The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1918, Page 3

SSS SSS] SSS] ]]]SS=54 Advocates of an Unlimited Public Debt should realize that someone must_pay the in- Taxes as Revealed By the terest on state bonds, and likewise bonds of private corporations that may be guaranteed Cass C ounty Records : by the state. aes / Wares “@ 4 Herewith is shown a statement of two years taxes of prominent leaders of the league ‘% , 1917 1918 * Persomil Real Personal “Real and ardent advocates of an unlimited public debt. ‘ some Proper:y Property Property Property: 3 A.C. TOWNLEY ......,3 90 BG § 0 5 0 ' Messrs. Townley, Lemke, Baer, Box, Bowen and Robinson claim residence in Cass JOHN BAER ... $1.66 $1.61 $ 0 2 ny : county.’ The residence of Mr. Mills may possibly be changed in the néar lew of WM. LEMKE ..........64.26 § $161 $0 ey vy} y anged in t ar future in view o THOS. ALLEN BOX....6 0 $ $0 6 $ 6 which no extended search has been made. . =e". YG@Ee ed Fe A. E. BOWEN .........$8.03 § rep ety 4n 1917 these seven men paid a combined tax of $13.95—an average of $1.99 each. 4 . J.E.ROBINSON........8 0 $ $ 0 F Rade : : WALTER THOS. MILLS.$ 0 ‘ $0 ,$ 0 . In 1918 these same men apparently fared better. Their combined real estate and per- AVERAGE «.......... $1.99 $ $ .73 $0 - gonal property tax being $5.11—an average of 73 cents each. Why should these men worry THE FIRST SIX SOCIALISTS LISTED ABOVE ARE about an unlimited debt and subsequent high taxes? ¥ SWORN RESIDENTS OF CASS COUNTY—MOST CLAIM- How much genuine interest do you presume they have in the welfare of any commun- ING RESIDENCE IN FARGO. a ; \ : ity?, You pay more than 73 cents a year in taxes—-ar. so does your neighbor. ¢ ‘ LS To pay one years. interest alone on Governor F raziers ideal of the least that North Dakota should bond for ($300,000,000) would require 20,518,493 tax payers like these and the state has less ‘than 120,000. taxpaying voters, _ The land owners will have to pay what the others do not. THE CAMPAIGN NOW ON IS NOT A GONTEST BETWEEN No BUSINESS AND it is. The Doyle group have no papers, therefore, they must use space in independent } Big Business; nor is it.a .contest betweenfar mers and buginess men. ‘ papers to get information to the people. LESS THAN ONE-TENTH OF THE VOTERS OF NORTH DAKOTA ARE BUSI- ONE GROUP IS URGING THE ELECTION OF MEN WHO CAN BE DEPENDED ness men. ‘Can you imagine a contest with one-tenth of the voters on one side and_all the on to carry out the plans of the Socialist leaders by deception or otherwise, and do it so farmers (83 per cent of the total vote on the other?) Impossible. / quickly that people won’t realize what’s going on. The other group is urging the clection of progressive, independent men who will give us the best government that a majority “ITISA CONTEST BETWEEN A GROUP OF PEOPLE SUPPORTING FRAZIE of them can agree on. ‘for: Governor who-have well-defined and cunningly’ devised plans for the establishment - of a full-fledged Sociflistic state-on one side; and on the other, a group of people support- I ing Doyle for Governor, advocating progressive economics, but opposed to experimenting the Socialists said, “Indebtedness strictly limited.” It’is not, and everybody knows it now. with Utopian dreams and wildcat financing ona state scale. , The other side told it. P 4 THE’SOCIALIST GROUP OWN AND CONTROL A NUMB R OF PAPERS DE- WHICH SIDE ARE YOU GOING TO WORK FOR FROM NOW UNTIL ELECTON voted exclusively to political argument and information in‘ beHalf ‘¢ their ideas. Every ~ —the one that tried to fool the people or the one that told the truth? : . . page of these papers should be labeled “Paid Political Advertising,” because that is what ; THERE IS NO BUSINESSMAN SIDE AND FARMERSIDE TOIT. _ WHEN THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS WERE FIRST PRESENTED, SE fi