Show senator smoot trying to improve War Revenue law the follows following ng article regarding senator smoot s war revenue bill ap feared in a recent issue of leslie s weekly that vigorous democratic support er of president wilson the new york world denounces the war tax law passed at the special session as a piece of bad work it says that a law that cannot be understood Is fundamentally wrong there is no reason why a tax of any kind should be a a if matter fatter of guesswork nobody is resisting war taxes but they ought boobe to be plainly as well as f fairly written in the fewest and simplest words our contemporary calls attention to the bill introduced by senator smoot of utah and speaks of it as a care fully prepared bill to amend and sim pliay the income and excess profits tax sections of the war revenue act this is exactly what the smoot bill is the able and experienced senator from utah whose sterling common sense has won the admira tion of all who have watched his record realize that we must not only fight this war now but that we must also make provision to pay for it either now or hereafter and to that end our industries must be kept busy our workmen employed and the pay rolls maintained this cannot be done it if capital is taxed to death and driven from the field capital can live while the worker may starve so senator smoot has introduced a sim pie measure recasting and simplify ing the income and war profits taxes to make them understandable to the average citizen and to remove the in justices and the discriminations which both the new york world and the new york times concede exist in the present act the smoot bill pro vides a taxing system that any ordin ary business man can understand every corporation Is taxed upon the same basis and the revenue under the smoot bill from the corporation tax will be increased by over that provided by the pres ent aa law considering that the crud atles of the existing law are such that the government has been obliged to appoint a commission to interpret its conditions it seems incredible that the short and simple bill ol 01 senator smoot cannot have smooth sailing that he is a republican ought not to militate against his measure for we are constantly assured from wash ington that this must be a nonparty non parti san war |