The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-05-02
From Our Exchanges

more developments in the near fu-
ture.-Clarissa Independent.
Many Of the principles of Cover
nor Olson do not square with our
tenets. but we give him credit for
his fight against the omnibus tax
bill. He had the courage of his con-
victions and vetoed the measure
after it had been forced through
both houses Of the state legislature
by the governing faction. This veto
will likely cause special session
of the legislature for real property
must have some relief from burden
some taxes. We cannot constrain
the assertion that the most prac-
tical way to reduce taxation is to
reduce expenditures, but this angle
of the situation has been given lit
tie open attention by the governor
and the members of the state leg
islature. Millions could be saved to
the taxpayers of Minnesota, If the
states business was operated with
due regard to economy.-Brown
County Journal.
What Price Economic Recovery
Today, all over the world, there
Is an undoubted trend toward die
tatorship. OF all the great nations,
the United States and England
alone have been at all successful
in maintaining democratic princi-
~ &c
that in our haste to better our lot
economically, we will permit the
weakening or destruction of those
principles. Plato said that the way
to get the most efficient type of
government is to appoint a tyrant,
and give him unlimited power and
a free hand. At various times in
world history that has been done,
and in exchange for efficiency, in
the routine of living, the peoples
of the nations subjected to tyranni-
cal rule have lost all freedom, all
that the great humanitarians have
fought for. Victory over economic
adversely was dearly won.-North-
field News.
If People Would Think
If the people would do any think
ing at all, it would not take them
long to tumble to the fact that all
this palavering going on between
the United States and Japan about
Manchuko Oil doesn't mean a thing
and is not at all likely to lead to
any arms clash by the two coun-
tries.
In the first place the United
States government cannot possibly
have any interest in the Manchoko
oil reserves since we have more oil
at home than we know what to do
with. For us to be quarrelling with
a government on the other side OF
the world about oil in China, or
anywhere else away from home, for
that matter, is absurd on its face
and should not be taken seriously.
There is only one plausible rea-
son for these diplomatic exchang-
es" at this time and that Is to
make it appear that relations be-
tween us and Japan are seriously
strained and that the two countries
are in danger Of going to war with
each other almost any moment.
Somebody considers it necessary to
put up this war scare at this time
in order to spur congress on TO
make those huge preparedness"
appropriations. If the people did
any thinking at all, the scheme
would not work.-Duluth Free
Press.
The hourly wage paid women IN
the manufacturing OF matches In
this country Is 80 cents and that
for men so cents. This Is more than
the average worker in Japan and
some other countries make in
day of doing the same work. Is IL
any wonder that United states,
with it's higher wage scale and de-
cent standards OF living, Is suffer-
ing from competition? Particularly
when tariff walls are being shat
tered continuously.-Eveleth Clar-
ion.
No Better Than It Should Be!
Just how good, or rather how
bad Is our federal tax system? 1t
is not adequate, that is, 1t does
not produce the revenue needed,
because. while $1,000, 100000 was
collected, $1,000 O00,0 900 was expend-
ed! So that the deficit was more
than double the total receipts!
It Is certainly not economical,
for the cost of collections ranges as
high as $217 for each hundred dol
lars of revenue, while in England
the peak cost is STA. Also, there
are 10 times as many law suits
over income taxes here as there
are in England.
And, finally, it Is most assuredly
not fair. One group Of taxpayers
pay more than they should, anoth-
er group far less, and the existence
of billions of dollars of government
state and municipal bonds. some
free from all taxes, some free from
one and not another, further COM
plicates the problem OF fair and
just distribution Of the cost OF
government
Indeed, our federal tax system
] along with that Of other units OF