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of the income tax law to remove this mantle of secrecy and make the tax returns public so that the tax thieves may be known and the frauds ended. Publicity of returns is the-4irst es sential of efficient collection. Dur ing the civil war the' returns were published and enormous attempts at fraud were uncovered. When a re actionary congress at the end of the war enacted that the returns should be kept secret, because publicity was "obnoxious to the taxpayer," the number of returns fell from 94, 887 in 1870 to 74,775 in 1871, al though the latter year was one of unprecedented prosperity. Every woman and child in these United tSates is the victim of the tax thieves! If the tax had been fully paid the emergency war taxes would have been abolished, the tariff on sugar, which has increased the. price 50 per cent in a few weeks, would not have been retained, and the fed eral government would now have in the vaults of the treasury the mil lions which must be paid for the in crease of the army and navy. The very 4nen who have called loudest for great army and navy expendi tures to protect their property were at the same time robbing the treas ury of hundreds of millions of dollars. The income tax must be paid and paid in full. In the face of the array of evidence that has been pre sented, Pres. Wilson and congress cannot refuse or postpone effective action. FATHER AND BROTHER FRIENDLY TO WAITE, GjJ Only two persons seem to take a friendly interest in the case of Dr." Arthur Warren Waite, the young dentist on trial in New York in the most) famous murder case since the Thaw trial. They are his brother, Franks Waite, shown on the right in this picture, and his father, Warren Waite. These pictures were snapped as the Waites were leaving the courtroom irr .New York where Waite is being tried. i