Show WAR TAXES TO REMAIN No effort will be made to remove the war taxes during this session of con congress conGress gress ress The Democratic members unan unanimously unanimously unanimously demand deman a reduction at once The leader of the he Republican majority says it will be unsafe to remove them at this time and his party stands by him So Su b the matter will go over until another congress meets and how much longer may depend upon the result of i 1 the lie l election this taU fall Meanwhile notwithstanding the enormous normous sums expended in exter exterminating min ting the Filipinos a surplus of has been en accumulated by these taxes this year a large per percentage percentage of which s deposited iu iQ the Standard Oil banks of New York These banks get et the use of this money for tor nothing they loan it back to the people from whom it was waa collected colle ted and charge interest thereon they have made hundreds of thousands of dol dollars dollars dollars lars that way iri hi im the past few months and all aU because the stockholders of I these th Se banks were heavy contributors to the Hanna Hanla corruption fund of 1896 Republican leaders l ders are anxious anious to I have as little said as possible con concerning concerning concerning revenue legislation at this time owing to the approach of the presidential election ejection This is a case c where the business interests of ot tbd th country are made to suffer for tor the sake of the politicians The surplus revenue at the end of the fiscal year next month will be OOt OO A leading financial magazine of I Europe views the situation as fol follows follows follows lows There is no country on earth except pt the United States Stat g where such a result would not be the most indictment indi that could l le be e drawn against an administration a moderate deficit that could be bridged by a temporary loan would not subject the administration to part ts IE the criticism The New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial tm itself friendly to the administration but more inter interested interested interested ested in the business bU iness affairs of the I country countr says No mor money ought to be taken from J the taxpayers taP than is actually necessary I Ito to ROTO T on the gov and an ad ed that takes take too much muc is a Q greit gr S1 deal worse than one rne un that takes live five e or ten fen millions too little the deficiency can an be supplied immediately by a 3 an in ind ultimately by Increased j I Irever rover rever He fl Fut ut ti g surplus c be re returned r turned to the th taxpayers the nearest ap 0 roach to it would be the he purchase of I bonds but we are now In process of j replacing nfl all the bonds that mature soon I wh h bonds bond that will not mature for thirty years It should sho d be he remembered that the ordinary way of raising national taxes and the present way differ diJer quite ma materially tonally For many many years the govern government ment meet has raised its funds from m im imports imports imports ports spirits beer and tobacco Peo Pee People People pie have grown accustomed to o this But to for two years it has 11 hard for them to bear They y are ap a paying taxes on medicines and all sorts of proprietary articles now nos on im almost every character of Q o public document do m nt and on many occupations They Thai are burdens bur ens upon business evaded ded by corporate wealth and borne born b by the masses of f the people These taxes should be removed All AH Allour Allour our wars war are over We are only doing police duty now in inthe the Philippines and have only to deal with straggling struggling hands bands of armed insurgents according to the latest official reports Unless the administration n proposes to keep up its present rate of there is no legitimate excuse use for a continuance of war wr taxes axes in of peace The present plesent revenue r threatens a monetary st in It the autumn au says the Commercial Review of New NewYork NewYork NewYork I York Then Them let the tle country have the needed relief now congress Is in session while the bill but is pending The majority party is shortsighted sh rt I ht d It has chosen cho en the wrong alternative as usual It twill will find a hastier harder ar task in trying to explain to the th people why it retains these taxes than it would now find in determining which taxes ta es to remove |