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Illinois Press Comment.

Mt Carmel Republican: The tar
amendment is worthy of adoption
and is much needed.
Aurora News: The proposed
amendment will permit the general
assembly to use its discretion in
methods of taxing personal property.
Pontiac Leader: Voters of Illinois
will be asked at the November cleo
ton to pass judgment on an impor-
tant tax amendment to the state con-
stitution.
Champaign Gazette: 1t would be a
sad waste of effort if this amendment
should fail because of lack of infor-
nation or because a few citizens
merely forgot about it.
Chicago Post: Leading candidates
for governor, regardless of party or
faction, say that the state constitu-
ton should be amended by the adop-
ton of the tax amendment.
Kewanee Star Courier: Every
voter in Illinois who goes to the polls
on November will have a voice in
deciding whether or not the tax
amendment to the state constitution
shall be adopted.
Moline Despatch: There is no
good reason why any person-even
though he is not generally a student
OF such matters-should not fully
understand the pending tax amend
ment to the Illinois constitution.
Quincy Journal: Both farmers and
real estate men favor the important
tax amendment to the state constitu-
ton which is to be voted on at the
election, November Z, as pointed out
in the resolution adopted by the Real
Estate Association of Illinois.
Ottawa Republicans: The Farmers
institute, has sent out circular en-
dorsing the resolutions recently
passed by the Real Estate association
in favor of the proposed tax amend
ment to the state constitution.
Rockford Daily Republic: The
greatest economic problem before the
state of Illinois today is unquestion-
ably the revision and Encouragement
of our tax laws. Our present system
of levying taxes upon general prop
erty direct has fastened the burden
Of taxation upon real estate.
Edwardsyille Intelligencer: Fail
ure to mark the little ballot" for
the amendment will be counted as
against it. Therefore, those who be-
lieve the tax system should be
changed, must remember to vote for
the tax amendment and urge their
neighbors to remember to vote for it.
Chatsworth Plaindealer: Adoption
of the pending tax amendment to the
Illinois constitution at the November
z election was endorsed by a vote Of
the thirtieth annual convention of the
State Association of Supervisors,
County Commissioners, County and
Probate Clerks at its session In
Quincy.
Galva News: Those who have tax
able property or effects which can be
hidden from the eye of the assessor
continue to try to hide them, and the
poor taxpayer who has so little that
it is all, at all times spread out to the
public view, will continue to carry a
share of the burden which rightfully
belongs to his more fortunate
brother.
Lewistown News: Under the pres
ent law of Illinois A may sell
horse to B for 5000 and take a note
for that amount in payment. A can
be assessed for the note and B for
the horse, thus creating a double tax.
B might sell the horse to C and C to
D, each of them taking a note, and
there would then be $500 worth of
for taxation and still but
one horse. Six hundred dollars Of
this amount is fictitious and really
amounts to a tax upon Indebtedness.