Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09
Taxation and PrOfIgacy His Theme -
Says He Will be Elected = Going to Campaign
State on Democratic Platform After Primary
Nominations.
(From Lewiston Tribune.l


the northern part of the state. talked
Interestingly last night on his views
and policies, as follows:
Having been nominated as a cam
didate for the office of governor of the
state of Idaho, l have filed my accept
ance thereof subject to the Demo-
cratic primaries to be held on the
first day of September. I have no
doubt as to my receiving the nominal
ton, and l have less doubt about be-
ing elected, l have made a fair can
vass of the southern part of the state
and speak confidently when I say that
I viii be elected because this is an
age of independent voting and there
are enough independent voters in the
state to elect me. Old party lines
have been obliterated and people
think for themselves and vote as they
think fit, and l have every conf
dence that when the ballots are count
ed, no matter who my opponent may
be. l will have more votes than he
has
II am standing squarely upon the
Democratic state platform and I am
thoroughly in accord with the admin
istration of Woodrow Wilson.
lHOIOuSHiN approve OF tHe TeQucllOH
of the tariff, of the income tax and
I believe that the passage of the cur
rency bill has marked a new era in
our national life We now for the
first time in the history of this nation
have an elastic currency to meet the
demands of business, which will avoid
tight money markets and has re-
legated the word panic to the rear.
Occurrences like 1897, 1898 and 1907
when the whole financial fabric of
the country was upset and bank
ruptcy and failures were the order of
the day. are gone never to return.
The wisdom and the courage of Wood
row Wilson in placing that law upon
the statute books has endeared his
administration to me more than any
other act, as I am in business on
reasonably extensive scale in the state
of Idaho, and to me sound financial
conditions are as important as to any
many. can now go on with a degree
of certainty that whatever legitimate
undertaking I enter into can be con-
summated, and that there will be
money enough to do the business of the
country and to move the crops,
however large they may be; and IL
more money is required than there is
now in circulation the regional reseryN.
banks will furnish it to the Local
banks and they in turn will loan it t :
their customers at such rate of inter
est as the national reserve board
will fix from time to time. This is
new step In the era of commercialism,
and in the future we can expand on
legitimate lines without fear; and in
my opinion there is now about to be
ushered in a period of prosperity such
as we have never before witnessed,
based upon sound business methods
without initiation and without specula-
ton.
In the state Of Idaho 1t is necessary
to reverse the conditions under which
we have lived. We have been led to
believe that taxation creates happiness
and prosperity. We are now discover
ing that that belief is wrong and the
people demand a change in the method
of taxation. The Democratic platform
positively declares in favor thereof, and
even the Republican platform favors
reduction of taxes And if the Republi-
can platform feels that reduction of
taxes is needed, 1t is the best evidence
In the world that taxes have been too
high or else they would not need
reducing, and no one is responsible
for it but the Republican regime, that
has been so thoroughly entrenched in
the state house of Idaho. and which
is about to be relegated to the rear
and deprived of life by the people of
the state.
THE state Of Idaho spends every
two years for the maintenance of the
state government four million dollars
Taking 300 working days in the year,
it costs the state of Idaho IS, 666 90
every "a hours. That is for a popu-
lation of about $4,000 little less
than the city Of Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, contains. By our extrava-
giant process of taxation we have not
only oppressed the people for state
purposes but the spirit OF extravag-
ance has been taken up by the various
| counties, municipalities and school
districts, until today the most active
agency in any community is the tax
collector. l have given the matter
considerable thought and study and
believe that the present direct levy
for state purposes which is two mil
lion dollars for every two years, can
be reduced one-half, and the tax
payer can be saved for state purposes
annually a half million dollars; and
the same retrenchment policy in
jected into the counties and munich
palities will save the people of Idaho
two and one-half millions of dollars
annually. That amount of money left
in the pockets of the people in my
opinion will produce confidence. at
tract capital. encourage immigration
into our state. and usher in an era of
general good feeling that win electri-
fly the people throughout the state
1.-THE indirect income OF the state
of Idaho every two years is nearly
one and one-half million dollars, and
that one and one-half millions, with
a very small additional levy. ought to
be sufficient to run a state of our size;
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