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Show : WR FmEEKT isjaitis Investments Strengthened by All Reports From the Western Front. Business Will Not Be Set Back by Revenue Bill, Is General Belief. ' By BROAD AN WALL. By Unicrs:d Service. N'EW YORK. Sept. S. Above all, the investment markets are confronted with day-to-day war news heartening in the utmost degree. Conditions abroad, according ac-cording to military experts, warrant the continuance of developments iaorable to the allies, while some authorities are on record as predicting the end of the war for this year, and a greater number for the spring of 1919. Such a situation, therefore, appears to assure sufficient confidence in prices to offset more or k'-s riis'iuieung domestic factors that may m nrie. Of the latter, the final form of the revenue bill now in congress is most important im-portant fivm the investor's standpoint. Knouch has been said by certain legislative legisla-tive groups in Washing-ton to justify the forecast that business will not be throttled throt-tled by unwise taxes to the extent indicated indi-cated in the draft of the bill as it has he-'-n introduced in the house. The n-h undoubtedly will not be overanxious, in view of the drastic impost on their incomes, in-comes, to indulge in much stock speculation. specula-tion. It !s common knowledge that in man- Vrrokrao-e houses wealthy business men are "out of the market." A lso. in some Tuarters. stress is laid on the expectation expecta-tion that the revenue bill, when it i reidy for trie president's signature, will rontain a wMe'v distributed lonsumptioji tax of one kind bp anothe-. possib.y a levy o'. sav. a cent on ali purchases of a doihtr or mere. Estimates of the revenue that would be produced by imposts of such. h a raster ra rc-e as h : ltIi as a hi I lion dollars, dol-lars, or a full" eighth of the $'s.C"'0,0''v0.'.' .'0 WiL.ltOd. Tax Fears Unfounded. If is therefore fair to ass"rr e tha' tat dread is in larse decree p-ychoiocricai, and that men. afitr a while, w:1 1 ta'k them-sive them-sive out of their tax fear. Just as In rr.anv cases they ta-k themselves Into it- Then comes the mor "' mrk. The cover nrrei.L it is pla:n. intendf to rlnan'e the war's monumental ex pen.-es wi' h as little inflation as is po-?s.-le l-.-rtni: war rirr.f-s. Kurther. : r e cover". rneni w r i hrok no eomDetition that in the U-ast interferes in-terferes with it. raising of i'irv1.- r-ar'!-ed as ess-nti.il to the s::-'-ftd rrn-e -j-t:on of the war. -iit--.tl. lu-wever. of u-eomnlish! u-eomnlish! n tbese drasti-'a.Iy er tho'i-h t:es.-l . the LrorriT-nt in."! t:.! rr.ea.vs evfr;.-r.e in the 'oun'ri' who is rrfjz vi:: re s rn n si h 1 po ir:on n eere:-r.z eere:-r.z in tin. i r-a'-ince and d;s.-re'..on. fr& s'ok srcu'a tion for some 1 -n" hi.s :rn demand :r 7 hark ere.'it .!. U w-: w-: c-eded for mor- hr.-orr.tnt j;rrv. .--. Irt times ro-e hv mony rir--s p.-r:. e-csse.-. but rso-v th "f: r.a tl ',tm rn ;n i " Vr'sin, Mr. or twind to r t r i!-! the i p-.r cent mx. tm-im. t ''rt i , h ' ;o the an tive cha:.-man of tr-- ;val rrvn" eo-nmitte warned ?pr;u'aforn thit r i ' i n : -in opera-ions t :aed on the ah.d .;--res- in France wou'd '.two's. pro-.r mor.v rtea Tr s,r.o. A ir .r'-l du. 1 Tr.a."i!:v after 'hat nnn .r. -rrn'1 al-tho-;zh rr. '--tin :id to r-fV"' t "J : wor.'ierf-ji war Stabilized Cotton. j T'nler-s tie rr,;on r . ,.-. r.;-e :n .-;b;.'-; fi to the e-a e r, r--.w i rr; : -)'! or '0'-k e --'--a-r--- rr--m ' f.",-t(.r: : fra'-rr:"v t- ' r ' r" n ''r l ' f j a ". i " (o"oi. If f r nr. 'o -e ?'A'- ihz- d as t-e r---'i:t f f j h-arriiT-t to h-'d . -v t" y rerr, Tf -t , trr wo.j.1 a?rr to r- !n p-o-r,.-r r- -,"f ro-n the ;d x.r 'A ' n-l t ne t!'1'! I rr'- t'fiat o.-e-irr-d in 'hr.if pi r i--fore a ma-: ;r;r: :n pri -e nn t. at tn:n j v : n :- e t . j On ' -"rop mi' look. . re-t f I V j f-t. r-jfrp-' pr.c-'S for f'.f; s'arl a.'" i j-;.;r-ed. ! In th o--k market . r-r-.m: t. n I 'or d-j"r f- 'ot,.- rrad .1 ! -..r. r,- s rj to j.d-tf o" o' r- "iTi-;;.! -r.-.r a.f-o-:r.r. Ar,''"rr f !'- ::k:v '.n n- f f-T-r.c--. in ?---:ard : ! y.eVvv T.oro-.ir-d- !. i dd-."d rr:r:--f !n ; r h a f'-.j.- jr.-. !v,r t.-id-.-;; fa-.. If. the j |