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Show dustry which has been taxed in accordance ac-cordance with law since statehood, should be assailed by the irresponsible ', busy bo dies who messed up the revenue system of the state in the year 19-15. I And, incidentally, the average taxpayer tax-payer may feci like making investiga-i investiga-i tions to ascertain whether those now (aspiring to posts as lawmakers are dis- posed to confer for guidance in their future activities with taxpayers or with professional and radical tax theorists. THE TAXPAYER. It seems not to havo occurred, to tho self-constituted tfuardians of the "average "aver-age taxpayer" that perhaps hn rntty feel qualified to take earn of himself'; that possibly he may prefer to havo taxation matters handled by men he elects instead of by men somebody else Appoints. The average taxpayer may justly question tho performance as well as the intent, of those who now profess miflh great solicitude for his welfare, llo may recall that their activities to dste have cost him considerable money without (fivintr him anything in return "xcept, disturbed taxation conditions and a lartfc bienu.a! crop of theories, Ho may also wonder by what, rule of IdVric tho minlnjajndustry, tho only in- |