The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1920, Page 19

|} ee —S Me ~ TAXCUTWOULD AT HGH COST OF UMN 4 (Continued From First Page.) nomething tm the way of relief for the — works. Joon C. Pugh, a Government clerk, $1,000 for his se es to the | Naval Afta: Pugh h 6 MANY WET ARRESTS MADE. | Jal Report May Show 25,000 In Seventy-Four Dry Days. TON, March 30.—7" WASHINGTON, March 90—Arreste u announced the following during seventy-four days of Con loo ional Prohibition, ended to-day, totalled ae ee Re leat 6,000, Prohibition Comrissionee Salamanca, N. Y., 9.276 an increase |Gin JF. Kramer estimated, of 8,484 or 60.2 per cent. over 1910; Lock-| Kramer is preparing an official tabu- tation on the basis of reports from dis- n Increase of 3.338) trict agents. The oficial to ever, may be far beyond his he. raid ‘One Prohibition official, who called Ny. | Kramer's estimate ‘ultra ‘conservative, ‘or 177 pet predicted the official report would show 35,000 arrest taxpayer on their own responsibility. | Advocacy of repeal of the excess profit tax was suggested. | “I do not believe,” said Mr. Kitchin, “that the excess profits tax should be repealed at this time, when our reve- nues are so close to our expenditures; I wif go further and eay that I do not believe the excess profits tax. should ‘be repealed at all. I will say that I agree with President Wilson, who stated in his last two messages that he believed the excess profits tax should be part of our permanent tax- vation system. WOULD MAKE THE TAX A PER- MANENT ONE. | “Of course the law should be amended to do away with inequalities and other objectionable features; which have been brought to light by experience. Fundamentally it is a just and honest tax, ideal in principle, and in nineteen out of twenty cases it is paid’ by those who should pay It, be- | cause of conditions which enable them | to gather large profits from the earn- ings of their enterprises.” | “But,” Mr. Kitchin was reminded, | “many of those who pay very large excess profit taxes have said that they | must pass the burden along to the consumer, An ‘instance comes to mind n copnection with the knitting itdus- | try, where six different concerns which handle the product from its raw to its finished state before it reaches the retailer add to their selling price ehough to pay their tax on excess profits.” “My information,” said the minority leader, “is to the contrary. I was talk- “Ng z only a few days ago to a man , terested in the knitting industry who pays a large excess profits tax. Hie told the and shawed me that the ce of his product is regulated by the law of supply and demand. I sked him if he thought prices of com- odities produced by corporations paying the e 8 profits tax would ave been cheaper had there been no Xcess profits tax. He said the price would have been high, just the same, ecutise the demand exceeds the sup- ply and, the people who want the product will pay any price for tt. INSISTS TAX CAN'T BE “PASSED ALONG.” “As a matter of fact It would not 2e possible for competitors in any line of business to pass along their excess profits tax because the profits of each would vary, One man might, f he wanted to make the con- umer pay the tax, have to, tac! on 10 per cent, another might iave to tack on 15 per eent, anothe 20 per cent. and s0 on. The only way there could be any unity in such « proposition would be by combination, to fix prices at a certain figute. “You don't notice that individ- uals and partnerships not affected by the excess profits ing their than corporations turning out the and paying In my town t are thirty-five businesses. One of them corporation and tax. The that touches the consumer lightly and | think it should be main- tained.” Mr. Kitchin, in taking tssuo with business authorities and with the gen- eral consumer who believes he is muleted for a considerable alice of the xcess profits tax, is pretty solidly acked by the Southern Democratic ‘ongresamen, Advocates of the repeal f the exeess profits tax point out that Mr. Kitchin and his colleagues come from a part of the United States \which eohtributes but a very small ercentage of the total of taxes paid yn excess profit ‘ \ It tw a tax that ts paid in the North. ney maaufacturing corporations in, e South which are affected by the | excess profits tax are ‘operated by | Northern capital and the tax comes out of Northern pockets. ‘The South was never so prosperous. Partnerships and individuals in b ness paying only income taxes are re- ceiving top notch prices for their raw materials and their goods. Mr. Kitchin and his colleagues from the South, with a few non-aggressive ¢ otions, take the stand that the >! sare due to the law of spr . demand. The general conr -aks the high prices are lon# 4 him by corpor- - evading their fair _ excess profits tax by along tacked on to the price 4f goods. -eCLARE TAX IS A BRAKE ON BUSINESS, | Men and interests who pay hun- dreds of millions of dollars in excess profits taxes declare that the tax is 4 burden on business and amounts vir- tually to taking the amount of the tax out of productive effort. If taxation is needed for the satisfaction of the debts and current objigations of the tion they are in favor of distribut- | | ey would reach anything that favor a gross | thing prod. or @ consumer's tax which would reach everything sold h all citizens in enditures, | of such a tax it would make the South pay who favor the repeal of the xcess profits tax do not insinuate Kitehin and his colleagues ‘om the South are inspired in their shampionship of the exeess profits ts Jispoattion to saddle | ‘on -he North and it from thom int to the excess prof” »nfirmation o ction that ernment nditure 1s largely " the ignor of the statesmen who quthorige the outlay has come to aks Te the Memento e mamalatiom ta An jluminatir anding ¢ ' OPPENHEIM, GCLLINS & G PPENHEIM, GLUNS & @ FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN _ A Sale of Unprecedented Values Wednesday Slip-Over Zephyr Sweaters For Women and Misses—Sizes 36 to 46 A most opportune offering—for women will want to wear these sweaters at once and throughout the Spring and Summer. 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