Show LOWER TAXES NOW that federal taxes have been brought down to a point eliere they no longer seriously interfere with our industrial expansion and national prosperity it Is encouraging to note that the newspapers and the public in general are paying anore calore att attention antion to the burden of state and local taxes it is coming to be more geme generally rally realized that after all the tax burden I 1 which tails falls heaviest on the farmer I 1 the small business mn man and property holdier holder is the tax which the ordinary citizen in some form or other I 1 votes upon himself state platforms adopted by political parties this year are paying more rat attention to the question of the r id luction ot of local taxes organizations which have lor for their purpose looking after the interest of the local taxpayer are increasing everywhere and the people are coming to realize more and more that it if they want to I 1 have fewer tax burdens they will have to brin bring about the reduction themselves through their local officers there is no reason why each coun ty city and state cannot in a small cay emulate the splendid record ot of ithe tie federal government both in efficiency fici ency and the wise expenditure of tile the public aadney this can be done without inter ferring with the progress 1 ot of our school system and ancl other institutions ot of public necessity in tact fact it ought to be easier to administer 9 a small unit ot of government more efficiently than the federal government because the problems are comparatively few and simple I 1 taxes and great public debts have wrecked as many it if not more governments ern ments than all the wars of history our federal government has bas hown the way now let us see that I 1 our local governments follow suit |