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Show THE CITIZEN 4 The rich exclude the poor from their social organizations, and so on down the line indefinitely. All breeds hatred and wars are the result. of Any Republican or Democrat who believes in the League Nations should first read the life of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln before passing judgment. Lord Robert Cecil should not talke league in this country until he and his European .allies demonstrate by their actions and deeds that they themselves believe in the league. Up to the present date they have had no faith in their league, or they would not trust the league, or for some other reason not made known to the people, the league cannot work without the entry of the United States. .. England backed Greece in the recent fight with Turkey. Greece was an ally to England and France in the world war. France furnished much of the ammunition to the Turks to kill off the Greeks. In the face of such proceedings who would want to sit at a table or trust their lives with nations who played their pawns for the sole if caught in a strange 'purpose of gold? What could we expect hold? Let us play safety first. bines against labor. SUGAR. such a procedure puts fear into the heart of man instead of courage. The most logical thing in the world for that man to do is to look around for a safe investment like tax free bonds, where he will cut his own coupons and enjoy what he has earned. That is happening every day in this land of ours. It is the only way to get back at a government that is so short-sighte- d that it seems bent upon killing V.. the goose that lays the golden egg. Albert D. Lasker, chairman of the United States shipping board, hit the nail on the head when he said recently in an interview that By means of a high income tax we kill initiative at the peak, and then by means of a low inheritance tax we kill it at the source. The ideal of taxation is to make the burden fall upon those who can best bear it with a minimum of discouragement for energy and inspirasurrender to suicidal tion, but the present income tax is a stupid w demamoguery. This, and much more, from a man who stands high in the present political regime should give considerable pause to the party with . which he is affiliated. The logic of his reasoning is easy to follow ' if we do not overlook the human element' which plays an important part in every relation and activity of life. American Saturday Night. HENRY FORD. A Washington dispatch of March 30th to the New York World, Democratic organ-in-chie- f, quotes Tom Connally, Texas Democratic Roy M. iHarrop, who is president of the American Economic congressman, as follows: The admission, duty free, of the rich man's antiques, while the League, is behind a movement to nominate Henry Ford on the Proillusgressive party ticket for president of the United States in 1924. poor man's sugar and other commodities must pay a tax, fairly trates the difference between a Republican and Democratic tariff. Petitions are being circulated in the various states to place Ford's If one is determined to be a demagogue, one should at least try name on the ticket. He is running upon a simple but businesslike platform which to be a smooth and plausible one. The Democratic tariff law for involves : which Congressman Tom Connally whoops it up, put the rich man's 1. Independent, progressive, political action with Henry Ford original art objects on the free list and imposed a tariff averaging When Congressman as candidate for the presidency of 1924. about 20 per cent on the poor man's sugar. evi2. Economic stabilization of the United States, through the esConnally made this statement, and the World printed it, they dently supposed that people generally are as ignorant of tariff rates tablishment of a debt paying system of finance, in place of the debt as they pretend to be. creating federal reserve bank system. 3. A soldier bonus by the direct issue of legal tender currency It would be a safer venture in demagogy to just keep yelling about the high price of sugar being due to the Fordney tariff bill, from the government. 4. Direct presidential primary, and referendum on war, except relying upon public ignorance of the fact that sugar is selling for from 10 to 11 cents a pound wholesale in Canada, at 12 cents per in the case of invasion. With such a platform to run upon, the Republican and Demopound wholesale in Liverpool and at 12.59 cents per pound wholesale cratic parties will have to do some hard work to put Ford out of the in London, according to the official sugar reports. race. He no doubt will draw heavily from both parties, and his TAXES. great success in business in paying high wages makes a hit with the average working man. Ford never has any labor troubles. From time immemorial death and taxes have gone hand in When the Republicans put a protective tariff on potatoes, the hand as the concrete illustration of the surest thing known to man. The phrase that has become so familiar is now taking on a new and Democrats declared this would add millions of dollars to the cost sinister meaning, namely: that death from taxes is just as sure as of living. They added the tariff to each bushel of potatoes consumed. The tariff on potatoes is about 30 cents a bushel, and the death and taxes. Talk to men singly or in groups, men who concerned in carrysupply is so great that the growers have been receiving less per ing on the business of the community, the state, the country, and bushel than the tariff thereon. At the time the Democratic chairyou invariably find that taxation is one of the live wire subjects that man took his fling at the sugar tariff, potatoes were being advernot only interest but excites them. It is a subject that reaches its tised by a chain store right under his nose at about 3 cents a pound, harassing climax with the making out of the income tax returns. or more than six times what the grower received for them. Freighttbe price. Therefore timely. ing, handling, commissions, and profits had Then go down the line of men and women whose wage actually And one could go still further and point to the fact that a baked means their life, and listen to what they have to say about the tax Idaho potato served in a Washington restaurant cost the consumer d wages to help keep the business of just about what a bushel of those potatoes sold for on the Idaho wrung from their the government from going on the rocks. They may not qualify as farm. best minds but they are doing a lot of thinking these the Fifteen executive officials of the Standard Oil company receive. days, and much of it is unpleasant. There is obvious asininity in taxing a mans income to the extent $1,070,000 in the way of salaries, the amounts ranging from $30,000 a year to $125,000. The men may be worth the money paid them. where his business suffers. Not alone because it helps kill his business but, far more deplorable, it is one of the surest ways known of The main question is whether these men are relatives of the con- - O killing his initiative. When any government, ours or any other, trolling interests or whether thep hold the bulk of the stock themstands ready to pounce down upon the man who has the spirit to selves. In either case they are worth the money because they have try new adventures and says to him, If you lose you may have your the power to say so. But what about the small stockholder ? Why, he ought to be satisfied with financing the company. losings, but if you win I take up 58 per cent of your winnings, , step-ladder- ed hard-earne- so-call- ed |