Show t THE BULWARK OF OP AMERICAN LIBERTIES IS 19 THE nm COUNTRY NEWSPAPER I I i. i tl II I Play Play Whiskey Faro With Uncle s Sam Seemingly love does not la laugh h mo more e h heartily artily at locksmiths fi than bootleggers laugh at Uncle Sam The sweethearts tOOl steal a kiss or two through latticed window windows risking discovery i at any I moment while the bootleggers race illicit fast mot motorboats inside the three mile limit on the same principle principle principle-ari an accepted understanding understanding understanding under under- standing th that t they are working on a percentage that cannot The game has come to be known as Whiskey Faro It is pi play eon consistently and persistently The ships ship gather one one by one t side the three mile limit each loaded to the the- line weighted below the line with the stuff staff that ch cheers When the big vessels are aro all at anchor the auxiliary y rum ram runners are are gather gath Iii j it i in sufficient number to create a favorable impre impression slon and then the word is given and a dash is 11 made for the shore line lino I Asa As a rule Uncle Undo Sam has two or three revenue cutters cotters aIwa always Ion Jon th the alert t for the bootlegging racers cers But forty boats make the dash and according to all experience it ia is quite impossible for forthe forthe the government to catch more than three in any one ODe raid Consequently Con CoD the boats take their chances and if three be seized seised the percentage of lo loss s runs run to approximately seven per cent which ig is a very profitable margin Evidently sectional prohibition does dOlI D sot not t work wont mock batter i ithan l i than did state enactments If the drys ChYi are to succeed the then 1 they m most mast blot up the whole world or arraD arrange e fences and aDd gateway on the e ocean t l L I The Farmer Is Seeing The Light II Senator Arthur Capper of Kinds Kansas s Chairman Chairmen of the farm bloc bloo says laYS The legislation which must be enacted In m the near I future to help cure the agricultural situation is in no no sen sense ela class s' s legislation Agriculture is the only foundation up upon n which the state and nation can securely rest Capper also insists that Congress must most put through the complete rural credit plan and it must pass pasa a constitutional k amendment prohibiting tax-exempt tax securities The Is ambitions but in the pain main sound and andi I constructive Evidently the tamer farmer however has come to see seethe seethe seethe the evil effect of inequitable and unscientific taxation In our hunger for money stoney we Cre created ted the tax-exempt tax security and urged the rich rioh to absorb it When we discovered that the wealth from which business and farmers must draw their loans was withdrawn from its productive function and thrown ea masse into tax exempt securities we realized the fault The tax-exempt tax security is an expedient makeshift appeal that this coon country does docs not and never has needed Had Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary McAdoo advertised the several Liberty Bond issues in a I like business way instead of depending on a spurious patriotic press s agent gent free advertising exploitation of United States securities ties tics our finances would be in a different condition today j I Abolishing tax exempt securities is a wise thought but getting get get- ting down to to equitable taxation 14 id 4 a jus thought GIld justice must prevail |