| Show HARK FROM THE WILDS President Ex Roosevelt Argues for an Inheritance Tax New York July 15 The Outlook is it issued issued sued today to l has an article by Theodore Roosevelt entitled Give Me Neither Poverty Nor Riches It says in part It is to be wished that some of those who preach and practice a gospel go pel of mere materialism and antI greed and who speak peak as if the heaping up of wealth by the community or by the individual was In Itself the beall and endall of life would learn from tram the most widely read and oldest of at books that true wis wisdom wisdom wisdom dom which teaches that it is well to have neither great poverty nor great riches The movement which has be become become come so o strong during the last It few years to secure on behalf of the nation both K th an adequate supervision of and an effective taxation of vast ast fortunes fortune so 80 I far as their business use IB is concerned is ia a healthy movement It alms aims to re replace replAce replace place sullen Bullen discontent 8 pee pes pessimism and evil preparation for revo revolution revolution revolution lution by an lin aggressive a healthy deter determination determination determination to get to the bottom of our r troubles and remedy rem 00 them The multimillionaire is 18 not per EC se a healthy development ment in ig II this country If his hta bJ fortune rests re t on a basis basi of wrong VoTO doing he is a far more there dangerous I criminal than th An the ordinary types of ot otI I criminals can possibly be If his hill for fortune forI fortune I tune is III the result of the great service rendered red well and good he deserves duer respect re and reward for such sueh service I although we must remember to pay our homage homa to the service Itself and not to the fortune which is the mere reward of ef the service but when hen his fortune is iB I passed on to some one else who he has not rendered the service rlee then the nation impose a heavily graded pro progressive pr inheritance tax a singularly wino wi and DO J kind of tax I l lIt It should td b bot be a particularly good sO d thing lif I if th the tax bore hea heaviest jest on absentees I n |
