American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-08-20
Lewis Says

your expenses, n mine are limit
ed by what we can afford to pay. Why
not limit the public expense to what
the tax payer a afford to pay? This
will be a good basis for taxation for a
few years.
Lewis Says
An automobile in your county
should not be taxed to build or main
tain a road In my county, but each
auto should help build and maintain
the roads It uses.
Lewis Says
Our land grants were given the state
to help MAINTAIN the schools and in
speculate in rising land values. We
should be allowed to sell these lands
faster and use the income to tighten
our az burdens.
Lewis Says
The official who loses sight of the
bushel of wheat, the dozen eggs or
the hard days toll that went into the
tax money he is spending, is not the
man we want to manage our public
affairs Let us elect different men
this year.
Lewis Says
A tax dollar is as good as a private
dollar, and should buy as much. If it
does not the man who is spending II is
comforting a favor to some one with
your money and mine. and is certainly
not the man we want to run our bus
mess.
Lewis Asks
When vas the last time a depart
ment OF this state, or a state institu-
ton, turned back an unused portion
of its appropriation? If memory
serves me rightly deficits have been
the rule. They seem to be getting
fashionable again this year.
Lewis Says
Idaho women nave always stood for
public morality and civic righteous
ness. They have made their views felt
through the ballot. The state has
profitted greatly by their voting. Why
not give them generous credit?
Lewis Says
We will vote on statewide prohibi-
ton two years from his fall. The
deciding factor in this election will be
the women's vote. win they use fore
sight at this election by putting men
in office who are in sympathy with
prohibition? Just watch them.
Lewis Asks
If dry" laws do not stop LIQUOR
selling. whose fault is it? The laws?
Yours? Mine? DO we, he people.
want it stopped? Then whose fault is
It?
Lewis Says
The difference between wanting a
good law passed, and getting the full
benefit Of the law after it is passed,
is a good executive.
Lewis Asks
If the state Land Board signs a wa
ter contract with a water corporation
to put water on a Carey Act segrega-
tion, does 1t become a party to the
contractg Ii SO, whom does it repre-
senty The State, at large? Or whom?
Or What?
Lewis Asks
After signing a contract with a wa
ter corporation to water u Carey Act
segregation, at just what stage of the
progress Of watering. does the Land
Board withdraw from being a party to
the contract and become a Court of
Arbitration to sit in judgment on it?
Lewis Says
The office of Commissioner OF I'm
migration should not be abolished. In
stead the office should be made"Com-
missioner of immigration, Labor and
Statistics as was intended by the
fathers of the state.
Lewis Says
Idaho farmers need long time rural
credit badly. We can raise products
abundantly. No sane man doubts this
we need markets. 1t may take ten
years or longer to get these arranged
right. We need the long time credits
to tide the farmer over this period.
Lewis Says
The National Forests contract with
a saw mill to sell it logs for five to
twenty years, and asks pay but for one
years logs at a time. The mill man
mas no money invested In timber or
lands no interest to figure. no taxes
to pay This stops the sale of all
other timber, and destroys timber
land values.