The Nevada County picayune., 1918-12-12

income taN if it secs fiji To dc so. bat ,',ts income tax cannot be levied msa three years after the War Thf, Guf ration three wears after t4e Har was put in because the national gov crnment k now collecting q war i'll come tax and it was thought that aft CT three years the war income t4N would cease and then if the pe )ple wanted to provide q just income taX 70 help pay the expenses of g1vern- mcnt, this might be done Who ,au complain of that? Who ever hesid of Il widow who made S2 weel, oyer q waShtub paying an income taN an that $2 until Senator Bush invented that idea: Such d thing as that never hafrened n any government. whether free or despotic. Does senator BnSh think the peop'a have no scrsc and cannot read the constitution ter them selves?
 have already discussed tae eyemp- ton of public bonds from taxation and also the question of the issuance of public bonds as provided for ill the new constitution Why dCeS not Senator Bush tell the people that bonds cannot run for more than a6 years, that they canot boar more than G per cent interest. that they cannot be issued for more than ! per cent of the value of the property af fccted as shown by the prevouS gen eral assessment and that they can- not be issued at all until after a Spe- cial election by the people has been had on that subject and until after eD that election have voted affirmative ly for the issuance of such bonds, and that such bonds cannot be issued eX cept by cities and towns of more than 1000 population, and can only be is sued to pay existing indebtedness or to make permanent public improve ments? This is what the new consti- tuition says. A bare majority of the electors cannot authorize the issuance of such bonds. Fiftyone per cent would be majority but the constitu tion requires that G0 per cent of the electors voting at such election must authorize the issuance of such bOhds before they can be issued. Now where does Shyloek come into this trans action? How can old Shylock con- trol G0 per cent of the electors! Are the people not able to govern themselves? Do they not know what they want? Are they not entitled to have what they deliberately demand!
 "Old Shylock" is baby's old bloody or big bad man called into this discussion by Senator Bush in order to frighten the people and pre- vent them giving dispassionate con sideratiOn to the questions presented by the new constitution. l respect fully suggest that reason would be a better safeguard for the peoples ln- terest than made to-order fury.
 Senator Bush says that a house that
 S now worth five thousand dollars will be taxed for bond purposes at that value throughout the period for which the bonds are to run That is Il
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 There is not d syllable in the new constitution which will warrant any man in making that statement. This constitution business is not d matter of hidc-and seek and of deception and smuggle, It is matter always In the open, and free, full and fair dis cussion ought to he the order of the day on the part of both the friends and the enemies of the new instru- ment
 The last appeal of Senator Bush is ostensbly in behalf of the brave boys who have offered the supreme sacrifice and are fortunate enough to return to Arkansas when the war is ended. Sen. ator Bush has nothing on any member of the convention in that respect Nearly every member of the conven- tiOn had sons in the military service of the United States while the mem bers were writing this instrument. Day by day these fathers watched with bated breath and anxious hearts the casualty list from France. Every day the grand old chaplain of the con. vention prayed God to guide the mem hcrs of The convention iu the right. that they might write T constitution worthy of the ha1e boy~ in the treneao- u France rI.e,c mcu did their hest to writc constitution Chat would m8ke democracy safe for the world while fhafr sons and ucpl