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The BLUE VALLEY FARMER
I N SHELDEN Editor
I mo: —04
Published Every Thursday by
BLUE VALLEY FARMER PUBLISHING
COMPANY
308 Perrino Bldg
Oklahoma City Oklahoma
Wm B President
Cicero 1 Murray—--Vic President and Business Manager
Aline kturray-----—-----Secretarr and Treatitilef
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Entered as irecond clouts mail September tE 1889 in the
Rot! L Ta Post Office by Act of Congress March 3 1819
Transfer of end class entry from Bat to Oklahoma
City OPlahoms May U 230
Subscription Hates-----------8100 per rear
Oklahoma City Okla Thursday NOVellibeir 3 1932
A DILIGENT DIGGER
Walter Harrison head beadle in the court
of King Gaylord is a diligent cuss if noth-
ing else He goes about like a tomb-searcher
lifting each shroud to see if he cannot find a
new hobgoblin with which to frighten timid
'souls and herd them into a pasture of per-
petual fear
Every grizzly specter which the Fiend has
ever raised to frighten you has been trotted
across the printed page There have been
goblins great and goblins small goblins fool-
ish and goblins wise with all the evil that
cunning can devise welling from their looks
but Walter has discovered a brand new one
This goblin is
"Neither man nor woman
Neither brute nor human"
but make a noise like E K Gaylord when he
swore that the taxable personal property in
his palatial home here was worth only $600
and paid a tax of $2859 when in fact the
value of that property was equal to five 160-
acre Oklahoma farms
Walter introduces his new found ghost
with the advice that if we have borrowed
any money on our home or business property
within tho past few years to take a look at
the mortgage contract and about half way
down the page we will find this paragraph:
It Is further agreed that in the event of the
passage after the date of this mortgage of any
law of the state of Oklahoma deducting from
the value of land for the purposes of taxation
any lien thereon or charging in any way the
laws now lin force or the taxation of mort-
gages deeds of trust or the debts or obliga-
tions secured thereby for state or local pur-
poses or the manner of the collection of any
such taxes so as to affect the interest of the
holder the whole of the principal stun secured
by this mortgage together with the interest
due thereon shall at the option of the holder
without notice to any party become immedi-
ately due and payable
We are next advised by Walter that every
company of any size in Oklahoma in the
money lending business has used for years
this standard form and That the purpose of
this paragraph is to protect the money lender
from just such legislation as the Governor
now proposes in the income-excise tax meas-
ure and that if the measure should carry on
November 8 there is every likelihood of a
wholesale mortgage foreclosure of :arms and
homes in Oklahoma Just why this did not
occur after the passage of 1931 income tax
law Walter does not explain
Gaylord appears even more pleased with
this new goblin than does Walter and trots
it out on the front page of the Sunday Okla-
homan and—with a more adult and practiced
mind than his understudy—gives it a still
more hideous shocking and revolting appear-
ance by clothing it with more falsehoods and
twisted interpretations than Walter could
think of in a month of Sundays
We have failed to find in any of several
different mortgage forms examined this of-
fensive paragraph but do not question that
some companies are using it And suppose
they are using it suppose it is in every mort-
gage contract? What of it?
Let us cut away the verbiage and examine
this new goblin more closely and when we
do we will find that it has vanished in thin
air You will observe that it says "in the
event of the passage after the date of this
mortgage of any law of the State of Okla-
homa DEDUCTING FROM THE VALUE OF
THE LAND for the purpose of taxation"
etc that the holder may foreclose without
notice
We recognize the poltical significance of
that paragraph we recognize that these Ro- !
Irian purse-holders would if they could by !
enriching themselves take your homes and !
make you rich men's slaves leaving only 1
God's sunlight and the air and the strength I
to make another crop that they would if I
they could by making their security more
secure snatch from hunger-clenched fingers
the bread that should have fed your babes
and would see them wrapt in rags huddled
before the dying embers of an empty hearth
rather than that you should escape the plun-
derer's speculation in your starvation
But in this instance there is no such threat
In the paragraph quoted In fact under the I
proposed income-excise tax measure the 1
exact reverse will be true because instead of
DEDUCTING FROM THE VALUE OF THE
LAND FOR PURPOSES OF TAXATION IT
WILL ADD TO THE VALUE OF THE
LAND by shifting the property tax from the
lani to a tax on excessive incomes thus mak-
ing the mortgage holder more secure because
of the ability of the borrower to pay his
taxes and by the same token better able
to pay the interest on his mortgage
But these money changers do not want you
to be free They de not want the tax burden
shifted They live by your bondage If by
some grand miracle the farms of this coun-
try could be freed of mortgages these money
lords would have to go to work or find some
others use for the more than 12 billions of dol-
lars they have invested in farm mortgages
That is why they lie to you that is why
they try to frighten you that is why they
try to coei ce you to flatter and deceive you
They are fighting and lying to hold the privi-
lege to live from the sweat of your faces and
do not want anything to happen that will
take them oZ your backs
LP
':TIIE BLUE VALLEY FARMER
GE OF THE I LUE
1
STOLEN LEAVES
h4 JAaAA dt I
NTritirmni Ppntihlionn Subsidized Foes Of T
LYMA1 A A At
— Subsidized Foes Of Tax
It seems that the National Republican
headquarters in its desperation to stem the
Roosevelt avalanch as indicated by the Lit- Reduction Wage Bit
erary Digest poll have taken a leaf from the
book of the Citizens' League of Oklahoma Fight Against IV
predicating their hope of success entirely
upon falsehood A story was started that a
request had been made by 35000 persons
who had voted in the Digest poll for Roose- "The Public Is Fed False Doctrines
vett that their votes be changed in favor of aganda to Serve the Interests of
Hoover
This story was first given the light of day ivg Men"--Editorial Oklahonu
by a stock exchange in letters to its memkers
MILLIONAIRE AND IIIITEN 1 the cat out of the
and finally broadcast over the radio arid
1111 MILLIONAIRE TAX DODO- 1 on the black-jacil
in the press Doctor Woods editor of the
t
Digest took it upon himself to trace the on- Bill AiNtIoret)tphlIaIhISsE2D)00T0000ToollfinS 1 lie says: subsidized 1
s
gin of this particular canard which led him I leaseholds and oil equipment es- caped taxation this year through eriiii3s1 r tiOde I di
I directly to the door of the Republican na- 1
"IiPti repress' ors O Le
I tional headquarters Doctor Woods states tax" provisions and other I nothing so physics
millions escaped through the sue- Bog off men's e:
' that not a single person has made any such ' cessful operation of the "depleton ther ways more
request joker" "Exemption routes" in the ud
nesirable publici
Owens Looney Carlock and Skelly have I present tax provisions permitted "Nliore I0111111On
achieved fame in at least one direction their hig banks to escape taxation on practiee Of many
more than a million dollars A just men or
unblushing audacity in littering libelous lies tax placing I
in order to commit theft of public judgment take care e eostetand other items will where it can cent
he present state deli- r
the pii
has been copied by the Republican national cit It is easy to understand their doctrines and proi
headquarters Opposition Then its adoption is the ends of desigi
opposed — those familiar wit
A GOOD REASON BY FOREIGN CORPORATIONS eralion of newip:
I 1thtVil ill'hIllIVE44:41 1 !kJ I III L in— 4-441 - 4
"The Public Is Fed False Doctrines and Prop-
aganda to Serve the Interests of Design-
ing Men"—Editorial Oklahoma News
There is a very good reason why the Citi- 1
zens' League—Owens Looney Carlock and 1
!Skcily—want the present income tax law to
remain on the statute books undisturbed by
State Question 175 The reason is that they
are not only interested in oil and gas and
have other corporate interests but they have I
a large number of very rich clients who are
also interested in oil and gas and other cor
porate inteersts
And the reason the oil and gas industry is t
interested in having the present law remain
undisturhed and are willing to pay fat fees
to fat corporation lawyers to sustain its 1
status quo is that tls I present law provides 1
that the oil and gas industry shall pay only a
tax of 3 per cent which tax is in lieu of all
other taxes and are also permitted to deduct
2712 per cent and not to exceed 50 per cent
of the gross income before the 3 per cent
tar is assessed against the industry
This is a very good reason you will agree
why they should want State Question 175
defeated and since you admit that it is a
very good reason on their part why State
Question 175 should be defeated then it log-
ically follows that the deflated and "depleted"
farmer worker and business man who are
compelled to make up this 2712' per cent dif-
ference through an added property tax
should be just as keenly interested in seeing
that State Question 175 is NOT defeated
U V F
In the issue of the Oklahoma City Times I E
of October 19 on page five we find this
statement: "Saving this year to a property
owner whose house last year was valued at
$1000 is 8963" On page two of the Times i
of October 26 we find Walter contending for
the maximum 31!:2 mill ad valorem levy and
offers this rebuke: "But Governor Murray
anxious to save the people money since he
seeks their votes on an outrageous income
tax bill shoves through a motion for a levy
of 21 L Again on October 29 page 1
fourteen we find the Times saying: "Gov-
ernor Murray has failed to achieve tax reduc-
tions promised in his campaign" As an edi- 1 !
tonal slack rope walker Walter is the berries
lle wiggles in and wiggles out
Leaving the stranger still in doubt
Whether the snake that made the I rack
Was going north or coming back
A couple of weeks ago the city papers car-
ried under glaring headlines this "Citizens'
League challenges Governor Murray to sub- !
mit his income tax bill" Then when Gov-
ernor Murray ordered the measure submit-
ted Carlock of the Citizens' League rushed !
to the front ef the stage and shouted: "Gov-
ernor Murray has taken an unfair advantage !
by not giving us time to 'educate the elector-
ate' on the iniquities of his measure"
The Old Lady at Fourth and Broadway re-
fers to the present state income tax law as !
"Governor Murray's income tax law" If
there is a "nut" outside the confines of the
state's institutions for the feeble-minded who
does not know that if the present income tax
law was a Governor Murray law the Okla-
homan would be lying just as glibly and with
as much whorish intent to have it removed
from the statute books as she employs in an
effort to defeat State Question 175 they are
too simple minded to be trusted with the bal-
lot The truth is the present law is the legal
and lawful child of the State Senate its con-
ception and birth bought and paid for by the
predatory corporate interests of the state i
13 V F
Plenty is a gluttonous coward sitting at
the banquet table with distended guts giving ! --
thanks to Moloch for the feast provided by -
the famine of the many and hugging to its
greedy bosom the frrits of toil while millions
starve Poverty is a very terrible thing and
sometimes kills the very soul within us but
it is at the same time the north wind which
lashes men into action and men lashed into
action by poverty is a still more terrible
thing The use of the ballot in a political
democracy is the last act just preceding civil
war and your intelligence and courage on
November 8 will pencil what history shall re-
cord thereafter whether the coward will
cease his feasting and you your fasting
through the ballot box or guns primed with !
the fury of hate by a disillusioned people
B V F
The last congress spent 84860000000 of
the people's money A significant fact is that'
$2727000000 or approximately half was
spent for wars past and future
B V le
"Look what happened under Cleveland" i
has been the Republican campaign slogan
for more than thirty years And Hoover
would use it this year if he could get rid of
his "soup hounds"
Reduction Wage Bitter
MILLIONAIRE AND POTEN
TIAL MILLIONAIRE TAX DODG-
ERS ARE OPPOSED TO THIS
BILL More than $250000000 in
leaseholds and oil equipment es-
caped taxation this year through
"lieu tax" provisions and other
millions escaped through the sue-
cessful operation of the "depleton
joker" "Exemption routes" in the
present tax provisions permitted
big banks to escape taxation on
more than a MilliOn dollars A just
tax on these and other items will
take care of the present state defi-
cit It is easy to understand their
opposition Then its adoption is
opposed
—
BY FOREIGN CORPORATIONS
DOING BUSINESS I N T II E
STATE Out of state corporations
have millions invested in mort-
gages on Oklahoma homes ind
other visible property from which
the state receives no income Home
owners paying an exorbitant tax
and interest on loan company In-
vestments are entitled to some
measure of tax relief The pro-
posed law will tax incomes de-
rived from these investments IN
respective of the place of resi-
dence Certainly that accounts tor
the mortgage harks' opposition
BY SUBSIDIZED NEWSPL-
PERS There is probably no char-
acter in all the world more dan-
gerous more despicable more des-
titute than the bought and paid
for journalist
As an example we quote from an
Oklahoma City daily of one year
ago relative to the then proposed
income tax hill similar to the
pending measure:
"fhere is no convincing reason
why the measure should be reject-
ed"— Editorial Oklahoman
Since that time however they
have found many "convincing"
reasons why excessive incomes
should not be taxed an additioaal
live per cent It will cloud titles
drive out business cause oil wells
and sky-scrapers to skid across the
state line bankrupt millionabvs
increase the price of castor oil
start an epidemic of mugwumpery
annul the declaration of indepfm-
(fence repeal the fourth of July
hurt the feelings of mortgage
sharks give Murray an unfair ad-
vantage of plunderbund harpies in
tact the whole proposition is
fraught with countless hideous
perils that even threaten our ex-
istence according to the "special-
privilege" publicists
That their alleged arguments are
ridiculous does not seem to mat-
ter They actually expect to be
taken seriously and probably will
by certain lqzy headline readers
who have never realized that big
business does dot feed the masses
but basis on the masses
However one Oklahoma City
editor a little less myopic than
his esteemed contemporaries lets
Fight Against Measure
the cat out of the bag in an attack
on the black-jack methods of a
fellow subsidized opinion moulder
He says:
"The modern day finesse of the
repressors of the truth resorts to
nothing so physically brutal as cut-
ting off Men'S cars There are
other ways more effective to stop
undesirable publicity
"Afore C01111110n IS the modern
practice of many special-privilege
men Of Riming their advertising
where It ean control editorial !mi-
ry The public is fed false
doctrines and propaganda to serve
the MIS of designing men Only
those familiar Nvith the inside op-
eration of newipapers can sense
the full truth of this statement"—
Editorial Oklahoma News
In the light of such an admis-
sion thete is little occasion for
argument No editor of an Okla-
homa City or Tulsa Daily is free
to support this measure Some of
them would if they han t free
hand Their editorial r-itcies as
Well as their highly colore! news
columns are controlled by "special
privilege" interests The idea that
a five per cent increase in taxes on
incomes in excess of $100000 is
prolific of all the evils they enum-
erate is absurd It makes them
look ridiculous A subsidized editor
is an object of pity rather than
censure Henry Waterson called
them "journalistic prostitutes"
BY PAID PROPA CIANDA
PEDDLERS Oklahoma is plagued
as few states have ever been with
propaganda leagues that will stop
at little short of mruder to ac-
complish their purpose The paid
heelers that swarm about their
propaganda headquarters like hun-
gry curs about a swill barrel are
a disgrace to the state Certainly
they are opposed to this tax law
they wculd favor it just as quick
if some friend of the measure
cared enough for that kind of cat-
tle to give thorn money
A year ago it was estima:ed
that an army of at least 2500 sup-
posed to be oil workers but actual-
ly propagam4i peddlers were dis-
tributed over the state and paid
for lying Stretched out in barber
chairs on hotel settees standing
around soda fountains smoking big
tat cigars and peddling poison
They lied on the Governor on Col-
onel Murray and even on their
own companies in a frantic effort
to disciedit the administration
Paid liars! They would have told
the truth just as readily but no-
body cdered them money They
were instructed to lie and careful-
ly coached as to the subject mat-
ter It is nauseating to think
about it
BY THE UNTHINKING AND
UN INFORMED Every business
man farmer laborer and home
owner who has taken the trouble
to inform himself and is P'es to
LETTER TO McCOOL AND FERRIS
October 31 1932
Hon Scott Ferris
Cotton Grain Exchange Building
Oklahoma City Oklahoma
Dear Sir:
As you are aware there is submitted to the people
the Income Tax Bill State Question 175
This measure is in obedience to the Democratic
Platform both at Tulsa and Oklahoma City ratified
overwhelmingly—in fact unanimously—by the Party
As Chairman and National Committeeman it is
your duty to espouse this Bill
I am calling your attention to that fact and to as-
certain what position do you intend to take You cer-
tainly can no be neutral
I shall be pleased to have your letter briefly stating
your position to print in the Blue Valley Farmer as I
intend to print this letter this week in the Blue Valley
Farmer
Truly and respectfully
Governor
N IL—At date of going to press no reply has been
received from 3Ir Ferris
McCOOL'S REPLY
November 1932
Governor William J I Murray
State Capitol
Dear Governor Murray:
Anbwering your inquiry of October 3Ist I desire to say that
I am in favor of and I am supporting State Question Number 175
otherwise known as the Income Tax Measure
For a quarter of a century I have advocated graduated or
progressive income inheritance and excess profits taxes as the
major sources of revenue to support governments
The general property tax must go the way of the ox cart
It is a most unfair and unjust thing to tax a person on his
property whether it produces any income or not At present
under our ad valorem system the less property produces the
higher the rate of taxation Perhaps a hundred years ago when
nearly all property was tangible and there was a fair relation-
ship between ownership of and income from property the gen-
eral property tax had some semblance of justice Today it is
the embodiment and quintessence of injustice
The Income Tax Measure is a movement in the direction of
social justice and for that season I am supporting it
Yours very truly
R M McCOOL
vote his convictions will vote tor I
this measure The unthinking who
votes his prejudices rather than his i
ti
conviction's N'Aiho read6 htIf exept I - -
headlines and front page editorals
headlines and front page emoa
in subsidized (lailies will of course
oppose its adoption 1A'e
have that element to contend with
The uninformed are always dim-
gerous EY A MOTLEY RABBLE 4)F
DISAPPOINTED BA NDWAtiON
CHASERS men who thought they
could oiseet an incoming adminis-
tration and line their pockets wth
money at the taxpayers expense
Disappointed disillusioned and
disgruntled they have fought !he
administration on every conceiv-
able pretext With them there is
nothing wrong with the propo'ed
measure except that Murray favors
it and has asked for its adoption
They would tight anything that he
favors and favor anything that he
opposes
Chief among this group is the
Tulsa World In co-operation with
the Daily Oklahoman embittered
over the defeat of its own "framed"
candidate they have fought every
concrete proposal for reduced
taxes and reduced expenditures
They fought the 20 per cent re-
duction In advalorem valuation
they fought the one mill reduction
In the state levy they fought the
reduction of the budget when 1$11ar-
ray trimmed it approximately $14-
000000 Murray saved the state
more than $3500000 on its fuel
bill in spite of their obstructive
tactics They fought the statili-
zation of oil they defended the
toll bridge companies and cheered
for bombastic jurists who threat-
ened the state with invasion of U
S troops they fought the tax com-
mission for rounding up millionaire
and utility tax dodgers and of
course they are lighting this meas-
ure BY A FEW POLITICAL PIE-
' COUNTER INCURABLES who
over-estimated the influence of the
metropolitan press Some of them
have been in and about the state
house for a dozen years Some of
them were voted a long vacation
without pay at the last primary
and one in particular found her
own county and seventy-six others
out of sympathy with Citizens
league tactics
Feeding on the editorial adula-
tions of the kept press they
naturally supposed themselves in-
dependent of popular mandate
They opposed this program last
December and they are opposed to
it now
However this pie-counter squad
is singing low much lower than
they did in December They must
either seek public office again or
retire in two years They know the
people want this measure that it
wouldhave already been a law but
for flagrant fraud coercion and in-
timidation and that the public of-
ficial who lights tax reduction and
adjustment is slated for an ac-
counting in the not distant future
CAN TUE MEASURE WIN
VITU SUCII OPPOSITION? It
can and will No commonwealth
of informed people can fail to re-
sent such impositions and decep-
tions as those practiced by the
Citizens league and the big daily
crowd
Their gigantic slush fund the
free distribution of hundreds of
thousands of pamphlets and propa-
ganda publications the mainte-
nance of expensive headquarters
with an army of paid chiselers
itineraries for ambitious hucksters
extensive pay-rolls radio hook-ups
the subsidized press and numerous
other items will run the expense
into hundreds of thousands prob-
ably millions and defeat its own
purpose Such a campaign is
inimical to the public good con-
trary to Democratic and American
fundamentals and should receive
just rebuke at the polls Nothing
short of six (Lays of rain and snow
like that of last December can
stay the judgment of an outraged
aroused and militant pub& conscience
Y u
Win Vote for Covernor Mur-
ray's new income tax law—
State Question 175
14 If you want to keep your
schools
2nd If you want to be able
to own a I without having
It taken for taxes
3rd If you would like to Me e
the rich man and the big cor-
porations pay their fair share
of taxes
1th If you want to stop tax
dodging
5th If you believe that a
farmer should own his own
home without having it taken
for taxes
6th If you lint to see more
prosperity in Oklahoma
7th If you want the poor
man In Oklahoma and the small
home owner to have a square
deal
The law says that its purpose
is the reducCon of Ad Valorem
taxes and the 1 It IV also says that
one-fourth of all the money col-
lected under it shall go for the
expenses of State Government
and THREE-FOURTHS for
the support of C 0 31 M 0 N
SCHOOLS
There has been more lying
done in this state at the present
time about Film law than has
ever been known Don't believe
these lies
Remember that Governor
Murray is the best friend the
Pr man ever had TAKE HIS
ADVICE and VOTE FOR
STATE QUESTION 175 in the
coming election
Remember that if you don't
try for it you will be onnted
as voting against this good laa
OKLA TAX CONINUISSION
"Money" says a financier
"means trouble" It is the only
kind of trouble its difficult to borrow
T
71
Thursday November 31933
II:EY FARMER1'
The Grist Mill
rol "LEAGUE DmAREAT
it an Oldalmni t 1'1411 into the Oklahoman-Times bead
1ay TO1'
tle tha IRE" Murray lesued his proda
Atbi always t oLe
reu1 010111111ln every
I illation as soon as legal obstrua
way:' ! tions were removed If they
-e r I weren't ready to vote they ahould
i‘e b:v1:ikel ":t e : :
not have yelled "question" 1
ikg editorial j h I he °Mai-Ionian- I'Vhat an editorial Luther could
Tiii i I
write if he would only reread some L
deletions and inter-lineations 7181 of the two and three weeks' old 7"
are consistent vith our Own policY 1 headlines of his own publication! )
of fairness and ioin
llnon ho —
nesty I —---
esiii:Iali'il li sfi li ti :ill th such 1-1
Their reputation for inaecuraeyi
I The press and Citizens League
mal-tes thiii n'icesi4ary
I face a rush prder in educationt4 1
1
------ 1 campaigning if that bill Is to
"Oklahoma has but another :
beaten"
the state from the itanniging
1 fr
c 1 omance of a year ago we
tax
suits of Governor Murray's incom
look for the most loathsome
measure " that is th e Okla- I ng array of fulminations on r4t
gitti
veek to carry un tk- tight to save they can duplicate their per-
honia Citizens League has only one
tilol: s
is
esming And i conscionable canards deliberate
le
thi$ Citizens ague isn tiklia- misrepresentations 't srepresentations and plain lying
h !1
ever called "educational" l
s i
Times and the state Chamber of In fact it has already begun
Commerce duly qualified to speak Four times in as many days the t )
Nor Ir 4 salary
alrilear:I'le Oklahoman-
for the state I Oklahoman-Times has carried an Ott'
The Citizens League through the
' imaginary paragraph from a hypo-
columns of the kept press has had ! thetical mortgage and prophesied -t-t''
much to say about the salary of
1 the immediate foreclosure of every ' t
state officials State officials draw Ill i 1 g
a e hi the state if the in- t ''
1
a salary from the state voted by c
1
come-excise tax measure is adopt- J
the legislature and paid out of the e't
i
of common knowledge and public if this clause isn't there" they ad-
general tax fund It is a matter I 'Look at your mortgage and see
record: the amount was published I vised Unfortunately I can't con-
at the time of its enactment and suit mine since it is in somebody'S
there is no good reason why W vault in Pennsylvania and the
1
should not be republished as often bird that holds it does not pay one 9
as they wish Cent of tax to this state either on
But the case for the Citizens' his investment or on the interest
d 1
he collects annually
(1 "le
League eu ek i as n ad Ili his tni e c ((II ti ft fl :i triennbt ( 4 Salird I
render the state a great sersiee 1 "It cannot be won by the timid-
awl prove the sineerity of their in-1 ity that many business men are 1 I
tentions if they would publish the manifesting Business must
amount of their own salaries who rally to defeat that measure"
pays them and why 1 But business isn't slothful timid
In the last analysis the public I or indifferent The fact is bus!
will have it to pay if the income 1 ness got its feet wet a year ago
tax measure should fail It is paid BILSOIPSS men may be grasping but
out of funds the organized tax they are not fools Practically
dodgers hope to save by defeating every independent dealer in Okla-difol4L
the Income-Excise tax bill I homa City has his back to the '71
State officials accused of cos- ! all and the same thing is true
ruption by reason of their salary throughout the state
warrants are a part of an ad- The adoption of the corporation
ministration elected by the great- tax will
est majority ever given an Okla- ' give him an even break
with the chain stores and he
knows it He knows further that
homa executive on a program of
per cent of the tax burden on
tax reduction and adjustment ! 85
the homes of his customers isn't '1
They are under obligation to the
! doing
people to vitalize that program his business any good And
That is why they're out speaking ' he also knows that the brand of
Don't fail to hear them
v '
"political serfdom" practiced open-
They have gone far and accom-
I and boastfully in Oklahoma
plished much in spite of unjust City and Tulsa to defeat a like 11
tax provisions They will yet re-
measure a year ago—when ein-
deem ths Tulsa platform pledge if
'
ployers herded their help to the i
the people will adopt a law that p
Mexican
oils and voted them like
gives the common man an even peons– is contrary to American i
nutted It(tleadmielni nt:iales1t taonbde tvhi ea tti mhiezedpebry- i
break
—
"If that bill is not defeated the the big shots as certainly as he
industrial and business rscovery in in turn victimized his own em-
this state will be long delayed" ployes when he voted them under
Certainly No one but a "de- the lash
signing demagogue" like Governor I
"He is seeking this increase at
Murray and his "pap sucking !
'
gangsters" like Cornish Taylor! a time when taxes are already
and Humphrey would think on
burdensome and when economy in
uestioning the tax dodging pre-
i government is properly regarded 1
as one of the most important fac- ft'
q
sogatives of big business if it
takes that to cure the depression tors working toward economic re-
But the average taxpayer might cossrys
well wonder why he should pay i
from 10 to 100 of his gross in- The fact of approximately $14-
000000 decrease in state expendt?
come when only 10 per cent on
net incomes in excess of $100000 ores the last fiscal year—as pub-
will "paralyze industry" and re-
lished in an obscure corner of the
tard "bu Oklahoman-Times a $960 per
siness recovery" indefi-
nitely Mr Average Citizen might $1000 valuation decrease in ad
not like to have his Governor valorem taxation a substantial re-
uction in the state ad valorem
hundreds of ion!
d
called a "designing demagogue" 1
saandssaol'findgolloafrs
levy
and h:s appointees dubbed "public 1
pap-sucking gangsters"
Present tax provision have per- stitutions and state schools all of
s !
mitted hundreds of millions of do!- I which was accomplished in spite
lass to escape taxation annually
of obstructive tactics of the Okla-
nd the Oklahoman-Times and 1
hornan-Times crowd does nat seem i
rI
Citizens League are fighting for to be germane
the tax dodgers Why? If they I The proposition is bow to scare
dared to answer that question farmers and home 0'7-tiers into be-
truthfully the measure would ing content to bear many times
carry by a 4 to 1 majority in every their share of the tax burden by
county in the state heaping "educational" epithets on
the administration
1
'Governor Murray delayed plac- Srni now comes the best joke
log the measure on the ballot on- Of all:
til late in the campaign although "But the voters should consider 1
he had doubtless been perfecting further the effect of success for 1
his own organization for it sup- Governor Murray in his effort
port before that time" He will interpret it as a mandate
Of course it was announced over from the people It will give him i
the governor's signature several increased dominance of the legis- 1
months ago that the measure ! lature"
would be on the November ballot I How that bunch of high binders
hut there was the Citizens League ds dread a mandate from the i
They had a protest pending in the People! Frightened until they are C
supreme court filed with no addle-brained at the prospect of l
thought of proving their silly a legislature they can't control
allegations but in order to delay they are all but ready to admit thissOrtos
the vote as Fog as possible fallacy of their silly arguments k
When the court finally an- against the income-excise bill and S
flounced it vvas ready to receive ' base their opposition on the necess 0
evidence and hear argument they : sity of another vicious-lobby-cons t
dismissed their protest and jumped i trolled senate 1-
THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS
NVe have Pndem ored to get the cimnties to give us complete
information upon which their quota of federal funds is Made out
lii 1Vashington and as yet we have never got them all Conse-
quently some counties did not get nearly so nuieh as their con-
ditions justified but the counties are to blame
Ne are trying to get a list of the unemployed en that work
can be started in the counties using the funds now wasigned to
the several counties and it seems diffkult to obtain it
The officials of each county together with the charitable
organizations and the business men of the county seats cer-
tainl ought to have Interest enough to get this up because the
money will be paid to the labor in cash in the several counties
They seem to be ailing for me or some one to pay them to get
this list There are neither state nor federal funds to make pay-
ment for securing this list The money assigned to each county
must be expended before the first of January so that additional
funds will be made beginning the first of January for next year
and failure on the part of any county to get to me the list of
the unemployed and the disabled will cause the return of this
money to Nashington and perhaps cut them off next year
Not a dime can be spent In any county until they get me the
list of the unemployed aecurate and complete
Let all information be forwarded to
lit MITCHELL
io ernor's Office
Ohlahoma City Okla
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Shelden, L. N. The Blue Valley Farmer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1932, newspaper, November 3, 1932; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2164754/m1/4/: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.