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
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LEBANON, OREGON
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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
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Poultry Supplies
OF ALL KINDS
Come in and get prices on the Best
/
Mill Feed and Flour
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Lebanon, Ore.
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