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Show LOWER TAXES. There is a balm in Gilead and some of it is about to be distributed. Coincident Coin-cident with Uncle Sam's entry into a war designed to make the world safe for democracy came a scries of skylarking sky-larking performances by tho prices of everything entering into the cost of living. As the war progressed and the fight became more and more costly, taxes began to multiply until about everything mentionablo bore the mute evidence of tribute to the war god in the form of a revenue stamp. "Luxuries," such as toilet articles and chewing gum, nut sundaes and the like, vaulted into the charmed circle heretofore monopolized by the perquisites per-quisites of the really rich, diamond and pearl necklaces and their kind. All of us enjoyed the experience of paying taxes for "luxuries," and some of us imagined that wo were really in the plutocrat class, seeing that most of us had patriotically purchased Liberty bonds with the remnants of funds left after the profiteer and taxgatherer had finished their work. But the balm is about to be passed around. Congress is to relegate some of the taxes, especially the luxury levies, to the limbo of discarded legislation. legis-lation. More material benefits are promised, on the word of a Republican congress, which, having everything to gain by keeping its pledge, doubtless will proceed to prompt performance. |