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be built on the land that would have to bear the burden of the tax
‘ hat would be taken from the personal property of the rieh and well-
to-do.
Any personal property now owned by anyone who would
build one of these cozy little homes, is already exempt from taxation,
so that his piece of property upon which he would build such a home,
together with the little patch of green in front, would be taxed to
help make up the taxes that would be removed from storks of mer­
chandise, homes of the rieh, automobiles of the rieh and other per­
sonal property of the rieh and wellYo do, of which the poor man now-
pays none direct.
It must be remembered that under this $1500 exemption measure
Display. 25 rents per inch; reading uotire ads., 10 cents per liue; legal notices.
5 cents per line; surrounded ads., 50 cents pec inch; t'lassified ads., 1 cent per
v.ord. Special discounts on contracts. Cards of Thanks and Kcsolutious, f> cents
“ every person" is exempt in that amount. A family of ten persons
per line.
could
parcel out the property so that a stock of merchandise assessed
Wednesday. October «, 1014.
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1 WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD CITIZEN
No one can hope to become a useful citizen and an inllueiitiul
member of u community without first familiarizing himself
with the things that are going on about town. To be it booster
one must know what he is talking about.
All good citizens are familiar with tin- details of the town and
county government. They are aware of concerted efforts being
made by civic (todies to secure new enterprises, to induce fol­
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capital to invest in the city und stmt small maniifactui
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ing plains those that employ skilled labor, pay good wages
and bring useful citizens to town
STREET at $ 15,into and worth maylic $J0.iMK> to $ 40 , 000 , would pay no direct
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Advertisement No. d
A NEW COUNTY
MEASURE WILL APPEAR on the ballot in Lane County
this tall for the formation of a new county out of the western
portion of Lane County. This measure was initiated by
citizens of Florence and other citizens of that seetion of the county
and it is to In* presumed that the expense of supporting such a county
has been well considered by them. The expense and inconvenience
to the people of that section in transacting business with a county
s. at so far removed and so difficult to reach as the present one is a
serious burden to them and, no doubt, they will save indirectly mor«
than enough to pay whatever additional tax may be necessary.
The only excuse (his section o f the county can give for not grant­
ing the new county is the wish to remain in size and wealth one of the
most important counties of the state, but that is a purely selfish rea­
son and should be overlooked if any great good can come to any great
taxes and this burden would fall upon real estate, a piece of which
the poor man would have to have in order to build that little white
house with its patch of green.
Even should the^slatc confiscate all property for taxes, it would
still have to raise the revenue fropi the laud and the rent of the laud
would necessarily correspond to the taxes, except that so much land
would remain idle that the land that woubl lx» used would pay higher
taxes in the way of rent than it would as taxes if privately owned.
The Journal ami Courier also neglected to explain that the homes
of the rieh would be exempt the same as the homes of the poor. The
rieh man with a family of five could take from the tax roll a home
worth $15,000. The poor man would evade taxes on a $400 or $500
home and the land occupied by the home would have to licar part of
the burden of taxes evaded on the $15,000 home, as well as the taxes
evaded on his own home.
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All gootl (’itixfliN must Ite nwnrv tif tilt* rivellini ol' new bollirà
ne\v building*. Tliry must know all irai estate tratinar
Iititi* thè buyer, lite *eller and thè price. They must he abji*
lo show thè ztranger thè vaine ut' reai e*late in Iti* botile city.
To he a use lui eitizeu mie niuat take pari in all effort* tu errate
a good imprexHjoii ol' lite city in thè out*ide fo r iti.
One must
lem) a helphig band to nioveineiita whieli wili betler thè eity
frolli ali industriai atandpoint.
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Tin te i* hnt tuie wny to gain thè neeeaaary informatimi lo
come a uaeful eitizeu. Timi i* hy readiug (he iieWNpaper,
i* thè duty ol' each newapaper lo Work l'or thè betternieiit
thè community a* a wholc. Tlus duty is largì Iv performed
thè diatribution of uaeful informatimi lo thè eitizeu*.
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of
by
Frolli thè home paper mie learna of new enterpriaea, of impilai
invested, of land sale*, of lite arrivai of new eitizeu*, of thè
cnlargement of thi* or Miai corporation, of improveiuenta inaile
by thè eity rouncil or by thè county authoritiea and of all
tliiug* teiidiug to make ibi* a betler plnee to live in.
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If the $ 1500-exempt ion measure should by some accident become
law, The Sentnel and the Oregon City Courier could evade taxation
The taxes they would evade would I k * plastered on tin* little plot ol
ground on which that little white house had been built. If the little
white house should not be built, as it probably would not, the po« r
At thè aaine lime timi voti are getling Mie informaiion lo make
you a nseful eitizeu by reading The Sentinel, your patronage
i* aiiling The Sentinel in publi*hiiig vvbnt eminent authorilv
Imsstated to he mie of Mie be*t vvc.kly newspaper* in thè West
Thi* i* another rimami why you eau not afford not to he mi our
Niibaeriptimi li*t. The Sentinel coata Imi Mirre cent* a week
abolii Imlf thr price of n nickel rigar.
number of people by so doing.
man would still have to licar the burden through increased rent lie-
To your frtonds not «Iready od our Itst wo will s*ad T I« Sentina! uà ut
It would not be hard to find a selfish reason for voting for the cause of added tax on the rented home and laud occupied by it.
January. 19Ui, for II.fio aaywharo lo tlm Unltod Stato»
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proposed new county. The more highly developed part of Lane
U « « Orov« country by M odini th* paper to your frtonds In oiliar state»
County, with its greater taxable resources, probably pays consider­
$1500-EX EMl*TIO.N single taxers make much of the fact
able in taxes for the development of this undeveloped section, which ft * J that household furniture is now exempt, thereby giving the
is so cut off from the eastern end of the county that it can never be
rich man an exemption sometimes as great as $20,000 while
of much value to us from a business and commercial standpoint.
the poor man is only exempt the few hundred dollars that he was
The Live Wire Newapaper
Cutting off a large part of the county would greatly lighten the exempt before the household furniture exemption became law. These
work of the county officials, with consei|uent improvement in service single taxers probably also limit themselves to a single idea at a time,
standing vote for such legislation.
There are eeonomie conditions which he
to the remaining part, ami from Cottage Grove’s viewpoint there is for they fail to see (apparently) that the $1500-exemption would only
Consider the justice of the plan. Con cannot escape. Aqy pernicious legisla
room for improvement in some of the departments.
make this inequality more aggravated. We have already explained sider the eifert of its provisions. Hludy tiou which vitally a f fe c t s his employ­
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the possibilities of Ihr scheine. I'irturc
everybody working eight hours bill
mother.
Father’s day has been short
rued; his wage* have not increased.
Possibly, his employer in order lo rom
pete with sn institution in sn ail joining
state, where the same class of employes
work nine hours, has been conqiellrd
to reduce the arale. The law does not
provide for a standard of wages.
Mother's health bna been |xmr Hhr has
been compelled to employ an assistant in
th< home, and while formerly she gol
along viry well with one domestic, two
are neeesaary in taking care of Ihr
babies and doing the housework. Milk
bas advanced in price. Vegelnbles are
higher. The farmer is ineeliug the ex
pense of additional labor made neees
sary through the eight hour day. The
storekeeper is exacting a greutrr pro
fit and the cost uf living, even I» the
rents, has been affected
The shorter day ia not sueh an in
^ ^ ^ J I I K SENTINEL IS for retrenchment all along the line, but it viting proposition lo the employe, nfler
all. It limita his earning power, threat
f t b \ can’t help but believe that the re-establishment of the normal en» to reduce his compensation, p r­
schools at both Ashland and Weston is a necessary expense, eludes nil overtime and impairs his
rhanres for continuous employment.
There are many reasons why residents of Cottage Grove ami the how the home of the rich man worth $15,000 could pay us little tax ss
Cottage Grove country should give the proposed new county a good he $400 or $500 home of the poor man.
We would like to ask who foisted this household exemption upon
vote and no very good reason why they should not.
us if not the same people who are now trying to use it to trick us into
$1500-EXEMPTION AND THE POOR.
single tax limited. If the law is not fair, and it isn’t, why not repeal
FAVORITE ARGUMENT for the $1500-exemption measure it instead of attempting to give us something worse along the same
is that it will make it easier for the poor to own homes- and ine. If there is a real desire to help the poor man, an exemption of
in some wav not clearly explained this is to be at the expense :¡dUO is all that is necessary and is alMiut the only kind of an exemption
of the rich.
hat would help him.
The argument will hold about as much water as a gravel screen
Getting out of paying taxes, both directly and indirectly, is a
with a half-inch mesh and for about the same length of time, but pretty hard proposition and a solution has not yet been advanced
before we undertake to show that this result (erroneously represented except to give away your property and be supported by the state or
to us as highly desirable) would not be brought about by the measure, someone else.
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let us presume for the sake of argument that it could be. Then let us
suppose that the voters who have so little respect for themselves that
they are willing to become charges of the rich (predatory or other­
wise), who have so little independence and are so unpatriotic as to
wish to get out of paying their share of the cost of government, are
great enough in numbers to enact the measure.
What have we accomplished?
We have made the taxes of the rich so high that those from other
states will not come here to help us build up our industries and de­
velop the state and those that are here will leave as quickly as pos­
sible for other states where their property will not be confiscated.
The enactment of the measure would drive what wealth we have
out of the state and keep other wealth from coming here, but the
poor could not erect homes at the expense of the taxpayers that re­
mained, as we shall show, Mr. U’Ren to the contrary notwithstanding.
and not a very large one, either.
tf a want ad. in The Hentinel gets
you something you don’t want, just put
in another ml. aud get rid of Ihe article.
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T5he SENTINEL
There are other expens«* we might
well do away with and give the money to these worthy institutions.
A system of several normal schools, properly placed throughout tIn­
state, has been found most satisfactory in all states that are pro­
gressing educationally, and Oregon, with its popular form of govern­
ment, has greater need than other states of properly educating its
i’uture citizens, both those that would attend the schools and those
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who would be educated by graduates therefrom.
A good supply of those Chinese eggs that come in under the free
trade tariff might come in handy if properly used on the free trade
candidates for office.
"N ARGUMENT IN FAVOR of the measure, which appeared
Booth, Hawley and Withycombe. Paste those names in your hat
originally in the Oregon Journal and is quoted by the Oregon and see that a cross is put before each name when you cast your bal­
City Courier, another single tax paper, is as follows: lot in November.
How much better it would be for all the millionaire« if all the humble people
bad little homes painted white, with a patch o f green in the yard and books on
T. L. Dugger, the veteran Willamette Valley editor, has discon­
the shelf in the living room, with carpet on the floor and some kind of musical
instrument for the family, with a woman in tidy attire presiding over the house tinued the Intermountain Tribune at Sweet Home and will reestablish
hold and with children in good shoes and comfortable clothing playing about the
dcor or trudging off to school.
¡t at Scio as the Scio Tribune.
The Journal is for the «1500-exemption because it will encourage the poor
to get such homes, and its faith in mankind makes it believe that not all the rieh
will be against the measure.
A BUI to Defeat.
any one week.
Under the new order
(Editorial in Eugene Guard.)
of things, for Hunday dinner the folks
The Sentinel can not conceive how* an editor who is not entirely
The proposed eight hour law that will would go out, or mother would do the
non compos mentis, or has no ulterior motive in fooling the voter, he Rutimitted to the voter» of Oregon cooking; the farmer running his farm
this fall ia without re&aon and without with the help of his sons would be
could advance an argument so untenable.
logic.
It ia a »weeping application of guilty of a criminal offense for every
radical aoeialiatic idea of an almost day he might permit them to work
Like many who advocate freak laws, the Journal and Courier a viciou»
nature. It ia unaound because more than eight houra on thr farm.
seem to have little idea of the probable results of the enactment of it puts all kinds of work under varying If he allowed them to do the chores
conditions in a common class and un on Hunday morning, even to the
their proposed law. Mad they understood the fundamental principles safe because it will endanger practically extent of milking a cow or feeding the
v e r y line of industrial activity within horses, over and beyond their work of
of the single tax system, which they so ardently espouse, they coidd e the
atnte. It ia extreme, unreasonable eight hours for six days, he could, un
and without doubt the moat »urpriaing der the clear proviaions of the law, be
not have honestly made the argument that we have quoted.
and be jailed for a year.
legislation intelligent people were ever fined
Mother would face the same situation
The $1500-exempt ion (pure single tax in a limited form) would asked to adopt.
The proponed measure is so cunningly in the kitchen and one misatep from the
throw onto the land a large part of the tax taken from buildings, drafted it might be open to the »us eight hour rule might atart her on the
of having been framed by some road to priaon.
stocks of merchandise, implements and other personal property, picion
person imbued with a deep and vindic­
These illustrations are not overdrawn;
tive purpose to injure the people and they are in accord with the intention
owned in large part by the rich and well-to-do.
industriea of Oregon.
of the framers of the bill who embraced
If the Journal and Courier had passed a kindergarten examina­
The man who works under s great a provision providing that “ children or
mental strain, the laborer who bears a relatives of employers, or their agents
tion in single tax they would have known that whether the humble heavy burden, clerk and employe, do­ shall
not be exempt under this law.”
homes of which they speak so feelingly were painted white, as they mestic and farmhand, are under the It ia a “ universal” eight hour mens
provisiona of the bill thrown into a ure and univeraally will affect the farm
suggest, or green, or purple, or saffron, as might suit the tastes of the common claasiflcation and must not be er, the manufacturer, the storekeeper
ermitted to work more than eight and the housewife. The women of Ore
owners, they couldn’t be suspended in the air. They would have to ours a day or more than six days in gon will never with a proper under
C
er will in the readjustnieiit of things
nffert him.
Oregon is a new state.
Its infant
industries need encouragement.
The
success of economical undertakings
mean the prosperity of the people.
Prosperity brings happiness soiucw here,
but Just now is not the time and-Ore
gon is not the place.
If you are not satisfied as lo the pos
slide effect o f surh legislation, write to
Ihe secretary of stale and secure a eopy
of the proposed law
Hludy it over,
and vote “ N o,“ putting your cross op
(Misite No. .121, as it will Bppetir on the
ballot.
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