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Show HE PAYS HIS PARTY TAX; WHY NOT HIS WAR TAX? The Washington Post says: "President Wilson has set a worthy example to all citizens Democrats and Republicans alike b'y sending his personal check for $500as a contibution to the Democratic campaign cam-paign fund. In view of the fact that Justices Holmes and Bandeis have declared in an impressive impres-sive opinion that President Wilson is not exempt under the constitution from the war taxes imposed upon every widow and orphan in the land, from which the majority ma-jority of the court has exempted him would he not "set a worthy example" by sending "his personal check" for such taxes, before he makes any more political politi-cal contributions? While President Wilson declines to put his shoulder under the load which the great war he kept us out of in 191G has place upon the shoulders of every private citizen and every business enterprise in this republic he might well withhold contributions con-tributions from the political partv which through waste,extravagance, inefficiency and worse, has doubled beyond necessary proportions the taxes he declines to join in paying. President Wilson should be just before he is generous. National Republican, ft ft |