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12th Dist. 



John T. Buckbee . . !. . . Ye« 



18th Dist. 



Orestes H. Wright (deceased) ' ;• 



I^eo E. Allen Yes 



I4th Dist. .^ ...;....,', ....... 



Chester Thompson . . . J . . . . . ". . . ..... . . . ^ei 



John C* Allen ... * .....,..*. Yes 



16th Dist. ■■■'■ •>- - '■■'^■■■'■■■': 



J. Leroy Adair Yes 



Burnett M. Chiperfleld Yes 



16th Dist. . , .,, 



Raybnrn L. Hnssell ' . . . . !'/. . ■■...:. Yen 

 Everett M. Dirksen Yes 



17th Dist. ^. >.- ;';rr 



Frank Glllespfe 

 L. C. Arends 



18th Dist. 



James A. Meeks — Stated he is for program 



and in full accord with the I. A. A. 

 Elmer A. Taylor Favorable . 



19th Diit. '.:■%. . , .; 



Donald C. Dobbins . . . : . V. .\ .V. iv . .W.' .Yes 

 Charles H. Fletcher Yet 



20th Dist. :-.,.;•-■:-. >^-^r-...--:'|\-^:';r. ': 



Scott Tineas , ., J. .Te« » 



Warren E. Wright . .. ..." . .'. , .^. . .,. ,, ....;.. Yes 



21st Dist. ' J 



Henry H. Mason: ''.. . . ♦ ; . . Yes ^^ 



Frank M. Ramey .;.'.;;'* . . ;..... ., . . Yes . 



22nd Dist. .;:■•• a-* i '■-■•,•<•,•>.•• |}. ■...::;' \ 



Edwin M. Schaefer /,'... \'.r, Vi. .■ .y,\.'l . .Y^ 

 Jesse R. Brown ..;. ^ .......... ^ ...... . Yea 



28rd Dist. 



William W. Arnold— ''Will continue doing 



all I can to forward .program. •• « 

 Ben O. Sumner J... ..w..Yes 



24th Dist. 



Claude V. Parson . . . . ... . . .|. .Yes 



James V. Heldinger J . . Yea 



26th Diit. \ ..V- ;.■.:•..•..«•.• t'. 



Kent E. Keller . • ; : . .Te» 



J. Lester Buford v Ye» 



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to property owners to vote for it. For 

 this reason the I. A. A. insists upon a 

 constitutional limitation of general taxes 

 upon any property, except for bonded in- 

 debtedness, to not more than one per 

 cent of its fair cash value. 



In line with this policy the following 

 question was submitted to each candi- 

 date for the state legislature in the 

 election on November 6: * 



■ Question: Will you, if elected to the Gen- 

 eral Assembly, work and vote for the 

 submission of an amendment to the rev- 

 enue article of the State Constitution, 

 containing the following provisions? 



* 1. Limiting the taxes which may be 

 levied on any tangible property, to 

 one per cent of its f«ir xash value, 

 except for present indebtedneed and 

 " for new indebtedness voted' by the 

 people^ incluciiiig intierest thereon. 





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2. (jfranting the' C^ene'ral Assembly 



•*'♦ f broad 'powers to tax by apf^ropriate 



;<;;i. methods other sources of^ reveil\tci 



; either ; not n^m taxable at all, or 



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i'-^t!^ easily* evading taxation. 



-"''J':' ':' Unemployment Relirf 





people able to work of any desire or in- 

 centive to work. 



Local respo sibilities and interest can- 

 not be secured by use of National and 

 State funds unless the local communities 

 and municipalities are first required to 

 provide relief to the limit of their ability. 

 They cannot be secured by using the 

 process of deferred taxes in the form of 

 state bond issues or by diverting gaso- 

 line taxes from their proper use in road 

 and street improvement. Such diversions 

 only increase unemployment and the de- 

 mands for relief for which they are mad^. 



In the opinion of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association the time has come for 

 the state to restore and to require local 

 responsibility for relief.; 



Believing extremely important that 

 Illinois farmers know the attitude of 

 candidates orn these questions, the As- 

 sociation, through its board of directors 

 and County Farm Bureau presidents, 

 prepared and submitted the following 

 ..questions: •'■'. '.;'•'' ; ;• :' ^'^''^ '''■ ' 

 % If elected to the General Assembly, 

 '^•*''^ will you: % 



. '"^IIV Work and vote FOR legislation em- 



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The gross injustice of the ; general 

 property tax is generally admitted. Under 

 the present state constitution more than 

 bne-half the people of Illinois able to pay 

 taxes, and three-fourths of the net in- 

 come of the entire population, are vir- 

 tually exempted from taxes. They can- 

 not be taxed equitably until the present 

 revenue article is properly amended. .< . > 



In the last 18 years Illinois voters have 

 rejected four proposed changes in the 

 revenue article. None of these proposals 

 gave owners of real estate and ttogible 

 property any assurance of protection 

 from confiscatory taxes. Therefore none 

 woh the general support even of property 

 owners. It will be extremely difficult for 

 any amendment of the revenue article to 

 secure the votes necessary for approval. 

 There must be some inducement offered 



^ Wheu the : depression deepened ,and ^r, t^. ■ 

 serious unemployment resulted ^there- ^ A AJ 

 from, the Illinois Agricultural Associa- "^ -v ' 

 tion recognized the necessity of provid- 1 ' . 

 ing public funds for the temporary re- , ^ . 

 lief of destitute people. From the begin- , 



ning, however, it questioned the methods 

 of providing and administering such pub- ^^v' 

 lie funds. It has insisted that the con- 

 tinuance of such methods would in- 

 evitably result in waste of funds and 

 what is infinitely worse, a permanent 

 dole system in Illinois with all its attend- 

 ing evils. / 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 believes that it is first the duty of every 

 community and county to assume re- 

 sponsibility for its worthy unemployed. 

 The present system of relief is increas- 

 ingly^ robbing recipients of their self-re- 

 spect. More and more it is relieving 



powering and requiring every coun- 

 ty, or the townships or other mu- 

 nicipalities therein, to do their full 

 ' ' : ; part in equitably providing revenue 

 for their own relief needs before 

 ,,;they are entitled to aid by the 

 ^ " state, and requiring eacli relief tax- 

 V'" ing unit to administer such funds? 

 ^ 2. Work and vote AGAINST any leg- 

 ■ • islation further diverting gasoline 

 . taxes for relief or any other pur- 

 / poses, and protect such taxes for 

 V their intended use in improving the 

 '■ highways and streets, thereby pro- 

 viding large amounts for greatly 

 . needed employment. 

 Leaders in the Farm Bureau movement 

 made every reasonable effort to present 

 these questions to every candidate. 



The accompanying table presents the 

 results of this effort. ''V-\' ■''■'■■'■'^^'-^>:v\^'■ 





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