Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1924, Page 13

he Casper Daily Ccidune PAGE THIRTEEN. TAXPAYERS AND HOME NERS OF CASPER — Constitutional amendment number one is to be voted on Tuesday, No- vember 4. _ This is the amendment knownas the Severance Tax amend- ment providing for an additional tax on the oil industry. VOTE AGAINST THIS AMENDMENT 2” ~ <=. VOTE NO! BECAUSE 4 .1 The timeis hereto reduce, not increase taxes—to abolish forms of Te __ taxation instead of inventing new forms _.2 Because the actual figures-compiled from the county and state rec. . _ ..,ords SHOW ABSOLUTELY that the oil industry is alread ready: bearing. . : : its just share and more:than its share of the taxes of the state’ 3 Because this Severance Tax if imposed would fall heaviest on the smaller independent oil companies and their many stockholders. 4 Because the passage of Constitutional Amendment No. 1, providing a another tax.on the. oil industry to.give state officials more money to spend IS AGAINST the best interests of EVERY WAGE EARNER, EVERY Hi WNER, EVERY BUSINESS MAN IN CASPER and NATRONA COUNTY, as.well as every one engaged directly or indi- rectly in the oil industry. . | Therefore Protect Your Own Interests and the Interests of Casper and Natrona County KILL AMENDMENT NO.1 BY VOTING NO! Signed: Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Producers Association