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Show ' TAXING THE SICK FOR WAR lleBoluttonB adopted by tho National Nation-al Association ot detail .Druggists protesting against tho threatened levy le-vy of a wnr tax on drugs Bervo to dlroct attention to tho unfortunate consequences 'such a levy might tn-tall. tn-tall. Tho Etiropeun war has already sent tho price of drugs sky high. Drug importations havo been shut off because of tho war, and tho supply on hand is not likely to last long. Tho high prices quoted for many, drugs will bear heavily upoh tho poor iiiul afflicted. It Is hard to bollevo, that tho government would add to tho burden of tho poor ot such n tlmo as this. An internal royenuu ta: on drugs would bo n tax on, tho sick. It, would bo a tux upon tho dispensaries dispensar-ies of tho hospitals. It would be a blow at tho health ot tho nation. it might bo very easy to ollcct n war tax on drugs, but tho ohso with I which 'tho collections might bo inado. 1 should not count ngalnst'tho more Ira-! Ira-! portant economic fact that tho health of h considerable portion of the public pub-lic .is Invoked. Tho: nro many other oth-er and moro huinama wa.ys ot raising rovenuo, |
