New Britain herald., 1924-11-01

DIlNuiHllH UIHLUULU
 TAX SITUATION t. Q. P. Candidate for Governor
 Speaks at Rally Here
 "Connccticut, under republican administration, is the only state In the Union out Of debt" declared Lieutenant Governor Hiram Ring- ham, candidate for governor, at large and enthusiastic rally in the Palace theater last evening. Col onel Bingham stressed the need of economy and "pay-as-you-go" ad- ministfatior, and said that he had been brought up 10 believe that you could not escape death or taxes.
 
 He showed the results of the shifting of taxes by tracing those paid on pair of shoes. You help pay the tax of the man who sells them to you, and the man who made the shoes, and the man who made the leather, and the man who tanned it. and the man who killed the animal, and the farmer who kept it; thus you ,hay half a dozen taxes. and If higher tax is i'm posed. ii increases prices.
 "See which party runs business best" he continued, flor running a state is business proposition. A dealer can fill his store If he sells at less than cost and he goes broke and so do the stockholders. If is the same with the state," and Col onel Bingham went on to tell of various expenditures of the state for education, hospitals, and roads, likcnng them to selling to custom- CTS hn a store. Then he said, "We're all stockholders, and if We don't charge enough we'll all go broke"
 Compares Administrations
 'Tourteen years ago a dcmOCra- tie governor came into power in this staae, and during the last two years Of his term he had a democratic senate and an almost democratic legislature. During those two years tie state ran into debt more than H, 5000 a ycar. In other words, tRpe state was selling at less than cost, and the stockholders have to pay sooner or later.
 Had the republicans gone on In that fashion, we would now be faced with debt of s3G,000,o0Q but in ,stcad of that, they have run the state in a businesslike way. have paid off the debt, and now have a balance in the treasury. Pay as you go,' is the motto Of the state now"
 It has been necessary 10 increase taxes during the past few years, he ssid. but asked if Connecticut had done so uniustly and compared its increase with those of other states. from 1917 10 1922 the average state doubled its taxes. "The last gen oral assembly took 25 per cert off the tax on towns and reduced other taxes. but lct the record stand as it is for 1922" he said. Oregon heads the list with 3G0 per cent increase, partly due, as are the other in creascs, to increased ideas of what should be done for educating chil- dren, caring for the sick and in- sane, and so on. We look for Con- neCticut and wonder whore she is on the list, and to our particular de- light we find we are at the safe end, at the very bottom. with an increase of only Is per cent. In addition to that we have paid off our bonded indebtedness by raising a sinking fund and are the only state in the Union out of debt"
 The Gasoline Tax
 "Ry a singular coincidence, the second plank in the democratic platform would eliminate the gaso- line tax and cut taxes by S2,5No.o00 Doesn't that sum sound familiar2 You can vote the democratic ticket and get gas for cent gallon less, but thia tax raised a million dollars last ycar--and by law has to be dc voted to repairing the roads. If you don't want to pay the gas tax don't use the roads. Could any thing be Fairer? Why not let the people who hse the roads most pay for them"
 He urged that E. Hart Fcnn bc reelected 10 congress to continue 10 back Coolidge as he has in the past.
 "One Of the three parties is calling itself the Program for Progressive Political Actlon," Lieut.. Gov. Ring ham went on, but it's platform has nothing 10 lo with that of the old progressive platform. It was writ ten last February by group nt radical socialists assembled in St. Louis" He then said that the aver age worker distrustcd socialism and its attack on capital. bccauso he put his money in the bank and 1t was then invested in industries which, if attacked by socialism, would be de stroycd and destroy the workman along with them.
 Attack On Ia Toilette Col Bingham paid splendid tribute 10 Theodore Roosevelt as a real progressive, reciting the tribute to him written on his death by Her man Hagcrdorn and saying, We are all better Americans today be- cause there lived among us a few years ago that real progressive.