Show THEY MUST GO The war taxes must go This is a move in the National chess board of politics that the country demands The demand is growing louder day by day As the hours go by they but add to the firmness of the popular purpose That purpose has reached the crystalization of determination The war taxes must go is the popular cry Early recognition recogni-tion of and prompt and active deferring to the popular cry is all that will quiet the popular voice And this voice must be heeded It is the voice of a ruler The people will no longer be robbed They will no longer contribute the necessaries neces-saries of life to the luxury of a treasury surplus a surplus of fraud and extortion extor-tion The war taxes must go and the political leader be ho Republican or be he Democrat who thrusts himself forward for-ward as a bar to this righteous purpose will commit political suicide The Cleveland Plain Dealer thus voices its own and John G Carlisles views Speaker Carlisle in an interview dwells upon the necessity of some speedy action by Congress to stop tho withdrawal of money from circulation through tho ac cnmnlation of redundant revenues in tho National treasury The speaker points out that after July 1st no bonds can bo paid and with 10000000 more going into the treasury every month than can be gut out by any legitimate means tho country will soon feel l the pinch Mr Carlisle seems to favor tho calling of Congress in extra session to consider con-sider this matter at once There are but two expedients that the Secretary of tho Treasury can make use of to set free the currency that after July 1st will begin to accumulate in the treasury both temporary and of doubtful utilitv He may anticipate interest on outstanding bonds or he may buy bonds in the market In the one case the holders of bonds might not be willing to take their interest in advance ad-vance and there would be no way of compelling com-pelling them to take it In the other case tho appearance of the Government as a buyer of its own bonds in tho market would send the premium up and cause financial disturbances It is clear that the Secretary can avail himself of either or both of these expedients only to a limited extent and to tide over an actual emergency It is also clear that the only right and proper thing to do is to cut down the revenues rev-enues at least 100000000 a year The government gov-ernment is collecting that sum over what it has any use for or can expend in any legitimate legiti-mate vay It is singular that there can be any question as to what ought to be done in such a case In no other civilized country on earth would any other proposition receive re-ceive consideration When a government has more revenue than it needs the only thing that can properly be done is to lesson taxes to that extent that will reduce tho revenue to tho point where it will meet the necessities of the government and no more Speaker Carlisle expresses the opinion that Congress will agree upon some measure of revenue redaction and that both the extreme ex-treme free traders and the extreme protectionists protec-tionists will out of regard for the necessity now apparent BO far modify their views as to make agreement upon some compromise measure possible It is to be hoped that he is right about this There must be a reduction reduc-tion of revenue and it is idle to talk about evading the question any longer |