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[Editor's Note We are glad to
give space to the people of our com
munity on topics <>f the day. but
ask them not to become personal or
abusive.
Fach contributor must
sign name, not for publication, but
for our protection 1
Farming Out fhi Taxes
To the Editor:
Oil Stoves
Why aland over a h«>t cook stove and heat
up the bouse so that no one can eat or sleep?
Why not enjoy the comfort* of a Good Oil
stove ‘‘
The New Perfection
The most gigantic fraud ever per
And the New Price ia
petrated or patiently endured by the
people is the ancient social crime
euphoniously termed
farming out
Foi Three Burner«
the taxes." which was devised by
the Roman em|wror m the interest
The
The Roman
power gained two years ago by the of the Roman noble«
Winchester
republicans has been poorly used,' nobility knew, as everyl«>dy knows,
Store
and those who couldn’t read the that a useless. non pr ductive body
of
leeches,
if
they
subsist
at
all.
signs are on the toboggan slide for
home
The old guard is praying must sulwist on graft, for as non-
producers they could offer no valid
for l^iFollette's defeat.
So they went forth and taxed
excuse for appropriating enormous every man in proportion to his in
sums of wealth from the producers dustry, taxed hit money, house,
T»!K lesson learned from Rufaell
with which to support their extrav barns, chicken coops, cattle, land,
Hecker's fate should sink deep into
agant excesses. which were reducing orchard, dog and dog house, and
the heart of every young person, as
the producing people to poverty and even the babies didiee. until the
it proves that wrong cannot go un
despair. But graft could not lie working people were reduced to
punished nor never be found out.
operated except under the camou such indebtedness and poverty that
He traveled too faat, it took more
flage of respectability, and as they they lost their homes and farmsand
money than he could earn, and to
had to iive without labor ard on the were haunted with starvation. They
keep up his gate he fell for dealing
lat>or of others, it became necessary also taxed land according to area ao
in moonshine whiskey, then murder
to establish rr«peetabilitv
There that a farmer who had a large niece
for the purpose of robbery, ao it is
fore. these nobles adopted a respec of land worth only (1,000 in land
proven, and the jury which tried
table slogan which was graciously value paid more taxes than the man
him said he was guilty as charged
accepted by the populace who. when who owned <>ne small acre in Rome
in the indictment, first degiee mur
done with their arduous day's work, worth (1.000 000 in land value.
der
There is no other ¡wnalty but
were wont to soothe their overtaxed Needless to say the farmers were
death under such a verdict. The
minds with admiration of Kewpie driven off the land (just as our far
lesson is thia: To you your life inly
dolls (for they had Kewpie dolls in mers are losing their land today),
not mean mu<*h, but the anguish,
Rum»), or the probability of abun in this wav the nobles came to own
the heartstrings broken, the disgrace
dant crop — which, however, was all the land except one-third, which
vou would bring upon your dear old
destined to be divided half and half went to the emperor. vo that when
father and mother should cause the
with the nobles
But I am ahead Rome fell "1500 men owned all the
uplifted hand to stay its stroke, the
of my story
known world."
hand to loosen its holdon the fire
One day a genius (verv much like
Well, after thia they went to the
arm. and the breaking of law in
one of the geniusess--metI hics found
emperor, who claimed that the land
moonshining and other daik deeds
in our Chambers of i mmerce iarooe
whs producing nothing but was held
not countenanced, and thereby bring
and said: "Let us name ourselves j
out of uae for «peculation, that the land," and Gracchi replied "Funny
peace, happiness and joy into their
as is befitting so honorable and pow-j
nation's wealth was running low to hear that from a man who is al
and your lives
lie sure your sins
erful a body. let us Roman nobles
and that the nobles were sapping ready busted and is having hie
will Ire found out
call ourselves ‘Noble Romans,* "!
ail the wealth of the people through wealth, the only thing he works for,
and so down to this far day has
rent, so then the nobles got him to confiscated year after year." He
Tit»: First Methodist church at come the gratitude, admiral <>n and
reduce the tax on land and increase then axked this citizen, "Now, bro
Brownsville has passed resolutions respectability engendered by that
the taxes on wealth, because their ther. sup|H>*r your land was in the
of condolence to the families of wonderful slogan. As a matter of
friends in the R R. and Corpora wild stale and had never t»een touch
Sheriff Kendall and Rev H<*aly.who fact they were not noble, being ad-
tions
and Manufactories could shift ed by the hand of man, how much,
met death at the hands of an aasas- dieted luldiagusting habits, such as
the taxes to the ultimate consumer rent would you pay for it for farm
sin and moonshiner. Have West, and eating until their dintended stom
would pay all their taxes too. with ing purpose«?" "Oh,” he answer
further calls upon Gov. Olcott to achs and bowels would hold no more
out knowing it.
ed, "not more than (10." "Well,
clean up the county. We approve when they tickled their throats with
At this time the two great re how much taxes are you paying
wholeheartedly the condolences ami feathers, vomited themselves, and
deplore the tragedy, but let the peo went on with the merry gorging In formers known in history as the two now?" The citium answered "(120."'
ple remember this and let it soak in truth they were a disgusting, brutal Gracchi defied the noblee in ’he in Then Gracchi said, "Under the sin
that this tragedy would never have people with little intelligence and terest of the people and said: "You gle tax you would pav (10 taxes, or
occur red if those who now believe nasty habits, but that did not phase are ruining the people with taxes on yob would save (110. Do you think
wealth to support a lot of landlords you would lose your farm particu
«>> strongly in law and order had the power of the slogan.
Being efficient thieves, the empe who are useless non-producers, who larly in that you will have no other
made it their duty in times past to
render every assistance in maintain ror. whose divine right also rested rob the people through rent. The taxes to pay?" And Gracchi con
ing law and order. We have shut on graft, was shrewd enough to people must have homes, the land tinued, "One acre in the city of
our eyes once too often, and three know that these nobles were invalu must be used. We don't want nobles, Portland, bounded by Washington,
In fact, they might we want workers, producers.liberty. Sixth. Alder and Seventh streets, is
lives were snuffed out before we able to graft
opened them, Now that we have at any time boost him off his guild- justice and a home and security for worth $1.049.000. ami would pay
$23 OO
w¿rterR. M. Cain
THE tbit»AY, JVLV 6. i922
Bible Thoughts for
This Week
Sunday.
HE HEt-FI MH ANI» CHOWS'*:
—
the !x>nl. O my soul and
forget not all his banrflts: who
rrdeetneth thy life from destruc
tion : who crownvth thee with lov
ing kindness and tender mervlea.—
I'saliu JOB: 1. 4.
Monday.
A MORNING PflAYBRCreate
In me a denn heart. O God ; and
renew a right spirit within me.—
I'aalni Bl : to.
Teesday.
THE MUH’ IH oool»:—<1 taste
and sec that the I-ord la g<«wt :
hlewxM la the tonti that trualvth
tn him.— I'as Ini Mt a.
Wednesday.
THE GOl.l'I.N lit i H:—Whatno-
ever ye would that m<-n should do
to you. do ye even so to them: for
this Is the law and the propbeta-—
Matthew T 12.
Thursday.
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HAFEGt AllI'EI' —He shall give
hla angela i hargr over thee, to keep
thee In all ilo ways E»nlm W1 : 11
I ■ i ley.
Il I <11 EM HAVE WINGM:—La
bour not to I— rich : <•««* from
thine own « l««lom For riches ore
lalnl} make« th-ni«rl«rs wings;
they fl) away
Prmeri-s 2B: 4. &.
Saturday.
H NTT EH 111 AN lit IIIE.S
Search the «cripta res : for In them
yr think yr have dertovi life; aim
they are they which testify of me
John B: 30
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Y Id. you could almost fry eggs in
the sun Sunday. It sure was hot.
T hk law in Pennsylvania against
aliens owning d«»gs stands out as a
monument to the framers as the
biggest ftvak under the sun. No
lietter friend of man thin his dog
can l>c found, whether alien or na
tive. and probably that's the reason
they don't want alien’s to own a
dog he would have a friend.
Met’’ MURK loses the nomination
for U. S senator from North Da-
kot.« to Lynn J Frailer. Non-Partl-
«¿in l.ragiie Republican. If luiHol-
lell- wins in Wisconsin he will In
come chairman of the finance com
mittee. the most powerful commit
tee in the senate
McCumbar is a
reactionary. IdiFollelte is progres
sive. and so far this year all stand-
pat'era have l<een defeated. The
seen, let us keep them open and
practice what we preach by render
ing every assistance to the new
sheriff, and if he and we cannot
clean up the county, then ask the
governor to do what we are too in-
different or afraid to do. The
~ pro-
pie of Linn county are the ones to
clean up Linn county. And it must
lie done!
ad throne. Thev knew hit fearsand every one. Stop taxing wealth and
approached him with insinuating put a tax on the value of land.
arguments and reference to their Then one acre in the heart of Rome
power which forced from the empe will pay as much taxes as a whole
ror a compact called "farming out ¡county of farming land, the nobles
the taxes, ** He said: “Go forth can't afford to hold the land idle,
and tax everything in sight to the production and prosperity will re
amount you think it will stand; you turn for all." It is recorded that a
take two-thirds and giee me one- c-ititen. a farmer, said to one of the
IGracchi. "You will confiscate our
third" of the swag.
approximately $52,000
acre mind you."
taxes-one
The nobility, just like our Cham
ber of Commerce, R R.. Corpora*
lions, etc., raised old ned with the
emperor for tolerating the Gracchi
and got out a new slogan and yelled
it all over Rome:
Confiscation!
"Confiscation!
It will ruin the work-
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