Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-12-20
SYNOPSIS OF R. D.
HUBBARD'S ADDRESS
TO PAYETTE GRANGE

Mr. r. D. Hubbard, who visited
| the Payette Grange on Dec. 11th
gave the Grange very interesting
talk on the subject of taxation. He
openedd his address with warning
to farmers to beware Of the leven OF
the propaganda; stating that big
business has found it expedient to
maintain Publicity Bureaus who
employ the bes talent obtainable to
prepare propaganda which is cleo
trotyped and furnished free OF
charge, to such newspapers as Will
use it and the public is continually
BON barded with this skilfully pre-
pared doctrines. These patent edi-
torials are capable OF misleading
even the most weary. He then
sooke of the great wealth Of stand
| ing timber in the state; but what Is
happening to it? Lumber men who
! live in other states are buying this
standing timber at $3.50 per thou
sand feet stumpaged from the Fed
eral government, cutting it up and
selling it at enormous profit and
taking the money to other states.
Whit is Idaho getting out OF the
deal? Well Idaho is furnishing
roads and schools for the employees
Of these mills and logging camps. !
These fellows pay no taxes and con-
tribute nothing to the support OF
the government; but they make use
of the roads and schools furnished
by the taxpayers of the state. A
bunch of high salaried officers are
Stationed in our state to get the
umber out, but the profit Of the
business goes to Salt Lake, st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco,
Portland and other cities of the
world. The mineral wealth of the
state is going the same way. The
owners of the great mines live out
side the state and the wealth of our
is going out. We don't even
tax them for the property they have
here, but only on the production of
the mines. If the farmer could get
off with tax on the value of his
he would consider him
self quite lucky The wealth of our I
grazing lands is going in the same
way.
Three fourths of the livestock on
the range today belongs to men liv-,,
ing outside of the state. They pay
the Federal government a pittance
for the privilege of pasturing out 8
and destroying the range. And they
call this developing the resources
Of the State'
If this process of developing con-
tinues, what will Idaho be? "a
Brush Pile on a Barren Waste"
Who said there is nothing the mat
ter with Idaho? Is it any wonder
there are many people looking out
for chance to pull out Of the state?
Will we run away and abandon the
state to despoilers or take up arms
Against 55 hfi55rd4tg ahiers on the tax roll?
The timber and the mineral, and )
the water-power and the grass that
Godj-almighty planted in these hills
ought to be an asset to the state in J
stead of being gobbled up by corpor- I
ite greed and carried away. Farm I
,rs, are you going to continue to i
'leep at the switch, or wakt up and \
ry to save something from the i'm +
lending wreck? 4
Why not come out to the grange
md study the situation with your, a
eighbors, and having decided on
THAT ought to be one, go to it and
o it. Let us leave off tagging the
!. o. P. elephant and the Bourbon
ack Ass as the case may be, and
ook after our own interests a little. y
Let's Co." iel
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