Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-17
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A Lane County TaxBayer's Letter
10 tIis editor, OF Tn- JoURsAL
EUGENE, Or. Dec. IL, 1891
r'he stand you have taken Ia favor OF
reforms, aud the great responsibility
the Republican party has assumed in
their responsibility to the people to see
that the pledges made in their plat
form at the last state convention shall
be carried out TO the fullest extent
possible.
The legislature should heed the voice
of the great majority of the voters Of
the state, and send no man to the
United States senate whose position n
thu free coinage of silver is in the least
doubtful but one who ls openly and
avowedly In avor of the same.
The people have great confidence in
the ability and integrity Of the SEM, r
editor of the JOURNAL to expose and TO
oppose all JobbiDg aud extravaganza at
the coming session Of the Legislature.
Do something to restrict the powers
q I'd ext r ions of the school book trust,
and bring about the state publication
of not only school books but also OF the
laws of our own state as soon as pos-
sible.
1t is a shame and disgrace to- the
state that we must be compelled to go
to California to get our laws printed
and then pay such an exorbetant price,
$l9 for the codes. HIPS compilation
may be fairly well done, but the index
~ is lamentable failure and besides
he has without any authority of law
acke on the session laws as an aC-
denda to cheat the state printer out OF
his SHARE OF the work and at the last
session of the legislature refused to fur
nish the members with codes without
the addeDda.
Keep up your lieks for the reenact.
ment of the mortgage tax law and
carefully guarded exemption for in
debtedness law.
Yours for economy and fulhllment
of party pledges for the right
j.
THE JOURNAL fought the repeal o.
the mortgage tax law at the last session
to the best of its ability and all that il
then stated has come true, Money II
not cheap to the borrower as was pre-
dicted. Oregon note.holders who dc
not evade the law are taxed, while non
resident nOte-holders escape assessment
The money-lender charges up to the
borrower the taxes on money that the
law supposes him to honestly pay, and
then evades paying those taxes, while
thousands of people pay taxes on prop
erty they do not own aud cannot pay
for. The old law worked badly in al
lowing owners of real property to de-
duct personal evidences of unrecordec
debt from their total assessment. The
class who got the largest exemption
for Indebtedness and the largest deduc
tions from their assessment are not thu
same class that are escaping under th'
present law. The present law Is wors'
than the old law In that II works
u greater hardship and does
greater Injustice to thos'
least able TO stand 1.-THE
debtor class. AS far as the work Of thu
next Legislature Is concerned, Tn
JoUREAL will do all Ia its power TO se'
that the pledges made 10 the people o
Oregon are kept But II expects lh'
people 10 do their part aud take an In
telllgent Interest Ia what Is going oI
at salem for the next three months
Money is power, but intelligence IL 4
higher power The people possess th'
intellIgenoe, Their hearts are right
They want good government BuI
they Will baye to use their iptelligenei
ar nay the bill Of ueRliQauGe