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Show THE CITIZEN 4 mand that the best youth of the land be sent to war to fight for their protection and then on top of all that ask that they be reimbursed with hugh profits. And yet we did not have a man in the country big enough at the time to, draw the line of justice and make capital share its berth with the man who was on the firing line and who bared his breast to the murderous bullet. And even now, we have many people who begrudge the boys a bonus for their heroism in defending our country, but you bet the corporations collected their toll and. the boys who fought for these corporations are today helping to pay the taxes that the. grafters might wealth. wallow in their greedy and The people should rise up in a body and back President Harding in demanding that during any future war that all men and property be conscripted for the use and protection of the country. It would be the greatest stroke to help eliminate wars in tlje history of the world, and sooner or later other nations would follow in our footsteps. The people of no country want war, but as a rule the people have little say. A few get together and declare the war and Go to some of the press and some of the preachers do the rest. war and be a hero is the slogan. Indeed you are a hero when you leave your home town for the front, but how different it is when you return. You go out with colors flying, bands playing, feted and banqueted, praised, loved and caressed, but your return providing you escaped the death angel forgotten except by your nearest relatives your father, your mother, brothers and sisters. A man who would make war for gain, a nation that would make war for gain, should be dealt with the same as with the most vile , ill-gott- en murderer. What man is there among us that would not willingly give up all his property and wealth in order to live? Such being the case, why not then put in practice what we believe and desire? If the enemy comes to invade our country let us support our country in earnest with our lives and property; the drones and profiteers, let us hang them higher than Hamen, and the result will be a better world to live in. President Harding, you are right, and the entire nation should rise up as one man and rally to your support. The people are with you. The grafters will fight you. When congress convenes, go to bat and hit a home run. When we go to war we hope we never foreign have to again let us put our all into it and the would-b- e warriors will shun us as they would a thunderbolt. PEOPLE DISSATISFIED. The election of Magnus Johnson, as United States States sencandidate, was conclusive ator from Minnesota, the Farmer-LabThe victory plainly shows the restless condition of and the people who evidently are not satisfied with conditions as they have existed for the past five or six years or since the close of the world war. Both the old parties are hanging in the balance. In Minnesota, the Democrats were so few that their vote was negligible. The Republicans carried a big vote but not sufficient to win, and in this election there was too much Johnson. Press reports identified Johnson as a radical candidate but the publicity had no effect upon the determined balloting of the people and they were not to be swayed from their course but decided to oust both old parties and put in the new. It means that in the future office seekers must run on platforms which mean something. The mere promise to uphold the constitutioa of the United States and be a good fellow is not satisfying to the people. They want to know if certain grafts are to be done away with and taxes reduced. Politicians who prey upon the public funds have come to the end of their ropes and we may expect to see many surprising changes in future elections. Orators in the future will have to get down to business in order to get anywhere. Class legislation must be done away with and the people must be considered as a whole, and not by class. During the past twenty years we have approached and imitated Europe very much. or one-side- d. , The wealthy go to Europe to spend their money and bring home European ideas. Too much attention is being paid Europe and home matters are allowed to shift for themselves. We must have sane economic reform. We must live and let live. There must be many readjustments in business. Railroads must come off their high, perch and so arrange their rates in order that people in the couri1' try districts can make a living; Coal corporations must be enjoined from robbing by the present high prices, and there are many other businesses that need attention. We have political commissions, etc., to regulate trusts and big business, but their methods are so crude as to only disrupt things and make matters worse, and this they do at the expense of the taxpayers. So tar people have only talked of these things and have borne the heavy expense for the sake of the late war, but they are tiring very fast and future elections will indicate the trend of the public mind. Abraham Lincoln well said, You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people' aL the time. the-publi- c 4c 4c INCOME STATISTICS. The interest northern Republican states have in federal tax legislation is strikingly evidenced in a report just issued by the commissioner of internal revenue covering statistics of income and income tax for the calendar year 1921. This report shows that eight northern Republican states paid 75 per cent of the federal income tax for the calendar year 1921. names of the states, together with the percentage of the total federal income tax collected within their boundaries are as follows: California, 5.06 per cent; Illinois, 9.53 per cent; Massachusetts, 6.47 per cent; Michigan, 3.36 per cent; New Jersey, 4.62 per cent; New York, 29.30 per cent; Ohio, 4.67 per cent; Pennsylvania, 11.76 per cent; total for eight states, 74.77 per cent. Of fifteen states which contributed more than one per cent of the total amount of federal income tax collected, only one Texas can be classified as a Solid South Democratic state. The twelve Democratic states which lie south of the Mason and Dixon line contributed only eight per cent of the total amount of federal income tax collected for the year 1921. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. Of these, Maryland contributed 2.03 per cent of the total federal income taxes paid and Texas 1.76 per cent. With Texas and Maryland out, the other Solid South states only paid 4.39 per cent of the total amount of federal income tax collected in 1921. Yet the Solid South states form the backbone and the sinew of the Democratic party. When the Democratic party is in control of the congress they-arthe states which control the committees in both houses of congress and which exercise a dominating influence over all tax legislation. The report contains some other very interesting data. The aggregate income tax collected in the following states averaged more than $10 per capita, based on the population of those states: Cai. fornia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. It is interesting to note that the aggregate amount of income tax paid in Rhode Island brought the average per capita in that state up to $15.28 or second 3nly to New York. Massachusetts, with a per capita average of $12.08, stood third in the list. In the following states the total amount of income tax collected, averaged more than $5 but less than $10 per capita: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It is also of interest to note that the per capita average in the District of Columbia was $17.61, and tfie per capita average in the territory of Hawaii was $5.67. A little over 86 per cent of those making returns were of income classes between $1,000 and $5,000. The largest number of returns were made by the class reporting incomes between $1,000 and $2,000. The number of returns made by this class was 2,440,544, or 36.63 per cent of all returns. e |