anaheim-gazette 1914-10-08

INCREASE TAX IS RESULT OF TARIFF FACTS AND FIGURES SHOWING WAR HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NEW STAMP TAX DEFICIT IN TREASURY GROWING LARGER BEFORE TROUBLE IN EUROPE BEGAN President Wilson's strong desire to convince the American people that the deficit in the treasury is in no way due to the Underwood-Simmons tariff law but is solely attributable to the European war, was manifested in the address which he read to Congress calling for additional direct taxation. In his address president Wilson said: "During the month of August there was, as compared with last year, a falling off of $10,629,538 in the revenues collected from customs. A continuation of this decrease in the same proportion during the current fiscal year would probably mean a loss of customs revenues of from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000. I need not tell you to what this falling off is due." It is due in chief part not to the reductions recently made in customs duties, but to the great decrease in importations; and that is due to the extraordinary extent of the industrial area affected by the present war in Europe. Conditions have arisen which no man foresees; they affect the whole world of commerce and economic production; and they must be faced and dealt with." Unfortunately, however, the argument of the president is not tenable. Imports to the United States under the operations of the present law for ten months to July 31, increased $102,478,621, according to a table of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. In the same period, as shown by figures from the same source, duties paid on imports decreased $30,770,010, which is more than 30 per Unfortunately, however, the argument of the president is not tenable. Imports to the United States under the operations of the present law for ten months to July 31, increased $102,478,621, according to a table of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. In the same period, as shown by figures from the same source, duties paid on imports decreased $30,770,010, which is more than 30 per cent of the deficiency which the administration, preparing to levy special taxes, attributes to the European war. A gain in imports was to be expected under the lower duties imposed by the Underwood bill, but it must come as a shock to those who framed the law that revenue has decreased to such a point where extra taxation is necessary. As a well-known manufacturer recently visiting Washington put the situation: "Had a deficiency occurred under duties such as were levied by the Payne-Aldrich bill, we would have the satisfaction of having produced in our mills, with American labor, a large part of the manufactures accounted for in the increase of more than $100,000 in imports. As the matter stands, however, we have not made the goods, our working people do not get the wages, and we are more than $30,000,000 short in revenue, which is now to be made up by further taxation of our people. This is unjustly charged to the war account." The attempt to blame decreases in revenue solely upon the war is shown up in its true light by the customs figures of Boston and Philadelphia. The Boston figures for August show that the imports at that port in August last year were only $7,271,000, while last month they were $11,054,000 of $3,783,000 greater than under the Payne tariff, but with more than $3,500,000 increase in imports the amount of duties collected decreased $682,000. At the port of Philadelphia the duties collected in August, 1913, amounted to $2,167,000, as against $2,085,000 for last month, a decrease of 959,000. If the theory of those who would blame the war is sound, then there must have been an unprecedented decrease in the imports received. The figures show, however, that $6,923,000 worth of goods entered at Philadelphia last month and $7,045,000 in August of 1913, a difference of only $122,000. Thus, under the Underwood tariff law, there was in one month a decrease in imports of only $122,000, while the decrease in duties collected reached the figure of $900,000. The consequences of the Tariff-for-revenue only policy were plainly in evidence before the European war began, and it will not be possible for the Democrats to attribute conditions to the European disturbance. The imports of wool and manufactures of wool by months for six months which have elapsed since the effort saw; they affect the whole world of commerce and economic production; and they must be faced and dealt with." I kinda hate to leave that water running to wrinkle but I've worked my 8 hours today! BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF THE SOCIALIST PLAN Vote "NO" on Universal B of cloths increased in value from $4,888,447 in 1913 to $12,794,048 in 1914,and the imports of dress goods measured by value increased 100 per cent. There is the same confusion in the minds of some of the democratic leaders today that characterized the reception of the protective tariff by the democrats about the time of the Civil War. The democrats frequently argued that the tariff which prevailed during the war was a war-revenue measure. Senator Gallinger recently discussed this phase of the matter,saying: "It cannot be affirmed too strongly or too constantly that the abandonment of the southern democratic policy, as we now know it, was due not to any anticipation of the Civil war,but to the bankruptcy to which the free trade had brought the nation,and the ruin and distress into which it had plunged our manufacturers and farmers in its culminating years from 1857 to 1860.Nothing is more manifest from all the records of history than that the country would have returned o the protective system of Washington," Hamilton, Madison Monroe,and Jackson in 1860,even if there had been no Civil war. "The tariff for revenue only scheme had utterly failed by 1860,and had confounded and discredited its authors quite as signally and even more quickly than later experiment of the same kind in the years between 1894 and 1897." It is further emphatically true, as Senator Gallinger declared in the same speech, that "it was absolutely inevitable that when the great industrial North,with its free labor,rrested from the South,with its slave labor,the control of the national governmentthe overwhelming protectionist sentiment of the north should write its con- in August of 1913, a difference of only $122,000. Thus, under the Underwood tariff law, there was in one month a decrease in imports of only $122,000, while the decrease in duties collected reached the figure of $900,000. The consequences of the Tariff-for-revenue only policy were plainly in evidence before the European war began, and it will not be possible for the Democrats to attribute conditions to the European disturbance. The imports of wool and manufactures of wool by months for the six months which have elapsed since the new duties on goods went into effect were compiled from official sources, and show that the imports of wool of all classes have increased 95,590,931 pounds in 1914 over those of the corresponding six months of the preceding year. The imports of cloths have increased during the period, both in quantity and value, to between four and five times the corresponding imports in 1913, while the average value has decreased from $1.20 in 1913 to $1 per pound. The imports of dress goods have nearly trebled in value, rising from $1,498,537 to $4,396,660. A comparison by quantity is not possible because until this year the records have been made in square yards, while under the new law quantities are given in pounds. The imports of tops and yarns are not separately reported, but are included under the head of "all other." It is possible at this time to present a comparative statement of the imports of wool and its manufactures for the two fiscal years ending respectively June 30, 1913 and 1914. It appears that the imports of wool in 1914 exceeded by 42,000,000 pounds the imports in 1913. They aggregate 237,648,869 pounds and are the greatest quantity ever imported in one year except as follows: Pounds in anticipation of the Dingley tariff 1897 ... 360,852,026 1905 ... 249,135,746 1909 ... 266,409,304 1910 ... 263,928,232 The average importation of wool for the 25 years 1889-1913, inclusive, was 174,000,000 pounds. The imports "The tariff for revenue only scheme had utterly failed by 1860, and had confounded and discredited its authors quite as signally and even more quickly than that later experiment of the same kind in the years between 1894 and 1897." It is further emphatically true, as Senator Gallinger declared in the same speech, that "it was absolutely inevitable that when the great industrial North, with its free labor, wrested from the South, with its slave labor, the control of the national government the overwhelming protection sentiment of the north should write its convictions upon the national statute books." The will of the protectionist north could not be made immediately effective, because the United States senate in 1860 was still controlled by the adherents of slavery and freetrade, but when congress assembled for the winter session of 1860-1861 South Carolina had seceded, ten Senators from southern states left, and the senate became republican. Immediately the Morrill tariff bill as passed by the House at the previous session was taken up, and after debate, was passed on February 20, 1861, with amendment on which concurrence was reached with the House. The bill was signed by President Buchanan on March 2 and became a law on April 1, 1861. The first of the war tariffs was not passed until August 5. The nation again squared on a protective basis before the war began. If the United States had been squarely upon a protectionist basis at the time of the European war it would have been in a better position to meet the shock of the situation. Mills still would have been running full time. There would have been employment for everybody and there would have been no convolution of capital and labor. The country would have been able to meet the emergency much more boldly and effectively. Whenever the tariff issue has been presented squarely to the American people they have voted overwhelmingly for protection, but due to the split in the republican party in 1912, although a large majority voted for protection, a plurality elected Wilson and gave the excuse for the abandonment of NIGHT-HOUR WHISTLE ON THE FARM. JUST MY LUCK! OF COURSE I HAD TO BE CILLED THE WHEEL WHILE WINNING THE WHISTLE BLEWS! THAT WELL-DIGGER DON'T HEAR THIS WHISTLE I'LL GO TO JAIL!! HIST! STATE INSPECTOR TIME CLOCK I ONLY GIVE MILK 8 HOURS A DAY! CAN'T HELP IT MY EIGHT HOURS ARE UP! HEY! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LEAVING THAT LOAD ON THE TRACK? IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Of the County of Orange State of California In the Matter of the Estate of Napoleon Hall, Deceased. Notice for Publication of Time for Proving Will, etc. Notice is hereby given that Friday, the 16th day of October, 1914, at 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, at the Court Room of Department No. of this Court in the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, has been appointed as the time and place for hearing the application of Rosalie Hart praying that a document now on the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, be admitted to probate, that Letters Testamentary be issued thereon to Rosalie Hart at which time and place all persons interested therein may appear and contend that same. Dated September 29, 1914. W. B. WILLIAMS, County Clerk. Santa Ana, CA. Attorney for Pettitoner. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice is hereby given that the city taxes on all personal property secured by real property, and on all real property in the city of Anaheim will be due and payable on the first Monday in October, 1914, and will be delinquent on the last Monday in November, next thereafter, at 6 o'clock P.M. Unless said taxes are paid prior to the last Monday in November, 1914, at 6 o'clock P.M., 10 per cent will be added to the amount thereof. Said taxes are payable to the undersigned at his office in the City Hall, in said City of Anaheim between the hours of 4 A.M. and 2 P.M. and 6 P.M. JOHN KELLENBERGER, Marshal and ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Anaheim. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Of the State of California In and For the County of Orange. In the Matter of the Estate of William LaRue, Deceased. Order to Show Cause why Order of Sale of Real Estate Should Not be Made. IT IS ORDERED BY THE COURT, That all persons interested in the state of said deceased appear before the said Superior Court on Friday the 9th day of October, 1914, at 10 o'clock A.M. of said day, at the Courtroom of Department No. of said Superior Court in the City of Santa Ana in said County of Orange, State of California, to show cause why an order should not be granted to the Administrator of said estate to sell all or such part of the Real Estate of said Deceased as may be necessary. AND THAT a copy of this Order be published at least four successive weeks in the Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper printed and published in said County of Orange. Dated September 4th, 1914. Z. B. WEST, Judge of the Superior Court. 9-10-5L. THE SOCIALIST PLAN FOR CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE. 10" on Universal 8-Hour Law, Proposition No.3. MINORITY LEADER DENOUNCES WAR TAX REPRESENTATIVE MANN OF ILLINOIS, SCORES ADMINISTRATION FOR FORCING STAMP TAX DECLARES PROPER GOVERNMENTAL ECONOMY WOULD PREVENT NECESSITY OF ADDITIONAL BURDEN "With the industries of the country largely paralyzed and labor out of work, it is no time to impose additional taxes, and taxes, too which are entirely unnecessary," declared James R. Mann, republican minority leader of the House of Representatives, in a statements recently made in the House of Representatives. Congressman Mann's statement is regarded as an important utterance in view of the fight the republican minority is making in both House and Senate to prevent the democratic majority from imposing the so-called "war" tax on the people in addition to their other burdens of taxation, at a time when this country is at peace with all the world. "There is no need to put new taxes on the people at this time" Mr. Mann asserts. "While there may be a slight difference in the amount of taxes imposed, the overall impact of these taxes on the economy will be significant." the new tariff law. "If we were manufacturing the goods we use instead of importing them, we would have prosperity, and if we had a sufficiently high import duty on the goods we bring in from abroad, we would have sufficient revenue without question. What we need now is economy and not new taxes. What we have under the democratic administration is extravagance and additional taxation." THOUSANDS STUDY FARMING BY MAIL New Department Established by State University Providing Popular There are now 11,574 people taking the free correspondence courses in agriculture first offered by the University of California in September, 1913. Never before has such astonishing enrollment been recorded for mail study of farming. Most of the students in the sixteen different courses are in California, but there are correspondence students also in thirty-eight other states and nine foreign countries. Arizona has the most—29. Already 1095 have completed one course and begun another. There are 171 who have completed two full courses, 37 have finished three, seven have finished four, two have finished five, and one student six. In this first year's work the University has sent out 56,672 lessons. Between January 15 and September 17, reports Professor W. G. Hummel, who is in charge of the work, the College of Agriculture mailed 105,343 pieces of mail to its correspondence students. The pear and the almond are two new courses, of eight and ten lessons respectively. Such a course deals with nursery propagation, disease-prevention. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Alice Collins, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned admirer of the Estate Collins, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit, the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was made on the 27th day of August, 1914) to the said administrator, J. M. Hazard, of Anaheim, at the office of Tipton & Callor, in the County of Orange. Dated this 22nd day of August, A. D. 1914. J. M. HAZARD, 5-27-5. Drs. Johnston, Beebe Clark and Davis PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS Offices at Anaheim Sanitarium Hours 1-4 and 7-8 p.m. Phone Pacific 200 Phone Home 221 J. W. UTTER, Physician and Surgeon Office Hours, 2 to 4 P.M.; 7 to 8 P.M. Phones: Pacific 151; Home 1712 Office at Residence 166 S. Los Angeles Street ANAHEIM, CA. 1914 has been a mild one in the matter of forest fires. District Forester Cool DuBois, at San Francisco, states that this is not the case and that the season of 1914, which is not yet over, has been one of marked severity. On the national forests in California 1049 fires have occurred, and they are still being reported at the rate of about 50 a week. Most of these fires would have caused serious damage if they had not been handled with the utmost promptness. But less than 17 per cent got sufficient start to cause any considerable damage, and 876 of them were caught and put out before they had burned a space twenty rods square. The total area burned over statements recently made in the House of Representatives. Congressman Mann's statement is regarded as an important utterance in view of the fight the republican minority is making in both House and Senate to prevent the democratic majority from imposing the so-called "war" tax on the people in addition to their other burdens of taxation, at a time when this country is at peace with all the world. "There is no need to put new taxes on the people at this time" Mr. Mann asserts. "While there may be a slight falling off in customs receipts during the European war, that can easily be more met by proper governmental economy. The war in Europe may be over soon and the treasury can meet the expenses of the government without difficulty for a long time to come if it draws on the government money now deposited in the banks. Much of the money already appropriated need not be used for the present if the President will direct the departments to practice economy. There are many things which can wait over. Temporary delay in many cases will be no injury." "For the seven months of this year ending with July 31, before the war began, our imports from foreign countries were 122 million dollars more than they were for the same period last year, while our exports were 126 million dollars less. That is caused by the Underwood tariff. The balance of trade in our favor for these seven months in this year was 60 million dollars. For the same seven months last year, the balance of trade in our favor was 308 million dollars. This shows a falling off in the balance of trade in our favor in seven months before the war commenced of 248 million dollars. That is equivalent to a demand on us of 248 million dollars in gold. That is one of the main troubles with the country now and is the result of the protective principle. It is for this error that the country is paying the price today, and the effort to confuse the situation by attributing the disasters to the European war will not be effective with any thoughtful person. Because their have been no spectacular fires such as occurred last year on Mount Tamalpais and in the Santa Cruz mountains, the impression prevails in California that the season of that this is not the case and that the season of 1914, which is not yet over, has been one of marked severity. On the national forests in California 1049 fires have occurred, and they are still being reported at the rate of about 40 a week. Most of these fires would have caused serious damage if they had not been handled with the utmost promptness. But less than 17 per cent got sufficient start to cause any considerable damage, and 876 of them were caught and put out before they had burned a space twenty rods square. The total area burned over amounts to 45,000 acres, of which 34,000 acres are timberland. The direct damage to timberland and improvements is estimated at $76,000. As usual, a large proportion of the fires were caused by campers. The rangers were forced to make numerous arrests for violation of forest laws, chiefly the law that requires campers to be extinguished before leaving camp. A few offenders were given jail sentences, but as a rule the minimum fine of $50 was imposed. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF August 24, 1914. Of The Anahiem Gazette, published weekly, at Anahiem, California, for October 1st, 1914. Editor, Henry Kuchel, Anahiem, Cal. Managing Editor, Henry Kuchel, Anahiem, Cal. Business Manager, Henry Kuchel, Anahiem, Cal. Publisher, Henry Kuchel, Anahiem, Cal. Owner, Henry Kuchel, Anahiem, Cal. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: Mergenthaler Lintype Co., New York, N.Y. (Sigurd) Henry Kuchel, Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of October, 1914. Homer G. Ames, (Seal) My commission expires Dec. 27, 1914.) 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