Show WHAT FIGHTING nOB EVANS EANS SAID Well Vell the county Democrats Democratic convention COT COT- vendon has hns come a and gone A plank In the platform condemned the proposed d first ana nna second amend amend- amendments m meats ments to the constitution There was no objection to condemning th the tha first hut but a 1 fight was put up again t condemning the second one The reason seemed to be plausible thaIs tha that thatis Is to be silent on It for tor perhaps It H might be 1 i good but hut after atter considerable argument th was Vas condemned r The conven con- con ven lo was right We Wo have hare had enough of If car tat f l Ing Every ery time wo wu with taxes the people seem to get got the worst worst of ot It They lIa have a tight right to ask for tor a rest and a holiday from Irom a continual expansion and anel use of credit cred cred- it ft and from a continual al increase so of Jt tax taxes s under one pretext or The tax eaters are ne never er sa ed The more they get the more they want It Is easy to fix up a n camouflage camou camou- flage and flage-and and show the people how they f he can increase the taxes am anil Tn m m-itc m I som somebody body else pay the extra tax but when It comes taxpaying time that somebody else Is the tolIo who ho h has s been paying tho tiro taxes faxes all aU allic ic tc time Ime The tax grabbers want eve cn man to too pay on his income f if ho has a thousand dollar income per er year J I At t tlc the same sane time they claim that this income tax will lighten the tax buden burden burden bur bur- den a and d bring capital to the st sti te e and propose besides to compel every everyman everyman man man to make a report whether he has hris an Income or not and pay a dollar dollar dollar dol dol- lar for for forthe the report besides How they figure gur that to put extra taxes on c capital will bring more capital to the state is a n. poser That might do dot doto doto t to talk to to-a to a man f If you get him hypnotized hypnotized hypnotized hyp hyp- but tut ut when they are figuring with a business man of f common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense such talk is mere nonsense The system is wrong It sends tax I agents inspectors prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors prose prose- I and lawyer to to all sections of the state to spy and meddle with everybody's ever everybody's ev ev- i er business and all of oC these I meddlesome inspectors and agents wont won't york work for nothing No Nosir Nosir Nosir sir each of them will have a good fat tat salary and who will m pay for those fat tat salaries Why the people veople of or course and the most of this money will be spent for tor just such Overhead d expenses expenses will vi l be th the luxury obtained by the gabfest between be- be hveen tween the tax tar commission and Professor Professor proCessor Pro pro- fessor Cessor Bullock of Harvard and the appropriated for tor that pur vur- pose vose That is a high price for tor it it- it more than it is worth of ot our own money to pay for throwing throwing- dust in our own eyes Admiral Robley y D. D Evans the hero of ot the battle of ot Santiago Bay was cruising with his flagship in Narra- Narra anset Bay and he and his wife decided decided decided de de- de- de to go to church one Sunday In Providence They walked Into a fashionable church sleeted a n fine looking pew pea and were seated Soon thereafter the man who owned the pew came In and seeing a stranger In la his pew proceeded to sit in the pew pew Immediately back of ot Fighting Bob as the admiral was affectionately affection tely called and was considerably disturbed that he must give up his pew vew to a stranger so the owner of oC the pew wrote on a piece of paper the tho following message Sir message Sir I pay a year ear for tor the pew you are occupying and handed the same to Bob Bob over hIs nis shoulder who took It looked at It pulled out his pencil and wrote right under the message Sir You Sir You pay too damn much and passed It back That Is the way way the people veople ought to feel about this tax commission L L. L A. A H. H o n |