The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-05-09
ARE ALL TAXPAYERS LIARsg

4 siugle-taXer from Chicago made
a speech last week in st. Louis on
the subject Of single taxation, and
this Il one Of the statements he IL
reported 10y the st. Louis Republic
to have made:
II won't say that you are poor
lot OF liars, but in comparison with
Chicago and New York you are
hopelessly inefficient
As take ii, this is fling at all
the taxpayers OF the State, that is,
that the taxpaying citizens of Mis-
souri, are some liars, but not yet big
liars. And methinks that IL must
then be the prayerful hope of these
guardians Of the peoples veracity
that before they lthe people do ac-
quirc the art Of becoming big liars,
like their brothers in Chicago and
New York, there must be thrown
around them by the efforts of thes
guardian angels "A law called the
Single Tax" SO that we couldn't
then lie If we wanted to.
II seems to be one OF the cardinal
principles Of the advocates of this
theory, that the public conscience
should he protected, that perjury or
lying in regard to the assessment of
property is one Of the glazing evils
of our present system OF taxation,
or IN other words, our present sys-
ten puts premium on perjury"
Then in order to save the people
from becoming nation Of liars,
they would ,haye us remove from
taxation the sole cause of our down
fall, or that which may cause our
complete damnatiuu, the taxation
Of all personal property,
What If that should be done and
yet "" continue to lie, what then?
What would be ,he next spiritual
remedy proposed? We may guess
several remedies, hut about the on
~ one ] see that would be in just
keeping with the other would he to
remove the right Of ownership of all
property.
About the first person, of whom
We have any knowledge, who told
the first lie, was Cain, and he
wasn't paying any taxes either.
II the law against perjury is not
effective, then why not have other
criminal laws ineffective against
crimes removed also. The law, ev.
er since it's enactment amidst the
thunders of Mt. Sinai, has said,
"Thou shalt not steal,n but some
people do nevertheless steal, there
fore, in accordance with these Wis.,
ionary ideas, We should have the
State to COntiscatr everything that
is looscned at both ends in order to
remove any and all temptations In
the way of those who might have a
propensity to steal.
1t is easy enough for an artist in
his imagination to throw on canvas
II picture Of this earth living under
the golden rule but could there
be Il practical application?
So It is a simple thing for some
people with visionary minds to tell
us what is always good for the body
polite. They can furnish you a
panacea for every political i'll. They
are like dame fashion, always pro-
posing new styles. And II 1t were
possible to have our body polite
dressed up in these new proposed
styles, what q sight would be ex-
hibited!
Well, If we are State Of liars,
we don't seem to be very much
stunted By that fact, for we are still
able to live, move and have our be-
ing, and to eat three square meals
day.
rather suspect, II the party who
made the foregoing statement, had
made the same statement before the
mass meeting Of citizens in Farm
ington on April 9th, when they
were perfecting an organization to
combat the Single Tax" amend
mcnt, there certainly would have
been something doing, and maybe
the undertaken would have been
called In to perform the last sad du-
ty to one whose farther trouble of
taxation would have been forever
removed.
II does appear to he the chief end
of those single takers to save the
tax.paying liars. BY the way, Mr..
Editor, can you tell me who's pay
ing the freight?
T c. NorNG.
CARLETON DEFEATS DOE RUN.
The Carleton lads drove over to
Doe Run Monday after dinner and
had real close, exciting game with
the boys of Doe Run High School.
In the beginning Carleton hatted
well and scored ! runs. Doe Run
ran run. 1t looked to be entirely
in Carleton 4 hands but the reckless
t.vl. n.l lnI