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Show DEFICIT CERTAIN. The question of raising revenue to meet the huge treasury deficit expected on June 30, 1 9 IS, is beginning to worry President Wilson and the members of his cabinet. The executive is said to be opposed to a bond issue except to meet expenditures of a temporary nature. na-ture. It is also said he may address congress on the subject some time after tho holidays. With the issuance of bonds out of the question in order to raise money for the purpose of running the government, or any other purpose, for that matter, it will be necessary to increase in-crease the duties on imports or the rates on inheritance, income and other direct taxes. We do not know in what channel the mind of the president is working, but it is barely possible that having altered his views on the question of the tariff he may take another forward for-ward step and consent to the increase of import duties. Stranger things have happened in the field of politics and the history of the American government. |