The Nevada County picayune., 1922-07-27

gVeS prisoners the benefit of the law in their favor. A prisoner out on pa role is constructively in the penitenti- ary and under bond to obey the law and keep the conditions of his parole agreement. Upon notice of violation or misbehavior in any manner, this commission will immediately revoke parole and have the prisoner returned to the penitentiary to complete his full sentence
 Under the present administration, all prisoners are given the same chance. They get in for violation of the law, they are encouraged to work out their own destiny, and when they have lived up to the requirements of the parole law. they are released
 Against Hartje Amendment. My opponent says he is for the Hartje Amendment which would automatically attach all personal property located within any improve ment district heretofore or hereafter organized and make it subject to | taxation to pay the cost of making improvements and for the debts of such district A property owner auto maticallys by constitutional amend ment put in district the crea ting of which he had nothing to do with, to pay existing debts, about which he was not consulted, and give the county court or town council as the. case may be, the power to "automa tically" as Sess his annual tax at ten per cent of the assessed valuation thereof. This is entirely appropriate for my oppon ent, who seeks to glorify and enlarge the taxraising powers of the improve ment district idea Not satisfied to have power to c0nfiscate the landed wants the power to take his horse and COW, his furniture and buggy. I never
 
 | ting the peoples lands in one of these improvement districts. and I will not assist in automatically" putting in their personal property. I am trying to get rid of the 'automa tic improve ment district. which iS the most cruel instrument of oppression ever imposed upon the people of any state. l have appointed an honorary roads cOmmis sion to consider the road problem and find fair solution of it. All property should be taxed for public roads under just laws, which l trust can be framed and passed The greatest difficulty is to get rid of the unjust improvement district plan we now have.
 Severance Tax Discussed
 The statement that l am now. or ever was, opposed to severance tax is not true. I gave my endorsement to the bill of Senator Vaughan, which sought to levy tax of per cent on all the natural resources of the state. I still favor such bill, except that l would now make the rate not less than per cent I do not favor the Wilson bill championed by my opponent, be- cause it restricts the tax to oil and gas and gives half of it to the counties in which these products may be found.
 The charge that I leased. convicts to contractor to work on the streets of North Little Rock is without founda- tion. No convicts were leased there None have ever been leased by the present commission. For the few days they worked in North Little Rock, they were housed fed and guarded by pris- on authorities They were worked there just as the 300 or 400 of them were worked on the levee i'll Chicot county during the high water last spring. and the good people there have thanked the board and the prisoners for saving them from inundation When the peril was greatest and when the commission was doing its best work to save the home of my opponent and his neighbors, he was lost from his family, indifferent to the public interest, traipsing over the state, talk ing politics and misrepresenting the commission. Where can you match sucb littleness and ingratitude?
 AppOintees Not Pets
 ,, ,,nonont aIIppps that Monroe