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Show THE CITIZEN ' i HEAVY TAXES Dr. Charles P. Stcinmetz, a philosophical socialist, has no delusions on the question of governmental operation of industries; These are the days of heavy taxation. Taxes to right of us, Apparently everything favors public operation, he says, low taxes to left of us, taxes in front of us, taxes on top of us. Federal, interest charges, no dividends to pay, no legislation to fear and ?We county and city, they are absorbing too much of our earnings, yet government, state and municipal operation is a failure. Successful government operation of industries, railroads or public utilfjjSventing enough of our incomes going into savings. Blit it is a singular and significant fact that the local taxes are ities, is inherently impossible under a democratic form of governthe heaviest, part, of the load. We thing the federal government, ment. ,. with its heavy income and other war. taxes, takes the most liberal Can any one tell why all government departments in all counslice. Not so. It is the local tax bill that overtops all the others. William P. Helm, Jr., writing in the New York budget for tries are slow, wasteful and incompetent?' There must be some basic reason for this, as the individuals in April 2, 1923, reveals the startling fact that, in American cities of thirty thousand or more population, the average per capita cost of these departments cannot be all inferior to the individuals in private municipal government is almost as great as the combined per capita firms. Almost invariably an able man becomes 50 per cent less active cost of the federal and state governments. The total cost of all forms of government amounts to nearly a in routine government work. In a government job there is little competition, no payment by hd;dred dollars a year for each inhabitant (including all the nonproducers, the children, the defectives, the criminal, the insane). results, no piecework, no profit-sharinA man gets as much for doing badly as he does for doing well, Here are the figures: discharge. Per Capita Tax and there is no fear-oIf the department doesnt pay very well, the treasury has .. Federal government $35.47 9.46 State government plenty, and there is no danger of losing customers. A government employe has simply nothing to do with success. 44.32 City government 6.91 His aim is to avoid mistakes. The less he does the fewer mistakes. County government State or federal ownership, or nationalization is not $96.16 Total only a destroyer of trade and commerce. It is a coral reef built If we apply the cost of government to productive workers alone, across the harbor of prosperity, says Herbert N. Casson.1 it amounts to $240 a year apiece, or almost $500 to each family. That is the tax load the American people of the cities are carrying Charles D. Hilles, Republican national committeeman from New today. York, declared in a statement printed by the New York World that a of Is it not too much? Well, ask almost any head family! Henry Ford was a mere bag of gold and it would be bowing down to Mammon to elect him president of the United States. Minneapolis Journal. We are glad to hear that the sentiment is changing. Some pick People should be beware of European propaganda. Albert J. and shovel man will yet be fortunate to become president, but what J. Beveridge made an address at Bunker Hill day banquet to the appears to worry us most is, who is to pay the campaign expenses? Sons of the Revolution and in part said: UNINFORMED. Foreign propaganda is Americas greatest danger foreign propaganda conducted with infinite craft, yet with infinite boldness; How some people do delight to slander the United States. For heavily financed, and financed, too, with borrowed American money. It operates through society, the pulpit, the stage, the screen, the instance, a woman speaking at the recent conference on social work, school, the lecture platform; and some make so bold as; to say that declared that the United States is the only civilized government in the world which does nothing to assist its people to secure homes. even the American press has been invaded. We permit the emissaries of foreign governments to toiir our country and talk to our But she hails from a state along the Atlantic seaboard and never people in a way that those foreign governments would not permit saw one of the hundreds of thousands of homesteads the government gave to its citizens a few years ago, and is still giving. Fifty years Americans to talk to their people for a single instant. ago most of the region west of the Mississippi was a broad expanThree years ago in my address before the Sons of the Revoluand wolves. Today it is the tion at Carnegie hall, New York, I called attention to the debasement sion of prairie inhabited by coyotes the nation. Uncle Sam, homebuilder, made it so by of many recently written school histories of the United States the granary of The wonder is doing everything to facilitate home ownership. suppression of truth and the statement of falsehood the only possocial work conference would even sible effect of which must be in the weakening of our childrens that the lady who spoke at the admit that this is a civilized nation. Paulding (Ohio) Republican. devotion to the American nation. ,'jAs a matter of common sense let us have clearly in mind all the time these obvious truths: That foreign propagandists work exclusively for the interests of Snappy New Dance Music is one of the big features of the resort. The big military band is at its best the government that sends them among us, and never for the inter, t i g. f so-call- ed . . ests of America. That it is a first condition of success of these propagandists to make us believe that the interests of their country and America are identical interests. That in short, whatever we do, let us do it with our eyes open. There is no merit in even blameless ignorance ; and wilful ignorance is a crime. , k VMany predicted that our present tariff law would keep out are now far imports, but for the first time since 1914, our imports in advance of our exports. 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