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Show HOW WILL IT BK KAISFD? In discussing the quetion of raisin? rais-in? the enormous amounts of revenue rev-enue necessary even during the corn-ins corn-ins twelve months, and exchange, a-ier demonstrating the utter impossibility impos-sibility of raising the vast amount by taxation, and the corresponding necessity nec-essity of resorting to bond issues, concludes as follows: "In a sentence, unless the big loans are balanced with heavy-taxes heavy-taxes upon those who are mak ing money out or the war, we will rapidly and inevitably reach a state of financial, industrial and social chaos." The conclusion is inevitable to the candid person who will give the ques-; ques-; tion unbiased thought. Based on the probability of a need of from fifteen to twenty billion dollars dol-lars by this time next summer, the demand would mean from $600 to $750 for each of the twenty million families that make up the nation. It can be seen at a glance that this can never be even approximately distributed dis-tributed among the masses. Possibly Possi-bly a few more billions may be secured se-cured through popular subscription, but the great bulk of the required means must come, as our contemporary contempo-rary suggests, from those who are MAKING MONEY OUT OF THE WAR. If the war continues for even two years longer there will be fortunes made that will dwarf any the world has yet seen, provided business is allowed al-lowed to take its hitherto uninterrupted uninter-rupted course. While it is true we will spend prodigious amounts, it is equally true that we will make fabulous fabu-lous amounts. The allied nations are practically at our mercy for food and other supplies. Huge revenues are constantly coming from that source. Not a dollar's worth of any commodity that can be used by man need go to waste in the United States for want of a foreign market. It is up to our government to correctly cor-rectly analyze the situation and place .he burdens of taxation to meet these reat national expenditures upon the ihoulders of THOSE WHO BENEFIT iY WAR PRICES. -Will our law makers arise to tire occasion and make an equitable adjustment ad-justment of these burdens? Along with some very common, we have some really good timber in our national na-tional legislature, and it is to be hoped that this material will insist upon a reasonable and just basis for working out this momentous question. |