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Show ROUGH RIDING NIGHTMARE NIGHT-MARE i The press reports show dally the millions that are being subscribed to the Liberty Loan by the railroads, mines and public service corporations corpor-ations and when an' additional amount la afeeded the word Is passed ajong aBA these same companies dig $eer tpraisc the billions' now required. re-quired. This Ib etlrely In addition jtoJtha-cltft.antl county, state, federal feder-al and war taxes which they pay, up to 80 farrcent 0f the' evcees profit. pro-fit. , Aad-h3rahy;hang8.a.tale. Our Soc-jlallst Soc-jlallst frlbnd is now advocating city, - u.t?v.MflWrnn)ent-Awnerahlp of 'allYnVie"ireatKlUBtrTeB.'' how many Liberty Bonds bate yoa Been any municipal the railroads were government owned instead of merely" government controlled, how many Liberty bonds would those toads buynd liow many taxes w&uld they pay. " ' A municipal railway collects the same fair as a privately owned line but It pays no taxes and buys no ' bonds. , Just supose for a minute that all these plants were put under collective collect-ive ownership as some persons argue should be done The dear public whom the agitators agitat-ors are so solicitous about would pay for the plants and then turn right around and load themselves with all the tax burdena formerly paid by private ilndustry. The war Is furnishing ub some striking examples of the asset and value private' Industry Is In a free country and It is Bhowlng the peoplo I os no amount of logical argument could dq thai;the socialist dream on paper would (become a rough riding night- mare tn 'practice. n .' ' ' |