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Show THE CITIZEN we get the sum of $2,131,800. This is an indi-i- n their own behalf, it is certain some several thousands of smudge taxes of but $17,400 to be distributed over the entire reformers, ranting, religionists and governmental quacks, will wish Obviously some of us they had been turned over to the tender mercies of the K. K. Klan, among thousands of city taxpayers. individual proportion instead of1 having to face the wrath of a righteous people aroused to ta be entirely overlooked; at best our action. savings" will amount to but a few measley cents. It requires a fixed sum of Busy minorities, harboring selfish motives and, too often with ;s the result of the system. on and maintain the political overhead. Salaries miist personal interests to promote, are constantly harping on what other 0 carry must be furnished for- large numbers of political sap-,n- d people must do and how they shall conduct affairs to meet their numerous relatives ; the city must keep up its metropoli-jaranc- e personal views. Mandated power is being given to such minorities and public work must go on unabated. There is no by constitutional amendments which they are continually howling for, than the individual rill of the city commissioners, who and to which a lashed and fearful congress lends an all too ready ear. needs without consulting a single taxpayer, and said Congress through the process of constitutional amendments and t their fninorities dictatorial rmust foot his proportion of the bill. Another feature of the .the courts, have giveq these saddled upon those who pay, is contained in a long list powers to the point where they have not only caused1 general restin lessness on the part of the masses, but they are positively making tments, which is said to be distressingly large, especially but of a majority of the people. and water department. disinterested body of Today our statute books are cluttered, up with laws that disrese matters need the attention of a it appears, must form an association and appoint com-t- o gard the constitution and which are disregarded by the people. The history of the world tells of many governments that failed because keep tab on their public servants in order to effect any of similar, faults. France under Napoleon, Germany under the in the administration of public affairs, t of real economy kaiser and the Roman empire and Greece are examples. raise in the state tax rate is infinitesmal, but probably would en far greater had not the limit fixed by the state legislative ENGLAND SWATS AMERICA. en reached. jus-- arid e k o . . . n 5 h id - )n in v 0! self-righteo- ivl ai us J law-breake- rs ;c law-floute- rs t tax-n-ho- m Il( h ' i t s; fn TAX LOAD. SHIFTING-T- HE being advanced in Utah to enact a state income .combined with other gestures to reduce the increasing tax would be tantamount to shifting the load from one class lyers to another. fol-Tpractical relief would be secured if such suggestions are net results of relieving farmers or workers of a certain in-,of personal and property taxes and saddling them upon those having large incomes, would simply mean the money he tax burden would be shifted back to the individual through td cost of everything he purchased, thus shoving the cost of suggestion t ib :nt y he r or no le le in notch. program of taxing invested or accumulated capital to the f confiscation, through state income tax devices and other 00( s, will in a short time drive this source of taxable wealth e bonds. Then existence, and shunt all of it into he burden will fall back, automatically, upon the small taxpayer. Wng the load will only aggravate the situation now become rt unbearable owing to the large aiiiount of capital now th bonds. The only apparent remedy in ill eck exorbitant governmental overhead and increase efficiency snt mmental management and the expenditure of governmental another p ft 5 t tax-exem- pt enjoy-immuni- ty tax-exem- pt rel m pri The recent gesture by Great Britain in favor of cancellation, of allied war debts, is, as usual, flavored with cant and designed to shift the onus of the proposition upon the United States. Great Britain holds that the attitude of this country in seeking to recover the millions she first exacted from the workers and business men of the nation, in the form of Liberty and Victory loans, is the sole reason why she cannot, at this time, forgive her partners in war, the debts they owe her. Great Britain in summing up her case against this country fails to take account of the fact that the United States gained nothing by reason of the war; that she did not fall heir to large mandated sections, which she could commercially exploit and finally annex outright; Great Britain makes no reference to the fact that this country paid her a handsome per diem for every soldier boy she transported across the high seas to fight in her behalf ; she fails utterly to mention that this nation endeavored to restrain her reparations- hungry prime minister and other representatives at the Versailles confab, which attitude on her part, at that time, is the largest single contribution to the situation that obtains in Continental Europe to-- . day. The fact of the case is that Great Britain has never forgiven the United States for turning down her cleverly conceived entangling alliance trap more recently known as The League of Nations and she never will, because we will never fall for it or any other alliance that would divide our sovereignty with foreign nations. . ittl BUREAUCRATIC GOVERNMENT. led nt its thing of the past in this .country. Today all like state rights and other personal prerogatives, have into the discard and either have been, or soon will be, duality is a fifes, rwn ufl under governmental supervision. is largely a thing of the past and our ti ur virtues and in some instances our personal likes and Id ur schools, public welfare and even our rural affairs, come )' stnct supervision by bureaus, each maintaining an army of ah fetors at public expense, who. in addition to their personal V rity add immeasurably to the cost of maintaining civic gov- o is C1 self-governm- ent ; The New York Herald, the big citys finest example of a subsidized press, exclaims that Harding and the Republican congress have made a mess of everything. Certainly they have! They have brought Liberty bonds from 85 cents up to 100 cents on the dollar ; they have lifted a.. billion of tax rates' from the rounded shoulders of the taxpayers ; they have limited immigration jyid established a sound budget basis to check government overhead expenses and failed to mix up in European internal affairs, much to the delight of the seven million majority that placed them in office. Japan has now ratified the treaty relating to Yap thereby ending a very disagreeable incident that began something more than four federal government has gone far and away beyond the years ago when President Wilson tried to remember the name of the desire of the framers of the constitution and but little d ocean promontory and failed. eUo the initiative of the individual or the state, the who rants around spitting out lamenting remarks The people of the nation are becoming festive under this supervision of the affairs and close tab on their and heavying heavy sighs over the passing of the girl; every-da- y L . dep 5 rock-boun- ch tJ ; t old-tim- er old-fashion- ed becoming increasingly evident. They are about to and believe us, if they do elect to come out boldly in jbits, is ri e ? . would lagh his fool head off if he chanced to meet one of them pranc1 " . ing down Main; street. |