Millard County Chronicle | 1918-05-09 | Page 1 | Oil Magnate to Pay $38,000,000 Income Tax

Oil Magnate to Pay Income l Tax x John JQhn D. D Rockefeller of at Standard Oil on fame tame has hns been assessed on his Income Tho The result is that ho must turn over to the tho U. U S S. S government lie Hie sum of at thirty-eight thirty million four hundred thousand dollars It looks looke like lio he would have tho the whole world In his grasp long before he was wa called to an accounting If it ho had another another an an- other natural lifetime to live and the Income tax hadn't interfered As it stands according to those who have figured figurell it out ho he is now paying on In addition to the enormous fortune held In reserve inthe Inthe in inthe the shape of undeveloped coal alland oil all and other resources Some people would say that he lie Is entitled to this thle great wealth because he made It it I But Dut did dill he Was Vas It not there before there was a n Rockefeller and does lees II it not Belong to the people who Inhabit I the earth The government would be bo justified In taking Avery v ry cent of I the income of this great fortune 1 I above a bang up good living and convert convert convert con con- vert It Jt to the benefit of the people to whom God gave It He didn't make mal It he grabbed most of It