The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-02-27
wARNes LAW BECOMES POPULAR

LAW BECOMES POPULAR
Although operations under the
Warnes taxation law have been going
On but a short time, the efficacy Of
the law is already being demonstrated,
and no honest man Is being hurt by It,.
The farmers, the workers and the
moderately well-do-do, of which three
classes Knox county is made up, have
already discovered, since the asses
sors have been making their rounds,
that the scare that was attempted to
throw into them by the Republican
press bureau, the expense Of which Is
paid by the millionaire tax-dodgers
and the utility insurance companies,
who are Joined in common cause to
upset the taxation law and the work
mems compensation law, was without
foundation. No honest man objects
to paying his just share of the taxes.
What he does object to is the faVorit.
ism that has been going on in Ohio
under the old order OF things for
years and years, whereby the taxpay'
ers of counties like Knox have been
making fair returns while the Rocke
fellers Of Cleveland and the other
large cities have been escaping pay
ment of taxes they justly should have
made, and which, 1t Is already demon
strated, they will be compelled tt
make under the Warnes law.
Those who we're familiar with the
Warnes law we're satisfied that onct
the farmers, workers and other people
In moderate circumstances once un
derstood the law they all would b,
proclaiming its praises. For month";
| there has been much misrepresenta
tion and downright lying about tn
| Warnes law, eminating from the pres
bureau of the reactionary Republican
state committee, backed by the dirt
| dollars of the millionaire tax dodger
and the utility insurance companie
! and whose articles have found plac
in the columns of the reactionary Re
| publican newspapers which still cor
tlnue to he political cliff dwellers.
The practical operations of tn
Warnes law, the listing of property b
the assessors, was bound to dispel tn
lies that had been spread about col
cerning IT, and to remove the preil
dice that was worked up against l
And that is exactly the way it is worl
ing out,
The Banner predicted long ag'
while feeling Of prejudice against tn
Warnes law, which was worked u
by the interests mentioned above, wa
at It's height, that when the peopl
found how they had been lied to tht
they would turn upon those who ha
done the lying and the misrepresent
tion, Already many people of Kno
county hnve discovered that the
we're made dupes OF. They hay
. found that the Warnes law does nj
! hurt them. and they are ready to kic
those who were so diligent In the
efforts to scare them.
Right now the Banner wants
make another prediction, which Ii
That when the listing Of property
completed, when every property-ow
or learns the valuation of his propert
and what the aggregate shows, thj
the Warnes law will fully vindica
itself. and that II viii prove to be oil
of the most popular laws ever enact'
In Ohio.
And another predictions that !
/, candidate for the legislature will {
. before the people Of Knox county M
proclaim himself in favor of the repe
OF the Warnes law,
II Verify, the much-abused Warnes la
G is coming to the front as popul
y law.