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\ IIISGKAI K TO ilTMTMTV. I
Hill; Sunday. the ' . pot rit > and
•)];,(j,( r;;ki111. who has pn>stit u ted
risligiou to g.ith- r in 'ii" ducats, ot-,
.•re.; :: , r.1 ■ ■ r rt nM> in New
York wl.l h >•.«■»'»itl forevt r r»m !
.'tin: with oitlo'iuy and make him a j
pariah among men and women j
whose reverence for the ‘•Prince ot ,
Peace" is founded upon their heliet j
in the prinriples of Christianity.
Sunday, with less soul than a
snake and with less heart than a
hyena, lifted his fishy eyes toward
the unpillared dome of heaven, and
with a foghorn voice, wafted the
following prayer to the God ot
battles:
■'Oil. Jesus, don't let a single
seed sprout iu a land fertiliezd
by human hones ground up.
Damn tiie nation which has out
raged womanhood, outraged
childhood and used human bodies
to make glycerine ofr explo
sives."
The above anathema from the
foul lips of a "fiend iu human
shaie " should carry conviction to
every ni;.n and woman who has thr
least re.-p- et tor the sanctity of tlie
<ioctrin< - that were preached by the
lowly Nazarene nineteen hundred
'■'ears ago, that the blatant dema
entile who uses religion as an asset
to capture the "current coin of the
realm" should iie muzzled and
branded as an imp. whose presence*
in the tropical chambers ot His
.Satanic Majesty would create a riot
among the suffering souls of the
damned.
jjel us contemplate, if we can. the
infamy and depravity of tlie soulless
wretch who could assume the atti
tude of prayer and call upon the
Man who was scourged, crowned with
chorus and nailed upon a cross,
to
visit such vengeance upon a nation,
that sixty miiion people would go
down to death, through the agonies
of famine.
Why did Sunday offer up such
a curse in a tabernacle, that was
presumed to have been concentrated
to God? Why did he plead tlicit
•damnation and famine should he
wrecked upon sixt; .’.ill' m o: the
people of the* German nipliv.' Be
cause this wretch, callous to every
fooling of pity and frozen to every
•sympathetic thought, hugged the
phantom to his breast that tlie
curse which he hissed from his
venomous lips would appeal to the
patriotism of the American people,
jind that his malediction against
she. people of Germany would loosen
more pursestrings and b-’ng more
dollars into the coffers of the Shy
IJGION to CONCEAL his HELLISH
f’ERFI DY.
The people of this country,
tJwmgh having unsheathed the
: -Baird against Prussianisnt beyond
Ei<e teas, and though having de
creed that military autorcraey
must die and that DEMOCRACY
must live to bless all the people oi
;jll the nations of the earth, yet the
millions of this nation who loathe
the brutality that has disgraced so
called civilized warfare as con
ducted by the military autocrats of
the German empire, will spurn
with contempt the PRAYER of the
KAISER of America, whose soul
has shriveled and vanished in the
consuming flame that courts DOL
LARS instead of the SAFETY ot
oOULS.—Trinidad (Colo.) Flee
S T ess.
>11 LI. ION DOLLAR THOl'GHTS.
People who count their incomes
.r. hundreds of dollars find it dilii
«. nit to think in terms of that part
art the report of the Fnited States
•• ommissioner of internal revenue
for the year 191B which deals with
tin’ taxes levied on the incomes oi
\ ernorations and of Individuals.
The corporations of the country
\>aid ?r,6,6r>3.ai>4 as the regular
t orpor it incom- tux ot X per < tit !
on tii t 1 . i r;. i n gs. *1 'ii:s means tIt' i
tile 1 •! I < orporatio: s on * i '
the t.:.\ >. .t> after paying all j
of t!..-ir business expenses, itu iuil-1
ing is. fix* cl charges of the bu.-i- j
ness. It::11 about live and a nail foil- j
lions lifi for tlte year 1916.
The commissioner notes that |
•'taking the 1915 figures as a basis,
this, represents an increase (luring
the fiscal year of approximately 16
per cent in the aggregate net in
come of the corporations making
taxable return.” These war years
have been great ones Tor dividends
—the greatest that American busi
ness has ever known.
Some individuals were equally
fortunate in their 1916 incomes.
show that there were 374,045 per
sons i almost exactly one in each
oo of the total population! with
taxable incomes of more than
$3,OOP. The great hulk of these
people—about 250,000—had in
comes of less than $10,000 a year.
There were $4,432 persons, how
ever, with incomes between $10,
000 and $100,000; 3.704 persons
rei • ■ i\--<1 incomes between $100,000
and $1,000,000, and 120 persons
enjojcil incomes of $1,000,000 and
There bad been some talk in the
past about the inallienable rights
ot American. citzens and about
eiiuality in life, libert' and the pur
suit of happiness. We have been
eongratulating ourselves upon the
fact that equal opportunity is one
of the blessings that nature has be
stowed upon the eitizens of this
fair United States. it requires an
astonishing degree of optimism,
however, not to mention a wealth
of patriotic sentiment, to read the
figures ot corporation and individu
al intomes on the one hand and to
note on the other the estimate
made by the United States health
bureau last summer that some
thing like five or six milion Amer
ican families out of a total of 20,
01)0,000 were living in poverty. Ap
parently those persons who have
what Shelley described as a “pas
sion for reforming the world” still
have a field for activity in the
United States.—Kx.
When special interests are taxed,
they howl; when the poor are soak
ed they keep stilh
This is one of who reasons why
the war tax is being piled on the
poor, while the rich escape.
There are nine more reasons: Sim
la >ns, Penrose, Lodge, Gallinger,
Smoot, Townsend, Williams, Hoke
Smith and Stone.
These have a majority oi votes in
the Senate committee, and they
have gone so far in the process of
ramming the gouge into the poor
that their records are too well
known to need Who's Whoing here,
Iml this is the way the gouging is
done.
Knocked out 25 per cent in
crease in rates on Incomes over
$40,000 adopted by the House. This
increase made tlie rate on incomes
over a million dollars 45 per cent.
Killed increase in inheritance tax,
which hail passed tlie House witli
oiT protest.
Struck out retroactive income tax,
which would have collected addi
tional taxes on basis of this year's
returns.
Killed tax on automobile manu
facturers and transferred it to au
tomobile owners.
Rescinded tax on munitions ma
nufacturers, which has been in et
fect more than a year and produced
$25,000,000 revenue.
.Vow see what has been done to
I he mild and inoffensive consumer:
His sugar is to pay a tax of half
a cent a pound when it leaves the
manufacturer. Experience shows
by the time the tax is transferred to
you the price will be raised at least
a tent a pound. This will yield the
government $45,000,000 and will
cost the consumer $90,000,000.
Coffee is to pay a cent a pound
tax, which will double or treble b>
the time the consumer pays it.
Tea is to pay 2 cents a pound
tax, which will likewise increase in
transfer.
Cocoa, food for the sick and for
children, is to pay 3 cents a pound,
and the price increase will be not
less than 6 cents.
Candy is to pay a heavy tax.
All soft drinks and soda fountain
syrups are to be taxed.
Every substitute for John Barley
corn except water is to be taxed,
and it is suspected that was merely
overlooked.
The only substantial thing the
finance committee has done in the
consumer's interest has been to
strike out the 10 per cent increase
in taria duties carried by the
House bill.
Just as serious as the transfer of
tlir. luirdpii nf war cost from tVlP
rich to the consumer is complete
abandonment by the finance com-!
mittee of the pay-as-go-po!iey urged
bv the president.
How far they have carried this
abandonment is shown by the fol
lowing figures:
Se< ret irv McAdoo. speaking pr -
suitably for tl;e president, urged
i $2,247,000,000 Ih' raised tliis year
! by taxation. The house bill would
have produced $1,857,000,000.
| Senator Sirnmons says only $1,500,
| 000,000 will be raised by taxation —
more than a billion dollars less than
| the president urged.
Against all this business few let
ters ot protest have come from t lie
plain people, but bales have come
| from rich manufacturers howling
! against any tax on them.
Workers, it is time to awake! —
I Ex.
__ '
In the same issue in which it
prints an editorial attempting to ■
mark the international Socialist con
ference at Stockholm a failure be
fore it has began, the New York
Times violently attacks the Social
ists of Russia.
“Possibly,” it says, “this strange
body that calls itself the Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers’ Deputies
represents a million of the 170,000,
000 of Russia's population. The
radical leaders ot the Council have
been very bold, even Impudent. No
law of Russia, no election, has given
them a representative character,
yet they have behaved as though
they were really the Government,
or a co-ordinate branch thereof."
The Times has so narrowed its
outlook in supporting the aims ot
American financiers that it neglects
to apply the ordinary historical
knowledge it must posses. Russia ■
is in a state of revolution, and any „
Government temporarily set up re
tains its position only upon the suf
I
terance oi me iorces uenmu me rev
olution. Revolutions bring their
own laws with them. The Council
of Workmen's and Soldiers' Depu
ties has as much right to the
power it has assumed as the Pro
visional Government itself. Since
the revolution overthrew the auto-,j
cracv the Russian people have not
definitely established any govern- j
meat. There have been no general
elections. What is going on is a
struggle for control between ele
ments that wort praeticaly orga
nized before the revolution—the
enlightened bourgeois and the en
lightened proletarian, so far as
can be discerned from this distance.
it certainly is not impudence for
the proletarian or Socialist forces
to assert themselves. On the con
trary, it would be folly for them to
give the bourgeoisie carte blanche,
seeing what full-fledged bourgeois
rule in other countries has already
led the world into.—The People.
FOREST FIRES RAGE
IN WEST WASHINGTON
j TACOMA. Jill' 15.—Following a
period of unprecedented drouth, the
fir<.s tht>t are now raging in Pierce
and King Counties are well as in
otli r secticns of the state are de
stroying valuable quantities ol
standing timber. Mount Rainier is
LOCAL 1TF.MS.
The tire which broke o .! in the
hote! in St. Michaels on Saturday
morning was reported to lr; e caus
ed the death of several. This has
not been confirmed and as fir as
could be ascertained none, fortun
ate -\f lost their lives although some
had narrow escapes, leaping from
tin windows as the tire had a strong
hold on the lower story and escape
by the usual means was out of tne
question. A quantity of stores were
lost in the blaze and the property
damage is considerable.
• • • •
Mr. Jorgen Nielsen arrived up
from Council City, coming up from
Solomon on the Flyer, yesterday
afternoon. He reports some mining
work proceeding on the old pro
ducers in that district, dredges and
hydraulic on both Ophlr and
Crooked creek being now in full
swing. Kd Cunningham has charge
of the hydraulic operations on
Ophir, benches off the creek in the
vicinity of Discovery being the scene
of the principal sluicing operations.
When he left neither the dredge at
Camp creek nor that at Klkhorn
had begun to dig although reported
to be about ready to move.
invisible from here by reason of the
smoke. The fires rage in all the
river valleys and great saw mills
located on Green River valley are
all threatened with destruction. Re
ports from Buckley and other points
indicate that the fires are penetrat
ing right up to several mills, follow
ing the under brush and many
camps have had to he abandoned.
The loss will be in the millions.
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