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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
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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. It is a "privi
lege," as much so as the liquor
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