Bowen paper poses question

that some would say is still relevant

 

A long-gone Hancock County newspaper offers proof that conspiracy theories are nothing new.

   The Bowen Chronicle questioned government overreach more than 90 years ago.

   An editorial posed a thought-provoking question on January 5th, 1933. It came just two months before Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated after whipping Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover the previous November.

   Though it was during the Great Depression, some would argue that the inquiry could be made today.

   The question was, “Who will pay the taxes after all property has been confiscated and all capital has at last found its ways into the coffers of the government?”

   Alas, the Chronicle would not survive to comment on other conspiracy schemes. The weekly newspaper folded in 1937.

 

CUTLINE FOR PHOTO: One of the signs noting Bowen, Ill., as the home of former U.S. Sen. and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's mother, Josephine Williams.