Almost everybody, who, in compliance with the proposed War measures, is to contribute in taxes to defray the costs of the war, has risen in protest...

Manufacturers and other wealthy people complain loudly of being taxed disproportionately. They contend that the burden placed upon their shoulders will jeopardize the success of the War loan.

Here we have glaring evidence of their conception of patriotic sentiment, which they profess conspicuously, but to which they refuse to attest the moment their pockets are concerned. As a matter of expediency, it would be good if Washington ignored their howling, and would throw the burden upon 2those who can pay, and not upon the small man, who is already panting under the weight of high prices, a concomitant of the war.