The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-09-19
STATE REPUBLICANS
SOUND KEYNOTE
Excerpts From Platform
Adopted by State Con-
vention September 6

| the administration Oh GOVeFuOr JOSEPH
| NJ. Dixon and his associates in office.
Four years ago the Republican party
assumed charge of the administration
| of the state government. They found
the state treasury virtually bankrupt,
with outstanding unpaid warrants and
deficiency claims totaling more than
| two million dollars and with a system
of government promising to add an
nually to this deficiency.
In the period since that time the tax
decreasing annually-with a fixed con-
stitutional provision limiting the levy
for state purposes, the revenues of the
state from the direct property tax have
necessarily decreased in proportion.
The great problem of the present adj
ministration has been to adjust state
expenditures to the state income on
the one hand and on the other to re-
adjust the tax burden that was weigh"
ing most heavily upon the land owners,
business men and home owners of the
state.
Because of the fact that Governor
Dixon as leader of the Republican
party in Montana and the head of the
present Republican administration, re-
peatedly called the attention of the
people of the state and of the legis-
lature to this situation and insisted
that one of the great problems before
the state government was the readjust-
e -
large corporate interests that were de-
pleting the natural resources of the
state of Montana should bear a larger
and a fairer share of this tax burden.
there has been, during the entire
course of the past four years, a most
vicious and determined effort made to
discredit the governor and his admins
tration and to deceive the people of
the state as to the real problem con-
fronting the state government and to
confuse and misinform the people as
to the real condition of the state
finances.
Holds Expenses Within Income !.
Despite the unfavorable financial
in the state resulting from
adverse conditions in agricultural Sec
lions and despite the fact that the
state was heavily burdened with debt
1t the beginning of the administration,
and that the revenues of the state were
decreasing, we call your attention to :.
he fact that there has been substan-
ial achievement, both in the adjust
nent Of the states income to its ex-
,enditures and in the REIMBURSEMENT of
he tax burden resting on the people of
he state. We call the attention of the
ime since 1918, the income of the gen.
raj fund this year has exceeded the
expenditures from that fund.
We commend Governor Dixon for his
use of the veto power in
n effort to curtail public expendi-
ures, and commend the legislative
ction in support of this direct move
or state economy.
We take pride In the fact that cx-
enses of each department of direct
tate government has been reduced or
cid without increase. We particular
call attention to the remarkable re-
uctions that have been made In the
,sts of administering the state prison
nd the state asylum for the insane,
he costs of administering the state
EDUCATIONAL institutions resultant from
lie Increasing attendance and the en-.
rged plants voted by the people must
, met for the welfare of the entire
ate, and we condemn the insidious
'opaganda which under the quIse of
onomy would strike blow at them.
Endorse Metal Mines Tax
We heartily endorse and pledge our
lqualified support toward the mass
e of the initiative measure known
the Metal Mines license tax, an
onomically just and sound measure
at will equalize the tax burdens of
e state, reducing the load now
rne by the farmers and small bust
SIS interests and compelling the great
ming interests to bear greater nor
N than is now borne under the m
# and archaic net proceeds system.
Tax Commission Justified
We congratulate the people of Mon
Ia on their vote to establish a state
( commission, which has proven nv
efforts that its creation was iusti-
d. 1t has saved the state more than
cost by the collection of taxes
herto unpaid and by it's study of
entific methods of taxation It has
! the foundation for just and eouit-
e distribution of the tax burden
IN all classes Of wealth.
'he Republican party is intensely
crested in the development of the
'lic school system of the state. The
al schools of the state have suffered
he past from the lack of adequate
lncial support, due to the faulty adj
-ment of the tax burden in Mon
a, and one of the main objects of
fight for tax equalization on the
of the Republican administration
been to bring relief to our common
,ols; to that effort we pledge orr
.inued support.
no Issue Is Joined along clear out.
S In this campaign. The Demo-
10 party in the state is under the
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