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Show AMERICANS TAXED. It has long been claimed that death and the payment of taxea are inevitable. inevit-able. The assertion ifl only truo in part, for tax dodgers have abounded from time immemorial all over tho world, the nncionts being as adept as the nmdorns I in escaping the tax gut hei er and the I assessor. .hist now Great Britain, is approaching a cond it inn whoro both en da of the proposition aem true, tho fine absolutely so and the othor approximately. ap-proximately. The eitittoua of the country coun-try have been taxed to the limit, and the attention of th British government govern-ment hns been directed to American agencies in busiuena over there, and an order has been made compelling these concerns to pay an income tax on their total earnings in Great Britain, including includ-ing money returned to tho United .4 1 a ton. Hitherto those eatablishments havo only paid an income tar on tho profits expended In England. Now it is proposed pro-posed to tax the profits of tho American Amer-ican maiiufaclnrer. Tho order appeaiH unjust, but there is an old saying (hat " all 'a fair in Invn ami war.1' More-over, More-over, Great Britain is in desperate financial strait, and desirna lu stop A merienn imports as far ua poamhlu. After the war thoy will probably make use of tho protoctivo tariff to aid their homo induHlries, but tho main idea just now in to f or co the Brit mil public to forego luxuries of all kinds. That failing, fail-ing, they propose to levy tribute upon A merienn iMNiinl'ucl.urei n. The nui 1 1 er will undoubtedly bo taken into Ihe Bjihfh couil'i. but we fear Ih'-re is liltle, chiince of m ri'1 u riling the order. At least that has been the experience of the rhicntfn nieiit, piirkern mid other Ameriran producers who havo been unjustly un-justly tinatnd sine. the war began. The stamp tax lost the thirteen original colonies to Great Britain, but they still havo the idea over there that we ought to contribute to their support. ' The present order is not a very serious matter, and the British government govern-ment is welcome to all it secures. It is more than welcome to the large amount it is extracting from the pockets pock-ets of William Waldorf Astor and other j natives of the United States who ex- ( patriate! themselves because we had no " society ' ' over here, and swore al- j legiance to the British king. Our only j fear in that some of them may return : after tho war in order to escape taxa- j tion. |