The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-12-29


greatly desired result, other organiza-
lions have been assembling tneir
forces to press new projects on tne
state that will require the raising OF
many hundreds Of thousands OF dollars
more than is now collected from the
groaning taxpayers.
legislators elected to the coming
session nave had impressed upon them
the need of providing relief for tax
PAYERS Of the state, but the mere fact
that the taxpayers want relief VIII not
be a sufficient influence to insure ac-
ton to that end after the legislators
have assembled. The demand Tor re-
auctions in levies must be made I'M
ImistakabIy clear throughout the ses-
sion or the opportunities OF the or
| CARNATIONS that want more money
spent for many new undertakings ana
ventures. which will be backed up Dy
insistent and persuasive lobbies. VIII
prevail and the tax rate for next year
will be increased instead OF dimin-
isned.
The men and women in every COM
munity of this state who have taxes
to pay and who feel the pressure tnat
those taxes impose upon them must
act to save themselves from even
greater burdens. They must write TO
their state senators and legislators
and make known in unmistaKaDie
, terms that they want reductions; that
they cannot meet new demands; that
added taxes would be impossible as
well as intolerable, and finally that
tley are of one mind on the PROPOSE
ton that no new expenditures for any
purpose should be approved at this
session. but that present costs must
| be cut.
Legislators will listen to the voice
| from home And the voice from home
| will determine whether taxes are to be
reduced by this session or increased.
; Not only should individual letters be
written and sent, but taxpayers should
prepare and send in petitions setting
forth in unmistakable terms their de-
mand for economies and their oppO-
sition to any and all new tax spending
proposals.
If the tax payers fail to do this, the
tax spenders will certainly have their
way.
| A large fund has been raised to
maintain lobby at Olympia this WIN
ter which will claim to represent the
| Off IA
will threaten the legislators with de-
feat at the next election IL they do not
vote for the measure that this lobby
will present. And ever single one OF
the measures that it now proposes to
offer provides for additional expendi-
lures of tax money, several of them
for the appropriation Of thousands OF
| dollars If all the measures that this
lobby will present are passed, the ad-
| ded tax bill will amount to a million
dollars at least.
This lobby will be composed OF wo-
men from Seattle, Tacoma and SpO-
kane. Many Of them are active polite
ians and are ambitious to show results
for their activities.
The question is, do they represent
the rank and file of the women Of the
state who feel the pinch of high taxes
and who will be forced to exercise
even greater self-dehial than now If
heavier taxes are imposed upon their
homes? If rot, It Is time for the wom-
en- of the farms and Of the homes OF
Washington to lift their voices in pro-
test against new extravagances at this
time and to join with all who feel the
pressure Of taxation in appealing to
the legislature to refuse all new tax
proposals and to cut all present tax
demands wherever possible.
The time has come for the taxpayers
to prove how much they are in earn
est about demanding tax reduction.
They cannot sit back and expect the
legislators to face entreaties, threats
and flattery from artful, organized and
attractive lobbiests without yielding
II they are not constantly reminded by
their own people of their duty to vote
against every new appropriation and
to vote for those measures that will
tighten the tax load that Is now
weighing down the property owners
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