Show THE WAR TAX I 1 there is a lot of grumbling and kicking these days over the imposition of a war tax that went into effect eff act december I 1 and the democratic party ii is s being blamed for an unjust and unfair burden this particular viewpoint of the matter ever strike you suppose that we had been living as we were three or four years ago under a high tariff regime depending to a very great extent on our import revenues for bohey money to run the government ern ment t and then suppose supposal sup j this war in europe happen happened ed to come along and those im import port revenues would have largely ceased and there would have been no income tax nar nor none of the other measures which have been provided by the democrats to take care of such decreasing revenue what would we have done in that instance it ita a dead sure thing that we would have been in chaos and that the war revenue tax that we are now paying would have hav e been necessary only to a much I 1 heavier degree and further you citizen is kicking on the slight burden it far better to be paying this comparatively light direct tax than to have to bond the united states government and still again empara your slight burden to the enormous burdens that the rulers of europe have saddled onto their subjects evry man in the old auntry every boy and girl just budding into full growth every child that is prattling about its mothers knees today yes and nd generations yet to e ee the light of day will be bearing a far greater burden for ages to come while at the worst our slight burden will cease in a few years yearn or even in in a few months possibly |