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ASHLAND DAILY T ID IN G S
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It is easy enough to pass a la# that shall tax everyone
proportionately according to his means.
But when you come to apply that statute, a multitude
of difficult situations arise, c.n which rulings have to be
made. There is great danger that in making a ruling
th a t seems to do justice in one class become the means;
by which people can escape the tax which they ought
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DECEMBER ft
IT SURELY W IL L .— Be sure your sin will find you out.— Stanley Baldwin meets the new
Numbers 32:23
House of Commons a man ap­
parently entirely different in
character from w hat he was- when
COMPENSATION FOR STAY-AT-HOMES
be left office eleven m onths ago.
Many people bear almost with envy about neighbors At th a t tim e he was still new
or friends who are planning to take expensive trips this to the Prem iership. He has been
winter and visit famous resorts and other unfamiliar! appointed practically by accident.
scenes. Yet the folks who wander around very freely mavi And 11 seeraed that he claimed no
. than others.
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for himself, th a t he was
not . . be any i happier
One lady
who
has trav­ authority
w ithout initiative, and th a t he
eled much remarked recently that she has missed a good was prepared to allow each of
deal by being away from home so much. She had gotten, bis colleagues in the Cabinet to
out of touch with conditions in her home community. She go any way he pleased.
It used to be said th a t he never
felt that many interesting things had been going on in I opened
his mouth in the Cabinet.
which she had had no share. Probably she had failed to j aad that he was prepared to ac-
make new friends among her home people, and perhaps t quiesce in any decision th at Lord
had not kept up with her old friends as she wished she C urion — the supposed power
the throne — felt inclin­
might. The people who think they have to go away from behind
ed to take. He seemed a man
home to make friends are mistaken. Friends that one who preferred to follow a policy
wins in traveling are very pleasant, hut they do not us­ ra th e r than decide it.
ually stick. To make permanent friendships, people All this is now changed. The
new Baldwin has appeared as a
usually have to he engaged in the same activity for an ex­ man
of both decision and action.
tended period. An occasional travel trip broadens people This became ?apparent from the
out by giving them a better understanding of tlie points first moment it was certain th at
of view that prevail in other localities. Up to a certain he was retu rn in g to office with
m ajority behind him.
point travel should he encouraged. Yet people who get a huge
He formed his Cabinet en tire­
a taste for constant travel run the risk that they can ly by himself. He neither sought
never settle down and he happy in every day surround­ advice nor acted on it when of­
ings. Many of these people become fussy about their fered. He offended num bers of
comforts. If some little thing is wrong with their food bis own party by dropping poli­
ticians like Lord Derby, the Duke
or lodging in some hotel, they are rendered uncomfort­ of
Devonshire and Sir Robert
able, and they overlook a hundred pleasures just for one Horne. And he braved unpopu­
ponit of discomfort. If they get that spirit, their travel larity and even revolt by placing
has done them more harm than good. There is something W inston Churchill — a political
apostate — in office as Chancel­
in steady attention to work at one’s home job that makes lor
of the Exchequer, the job
one appreciate blessings and learn not to over empha­ second only to his own.
size travels.
In the initiation of policy he
has shown an equally bold stand.
In regard to Russia, the Inter-
BRAZIL EXCLUDES JAPANESE
Allied debt question, the recog­
Notice from Japan that Brazil has stopped the influx! nition of Mexico — on all these
of Japanese to that South American republic reminds us i q2‘esti0"3 he has alone framed
the policy of the Government.
afresh that great international policies are run under i His
change of character has sur­
camouflage, just as are personal and neighborly relations. prised none more than his owu
What Japan really wants is to accommodate its sur­ colleagues. At the very first
plus population. What it pretends to want is to secure m eeting of the Cabinet he made
it perfectly clear th a t he is to
equality of opportunity for »Japanese with Europeans or call
the tune to which they are
others in Brazil or any other country.
to dance. From the outset he
If Japan were to claim, in law, what it wants in fact, spoke as one having full au ­
it would have no diplomatic chance to press this want. thority.
people are asking what
It would have to depend on force or negotiation. It would is Many
the reason of this change of
have no “ right.” If it could buy land, or buy opportun­ attitu d e. The real reason is th a t
ity for its citizens to buy land, then it would avoid dif­ Baldwin is ju st reverting to his
ficulty. If not, it could fight for land, as nations have old self. A m asterful man of
business all his life, he came into
done in the past.
politics late, and then in a fash­
The ]>oiiit of view of Brazil, like that of the United ion which left him dependent
States, is just the opposite. It wants to discriminate. The largely on other people for his
United States wants to discriminate. By a very elaborate success.
fiction the United States has tried to pretend that it is Today he sits supreme in P a r­
liam ent, w ith a unique m ajority
not discriminating against the Japanese. This is but a and an overwhelming vote of
pretense.
confidence from the country. He
Whether we ought, or not, we are still in principle is, in effect, a dictator for the
permitting the coming of Europeans. We are prohibit­ time being. And knowing he
has full power, he is determ ined
ing the coming o f Japanese settlers. We do this, as is to
make the most of it.
Brazil on the ground that we do not care to face the dif­ All his old diffidence is gone.
ficulties of racial antagonisms. We are not afraid of He regards himself no longer as
mixing Irish and Italians. We are afraid of mixing ju st “ first among equals” in his
inistration.
He knows now
whites and Japanese. And any amount of demonstration adm
th a t he is the man who counts
by Japanese scientists that .Japanese are not brown hut for everything, and he is d eter­
white does not affect our judgment. We are satisfied mined to rem ain as such.
that Japanese are not “ us,” and we go on that impulse.
But we camouflage the impulse.
APPROPRIATIONS ARE am
No matter how much we may attempt, by reason and PASSED IN CONGRESS
by arrangement and hv arbitration, to reduce our inter­ WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. —
national relations to system, we must recognize that we Carrying a to tal of $124.637,715
have, as Americans, no superior force above our own of which $70,000,000 is for road
wants. \\ e may differ about these wants. But when we construction, th e ag ricultural ap­
decide, by legislative debate or by majority vote, what our propriation bill for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1925 was re ­
national wants are. we must back them up, or confess na­ ported
fro m . the House appropri­
tional paralysis. As long as we say that our expansion of ations committee. This is an in­
citizenship is to be white, we must he prepared to defend crease over the current year of
ourselves a gains opposite interests, no matter liow the approxim ately $58,923,279. In ­
in the bill is an appropri-
diplomats may camouflage the discussion. Japan needs cluded
ation of $24,000 made for the
more land for settlers We refuse to permit Japanese to ■ collection of seed grain loans of
come to this country . to settle, even though we permit 1921 and 1922, made to the fa r­
F rench and Swedes. To defend a logical inconsistency m ers of the far West.
requires nothing but words. To defend a practical nation­
BELLINGHAM MAN IS
al antagonism requires force.
DEAD BY OWN HAND
And we in America must he ready to give up our
national determinations, or we must defend them. Any BELLINGHAM W ash., Dec. 6.
other logic is puerile. Any other course of action is blind. — Pressing a revolver to his
GETTING AROUND THE TAX LAW
The federal income tax law and its interpretations
are so complicated that there are claimed to he many ways
by which people avoid paying taxes to a large extent,
which are all in accordance with the law. Theoretically
temple, Paul Kaufm an, 18, today
instantly killed himself in front
of his home, six miles north of
here. No reason has been given
for the suicide except th a t he may
have been tem porarily despond­
ent over the financial affairs of
his family.
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