The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-12-03
VIEW OF
POLITICAL
SITUATION
Many Vital Problems Are
Facing State and Nation;
Liquor Question Looms;
Congress Convenes
(By Jimmie Brown)

vote upon president, one United
States senator, six congressman, {
complete new legislative body
Senate and House, q governor, ane
all state elective officers and -four
members of the state supreme
court.
These will be the more import
ant posts to be filled. incidentally
there will be school and port dis.
trict elections, water and drainage
districts, municipal officers ane
supreme court judges to be named
It also means before any person
man or woman, can vote either fol
the nomination at the direct pri
maries or in the final election, they
must be registered, qualified vot.
ers, and on and after january 1 all
registration expires.
Next year starting january 1
every voter in the state must reg
lister again and, herein is one of
the most important matters facing
the state-the registering of every
vote.
Never before has the state faced
as vital or as perplexing problems
as it will during the coming IL
months. There will be wealth of
proposals fro so-cailed direct leg
islated acts, tax measures very
largely. OF course before any of
these proposed measures can be
signed the voter must be register
ed. Unregistered voters signing in
itiative measures lay themselves
open to criminal prosecuting and
one of these days this feature of
the law is going to be strictly en-
forced despite reluctant prosecute
ing attorneys.
Every organization in the state,
political and non-political, should
become intensely active and inter-
ested in getting the vote register
ed and registered early in city and
country districts. This getting the
vote qualified should be the para
mount object of each of these or
CARNATIONS.
One thing should not be over
looked. Every radical, every COM
nlunist having q vote, will rush to
the polling places or registration
booths at once to get his or her
vote qualified. This vote is always
qualified fully 100 percent, n d
what is more this vote goes to the
polls and ballots.
This radical socialist vote isl
growing yearly, both within and
outside of the two old major par
ties. There is = persistent under
mining going on inside sof the two
majority parties, 365 days in the
year, and it is beginning to show
signs of accomplishment. The rad
ical elements are slowly taking
over the party control starting at
the precincts, and aided by the
Direct Primary are becoming a
big factor in the political life of
this and other states. s
During the coming 8 months,
the conservative people of III e.
state are going to be rudely awak-
ened as to the strength of the I'M
sidious worming into the party
control of the older parties by rad
icals when measures, proposed in
iative bills are presented for sig
natures.
The majority of these, especially
those relating to the tax problem
are designed primarily to shift the
taxes. Some of these proposals
would change the revenue laws OF
the state to such an extent that if
adopted, state, county and munic-
ipal government would cease UNI
less some means of indirect taxa.
ton can be arrived at.
Seattle is now preparing to ex
pertinent with an occupation tax
and some kind Of sales tax; il
fact any kind Of q tax which viii
aid that municipality to get on
from under an ever increasing
burden upon real estate and prop
erty.
Seattle but points the way; tn
rest of the state will follow
some of the Seattle conceived idea
of tax shifting manage to be enact
ed into law.
Vice-President Curtis is keepin
the political wiseacres guessing. b