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V TKt The Commoner. VOLUME 10, NUMBER IS i - "7 F "TVt. , f V". 12 h' f; ? X i flf Washington News J The Washington Post printed a story to tho ofTcct that Mr. Taft had rocoivod (iHsuranccH that Theodore Roosevelt would give tho Taft ad ministration cordial support upon his rotum to America. Friends of Mr. Roosevelt deny that any such assur anco has been givon. Ropresontatlvo Harrison of New York has introduced a resolution calling upon tho president to pro duce tho original lottor writ ton by Attorney General Wick orsham to Mr. Taft in transmit ting tho testimony in tho Glavis charges against Secretary Ballinger. Tho investigating committee presid ed over by Senator Nolson refused to nmlco an order upon Attornoy Brandeis' request that tho letter be mado public. Commenting upon his resolution, Mr. Harrison says: "As tho investigating committee has por Blstontly rofusod to call upon tho at tornoy general for tho documents named in my resolution I think it is only Just that tho house should in sist on having tho full data boforo It. Tho attitude of the republican mombors of tho commltteo and tho attornoy general would bo much more onviablo if thoy would allow tho facts to bo known. If the letter has no bearing on tho caso and does not contain data1 which will hurt Bal llngor's case, It will do no harm to have that fact known." .Tho president's railroad bill got into such hot wator that Mr. Taft, visiting In Pittsburg, wired Senator Aldrlch to urgo republicans to stand firm for tho measure. An Associated Press dispatches announces that 45 "republican conservatives" had agreed to stand faithfully by tho ad ministration. Thoy are as follows: Aldrlch, Bradley, Brandogee, Brlggs, Bulkoloy, Burnham, Bur rows, Burton, Carter, Clark (Wyo.), Crane, Cullom, Curtis, Depow, Dick, Dillingham, Dupont, Elkins, Flint, A-iyu, uumngor, uuggoniiolm, Halo, Heyburn, Jones, Kean, Lodge, Lorl mor, McCumber, Nixon, Oliver, Pago, Penroso, Perkins, Piles, Richardson, Root, Scott, Smith (Mich.), Smoot, Stophonson, Sutherland, Warner, Warren and Wotmoro. As utterly impossible for tho conservatives to roach, tho regulars havo classed Bev orldgo, Brlstow, Clapp, Cummins, Dpllivor and LaFollotto. that his every official act had been conscientious. He was cross-examined by Attornoy Brandeis. At va rious times Mr. Ballinger refused to answer questions and tho republican members with the exception of Rep resentatives McCall and Madison sup ported him in his refusal. The senate committee on naval af fairs has accepted tho house provi sion for new battleships. , Senators Dollivor and Cummins went to Dos Moines where, on tho evening of May 10, they addressed nn insurgent meeting in support of Warron Garst's candidacy for the re publican nomination for governor and in opposition to that of the pres ent governor, B. F. Carroll. Secretary Ballinger concluded his direct testimony boforo the investi gating committee with the statement The following is an Associated' Press report: "Through the forma tion today of an organisation which its leaders claim represents a clear majority of the entire senate and to bo made up wholly of republicans of tho 'regular' wing, a movement was started with intent to" settle the question whether tho senate shall re main conservative, become radical or bo thrown into political chaos as far as concerns any coherent policy in regard to tho administration's legis lative program. Senator Aldrlch called tho 'regular' republicans to gether and confronted them with a grim description of the possible effect of their apparent defeat at the hands of tho 'insurgent' republicans and democrats in tho fight over the traffic agreomont section of tho administra tion railroad bill. He asked his as sociates whether they were ready to submit to domination by such a com bination. Any surrender, he warned thorn, meant the failure of the Taft policies and the downfall of' conserv ative control, not only in congress but in the republican party gener ally. Some one reminded Senator Aldrlch that senators then and there gathered together were not in agree ment on all points. Whereupon he replied that they must get together and agree to stand together and let tho details bo secondary. Otherwise, he said, congress would adjourn without a single Item of the Taft program accommished. Tho miH tone of this conference was bellige rent toward the 'insurgents.' " Upon learning of the death of King Edard, President Taft sent to Queen Alexandra the following cable gram: "On tho sad occasion of the death of King Edward, I offer to your ""'" "-"" jum sun, ins illustrious successor, the most profound sym pathy of the people and of the gov ernment of the United States, whose hearts go out to their British kins men in this their national bereave ment. To this I add the expression to your majesty and to the new king of my own personal sympathy and of appreciation of those high quali ties which mado the life of the late king so potent an influence toward peace and justice among nations." The president also send his military aide, Captain Archibald Butt, to the British embassy to express his con dolence on tho death of tho king to Ambassador Bryco. own in Switzerland that seems to mo to be interesting. He says: "Something like twenty-five years ago I was in Switzerland and my business called me to a little prov ince called Zurich. Where is Zurich? If you had asked that question to that covey of school ma'ams that met at Topeka a short time ago how many of them could have located Zurich? And yet it is the most wonderful country be neath the sun. It has the most in telligent people, the happiest people, the wealthiest people; the most con tented people and as near a na tional government people as it is possible to be. In Zurich there are no poverty stricken people; no poor houses. In Zurich twenty-five years ago I found a school system with which the school in this country does not com pare in excellence. With no stand ing army, every man a soldier, taught the use of a gun in his school days, and when he is 16 a gun is placed in his care. In Zurich they have the best road systems. Their laws are passed by the general assembly but must be ratified by the people before they can take effect. This form of gov ernment has stood the test for more than 100 years. It has derived all of its revenue from income and its taxes are arranged on a sliding scale so that the rich not only pay more absolutely but more in proportion than the poor. Taxes are levied on the progressive plan that to whom is given of him much is required. The man Who owns only $4,000 or less of property pays on only half and he who owns $25,000 wqrth pays on eight-tenths of it and he who owns $100,000 worth pays on the whole, so that in case the tax is one per cent, for example, the man who owns $4,000 worth of property pays only $20 while the man who owns $100,000 worth of property pays not 25 times as much as much but 50 times as much. The income tax is levied in a somewhat similar manner. The first $100 earned is not taxed. The man with an income of $500 is taxed on only half of it, while in comes above $800 per annum are taxed in full. The system -works well and lifts a part of tho burden from the poor and puts on the rich, who, while they may complain, would not exchange positions with tne poor in order to save the tax. Railways are subject to state con trol. Monopolies are not allowed. No one is supposed to be worth more than $200,000. A fortune of $500, 000 is undesirable as it would be taxed all it could earn. There are no large private fortunes; no pau pers; no overworked population cry ing for bread; no labor strikes, al though Zurich is a great manufac turing country. Wealth is largely created but not unjustly or arbi trarily divided. Each one has his own. The system of taxation makes it to the interest of the large pro ducers to divide voluntarily as fast as made to save tax. Zurich is a model government.--Sayre Okla Standard. ' business; tho business of peddling;! tho business of conducting a hotel, or a place of public amusement or any on of a half dozen other call ings or employments which might be mentioned. Being a privilege, the sovereign has tho reserved and in herent common law right to require a license tax, which may be uniform or graduated, for . the privilege of conducting the business. The fact that the sovereign omits for a' period the requirement of such license tax does not change the principle. It is within the recollection of older citi zens that, prior to 1861, there waa no such tax as a license tax required of the liquor traffic by tho federal government, and the Bame was truo (Continued on Page 15) THE COMMONER'S With Commoner Letters From the People T. L. Wllltnmsnn CJH11...j Okla, I send you a clipping from the Sayre Standard, which is of great importance just now, and being on Mr. Bryan's line of argument and never soelng it in Tho Commoner that I remember, I concluded to send i Bf y m,ght Publls" it, if you liked, with some comment upon it It is exactly my idea of a model gov ernment. If the United States was t' "in run under tho same form of govern ment it would be the greatest power nf th. .worW, with the most con tented, happiest people in the world Good Example Made By Switzerland Farmers Mail and Breeze: J Warren of Burlingame, has been otZi b S, edit0,rlal on thG Plane nLnhS BrItish 1rImo minister to abolish poverty, to write of some ob servations and experiences of his C. S. Collins, Little Rock, Ark.- Referring to your remark under title 'Privilege Without Responsibility," in which you criticise the reasons given by Judge Munger in justifica tion of his action in suspending the Nebraska guarantee of deposits law. while they are sound in themselves and, if there were no other reasons! should lead to a' reversal. It has al ways seemed to some of us old time lawyers who have not forgotten elemental and "dog ear" principles, that this question has been discussed on both sides, overlooking the fund amental principles which should govern. The business of banking is not a natural right. 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