The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-03-02

full value on what they do not pos
scss
Now, Governo, Hyde, | am real
progressive, and ! will close my let
ter to you by making suggestion
to you in regard to raising revenue
which is fair and just and would hurt
20 one. We got our income tax
from England Let's 60 and get the
rest of their system, general in
heritance tax law with reasonable ex-
emptions. Let us say: tax all gifts
and inhcritanccs over $lo,ooo.ool
Who, receiving an inheritance over
$4,000, when the state has to pro-
tcct them in it, could say i. was I'M
fair to levy small taxi AS the
stream of wealth passes from one
generation to another, and as the
state protects and defends its title 10
the next generation then let the state
collect small tax, graduated as the
inheritance rises.
Certainly it would be no injury to
the recipients of gifts or the heirs.
Tor VIC could have exemptions of
reasonable sum even up to twenty or
twenty-five thousand dollars.
a few sources OF revenue like this
along with economical and efficient
management of all state affairs 10
GLIDING the abolishmcnt Of all STIFF
plus officers and office holders, would
give lis a new day in Missouri, and
we would have prosperous and hap
Ply people living on the land.
see in the University Missourian
you are quoted as saying you do not
know what is the cause of agricul-
tural depression in Missouri, and that
you arc consulting authorities" in
economies and agriculture, You ought
to 60 to the authorities" on the
farms, the farmers, who find. after
paying the expenses o. producing
their crops they are unable to sell
these crops for enough to pay this
unequal burden of taxes which your
ull valuation has inflicted upon them.
A banker in Ccntr4lia told me to-
lay that seventy-tive per cent Of their
armer customers had to borrow the
money to pay their taxes this year.
| note also that you- adult It takes
hree hours of a farmers time to
dual one hour Of city workers
inc. Then knowing this. why did
YOU not think OF il when you de-
,reased taxes on wealth and saddled
increased taxation on the farmcrf
When ! found my taxes increased
rom 1888 to $500, and when ! sa"
hat my entire crop would not pay
he taxes, J got my long-tailcd COAT
md my fiddle and started out to lee
urc and fiddle the taxes off our farm,
md | have been all over Missouri on
his trip. | have asked hundreds OF
armers about their taxes and have
ct to find single farmer whose
axes have not been increased. On
he contrary, find the men OF wealth
Ill chuckling in their sleeves at the
,eautiiul system OF full valuation OF
arm lands taxation.
One of our most elegant citizens
yho was smart enough to sell his
ands. during the boom, told me his
axes were great deal less this year
N his money. He has gone to spend
he winter at Palm Beach, Florida.
nd writes back that the weather -
eautiful and strawberries are begin
ing to bloom. But no strawberries
re blooming in Missouri for for
farmers, and will not until
We rid the state of those who are re-
for saddling this unequal
urdeu of taxes on the tillers OF the
oil.
As for me, I'm going back to the
rood old days OF my Democratic
axes of $3SS as against your Repub-
can $3.50.
Goodbye, Governor take keer o
erseIf. Morton II. Pemberton.
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