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Boston Tea Parties Are Out;
Prevention Is the Thing
What did the patriots do in Boston
Harbor when they decided to no longer submit to heavy taxation?
Any school boy can answer that. However, operators are going to
find an equally disagreeable situation facing them if action is not
^mediate and unanimous, and one which cannot be overcome jby
spilling green herbs into the sea.
Automatic Age refuses to plead with you fellows who appar­
ently do not take this thing seriously. We are not suggesting that
°rganization is a good thing—we are telling you that if you don’t
organize at once against this imminent danger, it may be too late
^hen you do absorb the full significance of the thing.
It takes only a glance through this issue to learn what prob­
lems are confronting operators in certain territories. Are you
able to ignore this, not knowing when your representative will
introduce a tax bill or worse, or when you city councilmen will
seize greedily upon this prospective new source of revenue? Are
y°u able to sit back in smug security, simply because a bill has not
been introduced, passed and enforced in your own territory?
Cities can be a good deal like sheep when a new source of
revenue has once been successfully exploited. Let this thing once
take root—then try to stop it. Let state legislatures or congress
Pass it, and there will be but one thing left to do—and that is, weep
.
because you didn’t help prevent it.
There is something else we could tell you, something more seri­
ous perhaps, but the tax menace is more than sufficient reason for
every operator becoming a member of the association, and for
every local organization securing membership in the National
Association.
We expect to see some ACTION at the Third Annual Con­
vention.
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