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Show agains any new forms of taxation is; becoming widespread and manifest-! ing itself in direct campaigns j against men and measure which will j add to the public burden ? j EXCESSIVE TAXATION DANGEROUS. Never has the damand in western states been so general for tax reduction, reduc-tion, no new forms of taxation and, particularly, no tax increases, as at present. Public sentiment has manifested itself in primary elections where candidates with definite ideas of business bus-iness administration, efficiency and economy in government have been chosen. Active campaigns are now under way in such states as Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington to secure a definite decrease in taxation of from 10 to 25 per cent. The total bonded debt of all states in the Union is $9,Q71,506,981 or $10.18 for every man, woman and child and increasing faster than population. The highest per capita debt of any state in the Union according to the Bank of America's statistics is that of South Dakota with a figure of $75.02 per inhabitant; Oregon second sec-ond with$54.50; Massachusetts third with $35.83; New york fourth, with $25.79; Louisiana fifth, with $23.67 and Utah sixth, with $22.23. Advocates Advo-cates of socialism in California are struggling to put that state in first place with the proposed $500,000,000. Water and Power act bond issue which would increase the present debt of that state seven times. Oregon with two state income tax bills on the ballot is placing itself in a position where capital is fighting shy of ,the state until after the elec-against elec-against any new forms of taxation is is added it will kill development in that state for years to come. Montana is also flirting with a state income tax measure which is a sure means of driving capital out of a state and preventing new capital from coming in. The people are not asking for any of these new debt-incurring and tax-raising tax-raising schemes. They are proposed in every instance by interested politicians poli-ticians who camouflage the real workings of the measures by honey coating their words with promises to the people which are impossible of fulfillment, and which the people will find out to their sorrow through increasing tax burdens unless they vote down such new tax-raising schemes. Is it any wonder that the cry against excessive taxation and |