The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-11-02
BEE HOPKINS WRITES VOTERS
TO THE VOTERS OF CALHOUN
COUNTY:


ind 1T impossible to see and talk
with great many of the voters of this
county, as much us | would like to do
so, and as l am the Democratic candi-
date TO represent you i'll the next Leg
lslaCure take this method of telling
you what l will stand for if 1 am
elected
FIRST: L am lead to believe, after
ii careful study of the subject, that our
people are robbed of thousands of dol
Iais each year by changing the text
books used i'll the free schools. This
money comes oil OF class of people.
MANY of whom are poor, and find it
ulIhcult TO raise. am in favor of law
that will prevent the constant changing
OF these books from year to year.
SECOND: believe there has been
disposition on the part of the law max
erS Oh TINS state to heap upon its citi-
Zens needless amount of taxes by
raising salaries and creating new of
ices and commissions. The salaries of
state officers were practically all in
creased and many OF them were doub-
led by the last Legislature, and many
new Offices were created, so that the
per capita cost of running our state
government has been increased since
che the year 1915 as follows 1915,
$40; 1916, $3.O6; 1917, $2SS; 1918,
500; 1919, $4.54; 1920, $40; and
1921, $7:42-almost three times the
cost i'll 1915, and this, in spite of the
Iact that the war is over and the coun-
Try is getting back ito normally. The
profits OF the farmer have been reduced
and the wages of the laborer have been
lowered. And L cannot see any reas-
ON why the salaries of the Office holders
Of the state and the costs of the state
government should not be cut in pro-
portion. L am in favor of reducing
salaries and doing away with useless
Offices and commissions to the end that
the tax payers may be saved many
thousands of dollars.
If your farm products are cheaper
ana you get less for your days labor
you are entitled to a reduction on your
tax ticket.
THIRD: L am in favor of improved
roads, but 1 feel that every dollar paid
out by the tax payer should go to make
roads and not be wasted in salaries
and on useless commissions. You voted
a bond issue of fifty million dollars to
build roads, to be paid by you by direct
taxation. The salaries of your com
mission for 1920 and 1921 was seven
thousand dollars. The last Legislature
raised this to twenty-five thousand five
I hundred dollars per year the salaries
/ OF the engineers and assistants for the
Road Commission for 1920 and 1921
was S43.0000O and this was raised to
9lJ2,OOO.OO. / shall favor the most
rigid economy on the part of this com
mission. IL must understand IL is en-
trusted with the money of the tax.
( payers, many of whom must sacrifice 20
pay, and you are entitled to an &C
counting for every penny of IL.
FOURTH L am unalterablv on
posed to raising the assessed valuation
of the lands in this county This is
being threatened, and in spite of the
TACT that the assessed valuation of your
lands has been raised more than double
i'm the last few years and your tax
. tickets are more than twice what they
we're. Other properties have not been
increased In this state in the same pro
portion as your land, and You are non
paying more than your proportionate
share of the taxes
am n citizen and tax payer of this
county and believe the issue i'm this
campaign is a lower tax rate. I am in
favor Of It and believe 1t can be had
by the elimination of wasteful and ex.
travagant expenditures, and by estao.
fishing an economical and business ad.
ministrabon Of the states affairs. The
question 10 with You, do you want your
taxes raised or lowered. am In favor
Of lower iIXes.
cry respectfully yours,
j BEE HOPKINS.