to do
that, no matter what our people at the
time think about the right and wrong
of the controversy, or about the wisdom
or folly of entering upon it.
"it will reti?ir? the United States to
fight on occasion for all the disposi?
tions of territory made by the Supreme
1 Council in Paris under the influence
i of secret treaties and bitter animosities
and political expediencies?dispositions
of territory, many of which are doubt?
ful and some of which are clearly
wrong. Two things seem plain. First,
tho sense of justice and the independ
? ent and uncontrolled power of the
United States to throw its weight
wherever occasion arises in favor of
| what it deems to be right in the af
; fairs of the world is the greatest single
influence toward that justice among
nations which is the essential requisite
of peace, and such an agreement as this
if observed, would rob the world of that
, influence, because the United States
| would be bound by this formula to act
j irrespective of its judgment a| the
time; second, there is a practical cer
\ tainty that if the United State? en?
tered into such an agreement it would
not observe it. No human power can
bring the people of the United State.?
into a war unless at the time when the.',
are called upon to fight they believe
? the cause to be just and worthy of sac?
rifice.
Article X Pledged
America to Make War \
"If the occasion for acting undei
Article X when it came did not appea
i to the judgment and sympathies of th?
; people of the United States, it vouW
j be impossible to comply with the agree
I ment, and the worst possible thing foi
I the peace of the world would happen?
I that the United States should hav<
made a solemn treaty and shouk
break it.
"It seems clear to mo that in the
interests of the world's peace, whicl
all America desires to promote, this
! treaty ought to he ratified with the
? reservations of the Senate, and tha'
i without) those reservations in thoii
I fair and honest substance it ought noi
I to be ratified.
"1 hope the treaty will be ratifie?
| with the reservations long before th?
| Presidential election. That will be
j done if the President permits it. I
j that is not done, then that is what
I think the Republican party ought t?
j stand for.
"Immediately after the 4th of March
I 1921, a Kepublican President shoul?
| urge upon the Society of Nations th?
j reform of the league covenant, so a?
| to make it establish the rul<? of publi?
: right rather than the rule of men
1 oxpediency, so as to make the peace o
the world rest primarily upon law
J
Parisian
Novelties
and
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are also
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in
extensive
assortments.
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PARIS ? MEW YORK
TH? PARIS ^hOP OF AMERICA
NEW HATS
in a wide variety of style
and choice are arriving
from Paris by every
steamer?
Smart designs from our own
workrooms as well as adapta?
tions of imported models are
also on display.
J
N??&
Srtdtss
Nujol
?br Constipation
A Neto
Method of
Treating an
Old Complaint
and upon the effectiveness and en?
forcement of law. ,
"A congress of all nations should be
called to consider and declare what of
international law still remains of bind?
ing force, and to provide for the_ fur?
ther development and extension of that
law, and for the application of the law
to all justiciable cases of controversy
between nations by impartial judicial
tribunals, and to make the decisions
of such tribunals upon questions of
fact and upon questions of law bind?
ing and effective. That is the old
American doctrine, and that is the
necessary method of democracies, for
democracies Can livo only under gov?
ernments of laws, and not of men. >
Wilson's Extraordinary
Letters to Lansing
"The extreme, effects of the posses?
sion of arbitrary power are seen in
the extraordinary letters of the Pres?
ident to Secretary Lansing published
on February 14, 1920, by which it ap?
pears that honest and independent ad?
vice from officers of the President's
own selection is an offense, and that
the exercise of the most ordinary
powers of the heads of departments
without consulting the President when
his illness prevented consultation is
cause for resentment.
"It is interesting to observe that
many citizens?official and unofficial?
who are willing that the country should ;
assume the startling obligations of Ar?
ticle X are opposing the system of uni?
versal military training, without which
our obligation would- be worthless, and
which intensively applied enabled the
United States to turn the scale of war
against Germany.
They say we have millions of young
men already trained, but how long is
the service which th?se splendid and
patriotic youths have already rendered
to their country to be made the ground
for imposing upon them exclusively the
burden of further service, and leaving
the millions of young men who come to
military age year after year untrained
and unfitted to do their part for the de?
fense of our country?
"One result of the war and of the
universal unrest which has followed it
has been to force upon the American
democracy a series of questions which
involve the very life of the nation.
"These questions arise from widely
different causes, and each presents its
own special problems?Bolshevism,
Americanization of immigrants, the de?
portation or discipline of seditious
aliens, the relations of capital and
labor under new conditions, the rela?
tions of organized labor to the public,
tho coal supply, the railroads, the pres?
ervation of public health, security for
the life of the community, and oppor?
tunity for the pursuit of happiness by
its members,
"Here is a great variety of subjects,
but the method of treating all of them
must depend upon a clear conception
of what our system of government is,
and what we mean it to be. Our gov?
ernment rests upon certain very simple
ideas.
Equal Rights to All
Essential to Democracy
"First/that all men are equally en?
dowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights. inclu','r'" ';i'> lib?
erty, and the pursuit of happiness, and
that governments are Liia?,it,ut.cii io se?
cure thes? rights.
"Second, that the government which
secures these inalienable rights is to
be constituted and conducted pursuant
to the will of those whose rights it is
intended to secure expressed through
a majority vote of all of them.
"There are three things essential to
the maintenance of such a system of
government. One is that there shall be
universal opportunity for education,
so that the governing body may vote in-1
telligently. A second is that the gov
Extremes
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next.
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erning body ?hall recognlM it? re
Bponsiblfity for justice in the broadest
?anno in maintaining the inalienable
right? of the minority and every indi?
vidual composing It.
"The third 1b that tfcere shall be real
opportunity for the individual citizen
t? better bis condition and that of his
family by industry, thrift, self-denial,
enterprise, courage, skill, talent, genius.
There must be security for the fruits
of enterprise. No crust muBt form to
hold down the aspiring. No human
power must make the rewards of in?
dustry and idleness, ambition and in?
difference, intelligence and stupidity,
the samo.
Trend in Direction
Of Universal Suffrage
"the whole course of development of
free self-government from monarchist
and aristocratic formB has been in the
direction of more and more universal
suffrago and more complete power of
the majority of all who live under the
government.
"We have reached, a point where
neither religion, nor occupation, nor
color, nor race, ?^.r property, nor pov?
erty, nor degrco of education, excludes
any man from the opportunity to take
part in his own government by his
vote. In the greater part of the coun?
try this is extended to both sexes.
Our government is a government di?
rected by the majority of all who are
governed.
"Bolshevism is a government of all
the people of a country by a part of
the people constituting a jingle class
called 'the proletariat,' or mass of
industrial workmen who have no capital
and depend for support on daily or
casual employment. All others are
grouped with the 'bourgeois,' and aro
to have no part in government.
"This system has been tried for the
last two years in Russia. Its purpose
was set forth in an authentic state?
ment lrem Petrograd in January, 1919,
as follows:
"The aim of the proletariat must now
be immediately to conquer power. To
conquer power means to destroy the
governmental apparatus of the bour?
geoisie and to organize a new prole?
tarian government apparatus. This
new apparatus must express the die- ?
tatorship of the proletariat.
"The dictatorship of the proletariat
must be the accasion for the immedi?
ate expropriation of capital and the
elimination of the private right of own?
ing the means of production through j
making them common property.
"The governmental apparatus of the \
proletariat employed in Russia is the |
soviet system, under which the work?
men in each industry in each locality
select delegates to a kind of central
i soviet or committee, which in turn
selects a few men to exercise the
! powers of government.
! Conditions in Russia
Go From Bad to Worse
"With the assent of the soviets
L?nine and Trotzky are now exercising
I absolutely despotic power in a large
part, of Russia in the name of the
S proletariat through a reign of terror!
! and violence which makes the French j
Revolution seem mild and conserva
i five.
: "Tens of thousands of people have
| been put to death without any form of
| trial or any charge, except the asser
! tion by somebody or anybody that they
I were opposed to the dictatorship of
! the proletariat or were friendly to
those who were opposed. The despotic
control extends to the workmen them?
selves. No strikes are permitted.
"No election by soviets have been
permitted to stand unless the persons
elected were friendly to L?nine and
Trotzky. It would seem as if the meth?
ods employed were designed to ex?
terminate all who did not belong to
the proletariat.
"'While dispersing, arresting and
shooting saboteurs and conspirators,
tho proletariat Bays: "I shall break
your will, because my will is stronger
than yours, and I shall force you to
serve me." . . . Terror as the de?
monstration of the will and strength
of the working class is historically
justified, precisely because the prole?
tariat was able thereby to break tho
political will of tho intel.ligensia,
pacify the professional men of various
categories and work, and gradually
subordinate them to its own aims
within the fields of their specialties.'
"In -the mean time the economic con?
dition of Russia has gone from bad to
worse. The collapse of industry, the
breakdown of transportation, the star?
vation and misery of millions of peo?
ple, without any practical constructive
measures of relief, aro appalling be?
yond expression.
"I am not going to discuss the merit
of these two systems. There is no
shadow of doubt as to which kind of
government the people of the United
States stand for. Ej an overwhelming
majority the people of the United
States and of every state mean to
maintain Lincoln's government of the
people by the people and for the
people.
"They will no more be governed by
a class of laborers than they will be
governed by a class of aristocrats, or
a class of plutocrats, or a class of
soldiers. They will trust the justice
and maintain the power and enforce
the will of the American democracy as
a whole. That, of course, is whero
the Republican party will stand.
"This is so plain that there would
be no justification for talking about it,
except for two things.
United States Infested
With Bolshevik Envoys
"The first is that Russian Bolshev?
ism has set out upon definite under?
taking to destroy all existing demo?
cratic governments, and it is carrying
on an expensive and vigorous propa?
ganda to accomplish that end. It has
a vast multitude of missionaries at
work not only in Europe but in the
United States, who by misrepresenting
the actual and promising the impos?
sible are trying to win labor over
to their plan for establishing a dicta?
torship of the proletariat.
"They have made soma headway in
the United States, chiefly among the
foreign-born laborers nnd against the
intelligent opposition of the great lead?
ers of organized labor in America. Tho
assault is too substantial to bo wisely
ignored. America is full of intelligent?
sia, and wo cannot afford to have them
nil turned by terror into parlor Bol?
sheviki.
"We are already meeting the assault
in two ways. When ?e find one of
these Bolshevik missionaries or his
converts inciting criminal overthrow of
government by violence, we punish him
or deport him. That is lawful and sen?
sible.
"Tho right of free speech does not
include the right to incite to crime.
Yet, wo must be careful not to over?
look the distinction. Let there be fair
Income Tax and
the Small Business
An elaborate accounting system
in the bands of an expert it not
within the scope of the smaller
establishments, and it is this lack
of adequate knowledge which
has led to much of the anxiety
and loss experienced by such
firms in meeting the Income
Tax.
The counsel of the Certified
Public Accountant will obviat?
such difficulties and prevent
serious money losses.
C/CeT?Ged Pubt?c Accounted
"?*- VorthBldfcrW&ik. ^^
? BankBT ~
?vs
hearing, and let no expression of mere
differing opinion?however radical 0'
distasteful?be punished.
Rout All Bolsheviki
From Public Offices
"One of the things the Republican
party has to do apparently is to clear
a lot of Bolsheviki or sympathizers
with the Bolsheviki out of the public
offices of our government. The ad
ministration of the law regarding theE?
missionaries of sedition has been a&
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