Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Press The Workingman Pays When the ordinary citizen with witha a small weekly wage awakens to tho the fact that his earnings are be beIng being be be- ing taxed proportionately to an equal or even a greater degree than those who are in the tho upper brackets he will begin to be bo tax conscious And tax consciousness Is tho the awakening that this country needs just now The Tho tax monomaniacs in power in city state and nation are aro gradually gradually gradually grad grad- absorbing the incomes of our working people by indirect taxa taxa- tion Tho The man who makes 2500 or orless orless less a year may never see an in income income income in- in come tax blank or a tax collector But nevertheless just of hi his income according to a survey survey survey sur sur- vey made by the Guaranty Trust company of New York City goes for taxes Because of the direct taxes levied levied lev lev- led on earnings in the tho higher brackets is 18 absorbed out of a mans man's envelope that contains a weekly wage of 48 or 48 or 9 cents out of every dollar doUar spent The man of small income that income that thatis is Is three-quarters three and moro more of all the American people people pays pays this artfully concealed tax every time he pays hi his ren rent buys meat or bread or a n pair of shoes shaM for his baby Every new tax measure enacted in Washington or the state capital is a tax on hi his weekly pay en en- Taxation concerns every man woman and baby in the country Increase of taxation especially by the concealed route is 13 literally a levy on your standard of living Write to your congressman your senator your representative in Inthe the state legislature protesting any further confiscation of your weekly wage in tho the shape shapo of taxes Slash expenses lop off tho the political po po- po- po parasites retrench retrench and and taxes will come down cally Los Los Loo Angeles Examiner Wallace Speaks Right Out However cautious President Roosevelt may be be Secretary Vallace Wallace Wallace Wal Val lace is frank He thinks the thing through and says what he thinks And what he ho thinks is that the tho American system both of government government govern govern- ment and of business is at atari an end What will wUl take i its place in government government government gov gov- is ts a unitary centralization tion of power in the federal g government government gov gov- v. v with states states' rights rIght's discarded discarded dis dis- dis carded as obsolete The states he says mark no economic boundaries boundaries boun boun- daries that make sense And what will take the place of the tho American system In business is a cooperative society Which is a I milder namo name for socialism All this from a book just ou out entitled entitled en en- titled Whose Constitution Constitution- JIn which he assails recent decisions of the supreme court Secretary Wallace Vallace does not criticize these decisions as bad law Apparently he regards it as of no importance whether they are bad law or good The objection to them is that the constitution was written in 1787 and laid down dawn certain certain tain lain principles which Secretary Wallace Vallace does docs not think apply to 1936 Doubtless there thero are arc persons who agree with Secretary Wallace They think think our our inherited America is done for and that we must go gothe gothe gothe the collectivist way in business and work and the centralist way in government San San Francisco Chronicle High Handed Harry That public works are arc of public concern is a proposition so ob obvious oh- oh that no one prior to a. a m. m on June 13 1936 had reason even to formulate the principle let alone question it But at that hour and minute of that day and year was filed F. 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R Doc Doe published in the Federal Register of June Juno 16 under the heading of General Letter No 36 addressed to All State Works Progress Administrators Administrators Administrators Ad Ad- implication implication which by tion proclaims a philosophy utterly utterly utterly ut ut- ut- ut terly at variance with the proposition proposition above stated To alj allot of his many minions Administrator Ad Ad- Hopkins has issued the stringent warning that under no circumstances must they disclose disclose disclose dis dis- dis- dis close any information or furnish any papers or documents about anything connected with the Works Progress Administration except to W persons h having ving official business with that organization Furthermore in all cases where a W V P A official or is requested to testify in regard to matters of an official or confidential thai character knowledge of which was acquired in his official capacity capacity capac capac- it ity he shall respectfully decline to answer Even if the courts intervene intervene intervene inter inter- vene he is directed to state that the matter is privileged and cannot cannot cannot can can- not be disclosed without specific approval from the Federal Ad Ad- Ostensibly of course this is to coordinate and centralize the gIving giving ing out of information to the pub pub- lic lie But in actual practice it is a muzzle of the tightest sort and can enn only have the effect of still further embarrassing the thc efforts of the public to learn the unbiased truth about the waste extravagance extravagance extravagance gance and inefficiency of the administrations administration's administrations administration's ad nd- ministrations ministration's public works pro pro- gram New New York Herald Trib une Pennsylvania's Decision It has elected Democratic governors governors gov gov- on occasion as in 1882 and 1890 when Robert E. E Pattison was the successful Democratic nominee nomi nomi- nee and in 1934 when Governor Earle won the executive office Governor Earle however polled only more votes than his Republican competitor and while Senator Guffey defeated his Republican Republican Re Re- publican rival Senator Reed for forthe forthe forthe the upper house of ot congress by in 1935 Governor Earles Earle's proposal for a convention to re revise revise revise re- re vise the state constitution was beaten by a majority of All in all all there is a fair chance that Pennsylvania will decline to oblige Mr Farley by going Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic next November Provi Provi Providence dence Journal |