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Show KILL THAT PROPOSED AMENDMENT I VwHEN Mr. Hayes was elected president, Lieutenant-Gcneral W I jk Sherman was, under the president, commander-in-chief of xJL the army of the United States. President Hayes selected for secretary of war a quiet gentleman of fine ability, but not as accustomed accus-tomed to official life in Washington as some less accomplished men are. A few months after his appointment an old friend of his went down to Washington and meeting the secretary asked him how 'he was getting on. "O, fairly well," was the response, and then, a moment mo-ment later added: "Say, Jim, I have found out something since I come here, I have discovered that I am a bigger man than old Ser-man." Ser-man." If next Tuesday the voters are careless, and permit that proposed amendment to the constitution to be adopted, they will very soon discover dis-cover that the board of equalization in this state are bigger men than the governor, the legislature, the supreme court, all the other state r officers and all the people combined. J The amendment, if adopted, will practically turn over all the property of the state to them for purposes of taxation and give them through their agent the assessor, the power to so discriminate be- tween different forms of property as to drive owners of some forms II of property out of the state. II Construed in its entirety, it is simply infamous. ill It permits double, triple and four-fold taxation of some forms H of property; it permits unlimited taxation on all forms of property; it places all property under the discretion of three irrisponsible and I third-rate men. I It would be possible under it for these inferior and irresponsible I men to retire from office, after four years service, independently rich. ll Carefully read and fairly consjtrucd, it will make the ordinary I hold-up and stage robber envious of the genius displayed by its prom- 'I oters. Its adoption would disgrace the voters of' the state. In self in- 'W terest every property holder should vote against its adoption, out of sheer self-respect. Every other voter should cast his ballot against I it. It was conceived in shame and brought forth with no thought I higher than the burglars when in the darkness he goes after his neigh- l bors' treasure. Ill To just kill it is not enough, it should be smothered under indig- ill nant ballots. 1 1 1 1 ' |