Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-29
Increasing Taxation

Estimates of state expenditures for the next benniun
are $45456377 Of this $24717,34o will be covered
by receipts from sale of highway bonds license fees inner
tance taxes corporation licenses insurance taxes licenses
etc. $4 78652 will be by funds paid account Of
workmens compensation law and for vocational education
from other not paid to the secretary OF
state $752370 will from eves added by vote OF the
people of the cent limitation, and $98l0,35O
from within the per cent limitation The legislature
will have the spending of $6892229 the balance of the
penditures being made under miLage laws
These huge totals show how the cost of
advancing by leaps and bounds The relative situation
exists in county and municipal and school dis
tcts When to state and local taxation added the federal
taxation pay for the and preparations for future war
the total burden the taxpayer is enormous
For most of the increased state and local taxation the
people only themselves to blame they voted in full
realization of the consequences However the effort to pay
for it will be exhaustive to produce reaction that VIII
probably sweep away many of the ris and fads folsed
upon the people by reformers make economy in office
something than political promise to be forgotten
after election.
For great part of the increasing expense the new
paternasn blame Either people more incompetent
today in history and not be trusted to do the
simplest things else they deliberately Sinking their
duties for the state is constantly assuming larger and
larger part the of the and the family
individual seems have suddenly become incapac
aed and to society that which previous generations
looked upon as the duty fthe individual
Welfare workers tell that large pfoportlon OF parents
are too ignorant and too incompetent to be
with the rearing children that investigation shows that
many little ones udernourished dercad and diseased
that unless proper medical and food provided
the coming generation will be impaired mentally ana
physcayand this must be done at public expense If done
at ALL III
When the child has safely passed the epidemic PERIOD ana
minus his adnods tonss and other things becomes negh
Dohood nuisance he she must be amused and
and instructed always others lest ne becomes
aibird and she becomes worse.
And later on when the effort to make silk purse out OF
sows ear has failed the hereditary faint has obscured
he shallow veneer of state imposed and superficial attempt
culture and the inclination to make living by honest to
lost in the pursuit of pleasure the coddng OF the dege
rate and crook continues into the prisoand society ana
,ot the Individual is declared the sinner.
Perhaps it the duty of the state to supply the detce
les Of the parent and the individual and leave the latter care
rec of responsibilities But wonders how humanity
to exist since the dawn of history without any sun
solicitation the part of society and why
that the coming generation must be codded and weared
the public expense when their parents and grandparents
not and whether after ALL the elimination OF the unit
not natures way of preserving society," and IT, In upsettg
he natural law we not preparing the way 1or the
esrrction of civilization by fostering degeneracy c.