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Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal in, $4.50 per year. 311-12-- 13 CAPITAL GOES ON STRIKE President Coolidge in a recent speech in New York said : If we had a tax whereby on the first working day the govern-i- t took five per cent of your wages, on the second day ten per t, on the third day 20 per cent, on the fourth day 30 per cent, on fifth day 50 per cent and on the sixth day 60 per cent, how many fou would continue to work on the last two days of the week? s the same with capital. Surplus income will go into irities. It will refuse to take the risk incidental to embarking in tax-exem- pt iness. JJ labor to quit work, rather than continue under con-on- s it regards as unfair and unjust, is conceded in this free coun-Theis no law or executive or judicial authority in America ch can compel labor to remain at work if it chooses to strike. Capital is as independent in this respect as labor. It cannot be ipelled to work under conditions it regards as oppressive. It will ilk out as a protest against conditions which it regards as unjust. Whenever by legislation or judicial decision or executive order ditions are imposed upon capital in any country which are reded as unfair, capital goes on a strike. History is replete with itrations proving this fact. It will not only go on a strike but it , if necessary, for its own protection, leave the country. During the French Revolution capital left France rather than ain subject to conditions imposed upon it by the revolutionary ers. A very large per cent of it never returned, remaining abroad inrich other countries and develop their industry and commerce. ie of it came to America and assisted materially in developing The right of re ADAMS WANTS PROOF. country. Two striking illustrations may be found today in the flight of tal from Russia and from Germany. The soviet government osed conditions upon Russian capital which it regarded as unjust,-the result that it fled the country. One of the underlying causes he financial break-dow- n of Germany is the flight of capital to countries, which is now being investigated by international ex- , s 1 see by what means it can be persuaded to return. The bolsheviki enlisted the support of the Russian masses in their paign against capital. They promised to promote the welfare Prosperity of the people by compelling capital to work under con-n- s which offered no profit. When capital rebelled against these htions the bolsheviki then took more radical steps in the form of wcation of the property of the rich. of wealth is a vice which feeds upon itself. Once machin ,y of confiscation of property is set in motion, it docs stop wii'i the rich. Those who have nothing soon seize control and p oceed to confiscate the property of all those who have he attempted punishment of wealth in Russia has hurt Peasan; more than the wealthy. The latter fled the country, with them whatever they could. The peasant was compelled Confisc-tio- n to remain and see his cattle, his few implements and his grain seized by the soviet authorities. Attempts to soak the rich always result in this manner. In this country some states have attempted o soak insurance companies doing business wihin their borders, with the result that tnose companies have refused to do business at all within those states and left the people without mean of insurance. There is nothing more susceptible of conclusive proof than the fact that capital, like labor, will refuse to work under conditions which it regards as oppressive or confiscatory, and there is no law or authority which it regards as oppressive or confiscatory, and there is now law or authority which can compel it to do so. There is nothing more susceptible of proof than the fact that when government attempts to shoulder unfair burdens on capital it goes on strike and automatically shifts those burdens to the shoulders of the less wealthy. There is nothing more susceptible of proof than the fact that whenever a tax is laid on capital which it regards as unjust, it immediately passes that tax on to the mass of people in the form of higher interest, higher rents, higher freight rates and higher living costs in every particular. It is a process which economists for generations have attempted to prevent but without success, because the process is a natural one that cannot be suspended or stopped by any human law or authority. 1 John T. Adams, Republican chairman of the National Committee, has fire in his eye and strikes from the shoulder and says : The integrity of a former Republican cabinet official has been called into serious question because he accepted money while in of- certain oil interests. The reputation of three former Democratic cabinet members, and other Democrats prominent in the Wilson administration, has been affected because they received money from the same oil interests as hire for their political influence with their own administration. fice from So much for the facts regarding the use of money disclosed up to date in the oil investigation. Taking advantage of this situation, a few political blackguards and scandal mongers have launched a general campaign of slander in official life. against members of the cabinet and others high One of the victims of this campaign is Edwin Dcnby, Secretary of the Navy. The record shows lie did not perform a single act in connection with the leasing of the naval oil reserves that was cither or inimical illegal or immoral much less a betrayal of public trust to public welfare. Not one of Secretary Dcnby's detractors can quote any official record or sworn testimony to the contrary. Not one dare make his |