The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-13
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POLITICS
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CIV Jimmie X. Browne)

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(By Jimmie K. Browne)
Olympia is beginning to reorgan-
ize itself in preparation for the
coming change of administration.
There is certain to be one.
Incidentally the Capital City IS
also getting ready for the influx
, of the members to the 1888 session
of the legislature, host OF JoD
seekers and a new and unusually
large lobby.
In the latter will be found for
! the first time in state history,
bankers, bakers, candle-stick max
| ers and every type of taxpayer
from the small home owner to the
largest corporation.
Remedial Legislation to curb the
power of taxing units will be de-
manded and enacted. These things
are. certain.
This state is rapidly perfecting
one of the strongest tax organi-
cations ever attempted. This or
ganization is going to come down
here prepared to show just where
and how taxes on real property, on
business and industry can be re-
duced, and what changes in the
state statutes governing taxing
bodies can be made to make gov
ernmental costs automatically re-
duced.
It is doubtful if any Legislature
will be able to stand up in front
of the fire which will be hurled
against the coming session.
The question of partisan poll
tics will not enter into the picture.
The tax leaguers represent all the
fractions with the exception of the
communists and the liberals" who
feel that the Soviet idea of taxing
industry and business out Of ex-
istance should be carried out in
this country and state. This lat
| ter group will hold the support Of
the so-called liberal press of the
larger urban centers.
One of the pleasant political
pasttimes of some candidates, one
in particular, is damning the pub
lie utilities of the state and ma
ton.
This may sit well with the UNI
thinking, but inasmuch as the util-
! ity industry, as q taxpayer, is one
of the largest and most stable con-
tributors to the cost of running
the government, the average voter
should be rather hesitant at sup
porting any man for public Of
flee who adopts such an attitude,
especially when such office holder
expects to live from utility taxes.
/ Now comes the demogogue-
who would tax utilities out Of ex-
istance. Then he would have the
state or government take them
over as political football. elm
| mating hundreds of millions from
] the tax rolls, and incidentally add
/ ing that much more on the other
| people.
Gov. A. C. Richie, outstanding
leader of Democracy, and strong
contender for the presidency NOM
nation, at the Chicago convention,
/ is the authority for the statement
that if the proposed federal pow
er control idea is ever adopted, it
will mean the United States q ma
ton Of serfs working for and serv-
ing an octupus operated by poll
ticians for their own advantage
and power.
Olympia is NOW preparing fol
moving day to start some time
early next year. This means that
! many who have been living here
for the last eight years will have
to find jobs somewhere else.
The State Bar Association and
] the superior court judges associa.
ton Of the state have spent long
hours in preparing suggested leg
Eislatipn and remedial laws to aid
the court procedure and speed ur
court action in the state.
j It is rather amusing in some