Excerpt from A Plea for Prosperity At one fell swoop our system of taxation, such as has been in force practically since the beginning of the Federal Government, was utterly revolutionized. Direct taxation was raised suddenly and in a manner unequalled and unprecedented in any other country, from a small fraction to approximately eighty per cent of our total revenue. It was a measure of eco nomic violence, only partly justified and called for by the exigencies of war, and was bound to lead to an intensity of economic trouble and maladjustment corresponding to the degree of its violence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.