The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1917, Page 11

a a Vee Keeping Down Taxes and Rents POCKET-BOOK PARAGRAPHS Do you pay taxes—or rent? Either way Suf- frage means a fatter pocketbook. Look at Cali- fornia. No state tax there at all. Look at five other Suffrage states—rates between $1.20 and $3.34 per $1,000! Only four go as high as $5.00 or over. G¢, Where only men vote, half the states have rates of $5.00 or over. Ten of them go as high as in the teens, twenties and thirties. G Take Kansas, for instance. It's the only state which, once having had a bonded indebtedness, has ever paid it off. The last dollar was cleared away in 1916—four years after Kansas women were granted full suffrage. ¢ Still, Kansas had the benefit of partial Woman Suffrage for a long time before that—school suffrage since 1861, municipal suffrage since 1887 and full suffrage since 1912. Good for Kansas! G, Or think about election expenses. Twice as many voters sounds like twice as much money, doesn’t it? Wait a minute. q, Election expenses are a mighty small item anyway—much less than one per cent of the total taxes. The big items are for things like roads, schools, prisons. G, But even this small item doesn’t bother suffrage states. G, There's Denver. LoweSt per capita voting cost ofany large city—14c. Or Cheyenne in Wyoming, where women have voted since 1869—twenty- eight years before they received full suffrage in any other state. q, Cheyenne’s per capita cost of voting is 10c—less than any city of its size in the country. Wild and woolly, perhaps, but very, very thrifty! Ne ae a collector WN tax, 4 colléctor And New York? In New York the cost per voter is $1.60. In Chicago, 57c. So in Chicago a man and his wife can both vote for 46c less than a New York man alone! G, Don’t forget Colorado. Bigger prospestty there than ever in the past 23 years while women have been voting. Gone from poverty to great wealth, G, Colorado public institutions worth $254,000,000. Small bonded debt; tax rate notably low. Gg, . ‘ Denver's so careful about spending that it takes in more than it pays out. One of only seven cities with this excess of revenues over expendi- tures, according to the Federal Bureau of the Census, q, Think these facts over. Remember suffrage isn’t the experiment that many people would like to have you think. ¢, G, Public finances affect private pocket-books, A state soundly financed is a good place to live—a good place to save. Suffrage states are pros- perous states, q, This year, in our national food crisis, women have had a new opportunity to show how fore- thought, good judgment and common sense can prevent waste. Gg, Hew many men could keep the bills down the way their wives do? It works! ‘Women in Suffrage states suggest or approve measures that kcep the state’s bills down too. q, Two heads are better than one. Cast your ballots together next year—you and your wife. You can do it if you cast the right ballot next Tuesday. qd, Figure it out for yourself. With living costs on a war-time basis; can you afford not to vote for Woman Suffrage? 782 CST NO