Show HOW WILL IT BE RAISED in discussing the question of raising the enormous amounts of revenue necessary even during the coming twelve months montha an exchange after demons rating the utter im possibility of raising the vast amount by taxation and the corresponding correspond ine necessity of resorting to bond issues concludes as follows the conclusion is inevitable to the candid person who will give the question unbiased thought based on the probability of a need of from fifteen to twenty billion dollars by this thia time next summer the demand would mean from amm to tor for each of the twenty ind mi lion families that make up the nation it can be seen at a glance that this can never be even approximately distributed among the masses possibly a few more billions may be secured through popular subscription but the great bulk of oi the required means must come as our contemporary suggests from those who are making money out of the war if the war continues for even two yeara longer there will be fortunes made that will dwarf any the world basbet has yet wen seen provided business is allowed to take its ita hitherto uninterrupted course whole while it ut is true we will make fabulous amounts the allied nations are practically at our merry mercy for food and other supplies huge revenues are constantly coming from that source not a dollars worth of any commodity that can be used by man need go to waste in the united states for want of foreign market it is up to our government to correctly analyde the situation and place the burdens of taxation to meet these g gi eat national expend tures lures upon the shoulders of those who benefit by war prices wilt will our law makers arise to he occasion and make an equitable adjustment of these burdens along with some common men we have some really good timber in our national legislature and it is to be hoped that this material will insist upon a reasonable and just juat basis for working out this momentous question |