Show ANOTHER JOB theres a big job ahead for the american people that job is to force a more drastic and wholesale deduc tion of expenses of government including state school di district and municipality in order that th the e burden of taxation may be lightened the recent session of congress probably did as much as we could expect from a body of professional politicians in an election year at any rate we must be satisfied for the time being with what we have squeezed out of them 1 but only foolish and unthinking voters and tax pai payers ye rs will I 1 be willing to allow it to rest at that the congress must t be forced to complete the job they undertook with such reluctance but by far the greatest and most diff difficult portion of tle the task now confronting the american tax payers passers is to liter ally compel action on the part of our state and local off officials ici they are just as extravagant as the government and in some instances more so the taxing bodies in a single state are so numerous in ill number as to be bewildering to the average voter who ha has s not made a close study of economics the work of aft cacti i mating requirements and spreading the assessments could be efficiently done by one half of the number of bodies that now exist and in all probability with greater efficiency certainly at a vast re reduction in public expense state bureaus and commissions and such have multiplied to such an extent as to become a standing menace to economical government their payrolls are overloaded and increasing in size their annual budgets like decd just keep right on growing tt it is the same with the cities and the towns and the villages and the counties ever everything y thing going up nothing coming down thinking people are becoming exasperated to the point of rebellion especially when we see our earning powers curtailed curta ild while the cost of government puts a kangaroo to shame with its leaps and bounds an election year is an ideal time for bringing wholesale pressure to bear upon public officials and those who are seeking the franchise of the voters it put them on the rack every one of them a and nd turn the screws until they howl if their pledges for economic economic reform are not satisfactory just keep on oil turning ng the screws until there is nothing left upon which to waste votes better a vacant office than an official who repudiates his oath and prostitutes his official position this is a fight for the people and the people will have to do their own fighting |