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Show THE CITIZEN railway, is also a political job, and political job holders each other and the political machine to which they owe t uphold street ed ir jobs. PRIVILEGED CLASS. A majority lnited States Supreme Court has ruled that the income tax The apply to the salary of a judge of the court of claims. other physically sound person in the Why should a judge or any Such laws breed discontent ted States he exempt from taxes? who really ought to be exempt from taxa- png the wage earners, if there is any exemption. snot probl 1 FOREST FIRES. of vayof Id encc ihlen Also )verni es now rmers urdens of ers I was consumed by fire. ITALY WANTS MONEY. hefedi far, Italy has done little, if anything, about her debt to us. probably living in the hopes that some of her friendly So during rela-politicia- is the mult the rq y remei lerales to state stofAi on xation and hii ns living in this country will yet secure a cancellation of debt. However, Italy is anxious to negotiate another ,but this time only for a small loan $50,000,000. An emissary oming to this country to get the money. In business, a man who does not pay his back bills has no credit, then politics is different. inter-Allie- by soi axes d will increase until the time comes when our criminals are treated like well paying guests at a big hotel. The criminals run penitentiaries these days, and they appear to remain in them only Crime enough to recuperate for some outside big job. JUSTICE. blicsei some Wen big criminals get away with small penalties from our penuries, is it any wonder that the criminally inclined are easily led crime. The tax paying citizen is the goat all the time. He pays he supports the politicians; he feeds the criminals in the fact he foots all the bills, and he is the legitimate for foxes; tion, ln dans and derthe the pflS citj three) ised. D1 criminal alike. all is a misnomer these days. If you got the money or the pull you are it, and our court records lc it every day of the year. lwaysj'1 three prey Equality and justice to e all he Tucson Chamber of Mines makes a business of providing facilities for all the little mines that can be worked within Jtfitory. They ship any kind of usable ore dry concentrates, picked specimen ore, whatever the miners have that will pay a folio tal ivs, : way hat of the people are fast learning that amendments to. the Constitution in the end proves detrimental to them. A Pennsylvania chief justice in lecturing to law schools said in effect that too many proposed amendments to the constitution point to an undesirable centralization of power in Washington. The people have been drifting away from the original purpose of the constitution in considering seriously many more or less radical changes. It is less than a year ago that the Progressive bloc in the United States was clamoring to abolish the majority rule by which the federal supreme court reaches its decisions, and giving Congress a veto power. " magn is 1 The demand for tax reduction comes from every part of the of several disastrous forest fires, California is now gotIf the nation was as sure of reduction in local and state taxes o punish the tourists by not allowing them to build fires in some country. as it is of reduction in federal income taxes, hundreds of millions of nets and many thousands of acres have been closed to the public dollars could be diverted to productive enterprise. camping and smoking restrictions. . The day may come when California will want the tourist. Many The Department of Agriculture estimates give the total world in districts where tourists lour largest forest fires have originated off wheat production as 2,110,000,000 bushels, which is a big increase lot reach, and many fires have been started by interests to burn over the production last year. The French-Rif- f war may be an excuse brush to make range for cattle and sheep. Lightening has also for the grain gamblers to boost the price, notwithstanding the surplus. It was just last week that a large new barn, sed many forest fires. ed to capacity with new mown hay, was struck by lightening at THE GOLDEN CALF. dey, on the Weber river, and the entire barn and a summers hay ;irowr, is t Because I prac use encouraging the prospector. Some of these prospects will be big mines, and the whole world will prosper through the encouragement given by a little boost at the time the miner needed it most. so helpful indus- - robs no one of his living, it produces new wealth, it pays a proportion of its net returns to labor than most other industries. I,rs a r . Tb e opportunity for the man of small capital, to use his jn finding and developing a big industry. It is the ideal thr farmer, gardner, merchant, tradesman of every kind, 8p(il d kingtlf mining is one of the finest, cleanest, most iu$( ,n lie mine. Qiaiibe doing an important work, in Every man, woman and child in the United States pays now an annual tax of $69.72, a figure at one time thought quite impossible. It just shows what can happen when the people become careless and allow their interests to slump in the hands of the unscrupulous. An average of 11.5 per cent of all our national income is absorbed in taxation. Is it any wonder that our presidents of the nation are becoming alarmed over the situation. The late President Harding called particular attention to the tax question throughout the nation, and now we have President Coolidge working hard to discover a way out of the burdensome venture. The money lender is in his glory at the present time. He has the people by the throat and is squeezing out all the gold he can, but how about the future? Now that Europe owes the United States more than twelve billions of dollars in direct loans, in addition to large private loans the demand for a change in our international policies to make the repayment of these loans easier, is gradually increasing. The principal assault is on our protective tariff. The economists of Europe and those in our own country who think along European lines, say that our protective tariff wall should be abolished so that Europe can pay what she owes Uncle Sam in cheap goods, and they are doing what they can to shape public opinion in the United States along free trade lines. Fortunately, however, for the good of America, these efforts are meeting with little success. They are not the policies of the present administration, nor are they the accepted policies of the American ; people. If the tariff wall were lowered and an avalanche of cheap foreign goods poured into America, the European debt would not be paid by Europe but by America, at the expense of American industry, American labor and the American standard of living. The great bulk of the people realize this just as President Coolidge realizes it, arid Europes friends in America and elsewhere will have to think j up some different scheme for easing the payment of that debt. . ! There will be no extra session of Congress unless the President is satisfied in his own mind that one is absolutely necessary. Mr. Coolidge is of the opinion that it will be better for business all ovei the country if Congress does not convene until its regular date, the same being the first Monday in December. ; 1 |