Show like it or not I 1 i in case you dont know the statement filmed at published rates in connection with some ot of the ridiculousness arid and deception being flashed on the screen at show hous lately means simply that it is political advertising being paid for ly the party which would like to be in power and deception is the word for and the purpose of part of it reference is made particularly to the attempt to fool consumers into believing that federally imposed taxes iare are responsible for the advance in meat ineat prices some rome consumers may be tooled fooled atoo too by such tactics but those per siona hons who are intelligent enough to tj know anything about the advance I 1 in fit prices of livestock and farm pr ducts which farmers are receiving arid and who know the difference between federal and other taxes will not be deceived the local boy who sold five grade spring firing lambs to a local feeder tile the other day for 2808 from his halt half dozen pet ewes that were ha hardly adly worth looking after in 1932 and 33 knows that federal taxes had nothing to do with the advanced price of iambs cambs 0 0 the man who received 26 from the local butcher tor for a stunted heifer that eighteen months earlier was purchased for 0 from the stray pound knows that taxes had nothing to do with that price and that three years ago we wa would gladly have wished such animals onto a generous Ee en nerous erous government which came to the rescue of livestock men for halt half that figure 1 livestock men and wool growers generally are not fooled unless for partisan reasons they prefer to be into believing that taxes play any part in the advanced prices they are receiving 0 0 a they know it if they arent too partisan to admit it that thanks to a definite and determined effort on oil the part ot of the administration to increase term farm prices as one of the cures tor for depression there is now ic me inducement tor for boys to accumulate dogle dogie lambs that sheep ind cattle can now be raised at a profit which three years ago were being run at a loss they know too that 98 of the taxes they pay direct or indirect hava nothing to do with the federal government but are local licenses and taxes tor for city county school and state that even the sale is a state and not a federal tax and that income and inheritance taxes from which all but the wealthy are exempt are the only federal taxes which amount to anything so naturally they know ot of the d deception ece P which li is being attempted and al n why it Is speaking ot of ta things fla flushed hed on the screen a local wag wonders whether landoas Lon Lan dons being shown before a microphone so frequently Is republican or democratic propaganda republicans counter that their cand candidate selected tor for ills hia ability as a radio broadcaster broad cater partisans will go to the polls in november and vote democratic republican socialist or w whatnot with little regard for what has bee been done or will be but thinking per I 1 sons not of the partisan varlet will ask themselves some questions bufore land hand and will answer them with their vote 0 at 0 among the questions they will ask are has there been a conscientious effort by the present administration to improve conditions for the average american citizen are conditions better than when the new deal was inaugurated have in business conditions justified the cost which presidential nominee will with the conditions that will confront him in the event of his election be in a better position to cope with the problems of the future the election will be decided by the way the nonpartisan voters of the nation answer those questions |