Advertisement, Jackson County Democratic Party

To the Voters: HE DEMOCRATIC PARTY of this County is seeking the election of its Congressional, State and County Candidates by ballots intelligently cast. It asks you to vote for the Democratic Candidates on their merits and because of the principles for which they stand. TAXES! TAXES!! TAXES!!! In the last two years the cost of living has not been lowered as was prom- ised by Mr. Harding when he was seeking election as President; on the contrary, he lowered the income taxes on the rich, and by his tariff law has added from three billion to four billion dollars yearly to the already oppressive cost of cloth- ing, food and every article of necessity which the people of the United States must use to live. In the last two years Governor Hyde and a legislature which has done his bidding at each of three sessions which it held, lowered taxes substantially on corporations and on the income of the wealthy and on the other hand substan- tially increased the taxes on all farms and homes in the State. In Jackson County two years ago the Democrats occupying the County of- fices of Highway Engineer, Prosecuting Attorney, Coroner, Treasurer, Marshal, Sheriff and Assessor were turned out and their so-called "reform" opponents voted in. These "reform" officers were elected on their express promise that the cost of administering those particular offices to the taxpayers would be materially decreased. The cold fact is, that each and every one of these "reform" incum- increased the cost tn the taxpayer of conducting his office over that of his Democratic predecessor. I The Harding Administration The Harding Congress has been alert and active for millionaires and large corporate interests, and has pursued an inactive and do-nothing policy for the common people. Here is its record: 1-It relieved war profiteers, large corporations and multi-millionaires from paying excess profits taxes to the Government amounting to approximately one- half billion dollars a year. 2-It enacted a tariff tax on every living necessity which makes all of the people pay from three to four billion dollars yearly as a pure bonus to the few