Show PAYI PAYING G A GROSS I EARNINGS TAX 1 Oregonian Telephone and amid express ex ex- PI press SS companies as we surmised will wi mcd meet taxation on gro gross s earnings by raisIng the rates and the people will vI simply have to 0 pa pay the taxes The legislature has had timely warning arid and must fix maximum rates sug sug- the Woodburn Independent Well el the express companies companies' might do o as IS the they did during the Spanish war when thc they made matJo the shipper pa pay fog foe the he revenue star stamp II The Tho ho assertion that Ihal thi his tax absorbed 50 pe per pel cent of or their net let earnings which were supposed to tobe bl be 8 per vei cent on several millions of capital stock that had so much water therein that there was dew on the lie certificates was Wl Co 0 to sa say ay the least Mr Harriman Wells Wells- Far Fargo argo o because it pays and pays flays big like all al h holdings Mr II Gould virtually owns the Pacific capital capital- I ed at nt and netting 12 per percent cent In these very good times on oil an Actual Investment that Is Insignificant Overeat Ol Olympia It Is stated that bat the Northern company's earnings earn carn- l ings gs In iii Washington the past year par e ex exceeded its Is capital stock b by In II view of these fac facts the lie 3 pel per cent tax on oil 01 gross gros earnings now a law in Oregon will wi not bankrupt any of them and amid the suggestion of or the Woodburn paper is timely Imely and of or much merit |