The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-09-28
STATEMENT OF cHAS. TURNER
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There should be no privileged class,
and no rule of exclusion that excludes
merit, for the benef of pretense.
l am opposed to prohibition Of the
traffic in alcoholic LIQUORS, and opposed
TO local option. Both are demonstrate
ed by experience to be rank failures,
and are merely expedients, shibboleths
to keep alive agitation in the interest
OF the agitators who make profession
OF virtue and live, and thrive and
grow rich off the contributions of
honest thousands of men and women
who do.ardently and honestly believe
In prohibitionIor local option or bo, h.
| favor general license provision in
the constitution that will clothe the
legislature with full power to regulate
the traffic In liquor by means Of laws
which have behind them the sanction
Of public opinion and which can be
enforced. Let us abandon hypocrisy
and false pretense and thus take this
liquortquestion out of politics where
1t doeslnot belong and never would
have been but for the professional
agitators.
There Is demand for increased
revenue by taxation. / favor econom-
ical administration of governmental
affairs to the end that the burdens of
taxation, always borne by the workers
OF the country, and the home owners
may not become too grievous to be
borne. There should be no privileged
class exempt from its share of these
burdens. 1t is said that there is
church property of the value of five
billions of dollars exempt from taxa
tion. Protected by all the expensive
agencies Of the government, and con-
tributing nothing to the expense.
This is wrong Especially is it wrong
since the church and the various
societies affiliated with it have be-
come the propogandists and active ad-
vocates Of large number Of so.called
'reforms" by legislative anactment
and has thereby abandoned its alleged |
to retrieve mans fallen con.
dition, and develop his moral nature
by spiritual means. By such pro-
pogandism and the influence of the
and its related societies an
enormus increase in penal legislation |
has been effected in the last Is years,
and the list continues to grow. Let
the auditor of any county In the state
be called to show how enormously the |
appropriations for the judiciary fund"
has increased in the time named. Let
all who create, or aid, in the increase
Of our burdens, share them.
One other subject, cremation. The
high price Of living has made Of life a
serious trouble for most of us, so that |
we, like Bill Nye, often think. 1T
would have been money in my pocket
If l had never been born" But
there's no escape from the funeral
with his expensive and ghast-
ly array Of trappings. And the devasta-
ting tombstone peddler following in
his wake, and cleaning up any little
bit that by self denial may be saved
for the widow and the ophan has
ma e death almost as terrible and ex-
pensive as life. Therefore, favor a
provision authorizing
the erection and maintenance of state
crematories, wherein the bodies of
deceased citizens may be cremated at
an expense no greater than will suffice
to maintain and keep in repair these
This plan will relieve
life of great and growing burden,
and death of one Of its chief terrors.
On all other questions propose to
vote right, as my intelligence gives me
to see the right. Turner.