The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-12
TAXES TOO HIGH. STATE WILL ACT
Elk Congressman BOwersock All Physicians Who Not Re-
Thinks Time to Call Halt. Births
There Will Come Reckoning May Be Brought
With the People. Prosecuted.
IOLD LAWS WON'T Do. ALARMING DECREASEl
Better and Mere Definite Death Rate Apparently
Be Required. Than Birth Rate
Call Explanation Brings Health to Inyes
Forth determinations tigate at Once
Elk Congressman B0wersock
Thinks Time to Call Halt.
There Will Come a Reckoning
With the People.
OLD LAWS WON'T DO.
Better and Mere Definite
Answer Be Required.
Call for Explanation Brings
Forth determinations.

Lawrence. Kan. Oct. lexicon
gresham j. D. Bowersock has giver
out the following statement:
II believe that large percentage OF
the money forced from the people by
taxation is unwisely and injudiciously
expended. That more money than is
! needed is appropriated. That taxes are
higher than necessary. That sooner OIL
later there will come a reckoning. al
which time something more than state
wide primaries monopoly insurance
laws and bank guaranty will be re-
quired from those who legislate for us
and those who administer the laws.
when dark clouds gather and a Seri-
Gus storm is threatening, the wise SAIL
or takes in sail before the wind wrecks
the ship. For years the press and the
people of Kansas have been sending
statements broadcast relating to the
marvellous development of Kansas and
her great prosperity as a state. Much
of this is well founded, but it is always
well, and in many cases necessary, to
take a careful inventory.
What is true and right in private
business applies or should apply in
public affairs. Notwithstanding our
boosted prosperity I notice that the
tains upward of twenty-five columns
describing property in arrears for tax
alton and which might be sold for taxes
in September Of this year in Shawnee
county.
There is growing feeling that we
are governed too much; that the
army of officeholders has too many
recruits, and that the cry of this army
is like that of the horse leech, always
for more: that the people who pay
the taxes do not get value received;
that those who collect and disburse
the tax money for the public are not
actuated by motives of business econ
omy; that there ought to be fixed
reasonable limit beyond which taxa
ton, public debt and expenditures
may not go, and this growing feeling
will not down by cries of stop thief
you're another or same old game by
same old crowd If it is the same
old game then there can be no legit-
innate objection made by honest men
to a new game and a new deal.
us it not a matter for serious
that to criticise waste and
extravaganza, to ask for judicious
economy in the expenditure of the
peoples money calls forth wanton and
irrelevant recrimination, and arouses
the real and vital fact, which is, that
taxes are increasing out of all proper
ton with increase of population, that
there is constant, persistent and sue
cessful effort to make tax burdens
heavier, and on the part Of officials to
spend more than is collected, thus ov-
erloading the present generation and
placing mortgage on the future?
In my manufacturing experience
have always regretted the throwing
out of an old tried machine and re-
placing 1t by some new-fangled affair,
built on perpetual wind motion, said
to require small space, little oil and
less attention.