The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-10-24

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as being unanswerable Is that women
are taxed without representation. This
would seem to mean that whoever Ia
taxed should have vote, and the only
conclusion Of this reasoning IS that
whoever is not taxed should not vote.
If the argument Is worth anything It
must mean that.
Il own property" says woman who
seeks to be. voter, land 1 pay taxes
on 1t, and cannot think that taxation
without representation is just"
This plea has been repeated SO often
that it is time to point out its fallacy.
There are two kinds of taxes-a mon
ey tax and a service tax. The money
tax is levied on property, mems and
women's alike, pro rata. The service
tax Is levied on men alone. 1t calls
for jury service, police service, military
service, and every man takes his
chances on it.
Sometimes one goes through his sew.
enty years without suffering from II
at all. Again, he spends weary hours
In the jury room, or he is sworn in as
special constable to
ouell Riot and Fight Mob,
or he is called to camp and battlefield.
where he may lose limb or a. eye or
his life.
Representation goes with this kind
OF taxation and not with the other.
Property is protected by the govern
ment, as women are. But property,
whether mans or woman's, has no rep.
-esentation.
II it had. it must necessarily be In
nuse Mr.. Astor and the sweeper make,
t dangerous for anybody to molest
as.
Without this protection our posses
sions would be of no value. This pro
lection we contribute in equal meas
ure. man for man, and this same pro.
lection we extend to our sisters, our
cousins and our aunts.
Frequently an election is for the
purpose of determining under wha,
laws and in what manner this pro
lection shall be exercised, and those
who furnish the p7otectLh rghtfully
claim the privilege or debating Its
form.
The woman suffragists, so far from
suffering taxation without representa-
ton, are asking to be represented
where they are not taxed
Properly speaking,
.frl Ne Woman 10 Taxed,
and no property is represented. The
woman's property is taxed, and fol
that money It anil she get exactly
what the manE and his property get
police protection, fire service, lighting
and cleaning OF streets, maintenance
Of courts, etc.
Every man Is taxed, even If he owns
no property--a tax that is laid upon
his time, his strength and often upon
his life. He bears this tax for the pro
lection Of all the lives in the cominu.
nifty, no matter whose, and all the prop.
erty, no matter whose, and to this tar
: the women contribute nothing and are
not asked to contribute.
The suffragists appear to think they
dispose of this consideration when they
speak Of men who are exempt from
military service and still vote. The i'm.
mediate answer is that there is no real
exemption.
All the men are liable, but when II
happens that the government in an
emergency does not need all at once II
takes its pick and speaks Of the others
as exempt" 1t may at first call only
FOR the men under twenty-five, but
when more are wanted it does not hes.
itate to call for men as old as thirty.
five, and so on. Many now living re.
member an emergency in which ten
states called out every man, of what.
ever age, who could shoulder musket
at all.
But even this is not the root Of the
question. For regular service In q
long campaign the government would
not take man forty-f1ve years Of age
with weak lungs if it could get as
many as 1t wanted who were but
twenty-five and had strong lungs.
But suppose the weak lunged man Of
forty-fve is
"Agin the Government"
and disposed to unite in an attempt to
overthrow it, will he exempt" him
self VIII he refrain from joining an
insurgent force on the ground that he
ID over age and not in robust health7
Youth or age, lungs or no lungs, that
man is power to be reckoned with;
and this is why he is allowed to vote,
In order that when the ballots ars
counted he may see that he and his
kind are in the minority and 1t would
bs hopeless for them to attempt an
overthrow Of the government.
When the good Prince Albert in 1851
Invented worlds fairs and organized
the hrst one, 1t was hoped that the
brotherhood OF man had been demon.
strated ana the era Of universal peace
begun, but in three years there was .
bloody war that involved more than
half Of Europe, In which the only thing
eontended for was commercial 80
premacy.
And many who rNad. This have seen
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