The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-09-28

Material and Immaterial. q
In another place in this paper will
be found another argument in favor
of the passage of the Gas Tax Amend
ment. The paragraph upon which
the proponents of the measure are
basing their argument for success is
the one claiming the big cities are
selfish as wanting "the highway de-
partment to help pay for the streets
over which the routes enter the cities"
and is injected into the argument to
array the country against the city.
Don't be misled by this method of de-
Quoting. The cities will be entitled to
their share of the one third of the
gas tax if the amendment becomes
a law as well as the country. If the
sponsors of the amendment wanted to
be fair they would forget about this
and not mention it. The cities are
paying about 80 per cent of the gas
and car taxes and are getting nothing
directly for it. They have felt that
in the improvement of the trunk lines
leading to the cities they have been
well repaid and are perfectly con-
tent to let the whole fund go to the
country end of the trunk lines. The
cities are maintaining their own
streets with the possible exception of
an Is foot strip on trunk lines pass
ing through them and for which they
expect to be reimbursed by the sys-
tenn in the future. About two thirds
of the city cars and trucks upon
which car and gas taxes are paid,
never get outside of the city and use
only the highways and streets con-
structed with city funds. We still
maintain that a fair division of the
gas tax would be to divide it on the
basis of the amount paid in each sub
division. We are printing the COM
mittee side of the argument as COM
municated to us. While giving the
space and the type for the argument
we nevertheless reserve the right to
express our own opinion which is di-
rectly opposite to those working for a
split of the tax.
The principles of the Republican
and Democratic parties are sufficiently
at variance for an argument without
the need of opening discussions per-
tanning to personal affairs of the can
didates for president. We wouldn't
give two whoops in hades for any kind
of statements made by either saint
or sinner on his personal likes and
dislikes as long as he espouses the
free trade tenents of the Democratic
party We have lived through several
(the word existed would be more
proper and can in all truth state
that a repetition of these times is not
desired either by ourself or any Of the
older voters.
Herbert Hoover has given it out
cold that he will not talk personal
tiles in the campaign but that prin-
cipleS of the Republican party will
be his talking points. This should be
sufficient and if he needs assistance
in showing that previous Democratic
administrations have been a flop for
the wage Garner, there are plenty, both
in Ely and elsewhere, who can add
to the story. Ask Dad, he knows. Ask
some of those here in 1893 and 1913.
Then listen to some of those who were
in the country and existed through the
1873 Democratic times. These years
were known as free trade years when
imports of manufactured articles re-
ducved the price of labor, if job was
to be had, to from SOC to 81 per day.
The election of the Republican party
and a protective tariff cured the ills
in each case The war cured the 1913
fostering sore.
These cycles have been explained
in that the younger generation OF
voters of which a new crop appears
about every twenty years and who
have not put through one of these de-
pressions of the country caused by an