West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-07-01
Pound Out Who Did the Lying About
Taxes and Virginia Debt

Aurora. June "a. 1916.
Editor Argus--Your editorial in n
late issue OF your paper headed "who
lied" was read by me with a great
deal OF interest. 1 guess / am one OF
the hundreds of Republicans i'm Pres
ton county who honestly believed that
The Argus was doing the lying and the
Journal was telling the truth about
the new tax laws and the Virginia
debt. But there is no longer any
doubt as to who was guilty OF lying
about the tax laws and the Virginia
debt. The big increase In our taxes
and the court deciding that West vir-
ginia will have TO pay $12.5OO,0O0
proves that the Journal did the lying
and The Argus told the truth.
What fools we were TO allow our
political prejudice to blind us to our
| own interests as citizens and taxpay-
ers. But we did. Now we shall pay
dearly for our political prejudice be-
sides handing down to our children a
huge debt that will keep their nose TO
| the grind stone for at least half
| century. Had we as sensible men lis
tened TO reason and common sense we
could have avoided all this. But we
Rugged the delusion of our political
prejudice that the Republican leaders
and the Preston County Journal were
telling us the truth and the Democrats
and The West Virginia Argus were
simply lying to us to get our votes.
| Indeed when l look back and re-
member how earnestly The Argus APP
pealed to us Republicans to defeat
Dawson for governor and the Repub-
lican candidates for the legislature as
the only means of escaping the pay
ment OF the Virginia debt and increas-
ed taxation ii makes me sick at heart
to think we were too prejudiced to ac-
cept the advice of The Argus. How
much better off as taxpayers we would
be today had we elected Democratic
governor and legislature. Having
failed to do so we must suffer for our
folly
But how about the future? AS Re.
publican taxpayers are we going tC
vote to continue the Whites, the Daw.
sons, the Glasscocks and the Hatfield,
in the public Offices? Can we who
have been so shamefully deceived by
the leaders of the Republican party
vote for the candidates of that party
any longer? L answer Thousand
times no! Tire Republican who will
now vote to continue that gang of Re
publican ofiiceholders in Office afteI
they have piled the Virginia debt OIL
our backs and increased our state Ia,
and let the corporations go must b,
fool. There can be no further denia
as to "who lied" to us about the ia,
laws and the Virginia debt. The lead
ers of the Republican party are tn
ones who deliberately and knowingl,
lied to us.
We now have the evidence before u
by the courts decision that we mus
pay $12.000,000 to the Wall stree
sharks while the Hatfield administra
ton increased our state tax from tel
cents to fourteen cents and let tn,
powerful corporations go free. VIII.
heavens, my Republican brethren
didn't Bliss McCrum, Carl Pierce anC
L ~s-.sN -,
state tax and let the corporations go
Or course they did. Have not McCrun
and Pierce been rewarded by Hatfiel,
Tor standing by him? Yes. indeed
Can we trust the Republican part,
any longer to legislate for the com
mon people? No.
REPUBLICAN TAXPAYER.