Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-07-23
FREE-wILL AND UNSOLICITED

The support given Gov. Roberts
by the Dresden Enterprise for
reelection is free-will and IN
solicited. Neither Gov. Roberts nor
any friend or supporter of his sug-
gested that this paper give the gov
ernor it's editorial support.
The Enterprise has been inclined
to Gov. Roberts all the while, but
had taken no editorial position IN
Til after his speech here and after
hearing his explanation of the tax
laws, as well as other laws enacted
under hiss administration. After
hearing him on these questions the
Enterprise felt taat it could do
nothing else but support him. Ger
tainly, it has the right to do so.
1t has been said that the Enter
prise received pay for the editorial
support given Gov. Roberts in the
last weeks issue. Don't measure
us in your half bushel, brother, In
the first place, the postal laws force
newspapers to mark all paid matter
not showing upon its face that it is
advertising, advertising" and if
this paper received pay for an edi-
torial and did not mark the same
"Adyertising,"2-. we. would be prose-
cuted in the federal courts. Again,
Gov. Roberts position is so broad
that he does not have to buy sup
port, and the only reason he is now
being opposed by certain Tennessee
newspapers is because he would not
bend his knee to the whims Of these
papers, one of them representing
the corporate interests of Memphis,
where the new taxing laws willforce
these big interests to help the home
owner and the small farm owner to
bear the tax burden.
One gentleman said the other day
his assessment had been increased
40 per cent, or four times what Il
originally was. Another place near
it was increased but about S200
The 5000 man had been paying the
taxes of the man whose assessment
was increased four times. This Il
the leason-the only reason tht
Enterprise favors the new assess
ment law. 1t forces the big fellow
to help pay the running expenses O
the state and county. 1t is muel
easier to place a low assessment OF
"a $4,000 farm or place than it l
to place, a low assessment on
$1,000 home or farm. Thus tn
home owner and small farm oWne
are the ones who have been bearln
the tax burden in Tennessee.
We don't care whether Roberts o
Crabtree or Rye or anyone els
fathered the new assessment law,
seems to us to be good one
eoualize taxes and place the tax pul
den where it justly belongs on a
alike. Can anyone object to that
No, buddy, the Enterprise don
have to be paid to advocate what
deems to be right and honorabl
especially when it comes to a matte
affecting the interest of the non
owner and the small farm oWne
both of whom have been bearing IL
biggest end of the tax burden unit
The new assessment law put all upc
an equal footing, as it does
The Nashville Tennessean az
Commercial both published an ar
Gle from Mr.. Crabtree rejecting U
on, four citizens Of Weakley count
Roth these papers were given copl
Of a correction of the statemer
: made by Mr.. Crabtree, but Meth
naper was fair enough to publish t
correction asked by Mr.. Hou'
who prepared the article. Yet the
are the two papers that are vigoro'
" opposing Gov. Roberts, and
that is their standards of fairne
then Gov. Roberts may conslC
himself fortunate in having tn
opposition,