The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-06-29
GOV. HAWLEY
PAYS US VISIT
Is Received With Becoming
Courtesy-Talks to Fair
Audience on Taxes.


rived in Grangeville Sunday even
ing from Lewiston, to which place
he had returned from his trip
through the Clearwater timber
belt in company with State Audi
tor S. d. Taylor, Secretary of
State w. l.. Giffird and a repre-
sentative of the Potlatch Lumber
company, which company desires
to purchase the land inspected,
having all eady bought the timber
thereon.
The governor was met at the
train here by the band and dele
CATION Of citizens in autos and
taken to the hotel, and later quite
a number of citizens of all polit-
ical compilations dropped in and
paid the chief executive their re-
spects. The following day a re-
ception was held at Attorney
Wallace N. Scales office at
which most of the citizens of the
town met the Governor.
Monday evening Gov. Hawley
addressed a fair audience at the
l. O. 0. f. Opera house on the
subject Of taxation. He was in
troduced by DR.. H. j. Smith,
president of the Commercial Club
and delivered a set speech of one
hour and forty minuts, in which
he set forth his views and posi-
ton on the tax problem in pretty
much the same style as he has
followed at dozens of other places
over the state, and which has
been published time after time in
the Boise Statesman and Capital
News as well as other papers.
The governor devoted one hour
to the denunciation of the pres
ent iniquitous tax system of the
state; thirty minutes to the news
papers which have taken issue
with him in his attempt to be-
come the "whole thing" in the
way of Legislature, Judiciary and
executive, and possibly ten minut
es to the real issue before the peo
pie, which is whether or not the
governor is justified in overrid-
ing statutory enactments, which
are specific in their directions,
for the sake of a particular hob
by of his own, when by so do
ing he at the same time works a
hardship upon the people of the
state, even though it be small
hardship, as he claims it will be.
Probably four-fifths of the peo.
pie of the state believe in the real
principle of leash valuation" as
the proper basis of taxation, and
yet the governor, in the true old
time lawyer style, in which petit
Jogging cut a large figure, tries
to cloud the real issue, by devot-
ing an hour to the defense OF
leash valuation" and charging
: that opposition to his present
plan means opposition to the true
principle of cash valuation. The
Globe denies the correctness OF
this statement, and challenges the
governor or any of his defenders
whether editors or otherwise, tC
produce the name of a single
newspaper or public man who is
opposing the governor present
plan of enforcing the old law
without proper legislation, who II
really opposed to cash valuation
under proper legislative enact
ments. They cannot produce the
name. Why does the governor
pursue such a course2
The governor brands the Idaho
law as the "most iniquitous ta1
law on the statute books of any
state in the Union" and yet IL
the same breath he denounces the
newspapers and public men who
are demanding new law, thai
the present friction and disturb
ance which the governor is kick
ing up by trying to revivify thu
old law and jam it down thu
throats of the people may b'
avoided. Governor Hawley him
self is the one who, while orally
s-gsouncing the old law,is in prac
tice defending it, and declares
that if the public will allow hin
to assume the role of the legisla
lative branch of state government
don the robes of the judiciary an
still hold the seat of chief execu
tive, he can rehabilitate the oil
law and make it effective, and b