Show DEPLORES TALK OF TAX RUINATION aJ CHICAGO May 12 It It I Is as much political claptrap In these Ia s 8 when hen every wheel Is turning and e eer every esery er business prospering to tell manufacturers and busIness busInessmen businessmen businessmen men that they are an being ruined by taxatIon as It Is to tell the fal fai mers that Wall Wail Street Is conspiring against them Congressman WIl- WIl Wil William liam ham R U of Iowa laid In anI anad an ad address hero r I It must 1 s sr se be e conceded that direct taxi tax s 8 on business 9 will affect its I profits but business Is affected I far fir more by the demand or I I of demand for tor products than by my taxation and what IDe manufacturers need above au all Is Iq a who ho ho in c-in buy he said s hen the masses can buy we have prosperity weI I A clamor has ha arisen for the rc of the excess profits tax This ta tax Is popular In spine some quarters because It i Is supposed to tob tobe b be a tax X on profiteering It Is I not toI I Nobody I has yet et been ben able to devise e any ix ax on profiteering eI I i Congressman Green said that no sale Cale ales tax tha can pass congress I because cau e It violates the fundamental prine princIple pIe that taxation should be bo In with will the ability to pay I I |