Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-04-13
CAMPAIGN SLOGAN
OF SENATOR DAVIS
DENOUNCED BY CAPTAIN DAVIS
AS IMPRACT|CABLE AND
DANGEROUS.

candidate for governor, addr eSSed
good sized audience from his auto
mobile ON the street corner in this
city last Friday evening. The cap
tain is forceful speaker and his
remarks were given very close at
tention He said in part:
1--WE have been asked to believe
in this campaign that certain can
didate for governor will, if nominal
ed and elected, be enabled to inaug-
urate policies which will eventually
give us a 'taxless state This theory,
even if we concede, which l do not,
the accuracy of the figures used to
elucidate it, is subject to two fatal
objections. In the first place we
must bear in mind that none of
these magical benefits are promised
for the present generation We must
also bear in mind that we are asked
to use only one-sixth of the income
which Is supposed to accrue to the
school funds, and to set aside five
sixths for purposes of accumulation.
In the last analysis this means that
those of us who live in this pioneer
ing period will be willing to pay
more taxes in order that those who
may live here fifty or a hundred
years from now shall pay less. Are
any of you willing to stand for such
J scheme as this?
Elm the second place, We must
look to the actual condition which
would prevail in the state If this
novel plan were actually capable of
realization. This large fund must be
loaned out at interest if it is to pro-
duce the money which is to run
the state in lieu of taxes. Most OF
it will be loaned to farmers, or at
least to those who are in the bor-
rowing class. The condition would
then obtain that only those who
were so poor that they We're forced
to borrow their own money from
the state would contribute anything
either directly or indirectly to the
expenses of state government, while
the money lenders, the railroads, the
mines, the timber interests and all
others who most directly receive the
benefits and the protection OF gov
eminent would be exempt. He has
not read his history Alright who be-
lieves that any successful govern
ment can be devised where all the
burdens of government, under what
ever guise, are saddled upon the
poorer classes, while the rich and
he well-to-do escape entirely We
should so seek to develop Idaho |
that by adding wealth we shall the
more widely distribute the burdens
Of government, but, if our govern
nent is to be secure, 1t must ever
De one in which all property must
larry it's just share. Riot and anarchy
must inevitably follow any system
If government wherein the salt OF
he peasant is taxed but the lux
lries of the rich are exempt"
The plan presented by Senator D.
". Davis of American Falls for the
capitalization of Idaho's resources, a
statement Of which
vas printed in the Enterprise OF
March both, was first presented by
Senator Davis at bankers conven-
ion at Weiser three years ago, at
time when he was not an aspir-
mt, as at present for gubernatorlal
Ionors. It was then considered OF
efficient Importance to call forth
considerable discussion and favorable
omment Captain E. G.. Davis, who |
vas then private secretary to Gov
rnor John M Haines, and is looked |
pom as a careful student of politi- h
al economy, also appears to have {
cen much interested in the subject, \
s will be seen by reference to the /
which Immediately '
,llowed between himself and Sena-
,r Davis. a
If Captain Davis found upon in e
of the plan that 1t was t
ot only devoid of real merit, but A
as in fact dangerous doctrine, 1t Il
ould seem that his high sense OF "
lty to the people of the state s.
ould have called forth the same e
that he now seeks to CT
zap upon the same doctrine. While ii
/ the other hand, If Senator Davis 8,
,lieves there is real merit in his p
an, he should not only welcome but lei
'mand, full, free and candid dis Sc
ssion of the same in every county pl
the state, because his claims and ii
ose of Captain e. G. Davis upon ze
e support Of the voters In the Re
lblican preferential primaries will a
decided very largely upon this tu
le issue OF eliminating taxation by ia