The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-11
GOVERNOR WOULD
STOP STATE DEFICIT
IN SPEECH HARDWICK SAYS
WEALTH AND NOT POWER
TY MUST FOOT BILL.

WINDER, Ga.-Speaking to large
and attentive audience here on
how he would seek to remove the state
deficit of nearly $3,000,000, Gov. Thorn
as w. Hardwick sounded "a keynote OF
optimism in the business future of the
people OF Georgia He declared that
Georgians were unconquerable in their
spirit and that financial depression
would be dissipated before determl-
nation to inaugurate "a sounder bust
ness basis of affairs.
Governor Hardwick opened series
Of speeches he is to deliver in a num-
Der OF sections of the state on the IL
nancial conditions facing the people
and on remedy to be effected.
Best Way Shown.
"The best way to get rid off this
deficit. to meet the situation which
suggested both reduction of approprla-
tions and increase of revenues, neither
of which is desirable, is to ,cut expens-
es said the governor.
TOO many contuactual rights being
tied ND in expectant appropriations 1T
was hard to cut them down. The last
tional revenues, but had almost lnSup-
cradle difficulties to overcome. The
gasoline tax and other eleventh hour
measures adopted helped the situation
greatly.
But we must provide more revenue
unless we are to neglect the education
of our children. We must pay our bills.
At the same time, in times like these
the tax rate must not be put too high.
And, besides, the wealth OF the
state and not its poverty must loot
the bill The invisible property must
be taxed, and | don't mean through
the meddlesome Offices OF tax 1nvestl-
gators. All the tax must not be put on
property, the archaic system adhered
to for years. That not only does not
produce ample revenue, but 1t lets out
large numbers of men who have m
comes and no property. Where the
money is there should the taxes be
secured
Defends Georgia's Good Name.
The governor deprecated the criti-
cism that has been offered both IN and
out of the state against some OF the
people of Georgia, and. during the
course .of his speech he said, speaking
OF the people of the state, none OF
them is wholly good, few OF them is
wholly bad"
Georgians, the governor said are 4
high-strung, sensitive people, who de-
sptse and will not stand for hypocrisy,
hate a lie and are incapable OF little
ness. There is in this state, he said,
no religious intolerance, and nowhere
on the globe are people freer to wor-
ship according to the dictates OF their
own ,consciences than in Georgia,
where practically the whole population
is native horn.
Especially interesting was the gov
ernor's reference to the need for i'm
proved marketing facilities in the state,
and his statement that the executive
department is especially interested in
that work. 1t us his idea, as expressed
in his speech, that the proper kind OF
agricultural diversihcation will come
with the establishment of the proper
kind OF marketing facilities in the state,
and through which the products may
be moved out OF the state.
Tax Burden on the Weakest.
He paid some attention to the mat
ter OF fiscal affairs of the state, show
ing that dor some years there has been
a gradually accommodating deficit which
must be met and wiped out, at the
same time showing that the burden of
the state government is now falling
heaviest on the shoulders of those
weakest IN ability TO take care OF 1T.
He believes the proper remedy is adOp
ton of a new system OF taxation based
on properly graded and applied income
tax lev1es.