Show TG REMOVE TAXATION There seems to be b general Idea that the President will recommend In his message the removal of all the socalled war taxes The rocelpurof the Government Govern-ment show that the attempted abolition of 10000000 taxation last rea1 did not keep down the surplus on the contrary there In a greater surplus now than ever Since the money Is not needed Hon Sereno E Payne chairman ot the House Committee on Ways and Means la i said to be engaged in framing a bill to puttaxation back where It was be fore the Spanish war began But If i I the surplus = l Is to bekept clown r more reduction than that will have to ho mad for the country Is so Immoaour ably more prosperous than In 1897S that even the olel rate of taxation will still afford a troublesome lot of money beyond tho legitimate expenditures of the Government ocondmically admlnls tered which Is the Republican maxim The people peralsl In sucli marked In dustrial advancement b huulncBS en largement and activity gcnerally that it suemn Impossible to keep the rate pf taxation down to the point when they will not gladly pay more than the Treasury needs What contraut with the preceding Democratic administration administra-tion which so depressed the country i Industries and ao smashed business that no rate of taxation coVild be made high enough so that both ends would meet and there Mas auch an cnormoua de I i > i v ficit that more than a quarter of a billion In bonds had to be Issued In a i time of profound peace Of profound peace did we say So far as war with foreign countries was concerned but I not so far as the Democratic war on I I the business of the country wont which I wds more costly than the war with Spain The people will gladly welcome J I 1 such reductions as the House commit I I I I tee may recommend i i |