The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-24
Audience Listens Attentively To the
Chief Executive Of
West Virginia.
REPUBLICANS ARE RIGHT
on the Great Question of Tax Re
form That Has Reduced the
Taxes OF the People.

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Governor w. NJ. o. Dawson made
convincing address to a represen-
tative audience Tuesday night here
on the new tax laws and the meet
ing was q decided success Hon.
Raymond Maxwell presided.
Governor Dawson after expressing
great pleasure over the opportunity
Of addressing Harrison county folk,
ssid in part:
II spoke here in 1904 and in com
ing back here to talk to You again,
q am glad can say after that cleo
lion what l said before that cleo
ton. / have nothing to take back,
nothing TO apologize for. nothing to
explain away. Not a sinble predic-
lion made has failed. l hold in
my hand a printed copy of speech
i delivered here in 1904 as the can
Slidate of my party for the Office OF
Governor. 1t was issued by the Re-
publican State Committee in PAM
phlet form, and entitled E'The Truth
about the New Tax Laws" Ten
Thousand copies Of this pamphlef
were distributed and read. | con-
Tess it is no Little degree of salts
faction to me to be able to come be-
fore you now with this document
in my hand, and tell you that every
promise and prediction therein
made has been fulfilled. On page 8
of this pamphlet it IS stated that
the state takes in 1905 Viii be but
"a cents, but they were only 20
centss 1t was stated that in. 1906 the
state taxes would be but ID cents
but IN 1906, the state taxes are, only
1-2 cents .o.
ssDemecratic leaders had a great
deal to say about the laws, the Daw-
son fake laws, the Ubiquitous laws.
There are no Dawson laws Our
Democratic friends are very cute,
very smart, very opposite. They
said there was an inventor of, told
all sorsb OF, stories and tried to at
ZACH the unpopularity of the per-
son to the new tax laws. But am
willing to be elassed as the father
of them, though they came from
the tax commission of 1901, com
posed of three Republicans and two
Democrats. The latter were John
H. Holt, the Democratic nominee
for governor in 1000, and former
United States Senator Henry Glass;
away Davis, the Democratic NOM
1nee for vice president in 1904. The
bipartisan commission agreed unan-
imously on the report and num-
her of bills, and there is good Dem
.ocratic authority for the new laws.
Choose, my Democratic friends,
which header you wish-McGraw
and Cornwell or Holt and Davis.
The latter are as deserving as the
former. and we were glad to have
the cooperation of Holt and DAVIS,
and. will be glad, to have yours. We
wanted no politics in the matter
The question should never have been
brought into party politics. Tbere
can be no party politics in the mat
ter of taxation in a state. 1t may
enter into the national taxation
question when it involves the qIes-
tion of protection and free trade,
hut nothing of the kind enters INTO
the consideration as regards the
state revenues.
.sThe necessity of reform in our
revenue laws was very generally adj
nitted. The attention of the legls-
lature was called to the fact bI
Democratic governors, was eInPha-
sized by the reports of the state tan
commission appointed in 1888 BY
Governor Jackson, but the Demo
Sr;t. leaders seemed unable to do
sjZfSSlbins For the twenty-five long
ygssis IN Which they werehin power
"a this state they failed to tighten
the burdens of taxation on the prop
erty af the people a. penny Il
!!In 1901 the legislature almost
unanimously said, the state needed
new tax laws. There were only zix
dissenting votes in that body agIInst
creating the tax eoppisssIe9n- Mr.
Maxwell has very well said that tfle
primary object Of the snewsta $ laws
4 not 10 raise more revenue but %
ITaIte equal the taxes of the people,
ii. toshave a square deal with all ~
on II haye read ii q I'm o.
trl,,i apapers chat Governor t.gsoq |
saws ise. new laws are, not perfect.
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