Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1922 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlehed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pre* end Gen Mgr. E. W. Kampo—Vice-Pree. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse —Sec’y and Bu«. Mgr. Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, aa second class matter. Bubscrfptioa RatM Single copies > cents One Week, by carrier....... 10 cents One Year, by carrier...* $5.00 One Month, by mall 35 centa Three Months, by matl.. ti ..u« Six Months, by mail *1.70 One Year, by mail 13.00 One Year, at office 33.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage ad ded outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Building, Kansas City, Mo SOME TAXES:— In order to help those who have not the opportunity to study the new tariff bill—which is a very complicated affair—in detail, The News on Saturday last set out a few of the taxes that bear most heavily on the home. There are others quite as burdensome. Hats, bonnets and hoods of straw are taxed 50 per cent; the Underwood tax is 40 per cent. The tax on tooth brushes and other toilet brushes has been raised from 35 per cent to 45 per cent. Matches will pay 8 cents a gross instead of 3 centsmanufacturers of fur will pay 50 per cent instead of 40 per cent. Hats, caps and bonnets of fur are taxed from $1.50 a dozen and 25 per cent up to sl6 a dozen and 25 per cent.; the present tax is 15 per cent. There is a tax of 90 instead of 60 per cent, on laces, lace window curtains ami burnt-out laces. Men's leather gloves not over twelve inches long are taxed $5 a dozen pairs, and women's and children’s gloves of the same length.

$4.50. In both cases there is an additional tax of 50 cents for every inch in length in excess of twelve inches. The present taxes range from $1 to $2.50 a dozen pairs. The tax on castile soap has been lifted from 10 per cent to, 15 per cent and on all other soap from 5 to 15 per cent Table salt in containers is tax ed 11 cents a 100 pound and in bulk 7 cents. It at the present time pays no tax. Shovels, scythes and sickles, now frse, are to be taxed 30 per cent. The new tax on butter, oleo unci'other substitutes is 8 cents a pound, whereas now it is 2% cents. Eggs, which are now free, will pay 8 cents a doz en. The tax on peanuts has been trebled, the tax on oranges doubled, and that on lemons raised from half a cent to 2 cents a pound. There art heavy taxes on fresh lamb, fresh pork, bacon, hams, shoulders and lard all of which are now tax free. There is a tax ranging from 15 to 30 per cent on "o.saries, chaplets and other articles of religious devotion; no corresponding provision is to be found in ether the Payne-Aldrich or the Underwood law. The more carefully the bill now be fore the senate is studied, tho clearer does it become that very little has escapd the hands of the tax-gatherer, whose purpose seems to be to make the people happy and prosperous by imposing heavy taxes on them and inflating prices. Yet the people, “blind to the angels of their deliverance,” have been for several years clamoring for reduced taxes and lower prices. ft is the old case of asking for bread and getting—something else, much less edible.—lndianapolis News. But the bonus bill was defeated for the sake of economy. Can you beat it? The senate rushed the bonus bill to its final reward late yesterday after the house had voted to pass it over tho president’s veto by 258 to 54. The sc nate upheld the president’s action lacking live votes tp override his objection. On the grounds that the nation could not stand the expense and tiiat the bill provided nd method bi raising the money the bill was defeated. This would be taken by the people except for the fact that this sama congress has passed a tariff bill which will cof>t our people three

or four billion dollars a year and the president favors the ship subsidy bill which will give to the shipping interests a bonus of thirty milion dollars a year for ten years. Four and five years ago we were all telling the soldiers how wo appreciated their sacrifices. Nov we are saving the money but spending it otherwise. The bonus bill is dead. Right or wrong the administration must, curry the responsibility. The normalcy program means less for the people and more for the interests evidently and, they are "carrying on' with much courage. The Wall Street Journal announces that Henry Ford is the richest man in the world His gross income for this year will be $125,000,000 and after taxes are paid his net will be $110,000,000, or five per cent on two billion dollars. His earnings show a net profit of SIOO on each car he sells. He has $180,000,000 in cash and is the world’s greatest individual banker. His income is a half million a day during the busy season and he will soon controll the money of the nation and largely of the world. And they say he is crazy. Ornamental lights for Decatur would add greatly to the appearance of this city of maple shade as well as proving of untold convenience to our people. A light post has been erected on Mercer Avenue that the citizens along that street may see. We surely believe they will. It you visit other cities in which these ornamental lights are used you will be impressed by them and if the im provement is started it will soon be extended to other streets. This is a good time to start. Democratic headquarters are open

and those who have not registered can do so by calling there afternoons or evenings. It is important that you vote in November and to do so you must qualify by registering. There will be one more day—October 9th—but don’t wait for that. Call at headinarters and register. Do it at once and see that the women voters also register. . The United States faces a treasurydeficit of $650,006,000 even though we have the world's greatest business men in charge and operate on a budget system. The money is not being spent for a bonus but it evidently does go some where. The People’s Voice ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL Somewhere in Washington lies the remains of the so called “Bonus Bill." Its spirit took flight on the afternoon of September 20, 1922. It was a nice looking ‘‘Bill’’ when born but it was a puny fellow and never received just the proper nourishment. In fact it had too many “mammys” looking after it, and between the House and the Senate, the President and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the Wall Street interests, the poor little fellow did not have much chance to become a full grown youngster. It fared pretty well, however, until it contracted a bad case of Republican Economy a few weeks ago and this developed into Double Normalcy on September 19, and the little fellow coluld last but a few hours. “Bill” left this world on September 20, and with it, the hopes of four million ex-service men were buried. For there had been some hope that the promise would be fulfilled. And even then, it might have been fulfilled but for certain outside interests under whose power the chief executive of our nation labors nowadays. , Vvhen the United States Senate voted to sustain the veto of President Warren G. Harding, they did exactly as they were instructed to do by those who axe able to buy power and for the third time they have robbed Peter and gave the spoils to Paul. But Pe ter, although naturally downhearted, is not down and out, and will this fall, four million strong in himself, and with several million as an auxiliary fqrce, begjn a process of .elimination Jn the Uniter; States Senate that will clean house and see whether the executive and legislative bodies of our government were elected to serve Wall Street and the United States Chamber of Commerce, or I whether the bulk of the masses should .or should not have some considersj tion. And the procecs of elimination iwili be continued over until

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ad the Dent act and placed at the disposal of war contractors and profiteers some two billion dollars for contracts which were for the most part never fulfilled, and for which Uncle Sam received little or nothing. So for three times poor Peter has been robbed of what was a Just and honest obligation. Hut Peter will be back. He will haunt those in pow,<>i until they will come to their senses. With the killing of the Adjusted

Compensation Bill, the 66th congress has now completed its four-fold purpose and the writer takes pleasure in submitting to the public the four great things accomplished under the present administration. They are. 1. Accomplished the freedom of Eugene V. Debs, the great nuisance during the war. 2. Reseated the great Newberry, of Michigan, whom public opinion would have placed very much else

s where. r . 8. Enacted a tariff luw that bus e been cleverly designed to make rich r folks richer and the poor folks poore er. 4. And last, they have killed the f Bonus Hili, which was designed to e equalize the wages of the soldier dur Ing the war to somewhere near that >, of common labor for the same period, ii This was in accordance with the , wishes of Wall Street and the Cham

her of Commerce Os the , - i whose fatherly advice has « I eepted by the President ana * • When the special session of”* gross is called to enact the ,h/ "* i sidy bill, and thereby gra , lt lp • hundred million /to the big ,hi '** Interests, then the great dreg® malcy will be about complete You tell ’em Al. Ut’s w» t ,. k ■ vote this fall.