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1948 - 61 MILLION PERSONS EMPLOYED AT THE HIGHEST WAGES EVER PAID. FARM INCOME 29 BIL
LION DOLLARS SEVEN TIMES LARGER THAN REPUBLICAN YEAR 1932. VOTE DEMOCRATIC FOR
PROSPERITY. PEACE. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELFARE. DON'T TAKE A CHANCE ON ANOTHER RE
PUBLICAN DEPRESSION!
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY ADMINISTRATION
ACHIEVEMENTS
TRUMAN AND BARKLEY
TRUMAN EXEMPTS 5,500,000 OF THE
LOWEST INCOME TAXPAYERS BY
VETOING TWO REPUBLICAN SPON
SORED TAX BILLS
President Harry S. Truman vetoed the first and second
Republican income tax bills introduced by Republican Con
gressman Knudson of Minnesota, because the bills gave 80',r
of the tax reduction to approximately 20% of the taxpayers.
The Republicans in Congress failed to get the required number
of votes to over-ride the President's vetoes and the two bills
failed to become part of the tax laws.
The Republican tax program was to give $20 tax re
duction to the tax-payer with the $100 tax and $20,000 to the
tax-payer with-$100,000 tax to pay and not to exempt the low
income tax-payers who needed the tax exemption to help pay
the increased cost of living.
President Truman held a conference with leading Demo
crats in Congress and recommended a tax program that would
have exempted 11,000,000 of the lowest income tax-payers from
paying income tax. Truman also recommended an excess
profit tax on corporations that would have raised about $3,-
.Y.u.*000,000 to replace the loss of revenue from exempting the
low income tax payers. This was a victory, for President
Truman won by vetoing two Republican tax bills. The third
tax bill was passed over Truman’s veto.
Truman's tax program exempted each tax payer up to
$200, therefore, the tax-payer with $100,000 would have re
ceived the same tax exemption as the tax-payer with a $200
income tax.
VPhen President Truman won the exemption of 5,500,000
of the lowest income tax-payers, he got more relief to per
with
low .incomes than three Republican Presidents,
sons
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover got out of 12 years of Re
publican Congress.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESS IGNORED RECOMMENDA-
• T1ONS BY THREE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS. A RE
PUBLICAN CONGRESS WOULD CONTINUE TO DISRE
GARD RECOMMENDATIONS BY A REPUBLICAN PRESI
DENT.
STATE CANDIDATES—U. S. Senator Manley J. Wil
son — U. S. Renresentative Edward E. Gideon — Governor
Lew Wallace — Secretary of State Byron G. Carney — State
Treasurer Walter J. Pearson — Attorney General William B.
Murray.
The Democratic Administration gets things done, as
follows: Federal government assistance to the aged, the blind,
and orphan children; Social Security retirement payments to
retired workers; payments to the unemployed; food and clothing
to the needy; assistance to help educate needy boys and girls;
warm lunches to school children; federal and state co-opera
tive work program for unemployed persons; protected labor
in its right to organize and collective bargaining; helped to
establish a 40-hour week; minimum wages and a week’s vaca
tion each year with pay. Federal government provided long
term loans with low rates of interest to farm and city home
owners, which saved more than one million homes from mort
gage and tax foreclosure; loans to tenant farmers to purchase
stock and farm machinery, and finally to purchase land.
The Republican platform and candidates are silent on the
most important issues concerning the prosperity, social and
economic welfare of the people, viz.: The regulation of
banking, finance business, and sale of securities; a depositor
insurance; a nationwide soil conservation program; federal
development of hydro-electric power, to be sold as now provided
to public utility districts. The Democratic Party and the
Democratic Administration pledges to continue and to improve
all legislation that was made during the Democratic Adminis
tration.
AGRICULTURE
The Democratic Administration has set up a two-year
price guarantee program on agricultural products to begin at
the end of the war. This gives the fanners time to plan and
present to Congress a legislative program that will give the
farmers an income equal with industrial workers. Farmers
who produce 85% of all agricultural products are now work
ing together and taking full benefit of the agricultural act
enacted by a Democratic Administration. The soil conserva
tion program increases production per acre and is the founda
tion for a permanent farm program for the family-sized farm.
Loans are made at low rates of interest to farmers until
crops are marketed; this helps to stabilize prices and increase
the income of the farmer. Loans at low rates of interest to
prevent tax and mortgage foreclosures on homes. This act
alone saved more than one million homes from mortgage fore
closure.
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Ernest A. Carson
Democrat Candidate for County Clerk
University graduate and six years clerical work. Twelve
years business experience. The County Clerk’s books will
always be open to everyone for information.
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Vilas L. Shepard
C. E. (Cal)
• 17 Years police experience
• Prompt, courteousservice— im
partially performed.
W. W. Dillard
*
District Attorney, Democrat
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David R. Davies
Democrat Candidate for Co. Assessor,
Columbia County
Veteran of 1917 and own my farm.
I will ask a member of the State Tax Commission to
come to Columbia County to assist in adjusting the difference
in assessment of property which date back 15 to 20 years.
I urge property holdings are assessed at a much lower
rate of cash value than farms and homes. By raising the
assessment rate bn large property holdings to the same rate
as that on farms and homes, the tax on farms and city homes
would be much lower. The record books will always be open
to everyone for information.
I am a member of the A.F.L. and the Yankton Grange
David R. Davies
REPUBLICAN PRICES
March 1, 1933
Wheat, 34c a bushel.
Hogs, $3.15 a hundred.
Steers, $3.65 a hundred.
Cows, $15 to $20 per head.
Lambs, $5.25 a hundred.
Butter, 16c per pound.
Eggs, 14c per dozen.
DEMOCRATIC PRICES
March 1, 1941
Wheat, 89c a bushel.
Hogs, $11.35 a hundred.
Steers. $10.50 a hundred.
Cows, $40 to $75 per head.
Lambs, $8.95 a hundred.
Butter, 30c per pound.
Eggs, 30c per dozen.
When the Democratic Administration took over the
business of operating the government in March 1933 it found
the following assets from twelve years of Republican Ad
ministration: 14,280,000 unemployed and 25,500,000 under
nourished men, women, and children; wages and farm income
the lowest in 30 years; morale and confidence in our govern
ment the lowest in the history of our country. The American
people lost more than 255 billion dollars in income, bank fail
ures, mortgages and tax foreclosures, investments in holding
companies, and securities with little or no value back of them.
Investments in good securities dropped 50% to 60%; property
values dropped 60% to 70%; 15,628 banks closed between 1921
and March 1933 and every business day about 8000 people
were added to those who were unable to get the money they
had entrusted to their bank. There were more than three
times as many business failures between 1921 and 1933 com
pared with the period 1900 to 1921. The increase in farm
and home foreclosures for mortgages and taxes were five
times greater during the same periods, all during REPUBLI
CAN PROSPERITY SPECIAL, with Harding, Coolidge, and
Hoover occupying the White House.
Safeguard Oregon’s Hydro-Electric
Power For The People
The construction of Bonneville and Grand Coulee power
plants and distribution of electric power at cost to public
utility districts has saved the people of Oregon and Washing
ton millions of dollars every year; also made light and power
available at a price that the farmer and home owner can af
ford to pay.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM CONTAINS
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: “WE S H A L L
TAKE GOVERNMENT OUT OF COMPETITION
WITH PRIVATE INDUSTRY.” According to the
Republican platform there will be no more hydro-electric
power plants built by the government in connection with flood
control and irrigation, or selling of electric power to public
utility districts as now provided by act of Congress. That
means the end of electric power sold at cost to homes and
factories. With Truman as President, and a Democratic Con
gress, the people are assured of electric power at cost of
generating the power. The prosperity and development of
Oregon depends on cheap electric light and power. Bonneville
and Grand Coulee power plants, from sale of electric power,
are more than paying the cost of construction and operation
and will provide more employment, by bringing new industries
to Oregon without any tax levy.
Democratic nominee for joint represen
tative, Thirty-third district, Clatsop
and Columbia counties.
THRONE. JR.
• Veteran of World War 1
Journal and Oregonian Market Report Prices
Comparative Republican and Democratic
Prices
HENRY NIEMELA,
VOTE FOR
SHERIFF
1921 TO 1933
For scientific management of
natural resources for sustained
yield, fair tax program based
on ability to pay and for just
labor legislation elect
• —
Democratic
candidate for
12 YEARS REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION
Candidate for Representative, Columbia Co.,
Democrat
I respectfully submit to the Democratic voters of Co
lumbia County my candidacy for Representative in the State
Legislature.
I have been a contractor and builder for 30 years, have
owned taxable property in this county for some time, and am
very much interested in taxation, especially property taxation
for highways, county roads and city streets. I believe that
there should be a more equable distribution of the gas tax
to county roads. If elected to the legislature I pledge myself
to put forth my best effprts in a reduction of the tax load.
More and cheaper electricity would go far in improving
the rural and city homes of the Oregon people.
I would join favoring such legislation as will promote
the greatest possible use of Bonneville Pow’er and the develop
ment of more electric power in Oregon.
I have been in public office for some time. Some of
the offices I hold are:
President of the Clatskanie People’s Utility District.
Representative and Treasurer of the Oregon People’s
Clyde Henderson
Candidate for County Commissioner, Columbia
County, Democrat
I have lived in Columbia County fifteen years and own
my own farm.
I have had experience in building and maintenance of
roads and bridges, also in fire prevention and soil erosion.
I have had vast experience, in meeting the public, being
employed as salesman with the "Underwood Typewriter Com
pany for 11 years and 6 years in my own business in Port
land.
Am Master of Natal Grange No. 302. Have been school
clerk for the past six years.
Was local committee man on A.A.A. and soil conserva
tion (or five years, and was elected as County Committee
member, which position I gave up to file as County Commis
sioner.
Utility District Directors Association, which I represented at
the 1947 Legislature.
A director of the Red Cross for 8 years.
A member of the board of trustees of the Lower Co
lumbia Highway Association.
I am vice present of the Clatskanie Kiwanis Club.
I have a knowledge of the needs of Columbia County
and promise if elected as Commissioner of Columbia county
to see to it that the taxpayer’s money is expended where most
needed in all parts of the county.
A Past Grand a the Chskanie L O. O. F. Lodge and a
member of the Clat .kanlo Rebekah Lodge.
I am a member of the Clatskanie Grange and repre
sented it at State Grange at Bend last June.
Vilas L. Shepard
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I am recommended by Wm. Pringle, Sr., the retiring
Commissioner, as the man suitable to take his place.
Clyde Henderson
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By Columbia County Democratic Central Committee
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