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ugh the cost ol pr.vale living and pub- |
'• expense. * '' hS third year ol ;
1 ' hrt at / I j OU *\ 1 an '^ the beginning 1
! f* n a ^ T ' <u ' tuie ail( t th* 1
jwrec 'ageo us ness. j
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ons o e pu i jc school funds had
.•m u mvesie m rj and farm loans
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7^10-1 ,r 'c ? - l< * " n# ' ral î un,î or ^Jarch
;*7 ' SiXty f,a y s ^*fter T was sworn
,Ti ,|s o*\ei no.. Ot ?......11,100. which
P 11 ( ^ ^ M FX( ess of PX|M k D(liiuu*?
r ,Tm duîiî.^ the previous two
, vears.
The people, themselves, at the g» n
a I election the previous Novemhei
had by popular vote authorized a bond
j issue of S5.0fM.bfHK» for
l ,l:,nts !,t the:
Agricultural Gollege,
State University.
School of Mines,
State Norma! College.
Orpha m' Home,
School for Blind. Denf and PMbU
lMona Schoolf ^
Girls' Reform SchooL
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enlarging tit«
The people, themselves, th« Norem
ber previon» hnd by popular vote '
led an additional mill to support
the four state colleges 1
During th. four following T(Mu r» th. '
total acseannent of property »teartll.
ahrunk SzWlOdO 000 ' ,
Legislature, realizing th. threat |
ent-d closing down of some of th*
state's Institutions, on Its own Initia |
tire, and at the suggestion of the same
men who are now criticising, author
Ized the »air of $3.000.000 short-term
7W, state rmtre to take up thl« floating |
Indehlclness that had already beer
created. See Chapter IS. page 764
legislative Acts, March, 1021.
On account of the legul technlcull
ties Involved, the Board of Exnrulner*
was only able to float $350.000 ol
these short-term notes. Instead of the
$3,000,000 nuthorlze«! under Senatoi
Booth's bill.
$3,000,000 Behind In 1920
In view of the deliberately unfaii
misrepresentations with w'hlch th*
state has been flooded as to the state
finances at the time I was elected Gov !
emor, this week I asked State Auditoj
Porter for en official statement of th*
facts. Here is copy of my letter to
him and the copy of Ms letter In reply 1
to in«;
"Hon. George P. Porter,
"State Auditor,
"Helena. Montana.
September 4, 1924
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Will yon kindly give me the exact
statement from the official recordî
' showing the actual overdraft on the
General Fund at the close of the fiscal
.'ear i tiding November 30, 1920T
Yours very truly,
"My dear Sir;
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JOS M. DIXON. GOVERNOR'
September 4. 1924
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Governor Jos. M. Dixon.
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"Helena. Montana.
My dear Sir:
"In reply to your Inquiry of thl?
date, requesting me to give you *tht
exact statement from the official re
cord showing the actual overdraft on
the General Fund at the close of th(
fiscal year ending November 30. 1920,
: I would
"That the official records in mj
office show that, nt the Hose of th#
fiscal year ending November 30.1920
(be General Fund o'
the State was $2.120.5H4.33
the overdraft
on
"Yours very truly.
"(SIGNED) GEO. P. PORTER
STATE AUDITOR
"VV. A LOGAN.
DEPUTY AUDITOR'
Warned The Legislature
Three days after taking office an«
on the convening of the Legislature, in
my first message I urged upon then
the danger that confronted, in the fol
lowing word? :
"The time has now come when th*
Governor and the Legislature of Mon
tana must call a halt, if we are te
avoid ultimate and serious consequen
cos.
"From the best source*
information available, I
^nd that the General Fund
of \.he State, on November
30, 1920. was overdrawn -$2,120,44':
"And in addition thorn
w ^ r * outstanding deficiency
claim« estimated at
"Thu« making tha total d«
fielt for the year
" A * *C*tast the overdraft
! on November 30, 1910
400,00(
.$2,529,44'.
1.319,22i
$1,210.23?
"In other word«, the state govern
meat ran in debt this p««t year (1920)
$1.216,320, sr at the rate of three thou»
»nil three hundred fifteen dollars ($3,
115.90) per day.
"In other words, the state treasury
will he in red ink on March 1. 1021, to
the extent of over two million dollars
(.*< 2 . 000.01 Mi) and
receipts
time next December.
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I know ot no legerdemain of finance
that wil permit the Stale government
to function during the coming year, un
with pr.icticully no
coming in until tax paying
tier the present system of taxation, rev
ienne? and expenditures."
When the legislature convened in
regular session two years »go, 1 again
warned that body in a special message
that the appropriation hill then under
consideration would exceed the rev
* 0r the ^'* inn ' uni SE250.000. j
«bd submitted to the Joint legislative
assembly the official reply to me from ,
1 H 'Treasurer showing the actual *
,H v ' n ^ ie matter.
These Warnings Repeated
B* oiy sftecial message. 1 cited the
constitution»! provision which ex
pressly prohibits the legislature from
making appropriations in exce ss of the
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current year's revenue. In this mes
sa * e to ^* e Special Session, I said:
"Tef despite these repeated warnings
® f Impending downier and In direct
contravention of th. conrmmtom.1 pro
visions prohibiting appropriations In
excess of the current revenues the
tentative appropriation bills now call
(or onç >nd a rter mllUon doIlare
ln excess of anv possible revenue for
^ f5R ^ al ye4ir and alM) aii
add itonal one and one quarter million
dollars of appropriations for the fiscal
year succeedin '
' .. CndPr ranstitutlun and the Mat
nte9 you hoId the purae str i Dga t0 th<
«ale's treasury. I do net. The Legla
latlve Assembly alone can create and
increase the state Indebtedness,
"Upon you now rests the sole respon
sibility of determining whether or not
a deaf ear shall be turned to the cry
for relief from Increased public indebt
edness coming from the people of this
state.
I know of no legerdemain of finance
(t
whereby executive offices can coin dol- ,
] ars ont 0 f t |,j n a j r> even under the
direction of legislative appropriation
jjjjjg made against an empty state
tr eas ury.
"Every legislative appropriation bill
for carrying on the work of the state
government since and including the
year 1913 has exceeded the yearly rev
enue of (he state.
During these five y«*ars apropria
tions have been made by the Icglsla
tures in excess of the receipts, until
j n ow the overdraft approximates three
J million dollars. The present program
now contemplates a further increase of
the state indebtedness of more than
»*
two million dollars.
"The present Assembly has already
passed a most drastic measure impos
ing severe penalties on city and county
officials for spending In excess
the current city and county
revenues and yet calmly proceed^ to
aripropriating more tb: n two
i ndllion dollars In excess of tin state
I revenues for the coining biennium."
Wben the session bad finally adjour
ned, I found that while the Legislature
had scaled the original contemplated
appropriations to the extent of $500.
of
wards
000. the appropriation bills, ns finally (
passed, still were about $700,000 ia ex
of any possible revenue.
the Legislature reconvened, my at
tempted percentage veto was sustained
In the repassage of the new appropria
tlon bills, exactly a« I had vetoed them,
thus finally cutting down tb« original
total appropriations by $600.000, as I
had first tried to do by the veto.
Facing the financial situation that
we did four years ago, in order to
make buckle and tongue meet and for
** purpose of trying to equalize the
burden cf taxation among all forms «f
wrvHth In Montana, I recommended to
the Ivegisia-ture that we take a «mall
the yearly depletion of our
cess
Used Veto for Economy
In the exercise of the constitutional |
cower of the veto, that hod been used
bv the Governor of Pennsylvania ten i
before under a oonatltutlonal
and in
years
provision exactly like our own,
last effort to curb legislative appro
priations, I gave a percentage veto cut
to the legislative appropriations of
$009,000. But the Supreme Court, by
divided vote, held that the percent
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veto waa not permissible.
age
toll from
natural resources —oil. coal, and met
also adopt a modem form
als' that we
of in Inheritance tax, and also a«ses?
taxation Pullman Oars and private
n Car Oomp*ny
for
line*, the Puli
heretofore «»«aped all taxation
This was In accordance
car
having
In Montana.
vrnL the policy adopted year« ago In
ixmjtj every other «tat«.
And. to stive central control of this '
equalization of the tax burden among j
all forms of wealth, tluit we estah- j
lished a central agency, with full jur- i
isdiction over ail. popularly known as ;
state tax commission. Although the ,
people themselves ratified the Tax j
ommission amendment. The Ana- j
jeonda ami the Montana Power inter
ests immediately attacked by injuction j
In the Supreme Court. After months j
i
of delay, the ratification by the vote
of the people was sustained by a hare
majority vote of 3 to 2 in the Supreme \
^ our ** !
Respite the opposition of powerful ;
lobbies, financed by these great special
interests, we were finally able to write !
into the tax laws of Montana ft modern '
provision regarding: i
Inheritances,
Pullman car lines.
A Tax Commission,
2% gross on oil production,
Coal production and Gasoline.
The financial political power of the
great metal mining companies was
strong enough to defeat in the Senate
one per eent gross production tax
on the output of metal mines, which
the House had passed. Since Mon
tana's admission to statehood, these !
great foriegn owned mining companies
had, through political control of leg'rs- '
latnres, newspapers, hank credits and
State government, been able to hnve I
their yearly output <.f millions of !
wealth assessed for taxation only on .
44 rn*t f»roiliirtion. M If were no net
pr*»f!ts there were no taxe** on the j
mineral wealth produced.
The Dual Tax System
Yet. during all the*e vears. the farms,
ho, „PS. livestock, aixl hanks of M,m
tana's resident citizens were ,,a.vir,*
taxes whether tlicrc were sitiy net
profils In the business or not.
To show how unfairly the present
dual system of taxation ha* worked.
1 cite following actual transactions;
This last February, the Davls-Daly
mine in Bntte was sold to The Ann
conda by vote of its stockholders for
S3.< «00.000. Mr. McIntyre, the Oounty
J Treasurer of Silver Bow, certified to
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1 Let me give you another illustration
as to how the present dual system of
1 taxation works here In Montana.
The new Tax Commission', return#
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for the last year show that the stock?
of merehandlse" paid nearly three
times the amount of taxes paid by all
the great metal mines of the state.
Lat year "store furniture and fix
1 tu res" paid in more than one-third as
! much tax as all the metal mines net
1 • täte Tax ( ommission that for the
y * Mr th#1 taxable value of this
m nP " as ?41,080. The total tax«*,
P»'« 1 "•»' T»* 1 ' n n ,hi «' P™!»«?. '' h "' h
for three million dollara, actual,
ca.h was $2,549,
If three million dollars had been
I Invested In farm land» that year, In
«tead of $2.549 taxes It would have
I^ icî ISR.275. or nearly 22 time* as
much. If this three million had been
Invested In either cattle or morchan
! àIse - the taxes would have been $61.417,
1 or n,ore than 24 times as much.
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In 1922, (
M
bonk stock
paid over
net pro
times the tax as did
cee< I f< " fr°n» metals mines. That year
"Household Goods ' paid 2% times as
much tax as did all metals mines on
their "net proceeds.
This dual system of taxation in Mon
tana has been so brazenly unfair that
the wonder is the people who live in
Montuna have borne the unequal bur
den with such meek putience and for
M
tltude.
But under the initiative section of
our state constitution, 20.000 citizens
of the state have, within the past few
months, initiated the same identical
one ;»er cent «gr<«ss output metal« mines
license tax law as was passed bv the
RoiWip tvvo . VPars
Mines Tax Law Will Pass
Despairing of continued control of
legislatures by tin* big mining interests.
they have finally determined to cxer
i else their reserved constitutional pow
1 ers of legislation by popular vote, Un
! less T know nothing of the exasperated
j feeling of the people of Montan regard
j Ing this ancient wrong, the initiated
bill will become a Vaw in November by
the greatest vote ever cast by the
I people of this state.
democratic primaries the big copper
mining companies, by the expenditure
of tens of thousand« of dollar», are now
boasting that they have nominated a
democratic state ticket of their own
choosing from Governor down, it is
Ukewiae true that in their attempt to
capture the republican state primary
nominations they were disastrously de
fented by more than 8,000 majority.
All honor to the republican voter*
of Montana who thus repelled the as
«ault upon their lines by the combined
force« of these great foreign corpora
at« Interests—The Anaconda and It*
If these two great corporate inter
ests would only take the money they
now pay out In trying to control news
papers. primary elections, legislatures
courts, the maintainence of lobles and
P" 1 « 1 P" 11 ' 1 «'« 1 »ï™"'- " nrt th< * fnrther
<"S of politioal propaganda, and tue
« ln payment of their own fair
ah a r (' of the burden of taxation, they
would have money left over for an In
crease of legitimate dividends to their
non-resident #*toekholders.
And we
would have peace here at home.
Popular Government Triumphs
While it is true that In the recent
twin brother, The Montana Power Com
pany. Th« fact that the latter $30.000.
000 corporation now is withholding by
injunction proceeding? In 34 countie«
$480,000 of the 1922 and 1923 tax««
gave added xe«t to their recent primary
activities.
NotwAtftMtandlnc the fact that whole
brigades of democratic troops werj
moved over into the republican column
In the recent primary. In their attempt >1
to control the republican as they did *
the democratic nominations, the rcpub
Mean colors still float in
undefiled by corporate control,
the overwhelming majority ef the rank (
and file who are fighting under that
banner now calmly await the Inst des- j
perate assault of The Anaconda on j
November 4th. militant and unafraid, HS
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Two and four years ago. T pointed
out to the Legislature that the people
who used the roads should pay for the
building and maintainence of them.
That this could only bo done by the
adoption of the 2 cent gasoline tax.
Every dollar of this gasoline
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revenu**
should go to the road construction in |
Montana. Unfortunately, under the ;
desperate financial situation confront-j
ing the state's revenues, tlie Legisla- 1
ture thought it best to divert 40 per
cent of the money into the general
fund.
In all fairness to the automobile
owners, who are vitally interested in
good ronds, this system is wrong.
becomes
When ihe
a law in November, one-half of the
proceeds, about $200,000 per year, will !
go to the public school fund to help
lift the burden of taxation from homes
and farms and business property, the
other one-half into the general fund
of the snate. This $200.000 will offset
the present 40 percent receipts from
the g:; sol' ne tax, so that all of it can
direi'tiy to the building of roads and
i>ennltting the state to mateli the
eral road money that will oth**rul>e be
Fn
lust t« » Montana's road program
Ws thi«= is done at the coming legisla
,iv " ti «* ssi " n . *•" *>"% t '" s "
; lhl ««'»» mnr0 " ,nn <>n<- m "" on 11
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year of the federal road money which
must he matched dollar for dollar in
order to be available.
State Within Income
In conclusion, permit me to say that
1 notwithstanding all these deliberately
unfair and untruthful newspaper etate
ment« and political advertisements.
signed by democratic candidate«, but
paid for by the Anaconda, the »täte
last for the first time
! known to all men that the employees
at The Anaconda Smelter and the
Bntte nines were « ailed in ami given
their i-dltlcnl order,. Every loci
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manager of the great Power Company.
which t«*«lay through court Injunction
1« withholding in just taxes
1 due the state, was laid off for 'ki days
j prior to the recent primary with an
| unlimited political ca*h account for
» 1 s0 in the primary election. The local
treasury year,
»luce 191# closed the books with a
: hf '2f^ n l " rü ! ne ""t
The preliminary battle of the 19.4
| republican «ale campaign waa won
, last week In the face perhaps of the
| greatest expenditure of money and men
^<?r mode by The Anaconda for the
credit balance of $22.987 to the good
,
control of both party organizations in
this state. The newspaper and poster
; advertising campaign alone put on for
; th«lr two picked candidate« for Gov
ernor cost not lea? than $30,000. Tt is
managers of the Anaconda lumber
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camps and affiliated mercantile inter
ests in western Montana called in their
employees under slmiliar orders.
Nearly every newspaper, big and little,
in the state carried big paid political
advertisements of their picked guber
natorial candidates, filled with delib
erate untruthful statements regarding
Mate finances. These paid advertiw»
"tents wen* prepared by ami paid for
' y the agents of The Anaconda and
Montana Power Companies.
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While the grand as-uuit tbn< d *15v
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j ered by rbo cohorts of sp«*« i!il privilege |
i did succeed In capturing the rnn.ku* pos- )
| it ions in the democratic primaries, the I
t'epnMican line held firm and beat
t hark the assaulting c<*himns in route
ami disastrous retreat.
In conclusion, and speaking person
ally. I think it is only fair to say that
solely because 1 have tried to point out
to the people of Montana the present
unjust, im*qu;.tabb* and vicious dual
system of taxation that bus been main
tained all these years, through the
political control of legislatures and
state government, it has fallen to my
lot to bear the daily assaults by these
paid agonis of special privilege.
While these things have at times not
been to bear. 1 have
least believed to be the plain path of I
public duty. A full and abiding faith |
is given me to believe that when the 1
storms of passion shall have passed.
the sober, final judgment of the people
of Montana will sustain me In the
«•(►nrse that I have punued. If these
wounds receivefl in battle for a Just
cause shall leave final «cars, I shall
<*arry them Into the doting scenes of
private life a? the bad*«« of honor won
in a worthy contest for the people of
my state, who tempfirarily entmeted to
me the great honor of having been the
Governor of Montana.
From now until November fourth,
with such strenjrth as l* given me. 1
intend to wage battle for the cause
that I know to be right.
"For right is right, since God la God,
And right the day must win.
To doubt would be disloyalty;
To falter would be «In."
When Louis Kossuth led the «mbat
fled Hungarian p«aaafttry against the
trained armies and pah! ««Idlers of the
Austrian ICmplre, in the revolutionary
uprising of 1348, he said to them: i
"I have nothing to offer you »ave
hard marclu*s, privation*. coW and
hunger "
ingly turned aside from what I at
He«» In Montana the battle with the i
mm-refci<1ent owners of our natural j
wealth, who have heretofore enjoyed
the special privilege of exemption from
en equal portion of the,burden of toy- :
emment, is on.
Under which flag will you f i gh t *
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Excerpts From Platform J
Adopted by State Con
vention September 6
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of Montana, is.
assembled. eudora*
Republican»
state convention
the administration of Governor Joseph
We,
M. Dixon and his associates in offlcs.
Four vears ago the Republican parry
assumed charge of the administrât»«»
of the state government. They found
the state treasury virtually bankrupt,
with outstanding unpaid warrants and
deficiency claims totaling more than
two million dollars and with a sysicis
of government promising t<* add an.
nually to this deficiency.
In the period since that lime the fax
the bas bec»
decreasing annually—with « fixed c*>n
sfitutional provision limiting the lev?
for state purposes, tht revenues of •»*
state from the direct pro; erty tax h ue
necessar !y decreased In pr«*port ox
The great problem of the present r.i
.oinistta.tion has beer <n adjust state
expenditure* »o the state income ot
the on** l » d and ««n ilu* «»'her to r *>
? h>î i T .» • v burden w;is we 1 r lv
* r «• ^* T * t- t 1 * 11 I toi owners
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te ,
l'l'Ci|l
T * ' x « •. i.
; in
-or*
i licit Govern-HP
. < • t the Republic»*
.iiina a <1 'b<* h**:ul «*f bi«
■ut* a'liii'nisiration re*
\ < !i!'<vl Hie aUcntion of th*
!«* <d î 1 1 e state ttnd of the leg'».
situation and ins ! stc4
that "t.e <>f ;Iic great probhuns before
the state government was the readjust*
•cut of ti e tax burden, so that tiioa*
'ai-.»* corporate interests that were i©*
pieting the natural res -urc«* of »ft*
state of Montana should bear a larg«»
and a fairer share of thl§ tax burdee„
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and a fairer share of thl§ tax burdee„
there has been, during th« entir«
course of the past four years, a tnoaf
vicious and deterraimvl effort made ht
discredit the governor and his admln-l»
tration and to deceive the people of
the state as to the real p'*nblem con
fronting the state government, and t*
confuse and misinform the people m
to the real condition of the stat*
financée.
Holds Expenses Within income
Despite the unfavorable financial
conditi 'os in the state resulting from
I ?;IVn^n n» n Ti
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" »*' <>f the a dm,nl»trntler.
and that the revenues of the state wat*
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. * a M1!< . v n n s! , peop o ,f
the stare. We call the attention of the
people to the fact that for the firs;
tune since Ibis, ih«* twome of the gen
eral fund til's year lias exceeded th«
expenditures fn-m that fund.
We commeml Governor I>ixon for his
courageous use of the veto power It,
an effort to curtail publie expondg
lures, and commend the legislativ*
action in support <«f this direct move
for state economy.
We take pride in the fact that ©v
penses of each department of dire&
st*te government has been reduced o *
held without increase. We particular
ly call attention to the remarkable
ductions that have been made in th*
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cos s ® a state prise«
t,ie statc as / lu "* for the inaan^
Ths costs of administering the staU
ed'icatiennl instlt*;ticns resultant fron
r«.
increa - ,n 9 attendance and the
ar 9 et * P* ants vottc by the people
C mct for |farc the entlfT
statc> ant ^ vve cc demn the insidious
P rc P a 9 anda the guise o»
econo "y wcu,d strik ^ » blow at therr
Endorse Metal Mines Tax
We heartily endorse and pledge otc
co
PViT(
lin Q Uîi i i support toward the pas»
age of the initiative measure know*
as the Metal Mines license tax, stb
^ on <> n> * i oa 11 y just and eonnd measure
that will equalize the tax burdens o t
state, reducing the load
born<k hy the far * nors im<] «mail busi*
interests and coinjH*lling th# great
m ' n5n ? r interests to bear a greater
than Is now home under the it»
fflir ami an ' baU * noî Proceeds system*
Tax CorT,mi;i sion Justified
cou * rPH ^ ,l><t ( 1 people of Mon
tana on votP to w ' tî ' h,, *'h • stats
tux p °nfiml«sion. which has proven by
itS effort * that «TentIon was Juiitl
fiftd ' Tt has snvCMj tJ,e wtat ** mor * tha *
lts OOSt b * v t | le «»llwsHon
Wtherto « n I>«id arnl byi its study of
scientific methods of taxation it
lai(1 the foundation for Ju»t and equtt
at)lfk distribution of the tax burdra
hU of Wfkftlrh -
The Roimbllcan party 1» Inteanlf
ll>lereÂt ^ î in development of ttea
public school system of the »fate. Th«
rural schools of the «fate have «offer»*
ln from the lack of adjust«
flnanclal » u PP°rt, due to the faulty a4
• 1 ' QftUnont of burden in Mo»
on * of main object« 4 $
^ or ta * equaltsatlo» on tha
the Republican «dmlatatratl«»:
*** *• bring relief to ®or r;
,c "° o1 ** to t ^' nt effort we pledx«
continued aupiiort.
The iatut Is Joined along ol««r *wt
lln«« in thl« campaign. The
no-»
poe
of taxes
Cannot
cr * t,c P art * ln the «tat© is under tb«
°° ntrci of privilege and upar
Re P ub,,can P«riy depends the pra
teetlon of the Interest« «f th« f^rmerA
w#r * t * r * anrf •»»'■II bu«ln«M lnt«re«*t
«f th« «tat«.
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