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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1913)
most investors do not wish to con habitable home to greet them. Thev duct farming operations, Dersonally. must build their cabins, clear and While it is true that a large per Cultivate the land, else starve. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY BY One can easily imagine, when centage of taxation is necessary and T. L. DUGGER, EDITOR aND PROP unavoidable, if our legislators were these sturdy and rugged pioneers honest and levelheaded, our levies bad builded their homes and had SUBSCRIPTION, IN ADVANCE....... $1.25 could be reduced fully 25 per cent, grown crops sufficient to guarantee 1.50 and the public service would not a sustainance for their families for AT END OF YEAR the coming year, that they should suffer in the least. .75 SIX MONTHS ......... Within the past two decades, state feel thankful and be disposed to taxes have multiplied by three or manifest their thankfulness in sbnie ADVERTISING RATES: more and the tax burden has in special way or manner. These old Local advertising, per line.......__ 5c creased all along the line. Are we Puritans were essentially religious; nevertheless they were fighters and Display advertising, per inch..... 10c getting returns commensurate with these enormous expenditures? The must, perforce, protect themselves Display advertising, long time, see quarter section-of land which paid from a savage foe. manager. When they had withstood this $40 to $50 taxes twenty years ago Extended marriage or death notices now pays $150 to $175, yet the pro savage foe, had garnered and hous per line...__ ______.............. 3c ductive ability and the price of ed their crops and had’ prepared Special rates on long time display grain is now less than it was at that themselves for the rigqr of a New advertising. England winter, a feeling of thank time. The fact of the business is, gov fulness—of self satisfaction for what ernment is becoming too expensive. they had accomplished and that they THE TAXATION PROPOSITION We have created too many offices had been enabled to provide their and have inerrased the salaries loved ones against want, was most .Commissioner O. H. Russell in thereof too rapidly. There is too natural. forms the Tribune that our taxes much graft. Officials render too From this custom of our Pilgrim will be unusually high for the com little service fer the salaries they Fathers of the bleak New England ing year. He thinks the state will receive. We do not say they re shores, has the custom of observing call for near if not quite 5 mills and ceive too much salary but do say a November day as Thanksgiving. that the county and school taxes will that they render too little service. Just why the last Thursday was be no less than that in former recent How are we to remedy a condition chosen, has never been satisfactorily years, making a total of, probably which has grown upon us with leaps accounted for. Nor can we attri 18 mills. When we add to this the and bounds? How are we to get bute this day to President Lincoln’s city, special school and road levies, men of sense, discretion, an eye to selection, for he recommended the total will amount to from 25 to the interests of property owners several days during the trying civil 40 mills. and wfio are generally levelheaded, war years as Thanksgiving days. The question is how long can and to go down to Salem, bienpially, and But we do know that every presi will the people stand these ever in spend our money for us? How (are dent succeeding him, has proclaimed creasing levies? the last Thursday of November as Our legislature, in its biennial we to select men as public officials, who are willing to work, at least, National Thanksgiving Day. sessions, seems to think that there The day was accepted as such, part of the time, themselves, and is no bottom to the state’s purse not depend upon hired clerks to do throughout the nation and a turkey and that they can appropriate the the work for which the people are dinner has become the general cus people’s money ad infinitum. In paying them? We do not want offi tom. The day, by legal enactment, addition to the heaviest appropriat has become a holiday in almost ions ever made by an Oregon legis cials who sit back and smoke Per- every state. lature, $25,000 was set apart for fecto cigars, look wise and allow somebody else to do the work while As a rule, men forsake their the purpose of advertising Oregon’s daily occupations and make resources for the purpose of induc they pose as the sum total of all usual effort to be at their homes wisdom. ' every ing new people to come and settle It is a matter which is up to the and participate in the family good among us, in the 1913 sessions. wrong cheer. Sons and daughters who The first impression one gets of voter. Either.our system is or the men who make our laws and have homes of their own, usually this very unusual appropriation of, spend the day with father’ and appropriate our money, are not just the people’s money, is apt to be mother. No Wonder then, that the the officials we should have. favorable; for every one who owns The taxation matter should cause American people, who treasure the property, is benefitted either direct our citizens to hold protest meet ties of the parental home, prize the ly or indirectly by every additional ings and unless retrenchment and day above that of all others. No settler who comes among us. But wonder that every body is imbued when we reason the matter out reform is inaugurated, institute re with the forgiving spirit. The air call proceedings against every legis further, a different thought occurs. is ré- is simply filled with a feeling of lator and other official who Men who have money to invest, as “Peace on Earth and Good Will to a rule, are careful. One of the creant to his trust. all spirit.” The dav inspires a bet questions usually asked by the care ter and more charitable feeling in THANKSGIVING DAY ful investor is what is your rate of the hearts of everyone, It is a day taxation. When told that the levy when those who have, take joy in week from today is our One for all purposes range from 20 to those who 40 mills they at once raise an abjec National Thanksgiving day. The making the homes of have not, happier. tion to the purchase. And they are day has come to mean a great deal Intermountain Tribune justified in the objection; for men, to the American people. It is, more For Sale: 50 head of goats, good especially speculators, invest their than any other holiday or festal day, weathers, at $2 per head. Enquire a family reunion. It is a day when money for purposes of gain. If the expense of the proposed investment all members of a family, their wives of Levy Ellis, Sweet Home, Ore. absorbs too large a portion of the and children endeavor to assemble property’s ability to earn, they have about the family rooftree, when reasonable grounds for refusing to good cheer and good wishes go out NATUROPATH ‘ invest. And they are justified, to each member; a day when many family quarrels and misunderstand too. ‘Deseases successfully treated with For instance: A man ownes 160 ings are adjusted; a day which out the use of drugs or surgery by acres , of good agricultural land makes life brighter and more pleas the Natural Methods of Healing. worth, as land is rated at the pres ant. Chronic diseases a specialty. As a national day of thanksgiving- ent time, $15,000. If this farm is Consultation Free. seeded to grain, 3000 bushels would the day is modern. Until President Member of the State and National be an average crop of wheat, which Lincoln called upon the people to Naturopathic Societies. is worth in the markets $2400. Now observe a day for general thanks let us suppose this is'a rented farm. giving, the American people never First door east, of Turners store. The landlord would| be entitled to had made the day one of national Sherman St. Lebanon, Orb. one-third of the proceeds, or $800. importance. During the Civil war President Under the present rules of assess ing, for taxation purposes, it would Lincoln, by proclamation, had many be valued at or about $7500. If the national thanksgivings. It was his | tax levy is 20 mills, the amount it custom after any great Union will be this year, the landlord will victory, to recommend that the Physician and Surgeon be required to pay $150, or over 18 people repair to their houses of per cent of his income. When we worship and give thanks to the add to this sum the cost of the up Giver of all Good fpr the victory of « keep of the farm, the owner will right over wrong—for progress in Calls promptly attended not have more than $600 left. If the maintainance of an ideal repub the farm cost him $15,000, at best lic among men. day or night But we must go back nearly 300 he is getting but 4 per cent on his investment. Is it any wonder that years for the origin of Thadksgiving moneyed men prefer to invest in day. When our Pilgrim Fathers landed nontaxable 5 and 6 per cent bonds? Of course other than grain crops ; on the bleak shores of Massachusetts will give better returns on the farm; they must, perforce, carve homes in but to get such returns, the owner ■ the then unbroken and untamed S weet H ome O regon must farm the land himself and wilderness—not a vestidge of a Slaughter in Boys Suits I have 30 suits of boys and lads clothing, retail price $7 to $20 per suit. • To close them . out these suits wi|l be sold at just ONE-HALF THE ABOVE PRICES Now is the time to fit your boy out with school suits We also carry a complete line òf= General Merchandise, Groceries, Hardware, Etc. If you will come in and see me, we will do business. J. M. COWDREY Sweet Home Subscribe for the Intermountain Tribune AND BUY YOUR Groceries OF THE Lebanon Supply Co EXCLUSIVE GROCERS Lebanon W. M. BROWN, Vice Pres. CLARENCE INGRAM Cash. ( T. D. O’BRIEN, Assistant Cashier S. C. STEWART President J [. M. STEWART Vice Pres. The Lebanon National Bank Dr. A. A. BURRIS LEBANON, OREGON We do a general banking business We pay interest on time deposits We have safety deposit boxes to rent We want your business and will treat you in a manner to deserve it DR. I. B. WILSON DON’T FORGET THAT WE SELL Poultry Supplies OF ALL KINDS Come in and get prices on the Best / Mill Feed and Flour on the market Grant Street KRIEG & ZIESING Lebanon, Ore. .
