Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-08-30
MANY MILLIONS
FOR "MILKERS. !"
THE OPPORTUNITY FOR LEVYlNG
TRIBUTE ON CAPITAL BY NEXT
LEGISLATURE WILL BE
ENORMOUS.
The AMENDMENTS MAY CARRY
They Permit or Demand New Laws
Affecting the Value of Farms,
Homes, Bonds and Stocks - Is
Wealth to Be Distributed by Taxes2

acknowledgements .)-f the elec-
tion were held today, the constitution
al amendments all would be carried.
The labor union, single tax, Socialists,
German American Alliance. Liberal
league and Liquor league organiza-
tions, which Rev. Mr.. Bigelow united
in his Progressive Constitution
leagues, and which elected majority
of the members of the convention, by
minority vote, could pass the
amendments, for a majority of the
vote cast on any amendment-no
majority o. those voting the ticket
fixes 1t in the constitution. This
Bigelow following will be shown how
to vote to advance selfish interests.
They are to vote Yes for license and
Yes on amendments, which will per-
NIT the weakening of the courts and
each of those which remove restric-
tions upon the taxation of wealth
in homes, farms and corporations.
This method of distributing all capital
through taxation is the dream of the
less dangerous faction of the Social
lists.
Even Misinformation Withheld.
The general public is not given
opportunity to learn the effect of the
amendments. The date for the vote
was made Sept. 3, although but one
of the amendments is to go into effect
until next year. Mr. Bigelow was
given charge of the instruction of
the people at an expense of $4,000.
The debates on the amendments are
to be printed, but not until after the
vote. The information prepared for
the voter is pamphlet which con
tains nothing but the amendments
and an argument in their favor, each
written by the author of the proposal
from which 1t was drawn-what the
selfish interests behind it want him to
think. The matter in the pamphlet
is to be printed in newspapers-of
Mr.. Bigelow's selecting-at cost
exceeding 800 each. This will have
value to those having knowledge of
laws, for the amendments are in It.
But discussion of them is STAYED off
by holding this matter from the pa-
pers until within six weeks of the
voting.
No serious effort has been made,
in speech or print, by anyone, to show
the power or manifold danger of this
conspiracy. Last week Mr.. Bigelow
gave public notice that his Progress
sive leagues expected to elect a num-
ber Of members of the legislature suf-
flcient to control it
When the Manufacturers associa-
tion, refusing to he held UP by a
"milker" during the recent shameful
or shameless-legislatue, put mon
ey into the lands of Mr.. Burns, the
public got its first view of the posi-
bilities of bleeding any class having
money by threatening tie enactment
of laws which would do it injury.
The legislators to be elected in No
vember will have such opportunities
multiplied an hundred fold for new
laws taxing and regulating everything
of value, except good name, to be
enacted by them.
What Is "Milker7"
Mixer is a technical word used
by bribe-askers and to them at no
time suggests the simplicity of the
dairy maid.
Before the explosion Of the bribery
scandal, legislative correspondent
depicted the situation in the Demo
cratic general assembly and defined
"a Mixer" thus:
"The present general assembly Is a
joy to big BUSINESS and shame to
the state. Never before have mixers
been SO numerous; never before was
the soliciting of bribes SO common;
never before was the demand of the
people for relief from the greed of
the interests SO great
Capital correspondents agree that
the opportunities for corruption are
larger than in either the Myers or the
O'Connor legislatures, of infamous
memory. and that few of them are
overlooked.
Democrats on the floor and the
speaker in the chair have charged
Democratic members with being
under criminal influence. The gov.
ernor has broadly intimated It, In
the senate scarcely n week has passed
without some member of the majority
calling another a crook-in parlia.
mentary language on the floor or in
that Of the gutter In the smoking
room.
'"The cupidity of the members has
become jest from familiarity with
1t. Reporters twit them about 1t and
while in crowd of them start inn
aginary dialogues between the buyer
and the bought. passing nickeis as
the price.
"rhe story that some senator's keep
cash registers has been told so often
that 1t no longer e-icits a smile.
mo newspaper has printed these
wen-known facts. Possibly each is
awaiting the governors approval of
tha new libel law which is dine fndav