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THB SALES TAX SHOULD
BE APPROVED JULY 21
Under the heading “Sales Tax for
Emergency,” the Oregon Voter re
cently published the following, giving
some excellent masons why the sales
tax law should be' adopted at the
special election on July 21. The sales
tax ia an emergency measure and
should it be defeated at the referen
dum election it will throw the affairs
of the state of Oregon into a more
chaotic condition than they were be
fore. If it is not found satisfactory
the sales tax law can be abolished
when some better system is devised,
but for this yfear and next it appears
to be the only solution of our tax
problems.
foresee what is likely to happen in
the event the sales tax fails. Neces
sity demands patriotic action in the
common interest. Lack of patriotic
action may involve all in ruin.
The situation here in Portland is
not, probably will not be, as desperate
ae in most of the outside counties,
especially the lumber and wheat
counties. But professional men and
merchants here in Portland can see
the state as a whole and size up what
ought to be done. If they are wise
they will look, study and foresee be
fore they commit themselves against
the sales tax.
Politicians, demagogue newspapers
and greedies will of course be against
the sales tax from the start; they im
peril public welfare to advance their
own personal fortunes. The patriotic
citizen will do well by his state if he
makes his own study, comes to his,
own conclusion, and acts on hi» _pwn
conscience.
WHAT THE U. 3. NEEDS
The Sentinel is- always willing to
prfnt letters ,from readers, whether we
agree entirely with them or not, when
their communications are witten in a
temperate vein, as is the letter repro
duced below. But, of course, we must
always know who the author is.
The suggestion this writer makes
is not one that frightens. A revolu
tion would be terrible, but the idea of
a dictator is not.
Representative
government, with so many selfish
and greedy politicians able to hood
wink the voters into placing them in
positions of authority, is not func
tioning as the founders of this nation
planned that it should, and a square
shooting dictator would not permit
the graft which is one cause of high
taxes today. The representatives of
representative government represent
themselves, not the people who sleet
ed them.
The "Co-operative Commonwealth,’’
which "Bill Hilly” urges in his letter,
might do what he claims it would do,
more evenly distribute the wealth of
the country and give every citizen a
share in all wealth produced. That
would be an ideal condition, but we
do not believe that anything like the
Russian communism will ever be sat
isfactory to the people of the United
States, or to any other civilized nation
—not even to Russia itself.
“Bill Hilly’s letter follows:
his calculation.
But, of course, offi-!r
daily and constitutionally this con
gressional beer could’ not produce
drunkenness. Only bleary blousiness,
perhaps?
This perennial problem of how to
put a kick into non-intoxicating beer j
should prove engaging for all those
who find entertainment in puzzles.,
This is almost as tough a nut as de
termining how the place where beer ‘
is sold can avoid being a saloon. Drys
at least must get some fun out of
watching the wets attempt the crack
ing.
Then there ia the conundrum, Is a
drunken driver drunk if he got that
way on legal and “nonintoxicating”
beverages?
American
motorists
should get a good chuckle out of that
one. At least until they meet the
drunken driver.
Another pertinent puzzle is, Why
should the Senate seek to deprive
youth of the benefits of beer?
If
adults cannot got along without the
peculiar benison of beer, why deny
such a boon to minors? Isn’t that a
particularly unfair kind of prohibi
tion? What will babies do without
this “food?”
And then there is the matterof
patriotism.
At a foregathering' of.
beer boosters the other day, Mr. C.|
D. Williams, secretary of the United
States BrArers’ Association, made
clear the duty of 100 per cent Ameri
cans. He said :
“We can all have the comforting
reflection that every time we drink
beer we are performing a patriotic
act, and in every glass there is a step
forward toward prosperity.”
Apparently the poor fellow who
can afford only a dozen glasses a day
will be frowned upon as a slacker.
And what of the unhappy man who
cares not for hops?
Or the mis
guided individual who has been told
by the National Grange that drink
ing milk is the best way to help the
farmer? On this basis they must be
veritable traitors.
It’s all very topsy-turvy in this
best of beer worlds, and would be
very amusing—were it not so idotic
and so tragic.
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Enacted as a lieu tax, to save prop
erty values from tax annihilation
while saving local government units
from bankruptcy, the sales tax will
be adopted by the voters of Oregon if
t
in it they recognize a desperate reme
dy preferable to what will happen if
it falls of adoption.
By W. S. Bickels
Like submitting to an operation,
the thing to consider is not whether
"All I know is what I read in the
it will hurt, but what will happen if
papers.”—Will Rogers.
Coquille, March 24.
the operation is not performed.
Editor Sentinel: Many have given
Like an operation, a sales tax is an
The solution of the farmer’s plight
ordeal. It has all the faults its critics their diagnosis of the ills of these U.
allege, though not in the same degree States, yet she seems to be growing must be seriously undertaken. City
that most of them allege. Consumer no better. May an ordinary Bill Hilly and town dwellers also have plights, i
critics aay ft is all paid by the con ba permitted to suggest what is but it is believed these will be auto-,
sumer and they resent paying its Pro wrong and at the same time offer a maticaiiy righted when agriculture
Congress
fessional men say it is an unjust tax remedy. To people who are honest, again becomes profitable.
in that it hits them on their gross in there is nothing unjust, (even if in will play politics and quibble over de
come while they have to pay on their convenient for a while.) Let me say tails of the present program for farm
net income. The farts are that deal that the main cause today of all our relief, but the president so far has
For held these gentlemen in line by
ers cannot pass all of it along to the trouble ia the profit system.
consumer; that they can pres some of when man can acquire millions of shrewdly postponing the distribution
it along; and that the professional wealth in the average lifetime, is it of patronage. Therefore prospective
mew can survive under it better then not plain to any thinking person that new postmasters and other pie-coun
property can survive in private own there are other millions of men on the ter stool-warmers may have to wait
awhile.
ership if a lieu tax is not sustained. »rink of poverty?
If we admit this to be the case, why
What will happen if the sales tax
is not sustained can be foreseen not be fair with ourselves find all
Under the present law the state has
easily. The state levy on property others and do away with capitalism a prior claim to the first tax money
will have to be paid by the counties; and adopt the co-operative common received by the counties, despite de
thia payment will leave little or noth wealth, as outlined by the socialists of linquencies.
According to news re
ing in some counties to disburse in this country for many years past? ports Wasco county may challenge
ing” provision of the constitution is
their school districts and municipali I would suggest to any of the readers this right, as 76 per cent of its indi
quite impotent.
ties; in most counties it will leave that he go to the public library and vidual taxpayers are delinquent. A
only a balance to be so distributed. <et the book entitled, “Looking Back suit to determine the constitutional
“Matsoukk, Japan’s noted states
Local governmental bodies will be de ward from the Year 2000, A. D.," by ity of the law would be welcomed by
man, once peddled coffee in Portland,”
prived of all or part of the revenues Sdw. Bellamy, read it carefully and all Oregon counties. Under the pres
says a news headline. He is now as
necessary bo their operation; this will then ask himself if there is not a bet ent system the state can ruthlessly
sisting in the peddling of trouble in
mean that many of them will have to ter way than this miserable chaotie bankrupt the counties, and some of
th* entire world.
operate on warrants as long as the system «Msqsw
that am
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them
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how
this
situation.
money shavers will buy the warrants masse« of our people, which if co»-.. State government might be adminis-1
It is reported that Greta Garbo is
at a discount; that after warrants no tinued means' either revolution or die- tered at considerably less expense if
returning to this country. Attempts
longer can be sold, local government tatorship and it looks like the present it had to consider uncollected taxes as
St secrecy have attended her voyage.
will break down to a frontier basis, rulers are preparing for- the tatter, ’ a factor in ite budget-making,
We could stand it if she arranged a
with schools sustained only by volun as witness Mussolini, of Italy; Hit-1
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voyage on a return boat, attended
tary contributions and order main ler, of Germany; and Roosevelt, of j After the novelty of being able to
I with great publicity.
tained by vigilantes. Local salaries, U. S., asking congress to grant the purchase unsatisfactory S.2 beer has
school and city, will cease. As war equivalent of dictatorial powers.
¡worn off, the federal government will
Major oil companies have been
rant obligations pile up, they pile up
Let us hope that a revolution will find its revenues also unsatisfactory,
holding meetings this week for dis
as debts which are a lien on the im be one of ballot«, instead of bullets,
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cussion of their troubles in the matter
movable real estate until ultimately and if we can give this our serious ! After the country got rid of Jimmy
of over-production of crude. Easily
they are redeemed by tax collections and earnest thoughts, I believe, we his wife decided to do likewise.
remedied by reducing the price of
which in amount will far exceed the 1 ea» And our way out of the woods yet.
gasoline.
sales
u
I m tax levies now contemplated to Yours respectfully. B. H.
Through obstreperous action of a
keep government on a going basis.
few senators the legislature failed to
The Associated Pre«« state«: “The
Without this salen tax, or such
provide any regulatory legislation for
BARRELS OF FUN?
Italian chamber of deputies has passed
other emergency tax as can be col
the sale of beer. Outside the limits of a bill, presented by Mussol ■lini him-
(Christian Science Monitor)
lected (and no one has figured out
There is no reason today for drys to incorporated cities it can be sold like self, which gives the government the
any other kind of a tax which is sure agree
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lemonade. The state’s attorney-gen right to veto the erection of new in
with the
contenti^
of volume collection in time to save ; that America’s good spirits must
eral has this to say:
dustrial plants or the enlargement of
the situation), it will be many years aqueous. But in all fairness there
“It is a matter of regret that there
The design of this
before property can be extricated ahould be greater recognition of the are no specific regulations provided existing ones.”
from the debt that will attach to it; mirth-provoking qualities of beer by any state statute to prevent possi legislation is to prevent further ex
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issue of warrants.
I Not as a drink. The sad soddenness ble abuses which may arise from the tension of industrial capacity beyond
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«asks is proveitial. But as a sale of beer outside of incorporated consumers’ demand. Economists bold
that this condition has long existed—
will be necessary for the governor to producer of legislative antics and of cities and towns. However, it will be
production exceeding the ability of
session to submit it ridiculously august argumentation, the policy of this office, if such abuses
the people to purchase. Even in boom
agmn (or srtmit some kind of a sub- beer is definitely adding to the gayety develop, to curb them as far as pos
tiaeee in the United States from 10 to
atitute) in an effort to finance gov- of nations.
sible by invoking all of the laws that 20 per cent of capacity has not been
srnment so ft can survive without an- i Per
For instance,
barrels
of
amusement
instance, barrels of amusement may be found applicable, such as the utilized. Economists further argue
tire ruin to private property fa Ore-1 froth forth from the beery battle be- nuisance statute and the law prohibit
gon.
That means another special tween Senate and House over wheth- ing acta tending to delinquency of a that it absorbs investment funds
etactaon, possibly another failure, un- er the alcoholic content of the bever- minor. In this way we ask the co which must be lost due to inability of
the plant to use all of its facilities
til such time as distracted public1 age
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~ which Congress
-
with
peeks to operation of your (sheriff’s) office.”
profitably.
opinion comes to its senses.
| bless the country ^should be 3.2 per
Brewers and dispensers, if they
To provost the building of unneces
For months. Hie sales tax has been cent or 3.06. The joke here is that expect to continue long in business,
sary railroads, the United States
recognized as inevitable if property is .jolly lawmakers in the 8enate ap- will also have to co-operate with the
many years ago created the Inter
to be saved to private ownership in ' parently expected the Supreme Court officers. Will they do ft? They never
Oregon. It is inescapable. It is the j to accept fifteen-hundredths of 1 per have in the past shown that they had state Commerce Commission to regu
late their activities and end the prac
one tax that will bring in enough cent as the difference between an in that much brains.
tice of mulcting the public of funde
money to relieve property of enough toxicating and non-intoxicating brew.
for investment in projects doomed to
excess burden to give it a chance to
Will Rogers has already figured out
Attention is called to the fact that failure before they were built. Thus
survive under what burden remains. that with somewhere near 3 per cent
the Oregon amendment to ite consti ended one of the greatest promoters’
Professional people, merchants and alcohol tipplers can
calculate
on tution regarding prohibition ia self-
rackets in the country.
others who dread the extra burden thirty-three and a third drinks for a
executing; but there is no penalty for
Our
government’s
paternalism
that this sales tax win impose on-----
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complete 100 per cent drunk. Con- violation provided by any legislation might well be extended to cover the
them, win do well to stop, look and gross should be careful not to upeet
now ia force. Hi
the "seK-execut- building of industrial plants. There
TABLOIDS
¡•n’t a community in th« country that i they will also reap part of the bene-
hasnT suffered from some wild-cat' fits.
promotion scheme—the building of a
Millions of people will visit the Chi
factory to “provide a payroll for the cago world’s fair; but Oregon, as a
town,” for instance — and other state, will be absent.
schemes to defraud.
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No “moocheT” ever got anywhere.
“Why does Oregon lag behind her
Taxpayers are not to pay for the two sister states?" is a question re-
swimming pool to be instaalled in the petedly asked. Is our climate so com
White House for President Roosevelt. fortable that ft produces inertia, aelf-
A United Press dispatch of a few satiafaction, laziness, and a few other
days ago said: “The house of repre maladies? Perhaps scolding ourselves
sentatives has approved acceptance of occasionally will help; at any rate we
a publicly- donated pool at the White are beyond being harmed by eolf-eenr
House for the use of the president.” sure.
Wo confess to having been misinform
ed about this and to having indulged
Still Good Doctrine
■in a criticism unwarranted by the
Other republics have failed because
facts.
ths citizens gradually grew to consid
"Somebody made a mistake.” Loss er the interests of the class against
to a steamship company of 3260,000 the whole. For when such ia the
when one of Its steamers sunk a few ease it mattered not whether the poor
plundered the rich or the rich exploit
days ago while moored at her pier in
ed
the poor; in either case the end of
Seattle harbor. It would be of faterr-
-eat to know Whether or not the unfor the republic was at hand. We must
tunate mishap was due to some false resolve not to fall into such a pit.
economy. Very often mediocre men This great republic of ours «hall nev
are placed in positions of responsibil er become the government of plu
ity because their services are obtain tocracy and it shall never become the
government of a mob. — Theodore
able for hms pay.
Roosevelt.
"California and Washington will
each have exhibits at the Century of
Progress exposition to be held this
year In Chicago. Oregon will have
none, through failure of a legislative
appropriation, which leads the Port
land Journal to comment as follows:
“Anyway, those who come West, at
tracted by Washington and California
exhibits, will pretty nearly have to
cross Oregon. When they cross Ore
gon and behold the scenic beauty of
the state, and all of the resources that
for lack of population are not devel
oped or used, they will be tempted to
stop, look and listen.”
Thus Oregon site back and “mooch
es” off her sister states.
In every town there are so-called
business men who are “moochere.”
They will not subscribe to any popular
movement, expecting
nevertheless
that it will succeed through the aid
To Examine 400,090 Drivers
k,
’ w
C. N. (Shang) Laughridge, deputy
secretary of state, will devote his en
tire time during the next six months
to the task of re-organizing the oper
ators’ division of the state department
and to supervising the licensing of
more than 400,000 automobile drivers
who will be required to renew their
permits in the next few months.
Laughridge who came to Salem from
Conndon 14 years ago to enter the em
ploy of the state is known as a “bear”
for detail which peculiarly fits him for
the big job which he has undertaken.
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