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Radio listeners, being human, want the best of everything. But they don't always get it. The nightly ether-music is too often indirect advertising. Prudent musicians object to the broadcasting of their programs; people won't buy seats in stuffy concert halls if they can stay at home and listen to the same thing. For these and allied reasons, the Chicago Civic Opera will not broadcast its performances this Winter...
...that source of revenue and leave those paying lower rates to furnish all the taxes. . . . Good business is worth more to the small-income taxpayer than a considerable percentage of tax reduction. Only about 3,500,000 people pay direct income taxes. The remainder pay, but pay indirectly, in the cost of all purchases-from a pair of shoes to a railroad ticket. This country has at least 107,000,000 of these indirect taxpayers. I am not disturbed about the effect on a few thousand people with large incomes because they have to pay high surtaxes. They can take...
...indirect result was that, a few months later, John William went to Washington as Representative. There he showed he was a lawyer of ability by partaking in the indictment of a Federal Judge. As a member of the Judiciary Committee he attracted attention, as well as by his speeches in Congress against the Payne-Aldrich Tariff. He remained in the House until August, 1913, when President Wilson took him out to be Solicitor General...
...time has come to make a change between direct and indirect taxation. No longer can enough money be raised by the latter to support the Government. I submit that direct taxation is one of the fundamental Democratic principles...
...other hand, indirect news of the rebels showed that the revolution was much larger and more serious than the Brazilian Government had cared to make known. Upward of 400 civilians were killed in Sao Paulo, exclusive of the losses of Federal and rebel troops...