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erty bodad sales for twuunty-five years
.ught to tix the fate of the Penross
bI whieh would give Ir? Mellon
~tkepow to settl. the wh*l ten
b03Io4 dollars Idebtedness of the
Alies to us on as bad or even worse'
it is jl to say that no Adminis
tration would agree to postpoun col
lection of this huge- debt, both as
to principal and interest, when we
have this direct proof that one Ad
ministration has alrealy dona that
very thing with a billion and a half
dollars of the debt due us.
No Administration ever talked as
sanctimdniously- as did the Wilson
Administration. None ever so strong
ly denouned seret diplomacy.
None ever -lauded democratic prin
Siples mor, constantly or proclaimed
its sanctity of treaties more piously.
. And none ever made so many
seret arrangements and compacts
that were detrimental to our inter
-esi and preghant with trouble. No
American Administratiog was ever
more arbitrary or tyrannical or less
althful to treaties than Mr. Wilson's
Atturqey General and his alien
t property custodian.
President Harding has done well
tso far. He is a good man. Mr. Mel
4&on has done well. He is a strdng,
competent Secretary of the Treas
fury. But if both were angels in
Vhuman form, neither of them should
*ever be vested with the uncontrolled
tpower and reponsibility which the
Penrose bill would confer.
It is the business of the Congress,
and af the Congress alone, to decide
filpod the souroes of revenne.
The Constitution is as plain as
day upon this point.
Neither the President nor any
member of his cabinet has any con
stitutional power to do -anything
about revenues, except to collect
them and spend them under the di
rection and authorization of the
Congress. And every bill affecting
revenues - must originate in the
ouse, and not in the Senate,
. The Penrose bill would make Mr.
Nellon above the Congress and
aIbove the President in the disposi
ifion of ten thousand million dollars
of interest-bearing debts.
No' human being --ever had that
enorinous power over so mueb
wealth.
No human being ever had the
wiental capacity, unaided and alone;
to foresee *hat tremendous and pos
sibly fatal effects a mistake in the
Use of such power might have upon
$he. future of a people.
There are men in the Congress
who must know the danger and
menace of this Penrose bill. They
must have seen that it bas been im
p ossible to get Mr. Mellon to bind
'himiself to. the collection of the
grincipal and interest of these for
e'loans before the Senate Corn
anttee.
We are sorry to have to say that
Kr. Mellon's non-dommittal attitude
justifies at least a doubt whether he
might not do with the whole debt
what Wilson secretly did with a
part of the debt. And if that hap
yened under the Penrose bill there
arould be no redress.
We think it right to say plainly
to the Republican leaders that if
they put over a postponement of
these foreign debts, there will be no
itepublican majority in''Congress af
ter 1922, and no Republican Presi
* ent in the White House after Marc~h
We told the Democratic leaders
vrhat would happen to them if they
pursued their QbUoxious policies in
1918, and they know now that we
told them the truth.
The Republican leaders will know
hesame thing in 1920 if they put
aitbh r mandpeasa mi to
sarymaens whi"h m yt be
mbpfopga to iake war upos s.
The whole owntry will go wild
with,. ager if thkes foweign debtors
tre allowed to shirk papaqnt
It Is OUR Money.
It saved THJl( from d4eeat.
They. would be paying twice as
much to Germany today if we had
not let them have these thougands
of millions whei they desperately
needed thefn.
Now we need, those thonnaryla of
millions ourselves.
We need the interest and we
eed payments on the principal.
The Administration has just per
maded Congress to. postpone pay
.ment of compensation to our sol
diers because of lack of funds.
If the collection of these foreign
debts had not been postponed, there
would be -plenty of funds for our
soldier.
The whole thing is a wretched
affront to common sense, a shame
ful avoidance df our rightful obliga
tions to our own soldiers, to our
own workers, an injury to our na
tional interests and prestige.
There are Senators ready to fight
this Penrose bill-and they are good
fighters, too.
'She Hearst papers will fight with
them, will stand shoulder to shoul
der with them, will. rally public
opinion to their support, and either
win with them or lose with them
the fight for the nation's welfare.
Come, Senators,.let's begin.
It will be ,a hard fight. Let's
start first.
And while we are about it, let'-%
make it a fight worth seeing-a
right to talk about-a stand-up, two
isted, knock-down, winning fight.
Sales' Tax
Benefits All
N thinking of taxes, remember
that all taxes are finally paid by
consumers, and that every one
of us is.a consumer-every last one
Af us, hand-workers, brain-workers,
income-getters, men, women, chil
Iren, babies--all of us.
In our capacity as producers and
sellers and owners of property we
have to pay cash to the Federal tax
3ollectors, but we get that cash from
ourselves -and others in our and
their capacity -s consumers, buyers
and renters.
So, then, we all pay taxes and the
most of collecting taxes.
Now, the cost of collecting taxes
into the Federal Treasury under our
present system-if such a hotch
potch can be called a system-is
about 23 per cent of the taxation
itself.
The cost of collecting a universal
sales tax would be about 3 per cent.
The Federal taxes this yea' will
some to about $5,000,000,000. You
folks will pdy that, and you will
pay $1,150,000,000 in addition,
sharged as profit on passing the tax
along to you by the various middle
men.
You would not pay more than
*150,000,000 in that way if we used
the universal sales tax..
To put it in a nutshell, the sales
tax would save you people one
thousand million dollars with the
p~ublic treasury getting the same
revenue it does now.
Then remember that you pay that
extra billion when you pay for your
food, clotheS, rent and other neces..
saries and comforts, and you will
perceive how mistaken is the belief
that the sales tax would shift the
burden of taxation from .the richer
to the poorer classes.
It ,would do no such 'thing. It
would make things cheaper for the
workers and help them to prosper.
4 M5M '
-e4
-money we so freely hnded o
than rots of hand, wan unppouuc
But now that the war is over, thos
toney is available for use arin the
gainst u.
L HUMANISMS
BY
WOn. Atheitn DR Pu
The Men. Richard ~ifaser. who used
Secretary of the InterIo under President
met an old friend on the street i Washingt
ether day. and was so full of objyokles as to A
that individual's curiosety.
Ballinger had just been looking in a bool
window and there he had men a letter ex1
and offered for sale for the inodest price of I
The letter was written in the true hand c
Taft while Preeldent. and it roundly deno
the Individual to whom It was addressed fto
ing to tourists faceliples of the ignature
writer.
An4 now the denynciation was being a
for 'ew.
Th'e work of the scientit does not always
to do with chemical reactions- and the- jul
of multi-syllabiq IA.tin names.
Thke- the'' pple crop.. for Intanoes, ani
man wip saved that part it ,which gro
the :WeW. It Awas not lstory science
figuring out how to get adrop of liquid
a bea that saved it.
Dr. Elier Darwin ial, who Is now AA@
Sectary of Agrieulture. did the job.
Apple e n. the East protected their
trees .ttwell by spraying them with I
. out West the amulie moth.
too thick to he extershinated In this way.
The pnd of the asple where the bloom ha4
wag its vulnerable' part. Ne matter how
the tress were .sprayed the worms crawled 1i
and spoiled the -apples.
To get the insecticide back of the leaf-like
at the enid of the abple so the warm would
wherr be crawled in-that was the job. I
a ilmall task of a rmechanical nature. The
must be shot harder and at the apple whol
bloom had been.
So Dr. Ball rigged up a more vigorous
ing device and elhot the liquid from the diti
fromn, which the fruit got its ight, for It a
pointed Its blossom end that wy.
He got the -poison where it did the werl
thus saved the apple cop of half the natil
Dr. Luther Pfahler -Eisenhart, lecturi
matheinatics at Princeton, is one of the t
men sid tai have understood Einstein's rein
before the reoent pqpular Interest In It.
Dr. Alien Smith, profeser of pathology u
Univereity of* Pennbylvania, is a no less s
individual.
Both thes gentlemen went down to t
legs of Pennslva~nia, at -Gettysburg, not
ago to -et degreee from that institution.
Between thetik on the platform, likwis
honored with a dedree, stood William J
Ihowalter, one of the editors of the lia
Geograpuhie Magaine. Mir. Sho walter ha
quired the learning that entitled him tot
gree of-doctor of sconee by woerking as a
bueas fte Ovtment In ahngton
Copyright. test.
Str adStrpes
"Six ILeave Sing Sing as Sixteen Other
etwP.agBn i eting to be more like the
way evenT day.
Members' of English Parliament are cosa
ing thbt the poet laureate Is net writin
poetry. This Is our idea of the ultimaate
NOT' to complain about.
'5ruui YO~U CAN'T DESGUESE.
A garlie sad.
A puak show.
3owlegs, with short 'skirts.
When the boer jabe his tetim
On the flp O'lth great persistenoe,
Cohnee t'o him the thetlgit-"y lif
last a head to msouth esistease,
con.
gc, by the way, -no othier seerity
ren't gettig even interest. Our
it som of it is bein thuds used
kI
TOWNE G00SSIF
Registere" U. 8. ttant Ogtos
- . C. B
&R away. '--WHERE TuE water
e = wheel was.
;A .water- * -
TO HOLD tewater,
)E on a UNTIL THE hour.
RegsteeG . lae Ofee
* * WHEN TE Y all
UTITE some ,should stand.
0 . *
E o AT THE foot of the
DENS came. fall.
watnwhel ANE THEY aid no
word.
dairy placem
* To THE guest s they
OST *of to br ht,
D * AND TE hour cm
WENT to the * * *
AND THE dam was
* * freed.
olden days. * * *
* * AND THE houestm
rOLEN away. , arrived.
S* . * * *
c IT arrived. AND THE waterfall.
IE once proud RUSHED ON its wan:
* * -AND LAUGHED
)N bad days. again.
EENit came. ASIT uaed to laugh.
week bago. AND THE orator.
rHIE folks CLEARED HIS husk
celebration. -AND) BEGAN to tall
ancient event. AND WHETHER It
* * was.
ITESTS were ** *
ht. HE TALKED too leni
NEof the OR THEdam wastc
smal.,
very brief IT REMAINS a fact
* * THAT JUST at the
I once proud moment.'
ery brief He LWmst
0 make it ABOUT THE fall.
* * IT PETERED right
DAYS before. out.
I so arranged. AND THE guesta al
* * laughed.
FKEaId ofa *
. I THANK you.
ODU TO MAKE-UP.
i was a young lady named Grace,
Whsefaes
in the eve
rem, at ? in the eve
* a treat and a joy.
atS bei the aeen
,bhet
~U Y 6000$r
WAb of SAM'A,'
Ato ry, MAKi '(16
A WCE'IAN..
it to forign nations during the war, takim
I to have gone into war maldag.
e foreign nations have our money and we a
picture; and there is reason to believe U
Mr. B. Baer
to be Looks like hems are going F
tbe to be trifle more skirty next NTF
Ta season. Skirts have been so
Mn the short recently that man has THERE
roUse to lbok twice to 000 them. fall
tstore When President Harding THAT
bited leaps u% i Senate and
15. chIrps, "It shall never touch time
of Mr. ground," you don't know
Unced whether he means U. S. flag WAS Q
r sell- or U. S. skirt. fall.
f the -
When Uncle Joe Cannon BUT GA
fered . rises to his Congresslonal
insteps and .roars. "Long
may it wave on h ," you AND A
have don't know whoker he S
ling means torch of liberty Or AND A
American dress. e
Ws In . Freshly laid rumors from AND t
, but gay Paris insinuate that frail wate
=der fashions for . next year will
include dresses. Skirts have .THAT
stant been so short for last coun1 fall.
I Ot highly taxed years that e
apple ohickens look like ostriches. I T
Ln in- -
were Of course, patriotic Amer
Icanettes stubbornly refuse WASi
been to lengthen skirts until
often world is officially signed up BEFORI
here on dotted line. They saved 0
material and won war. They AND T
fiber saved enough to win next
get It five wars. fl
flqd Fifth avenue costume FELL (
e garages are dilsplaying styles e
that indicate fashionable AND Tl
y dress next year will be more -
a nd* We'd like to pipe clumsy THAT
i-danoing partner who oould thseres
step on lady's dress now. *
e on --- HAD A
slvye Women are not responsible C
*tIvty for present styles. Dree OFp AN
__are designed by men. Of
igcourse, they are Parisan AND 01
dte men. But stil, men.
Col
Eag ven mournin styles are
rather spiffy. 01-fashioned AND O)
being widow wore sackcloth and planoa
seph cinders. Modern wMdy only e
tional wears cinders. ~Ag A
* ae- ~ ~ 'isit.
le de- Rtetusrn to abnormalcy i e
ws. fla troussaus wHi be TO 'r
ninfi haled with dsgt by miner'
- Ity rule of bo egdladies, fal.
near-sighted rtleand *
] timid husbands who hij be- AND A
hind their wive' skirts1see
TUE AGE OF THE AND TI
WeaLD. od
I n The Abbe Theodore 11or- .*
saux, director of observa- ()OME
Bub tory at Bourges, estimates * e
the earth's ag at H0.000,
00 years. He thinks that,
plain, the temsperature drpd to '
any' a point where life edl not WUWi
thing eist about 250.00,00 years datm,
PHILIPPINE TBEAS. Te
URNS. Tmr
The finest unworked Iron
filds In the world have At
besa discovered In the Phi
ippines. Ore adjacent te
goed harbors Is sufficient to Wi
assure the future of .bro g
la.a stel preduetisa ear
what
Tarm
pro.
4ewd going
* ~*#7o be
add. astcot
ton, leather,
a sM, whatever
it May be, it
oof very
* humbly and fr
LIAVG TM FAU2L a 'small price.
The fprser knows it to his cost.
The stuff the farmer produced comes bek to see him
after "business" has, got hold of it and trapaftrmed it.
What was worth fifty cents after passing six honths in the
farmer's hands
is worth five
dollars a f t er
passing s i x
hours or six
piinutes in a
m a c i n e.
Ninety cents'
wortly of leath
er comes back
as twelve dol
lar's worth of BACK FaU TUB MY.
shoes. A dol
lar's worth of wool comes back as forty dollars' worth of
clothing. The farmer is; smetimes surprised at the change
that college makes in hki own son. 'e is still more sur
prised at the change that the big city makes in tte goods
that Ite produces.
DISTRIBUTION IS TOO EXPENSWE IN THIS
COUNTRY.
Too big a slice of the dollar goes to those that handle
and do not produce. wat is the conditih that has to be
changed.
. Filipinos Thought They
Wanted Independence
"ENERA" WOOD, sefit to the Philippines to look
around and see by President Harding, sends word
that the Philippine Islands will go bankrupt uiless
they get in a hurry about Afteen millions of dollars.
The Philippine National Bank is very sick, business in
the islands is run down, as elsewhere, because of "con
ditions.'.' The Philippine government funds have disap
peared or have been tied up in various mysterious and
remarkable ways, and old Uncle Sam is urged to supply
some more millions without loss of time.
He is a convenient old uncle, when it comes to his
pocket; not so desirable when it comes to his rule, in the
estimation of some of the .Filipinos.
One thing is quite certain: If the foolish idea of tbe
last Democratic Administration were carried out and the
Filipinos set free, they would first go completely baik
' rupt, then drift into disaster, and then to the possession
of Japan, which would exploit them on the Korean-Asiatic
basis.
If they are wise, the gentlemen that fate and the.
Spanish war threw into our hands will stick as closely as
possible to old Uncle Sam and his pocketbook-usually
ready for demands, from the CTIfDE at. least.
A Bad Tax BeatenI
T HE-tax on oil was eaten in. the Boinse, and, thanks to
President Harding, is probably dead. Instead of writing
to the President, asking that he continue his fight against
Lthe oil tax, you might write him a ote of thaks for
protecting your automobile and gas engine, gasoline and
kerosene bills. If there is one thing that ought NOT to
Shave protection, it is the oil that the Lord created and put
in the ground millions of years before these were any human
beings here.
His divine industry certainly does not need pretection.
And the little man with his littie ear, the farmer with his
gas engine certainl'y DO need protection froma the oil crowd
that tried to build a fence around outside supplies.'
There is to be a fifteen per cent duty put on long staple
cotton from abroad. In the first place we ought to en
courage men growing crops of that klaid in this .ountry and
protect them reasonaby.
$n the second place England will admit 'that this duty,
aimed principally at Egyptian cotton, is well aimed. The
English do not hesitate to say that every pojdof ootton
shipped from Egypt must come in an Egsh' ship; no
American ship can cearry any of it. It is only ordinary
intelligence for America to say, "Very well, then we will
hat~e to make our part of the profit when you reach the
dock here." A little profit of fifteen per _cent will help
balance the freight monopoly.

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