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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1934)
PAG« KB One Man’s Opinion of the Recent Sales Tax Debate Under the heading, "A reply to Goss, Zimmerman and Liljeqvist,” Bob Dutton hands the Sentinel the ( following as his impressions of the sales tax debate last week: I non-<produeers, literally gorging the parasites. Goss is not interested in changing the system ef exploitation at all, while Zimmerman might condescend to chsnge it by degrees, starting with a few mild reforms and creating some more non-producing jobs. He would reduce the size of the under ground pipe gradually so as to not discomfort the big boys. The chap deserving publicity is Liljoqvist with hi« won- derful definitions. We had been accustomed to think' ing labor created all wealth but Lil says not so and.-a twelve year old should know better! He will proba bly tell us where and how the non- producers will get along without the producing ma«,«* If the producers should migrate to another land I doubt whether our elite wonders would be able to procure gasolln«, lumber, paintings, news, meals, music, education, flowers or clothing. Do You Know? During the civil war, an old darkie was asked which side he was going . to fight for—the 'North or the South. “Wall suh," he replied, “did you ever see two dogs fighting over a bone? Did you ever see the bone fight? Wall, suh, 1’u de bone.” Times have changed and the bone is demanding its share of the lifeblood of the organism. 'In other words the bone is fighting. These three exponents of legalized i robbery are all agreed that the blood- i sucking octopus of profits should be kept alive by fastening more tentacles arid suckers—taxes (sales and thrift) And now the question of interest I—on the prostrate organism of so enter«. Our lawyer friend Would have ciety, directing the supplies from the us know how indispensable it is to producers and wasting the.m on the ■>ur welfare, but somehow we are not so enthused with his axioms. We see the national loans oversubscribed five times at a rate of two and a half per cent while the big boys are fear ful of the consequences of unredt and we wonder if the whole'scheme of in- trest isn’t just another sad illusion that has been forced upon us like the “pie in the sky” buhble. We <->ee the predatory forces lowering the inter est rate down and down to nearly nothing even as the British lowered the tax on tea-(which our forefathers dumped into the sea) and we are wondering if they didn’t set a good example in scuttling the ship of state (a misnomer for ship o’ plunder.) We have a doubt as to whether there m aay just rate of interest even one half of one per cent Sounds kind o* rad, doesn’t it, but to whom i wonder any that the communists, socialists, —the Liljeqviets and other parasites? rede and Maxiats are truly and surely We are deeply indebted to Doctor placing human right« at the top of Richmond for allocating the fifteen the ladder and have the aupreme minutes to a member of the bar. court of the United State« setting the Since the day« of the fabled mice, precedent The highest court ruled cheese and rat (lawyer or judge et only a few weeks back that a person cetera), the producers have witnessed could not be held to a contract and wljele farm«, fortunes and creameries that human rights would have to come being devoured by the law and law before property rights, temporarily at yers through disputes arising from learft. We know exactly whose human private property. No wonder these rights the court had reference to at birds make a howl of communist, red, the time but then—numbers and ac disciple of Karl Marx, etc., when hu tivity of numbers is a hard argument man rights are mentioned as above to down. Yours for less taxes and less tax. property righto. With property righto in the background, lawyers eaters—lawyers. Bob Dutton. would be worse than useless; their graft would automatically cease. Leet the lawyer in question has been Paul Harvey in Several Pictures misled and is misleading to the hear In remitting for another year for ers, it might not be out of place to the Sentinel Mr«. (Helen ‘Harvey, who VILLARD VISITS SCHOOL HIS FATHER SAVED! FORD TO BUILD HUGE EXPOSITION AT THE 1934 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR L DAYS By DWIG «T CT HUNGERFORD NHO ttGGED UP IteT Y^RBONN€T2 J-' LAY OFF C*VY .J ay , P app » J ) ■» / wt GCffTA Hite our UM TteSE DiGG IN'S T hc . t GAL W ill . ’ K i DNAPP i N' ,—— us B oth » ( usweo TUESDAY
