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Show THE CITIZEN 4 vancc of the nation to the heights of industrial and intellectual dominance ; but ever has the Republican party stood steadfast in the faith of the fathers, ever has it made freedom, protection of the home and of the giant business structure of this nation its slogan and its accomplishment ; so that whenever the illogical and internationalistic views of the other party have served to plunge the country onto the rocks of despair, we find that power which holds the destiny of the nation in its grasp, turning the thoughts and the will of the people toward the semi-domina- nt proven and trusted policies of Republicanism, until national prosperity, national unity and national achievement again places the United States at the head of the worlds category of nations. And once more the hum of industry of whirring factory wheels, of spinning looms, of whizzing transportation, of happy and contented farmers, of busy miners who delve into untold depths, of prosperous merchants and allied business ventures, sound undiminished throughout the land. In order to help humanity the United States must first help herself. She may only do this successfully by fostering home industries and not by letting down her tariff walls and inviting the business of the world to come here with its products to still our factories and to kill our initiative. The. United States is the greatest working mans country in all the world. By his individual efforts he can rise to great heights in this land of protected workers. With a home market almost as great as that of all other nations of the world taken together, he does not need to depend on export business to sustain him in prosperity. Given a home market capable of absorbing the entire product of the home industrial structure and almost all of the home products of the farm, when properly protected from foreign invasion, it behooves him little to listen long to the cant and sophistries of those who would have him divide his home market with other nations. He has done this, however, on rare occasions before, n of and he has always paid the penalty. He has witnessed the the home mills and factories, the languishing of business in general and has seen thousands of former well paid workers thrown out of work and marching the highways seeking a job or a crust of bread. If the voters want a speedy return to the days of the Coxey Armies if they want to witness a recrudescence of internationalism and the making of the supreme sacrifice de jure and not de facto, they will vote the Democrats into office this fall and defeat all those great and constructive things that President Harding and the Republican party have mapped out for the future reclamation and regeneration of the nation, which was shot as full of international holes as a flour sieve during the eight years of Wilsons administration. Think it over. r shut-dow- TAXPAYERS CATECHISM. The problem of building permanent highways that will withstand the impact of modern traffic is a live question in every state. Experimental road building is about over. It has been conslusively demonstrated that a road must be built with a shock absorbing base or surface or both, or the taxpayers money is largely wasted in road construction. Asphaltic concrete pavements meet present day requirements or an asphaltic surface over present concrete base roads already built, but which go to pieces under incessant pound of traffic. to proThe durability of asphaltic construction as a tect the road base and surface is demonstrated bv the successful service of the older pavements of this type on the Pacific coast. It is the taxpayers problem. shock-absorb- er Non-Taxab- Seucrities. le Western states will make a terrible mistake in experimenting with state income tax laws and fixing rigid rates of interest. Who pays for the political experiments? The unfortunate man who has to borrow money on his home or his farm. High rates of taxation on incomes and property have driven the securities. people to invest in billions of State income taxes will only drive people farther into this line of deto the teeth. fense against laws arming the non-taxab- lc tax-gather- er Property taxes and federal and business must sur-tax- es . or interest rates arc going higher. on the tax A way must be found to get their just share of the burdens of government. . , . non-taxabl- cs The come rolls to Refuge. The appraisal for New York state tax purposes shows that H. Schiff left an estate worth $34,426,000 ; at the same lime it x vealed that his 1919 taxable income was $553,000, and that for 1920 Tax-Exem- pt At first blush a taxable income equal to only about cent of the value of the estate would seem to be exceptionally smal the fact is that Mr. Schiff simply followed the example of a great other mean of wealth in transferring his porperty into curities. Slightly more than half of the $34,426,000 Schiff estate wasim in United States Victory 3 J4 per cent notes and municipal bonds, t terest of which is exempt from federal income tax. This means t interest alone Mr. Schiff had an income of approxii t $750,000 a year, making his total annual earnings not around $50 but fully $1,250,000. A case with a similar point is that of the James J. Hill estate. W. Hill, former business adviser for Mrs. Hill, testified in court th ginning in 1916 and continuing until 1919, he disposed of heavily hoi securities held by his principal, substituting therefor and in this way increased her annual income from $365,000 to $730,01 When our present tax laws take more than half the interest I : corporation bonds it is no wonder that rich men seek the haven. Every dollar that thus escapes- taxation means that the tax In the general taxpayer is increased by just that much. Start to reduce the tax bill by repealing the laws which now t securities. and encourage the issuance and buying of 000. one-ha- lf tax-exe- m tax-exem- pt e y tax-exem- pt n tax-e- 1 - j tax-exem- pt The Way Taxes Are Boosted. The question of taxation is the live issue in Utah today. Coni increasing taxes mean less new capital for future agricultural, ind; transportation, electrical and mining development. In other words densome taxes kill business. To illustrate the system of tax boosting : A constitutional amen was adopted by the people of Utah at the general election in 1920. The effect was to remove the constitutional limit on the state le district school purposes. Prior to that time the state levy for all purposes could not exi mills. The amendment which was made operative by a law pa the legislature of 1921, authorizes a state levy equal to $25.00 fc censu; person of school age in the state, as shown by the last school The effect of this was to increase enormouslv the state tax Instead of 5 mills for 1921 it was 6.9 mills and for 1922 it is 7.1. crease of almost 50 per cent. The people were promised that with the adoption of this amei a law would be passed to limit local levies for district school purpe that the effect would be a redistribution of the tax burden, but a ;i s !U A lit 1 P ; m D( ' hi m if crease. This promise was not kept, and there is no limit on for district school purposes, except that which lies within of the school taxing unit, like unto that which animates :'id commission from time to time. the loc the con IV t swajs1 'v HI ri It is idle, puerile and pusillanimous cant for the harp on their worn out string that this nation must it emocrat? he the herself sacrifice to rehabilitate Europe.. Europe can rchabilit ite hard ever she decides to cease squabbling and to get down France recognizes that Germany has a right to exist, and bn? hope of cancellation of her American debt. t- ve - in till C Ambitious news mongers, aided and abetted by th sen10 Ila,r of the land, are making considerable of a Swiss Choc-international matrimonial aberations of the McCormick famib 1' afa :P |