Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
M'CALL QUOTES
DECLARATION in
CAMPAIGN PLEA


Taking our text from that peer
less document, the Declaration OF
Independence, from which we quote
I'VE hold these truths to be self
evident. that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalien-
able rights, that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. That to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed,
that whenever any form of gov
ernment becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right of the people to
alter or abolish it,"
Therefore, with our newspapers
burdened with tax delinquency
notices of confiscated farms and
homes, your candidate proposes al
terations, one of which is.
Those who live by tax money
should prosper or suffer with those
who pay taxes. What constitutes
normal times can easily be deter
mined, and taking present salaries
as good pay for normal times, when
times go above normal the pay of
our hired hands should also increase
at the same ratio that prosperity
smiles on the taxpayers, and when
the tide turns the other way the
pay of the hired hands should go
down uniformly with the fortunes
of those who pay thereby automa-
tically giving relief
There is no difficulty in arriving
at normal times, neither is there
any difficulty in knowing at the
end of each month the business
condition, that machinery is al
ready IN working order, and con-
firmed by stock market reports, is
reliable. When once established
this would make of our taXeaters
the best informed lot of employees
any employers ever had, and their
monthly paychecks would guaran-
tee sustained interest in the well
fare of the taxpayers. There is no
sound reason why that part of hu-
manity elected to serve as officials
should be exempt and immune from
the effects of disaster such as we
now face, neither should they be
forbidden to share in prosperity,
but they should share alike the
good and the bad times and thereby
become more sympathetic with the
conditions of their fellows.
Logically this should follow the
thermometer or barometer" of
business to the limits of its ups and
downs, and when times go below
zero debit slips be substituted for
pay checks, that is as it should be,
but to start the plan and avoid
trouble with the sob sisters and
humane society, it is my intention,
if the Legislature fails me, to start
by the initiative and referendum a
SO per cent rise and fall of salaries.
We can put it through by this
method when the other fails and
once done it is finished business
and cannot be undone except by
the same process, which means
never. Then it will be up to official
life to make a paying job of hand
ling the country or feeling the eff
fects of their failure to do so.
Butter now selling at Is cents
costs 25 and $40 cents, showing a
loss of over 40 per cent. If the tax
eaters were losing at that rate
their interest in the welfare of
those who pay, would be lively, yes
it would be electrified, and there
would be real reductions in all de-
partments. If they had to make
their jobs pay as we have to
make our business pay we would
have solicitous help where now we
meet hostility. Mass meeting would
not be needed to advertise our dig
tress. I want you to back me in
this and back me as I fight tax
battles, demand what is right and
fight for it until the last hand
grenade is thrown.
(Signed T. D. MCCALL.