Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

(Note: The front page is intact.Other pages are in pieces but are of the
same date as nearly as I can tell-lsc)

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 104
Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, September 1, 1931

MARLIN MAN SUGGESTS
THAT MATCHES BE TAXED
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Also proposes Levy on Other Forms
of Tobacco as Well as
Cigarettes.
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       Suggesting a tax on matches and a levy on other forms of tobacco as well as cigarettes, L. N. Stanley of Marlin has written Governor R. S. Sterling a letter on the subject, which reads:
       Marlin, Texas, Aug. 31, 1931.
       Dear Governor:
             "Matches" is teh most generally used and the cheapest of all commodities, made, boxed, sold to be wholesale, then to retailer, freight paid, and to consumer, at 100 for a penny--a box of 500 for a nickel.
       Why not tax the sale of them?
       Also, a tax on cigars, snuff and "chewing and spitting" tobacco as well as cigarettes?  How do you feel about these items bearing their
part of the tax burden?
                    Yours truly,
                           L. N. Stanley.
P. S. -- Am sending a copy of this to Senator W. R. Poage and Representatie J. C. Kennedy.

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