HOOVER AND KOHLER DE-BUNKED AS SUPERMEN--BLAINE
HOOVER AND KOHLER DE-BUNKED AS SUPERMEN--BLAINE SENATOR OPENS SPEAKING TOUR FOR LA FOLLETTE Lauds La Follette a " >an With Right Kim of Qualities to Succeed KOHLER RECORD IN OFFICE IS...
...THE MONEY QUESTION [Newcastle...
...The money so borrowed from the trust funds, in future years will account for additional taxes against all property...
...A business administration could have and would have applied that which ought to have been saved to the general fund in the state treasury toward the payment of the mill tax so that the common schools might get it without additional tax burdens cn farms and homes...
...He possesses the qualities out of which good governors are made, and he can give full public service without bankrupting the people...
...But it lies within the power of a Governor who is economical in public affairs to do away with such tax entirely...
...Of those three general groups there Is the common school mill tax, which, in the last year, increased nearly $4,-000,000 over that of 1926...
...Is to know what the trouble is, and how it can be overcome, and then when they elect a man, to have him stand and fight for the principles for which he was elected.—J...
...Well, the new budget system did transform the former budget system from a legislative budget to an executive budget, a mast dangerous experiment and a most expensive experiment wherever attempted, in the hands of a spendthrift Governor...
...Hoover has shruken and dwarfed from the mythical superman until even the Stalwart convention refused to endorse his administration or to approve his policies...
...So an executive budget system, to be the very latest style, should have all of the unexpended appropriations for the various purposes, and such unexpended appropriations are the accrued deficit...
...administration...
...However, as to all ether taxes for t.he state, there is in round numbers, a 50 per cent increase, and about one-half of that increase was on the farm and the home, the real and personal property of the people cf this state...
...Of course he has been a dismal failure...
...No such arrogant, autocratic power Is lodged in a Governor, and trained as Mr...
...Where Is the Money...
...So with the governor, so with any executive...
...Of course the magic 'budget system' up to date hasn't divulged where the money is, but the state treasurer's report shows that t.he money isn't in the state treasury...
...He never inherited millions of dollars...
...Kohler has failed as an executive, and that "in two years...
...Many people were misled by such pleas, and he wa...
...Kohler laid the foundation for his great fortune dining the war period...
...It cannot be through the employment of experts who hold no responsibility to the people whatever...
...He was wholly incompetent and unwilling to check the riot of Wall Street gambling last year that brought this country to an economic and financial depression the like of which was never known in American history...
...Kohler was trained...
...Kohler was a successful business man, and being a successful business man, they prophesied that he would be a great business Governor...
...Where is all that money...
...Kohler Piled Up His Large Fortune in War (Special to The Progressive) CAMPBELLSPORT, Wb...
...elected...
...Blaine charged that the present high taxes have been due to the recent Stalwart administration and that the state property tax levied under the Kohler administration is the highest In years...
...July 31— Enclosed find our check for one year's subscrip-tion to your paper...
...It doesn't represent any deficit at all...
...Kohler was bound to be a failure, Increase In Taxen "Instead of taxes coming down as he promised, they went up...
...It has been spent...
...Comparison of Taxes "Taxes In Wisconsin are roughly divided into three groups, one group Including general property tax or tax on real and personal property for state, county, local and school purposes...
...It was discovered that no autocratic power is placed in the hands of a Governor such as Mr...
...HEW TO THE MARK [Berkeley, Cal...
...He did inherit a good name, and his attainments and capacity are the products of his own toil...
...but also interest on their own money...
...Pres...
...Those qualities all must be combined within the governor himself...
...Kohler's...
...Among those purposes, by way or illustration, you set down, a new hous to cost $5,000...
...I understand that this administration has dipped its hands into the trust funds and borrowed money therefrom to build a state office building and another public buildin.g that are not revenue producing...
...Debunking the Bunk 'T merely call attention to matters of this kind so that we may debunk the bunk in this campaign...
...I am 69 years old and I have been fighting along the same lines since I cast my first vote in 1884...
...C course you haven't expanded a single dollar for the house, and your deficit, is an imaginary thing...
...President Hoover's Failure "In two years President Hoover has shrunken and dwarfed from the mythical superman until even the Stalwart convention refused to endorse his administration or to approve his policies...
...In the last 30 years, the taxes on the farms, homes and business, for very purpose, state or otherwise, have been increased, under Gov...
...Kohler were over-touted...
...Increase In All Taxes "The public record discloses, as by the Tax Commission, that in every form of revenue collected by the state for state purposes, from every form of taxation and income source, there has been a sharp increass under Gov...
...During the year yc do not build the house...
...You set down what you propose to spend and the purposes of such expenditure...
...Kohler's administration, for each year, more than under any other Governor In that time...
...Assume that you budget your expenditures a year in advance...
...He called a special session of Congress to aid agriculture, and agriculture is prostrate...
...Then I ask again the question: What has become of all these additional millions that have been collected from the people...
...Failure of "Business Governor" "Mr...
...In 1930 the limit has been reached...
...The second group of taxes is the mill taxes, largely for university and school purposes...
...In round numbers, those taxes have increased $4,600,000 over 1926...
...I want to be correct, however—there is one small item of express tax which is $1,663 less under this administration than it was in 1926...
...To my way of thinking, the best business administration is conducted by executives who have the right mental attitude toward the men and women of small means who bear such a large portion of the burdens of taxation...
...The third group consists of Income taxes, inheritance taxes and insurance taxes, etc...
...It is rather familiar with accountants' word-mon-famlliar with accountnts' word-mon-gering...
...I call your attention to the significant fact that for the six years of 1921-1926 the special appropriation for capital purposes for tho state charitable, penal and correctional institutions was over $3,300,000...
...Well, of course, the money hasn't been expended...
...Keep it up, you are doing well...
...It was discovered that Gov...
...While the son of a distinguished father, he has never been fed with a silver spoon, from a silver platter...
...There was an increase In general property taxes all along the line, including the state, county local and school taxes...
...He must have within him that attitude of mind and that environment and that training that turns not only all of his sympathies, but marshals all of his ability, toward a solution of the problems that weigh heavily upon the great mass of men and women...
...On no occasion did they fail to tell that Mr...
...no taxes under that group have been collected since 1925...
...That tax, as I raid, increased $20,000,-000 over 1926, and the slate tax on that property for state purposes Increased over $4,000,000— to be exact, $4,296,-, 778.51...
...A legislative budget is a guide to the legislature in making appropriations...
...I have voted at every presidential election since that time, but 1 have never committed the sin of voting either of the old party tickets...
...It was discovered that the primary purpose of government Is not to make money, but to save money and to return dividends in the way of human service...
...Philip F. La Follette possesses the qualities out of which good governors are made," Blaine told his audience here, "and he can give full service without bankrupting the people...
...and within $150,000 of as much as was expended for the same purposes fcr the 12 years prior to Gov...
...He...
...The answer Is plain...
...Of course, the Governor will claim that he cannot prevent that tax...
...This kind of work is producing results slow but sure.—D...
...It was discovered that the state is not run for the purpose cf returning cash dividends...
...Hoover was exaggerated to the importance of a superman, and Mr...
...I don't know as he will tell you what it means...
...The Budget System "The new budget system has played its part in this increase in taxes and expenditures...
...Why, of course, the money has been spent, and these additional millions in taxes have been collected to meet the additional millions in expenditures...
...The increase in the income taxee alone in 1930 and 1926 was nearly $3.-000.000, and that $3,000,000 ought to have been applied toward the reduction of the mill taxes on the farm and home...
...It Is a handy phrase for juggling state finances, and is used to make white appear as black and black appear as white...
...Had he had the will, the power lay in his hands, through the Federal Reserve Board, under his jurisdiction, to have brought that riot of Wall Street gambling to a halt before it wrecked the country...
...As a matter of fact, general property taxes on farms and homes have increased 20 per cent over the year of 1926, mounting as high as $120,000,000...
...They didn't tell how easy it was for the Kohler Company to accumulate millions of dollars in making shells and ether ammunition and war supplies for the Government during the war...
...Of course an accrued deficit isn't a deficit at all...
...L. Jungck...
...terms, that is an accrued deficit...
...H. Moore...
...I think I can make it plain...
...The Stalwarts boast of the so-call- ed "new budget system...
...Kohler could not boss men and women around as- he boused his employes in the shop and factory...
...Well, in pis...
...Had there, been a saving in state expenses under this administration as there was under the administration of 1921-1926...
...and $6,500,000 over 1925...
...I am glad to see that you are taking up the banking question, which to my mind is the cap root of our present corrupt economic system...
...I am sure no one has stolen the money...
...The new budget system is not up to date and of the latest pattern unless it takes into account a sort of mythical thing known as accrued deficits.' You are going to hear something about accrued deficits from the governor...
...Opening his speaking tour on behalf of the candidacy of Phil La Follette for governor here today...
...He proposed and approved of the one hundred and sixty million dollar tax reduction bill which relieved those who were able to pay from the burdens of taxation, and then he signed the tariff bill that adds taxes to the consumer and these least able to pay...
...Blaine in as follows: "In the campaign of 1928 Mr...
...That training and environment and ability cannot be by proxy...
...that mill tax could have and would have been paid out of that saving...
...It doesn't exist at all...
...But alter he became Governor it was discovered that the state of Wisconsin doesn't make shells and amunl-tion and war supplies for the Government...
...Kohler had been elected on the plea that he was a successful business man, Blaine observed...
...Take, for instance Chairman Legsre of the FedaraJ Farm Boafd, a great and successful business man in making and selling farm machinery to the fanner, yet a dismal lailure in his official position—in fact, such a failure that farm commodities have gone down, down, down, in price, and the bottom has fallen out of them...
...I was handed a copy of The Progressive, by a friend...
...HOOVER AND KOHLER DE-BUNKED AS SUPERMEN--BLAINE SENATOR OPENS SPEAKING TOUR FOR LA FOLLETTE Lauds La Follette a " >an With Right Kim of Qualities to Succeed KOHLER RECORD IN OFFICE IS TRACED Tells Audience How Gov...
...Hew to the mark, let the chips fall where they may...
...By reason of the income tax law of 1925...
...Kohler possessed when he was Chairman of the Liberty Loan Committer during tlie war, when he had the power to force citizens of Sheboygan county to subscribe for bonds, and if they fnlled to subscribe, to threaten them with blacklisting...
...After looking it over and reading it from first to last, I find it is a paper after my own heart...
...Hoover and Mr...
...Of rourse they did not tell that Mr...
...John J. Blaine declared that Gov...
...Kohler likewise was elevated to the pedestal of a business wizard...
...It hasn't been spent on public buildings, for it is an acknowledged fart that the building program is far behind and far short of the expansive public building program cf 1921-1926...
...The facts are that taxes are inor-dinately high and state expenditures have been made that absorb every dollar that has been collected in taxes and promise the imposition of additional taxes...
...The speech delivered here by Sen...
...It isn't In the s(ate treasury...
...has never had much money to spend on himself and has never acquired habits of lavish and ostentatious living...
...Accrued Deficits" "Just another word about this so-called new budget system...
...Under a Supreme Court decision, the money so borrowed from the trust funds must be paid back with interest, and the people, therefore, are called upon not only to pay the principal sum...
...Kohter and his friends went about the state and told what a great business man he was, and how the state needed a business governor...
...Phil La Follette Qualified "Phil La Follette possesses those qualifications in a marked degree, for he has lived the life of the men and women whom he seeks to serve,—sound in his declaration of principles, definite in his statement of policy, embodying them all in a platform that, in my opinion, justifies his support and his nomination by the rank and file of the men and women of this state...
...I hope that you will keep on the line you have started, for the time is drawing close, when we will have more La Follettes and Norrises for what the people want...
...Under the executive budget the Governor becomes the autocratic power to whom is given a blank check by the legislature and provides 'a financial program for which the Governor is responsible.' The Blank Check "When the legislature gives a blank check to a public official, who thereby enjoys autocratic power, you can make up your mind thai a spendthrift governor will fill in that check to the limit...
...Philipp's administration and twice as much as during Gov...
...There is no excuse whatever for having levied that $4,000,000 common school mill tax...
...Philipp's six-year term...
...The governor made the check too high, and many a farm and many a home will be sold under sheriff's sale in this state because the owners were unable to meet their share of that, check in the way of taxes...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
