The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1919, Page 2

AS’ TOWNEBRY DISAPPEARS THROUGH | _ AUDETORIUM DOOR STATE AUDITOR | URLS EMBLEM TO THE FLOOR (Continued from Page One) General Property Tax Now Mr. Kositzky told you - we would have to raise six million dollars taxation this first year, . ing you that the taxation for two to be raised by general prop- 11 be. $7,004,042.10. . Now this half of that amount will be That will be . $3,502,021.05. Now out of that there wiil be about $983,000 which will be raised by 2 tax on oil sales, a tax on corporations, 3 tax on inheritances and other sources, leaving a total amount of tax which will have to be raised property this year $2,619,021 N I want to be perfectly candid and fair is. In addition to that the legislature imposed a half mill tax to raise a fund to pay our soldier a compensation, amount. to $600,000. did not tell you that wher he attacked the administration for extravagance, he did not tell you that the biggest single increase was $600, was going to t i fought for thi he did not tell you that. fact, ladies and gentlemen, 00,000 amount is goiny to pa soldiers who foughtsin Fran 420,000 may have to be paid in inter- Jo not think it vill be that high, but we will put it According to M $172,000 will have to be p: terest not only on the exti of this legislature, but inte farmer who paid $20\ in last: year will pay $70 this year. Kositzky says that the state levy this year will be at least 4.5 mills and probably five , mills. says it will be necessary to raise more. than. six million dollars this year for state taxes on general prop- erty. Now in Mr. Kositzky’s estimate of the taxes which he said the state will have to levy he included one mill- jon’ twenty thousand dollars as inter- est on the 17 million dollar bond is- Mr. Kositzky Minimum Six Per Cent. “That would be 6 per cent on the 17 million and that would make one million twenty thousand dollars, and ‘ky also included $566,666 which he says the state would have to set aside every year as a sinking fund on those bonds, gentlemen, Mr. Kositzky made a very} serious error there, a bevause as a matter of fact interest ean only be paid on seven of those bonds. t be paid by the state unless it ig raised by the earnings of these en- Interest must be paid by the state on the mill and bond, and on the Bank of North Da-)¢ bonds, but by no possibility can | , st be paid on the ten million dollar real estate bonds. 10 to 20 Years e bonds are not iss Now, ladies and | very large error, on the bonds, gage in his possession worth twic' the value of the bonds. gages run from ten to twenty years. They are paid on the amortization That is, the interest due, one-twentieth of the principal bs every year by the terms of the mort- gage itself, so that by no possibility can the’ state be called upon to pay; ta interest on those ten million dollar} bonds, so that jnstead of the interest being one million twent: lollars a year as Mr. Kositzky stated in his-articlé, the interést cannot pos- sibly exceed $420,000 a year, to the sinking fund. Mr. Kositz- said there must be an annual sink- ing fund of $566,666, tion anJ sever am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. k {think he is high I xpenditure raised by makes a total b tion on general property of $8,- Kositzky Correct Now, Mr, Kositzky is correet about tatement of what w valuation is going to be. ng to accept: Mrv Kositzky’s for the new. valuation for next year, and Mr, Kositzky’s own figures show the total valuation for the next year will be $1,239,615,851, “Now he says that the mill levy will be 4.5 and probably five mills. Ladies and gentlemen, a levy of 3.1 mills on Mr. Kositzky’s own figures of. the state valuation will raise $3,831,950.55 or more than $100,000 than will be needed by the state administration Now two or three days ago I saw.a statement, and interview by Mr. Packard, ard My. Packard now one of the politica! bedfellows) of I saw the statement by Mr. Packard in the Bismarck Tri- bune telling what an honest man Mr. Lyman Baker, secretary of the tax commission was. Too Honest For Townley Mr. Packard said he was too hon- est to: be. associated with the Town- ley outfit. Now I kn usually agrees with know they agree in most things, andI know Mr. Kositzky also agrees that Mr. Baker is a very honest man. All right, do not take my word for any- I figured it out and leave it there in black and white, and I,chal- lenge Mr. Kositzky to dispute my fig- throughout in thi: Mr. Kositzky In the first. place that would. be. the sinking fund on the en- tiré 17 million dollars bonds, of which have shown you ten million dollars of borids is provided for by the mort- gages themselves. May Run 30 Days. <“Furthermore;' this law authorizing the bonds distinctly provides that the ‘inking fund does not have to bonds mature. Now, these bonds have faised until, five years before not been issued yet, but they prob- ably will run either twenty or thirty years, probably 30 years, so that a sinking fund does not-have to bé pro- Vided. fintil, five years before these, bonds mature, or twenty-five years f¥om date, so that the item which. Mr. Kositzky set aside, $566,666 as a sink- ing: fund \does not have to ‘be raised; general taxation at all. Now those e' facts, ladies and gentlemen, \d; Mr: Kositzky cannot dispute these facts. Iam inclined to think that Mr. Kositzky ‘made-that mistake honestly. Tam inclined to believe that he did not read the law in question and did not know the constitution was chang- ed, but that doés not alter the fact, ladies and gentlemen, that. a state of- ficial. has no business going around attacking laws of the administration, or making the prediction of what the taxes are going to be, when very ob- viously he has not read the laws in @oestion. Now wait a second. That, ig nd€ the only law Mr. Kositzky has| I have shown you where! he made an error of one million one hundred sixty six thousand estimat-; ing the state taxes, to show you where he made an error, of one million two hundred and thirty | nine thousand, a very small matter,| merely a million and a quarter. is how Mr. Kositzky made that error.| He said, I am quoting the exact words, | he said that the two mill school levy will apply on the new assessed valua- Mr. Kositzky. Mr. Kositzky. E I|state auditor’s office this week. es. Mr. Walter Liggett: In_response to your inquiry of re- cent date as to the probable state mill levy for 1919, we beg to state that our estimate is as follows: State rev- enue 2.) mills; state sinking’ fund .15 mills; interest new bond issue .35 mills; fund .50 mills, making a total of 3.1] interest and Now I am going} Now listen to this statement by Mr. Baker, secretary of the tax commis- A little while ago I told you that interest would not be ‘charged on the ten million dollars bonds. do not,take my word for that either. Mr. Baker says the interest on the bonds of the Bank of North Dakota series and the mill and elevator series must be provided for by the state levy ‘The authorized amount at the rate of six per cent would be $420,000, and the secretary*of the In- dustrial commission has informed us that there is no probability of the full t of these bonds authorized bé- ued in 1919, and consequently imate of the levies to care for the interest on these bonds is too Mr. Baker says his own esti- too high., The law authoriz- issue provides 2 sinking fund shall notbe levied until five years before the maturity of the bonds. Con- sequently we have not included a levy Assessed Three Fold “You know that the valuation was increased threefold and under the old Taw we had a two mill se Mr. Kositzky said that the! two mill aechdol levy would apply on the new When as a matter-of fact |j gentlemen, the last legislature passed a-bill called Senate Bill 220 which amended and re-enacted Section 1224 of the compiled laws of 1913 so that the, school levy is reduced from: two ills to one mill. ts, ladies and gentlemen, ositzky or no one else can s ly «dispute those facts, so that in making his estimate for the taxes for 1919 he figured in the two mill school vy on the valuation when the leg- ture reduced that levy to only one iy, and as;I say, that makes n dif- fetence of .$1,239,650. Kosjtzky has made errors in figuring taxation of two million four thousand dollars, and I de- ositzky or anyone else to k up a single error in this state- madd¢. That in this ¢ té of taxes which he issued to @ Bismatck Tribune on March 15th that he over estimated to the-antount two million ‘four hundred thousand tars. Now He said that the taxes this year Would be six per cent. Now, Iddits and gentlémen, irst Real Estate Mortgages The bonds of the State of North Dakota, real estate series, are to secured by real estate first mortgages and interest funds will not be provid- ed by state levy, but by the interest derived from real property mortgaged Very truly yours, North Dakota Tax Commission. Sign- ed by Mr. L. A. Baker, secretary. Now, I have shown you that Mr. Kositzky has made some rather gross errors in fieures by his state taxes, and I aw going to show you that Mr.. Kositzky has also made some grossly erroneous statements in estimating the tax that the farmers of this_state are going to I am not going. far Iam not going to the other end of North Dakota. ing to draw.on my imagination or assume by hypothetical questions. am going into Burleigh county where Mr. Kositzky lives and quote the tax books.of this county. He will have an hour-and a half to. dispute this, and.I challenge him to find a single error on the back of that curtain there. year, Burleigh county’s share of the state taxes was $42,673.80. Of that amount the farmers, paid 49.9 per cent or $21,33863, The rest of the tax_was paid by the railroads, by city residences and, by telephone panies and one thing and another. ies farmers paid 49.9 per cent of that Burleigh County Taxes. “Now, there are 6,130 quarter sec- county. The aver- All told, Mr. by these bonds, pay next year. 7 am not ae .* Lam not going to juggle figures here, I am not go- it of statements rapidly wow what they mean. these facts ii I am hot, go- ihy'to read a. ) TO Tchallenge Mr. Kositz- out one single ¢ of the state institt- tions in Burlei; de | age tax paid county quarter section 5 per acre, and that $2,95 mul- ot tiplied by 6,130, the number of riations | ter sections, you get $18,088.83. “taxes come_in amount to and in addition to that ae wa the farmenwee sala a Raise levy for ind down, to be sure we made no mi take about this, The average farm acre in Burleigh county last year was assessed at $4.28.. Therefore, the av- erage quarter section was assessed at, $648.80. Your state levy last year was 4.3 mills, which makes the state tax paid: by the average quarter. sec- tion in Burleigh county $2.95. That is exactly what I multiplied this sum by. All right. ~ Mr...Kositzky’s estimate of the new valuation estimated that last year the land in, this state was assessed upon an aWecare valuation of 30 per cent,,and Mr. Kositzky’s own statement of the new valuation 1 will be obtained by increasing that 39 per cent 3 and one-third times, so I have taken Mr. Kositzky’s figures, according to his own figures, the av- erage valuation of a quarter of Bur- leigh county land this year, under the new valuation, will be $14.25 an acre or $2280 a quarted tion. Now Mr. Baker told. you. that tie. state tax ‘rate, would be 3.1 mills and then he hedged a little bit and said he didn’t think it would be quite 3.1 mills, ‘but I believe in being generous, M: aky is heing very generous figures, and Iam going to. be in mine, and I am, going to give him the benefit of the doubt one mill, so I am going to figure this 3.2 mills. Admits Increase So, therefore, on the new valuation which Mr; Kositzky himself says will be placed on’ the farm land, the|Mr. Kositzky would heve you believe state tax this year will be $7.30 higher, That ig the great — in- crease that is going to. confiscate property and drive you into uptey and make you leave this state, an inerease, no, not an inerease, an increase of less than $5.00 a quarter section. Now, we will come to that. Last year the land tax was $295 a quarter section, Last year your versinal property tax of twenty-seven hundred and some odd dollars, divided upon a quarter section basis, amounted to 44.5 cents & quar- ter, and last year. your farm improve- ments scattered. over; the’. country amounted to $122,000, and if averaged out arid spread over every quarter sec- tion in Burleigh county, amounted to 8.6 cents a quarter section, so that the total tax paid by the farmers of Burleigh county iast year was $3,48 a quarter section, and this year yon will pay $7.30 a quarter section on your land. That is, the average farmer. Now, then you will pay 78 cents a quaricr section. as 2 result of your personal property, and that makes a ‘otal cf $8.03, a qperter section, as compared to $3,498 last year cr an increase of $4.55 a quarter section. Gets Sarcastic “that is the incrense that is going to drive you out of the state and into bankruptcy, We do not even have to rely on averages, ! have been up to the state treasurer’s office and have/takér some’ figures off the tax book. We don’t efor to rely on averages. "Iam going to show you what two or three individual farmers in this county are actually paying, and I am going to compare these fig- ures with the figures that Mr. Kositzky has given you and ask you how correct you think his figures are. But I want to ask if Mr. C. 0, Engdahl ts in the audience. Evidently he is not. I think you all know him. Mr. Engdahl-lives in Gibbs township. He has seven quarter sections, a pretty good sized farm. He has seven quarter sections and last year he paid on personal property worth $1575, and if Mr. Eng- dahl] can stand an increase in taxes this year, 1 am sure st of you can also.” Case of Mr. Engdahl That is what Mr. C. O. Engdahl paid in tax€s last year dn his seven quar- ters of land. He paid $281.32 taxes last year for all purposes. . That is not his state tax, that is taxes for all purposes, and I will tell you how that tax divided. $27.24 was for the state. $113.41 went to the county, $68.43 went to the school district, $5.70 went to the township, and $66.43 went to the township road fund, so. that all told last year Mr. C, O. Engdahl paid $281.32 taxes. How much more is he going to pay this year?,,.Mr. Kositzky would have you believe he is going to pay two or three times as much more, I have figured it very carefylly, ladies and gentlemen. I have added ten per cent increase to. the county general fund, I have, added, 20, per. cent in- crease,to the school fund, I have added 10 per cent increase to the township fund, and I have added 20 per cent to the township road fund and I. have figured out his state taxes ‘exactly, and I find that next year, instead of paying wo or three times. what. he paid last year, Mr.-Engdahl. will pay $349.91 when last yéar he paid. $281.32 and that is the state tax... That is an increase of $72, all told,but of that $72 only $33.35 goes to thé state; only $33.35 goes to the state. and the rest of that goes to the county, and to, the township and school district. I went éut to see Mr. Engdahl the other day. I drove out to his farm-and had a long talk with him, and I showed Mr, Eng- dahl this statement, and I said Mr. Engdahl probably this year your taxes will be increased from $281 to $349. Mr. Engdahl says it is all right. I said I don’t mind paying the tax if I know the money is gging for a good purpose. He said I don’t mind paying double the taxes for my school district out here. because I know the children of my neighbors need the. education. He said I don’t mind paying double the taxes for roads becahse I know we need good roads, and he said I don’t mind paying three or four times. the tax for the state because he said I know for the first time in the history of North Dakota, and 1 ‘have lived here for 36 years, we have a govern- ment down there in the capitol that will look out for my interest. He said I raised. 3,000 bushels of grain last year. Some years I have been docked two or three centy a bushel, some years my grain has been undergraded four or five cents a bushel. He said that did not happen.last: year, and it did not happen solely for.the reason that the non-partisan league admin- istration was onthe job last year Bismarck, and he said 1 don’t what you make my taxes, I am wil ing to pay it, and you can make it hi tin if ‘want to. ener Case by Peter W “The speaker. a took up the case taxes. 4.3 mills the amount: and you get $2, And:then the farm improvemepts in Burleigh coun-| ty. were valued at $122,105. _ Your state tax farm improvements last yearwas $525.05. It foots up exactly so that the farmers of Burleigh’ coun- ty. last year paid $21,383.32: . Now, let us check it up ina little. differept way. I believe in doing a thing two ways. Check it up crossways and up I\jion dollars in taxes owing the, state $695, his improvements were valued at $36, and his‘ personal property valuéd at $532,: making, a total-of $1263..and a small proportion of the total tax goes to the state. . Weber paid: $55.5' rict got $21.22 and the road fund got sonal property, $6.31. Now this. year Mf. Webers land is going to be worth $23.14; his personal property, live: stock valued at $1180, and on both of these valuations ‘he is going to pay. 2 mills so_ hig total fe taxes this year will be $19.18; $11:18 as compared with $5.43 last: year, an increase of $5. Do yon know how much of that is going to the state—$1.59 . “That's a Lie? On April 1, 1919, less than a month ago, the very day that Mr. Kositzky issued these false and ;Hbelous state- ments that were according to his-own hooks $2,470,343.87. in cash--balances in the general’ state funds. Mr. Kositzky That is a tie. eh Mr. Liggett: I have: taken thre statements off Mr. Kositzky’s ow! books. I have had an’expert account- ant working on Mr, Kositzky’s. hooks, for several days, According. to’ that accountant, there was in the general funda, I do not mean in. the, state gen- eral fund, Tsay in all the:state funds, the terminal elevator find, the tuber- clar fund, all these general funds— I have the doct ts right here. On that day there were $2,470,243.87, in. the staté funds, and on that day the State Treasurer. had deposited in the various state banks throughput. the state more than two million dollars. that-the State of North Dakota was defunct. Now,amark you, that was on April Ist, just after the legislature had adjourned, and after the legisla- ture had spent, $98,000 and practically every penny of that amount had been paid, General Fund Case He picked out a time when he was sure of getling the general fund low. Notwithstanding that fact, there was $2,400,000 on deposit. Now listen, Mr. Kositzky, on Apri} 1st, said that there was only $9,000 in the general fund, and he was very much afraid the state officials would not get their money April\28rd, and there was $60,000 in cash in the general fund on that date. That does not prove anything because the general fund fluctuates. I was up of, Peter Weber of Phoenx township,| going to ask you in the small time- the, owner, of one quarter valued. at|left at my disposal, \ hig_total taxwas 44 mills so: that last | men.- ear he paid $55.57 for all purposes. | but what the leaders OX the non-parti- ir. Kositzky is trying to,alarm you|san league tried to force on the peo- gbout state tax: Do you realize what|(ple of this state tax laws which would in time confiscate certain classes of Property by an unfair and unjust sys- |/ tem of taxation. As evidence of the fact I have here some of the original bills, or copies of the bills introduced during the forepart of the last session of the legislafure, but. on account of several of us state officials objecting to the viciousness of/these measures they ware finally amended, Senate Bill 43 in, part reads?) “All real and personal property subject to a gen- eral property tax not exempted by law and not subject to any gross sales or Qther lieu tax is hereby classified for purposes of assessment or taxation as follows: Class one-shall: include the following, which shall b evalued and assessed at 100 per cent of the full and true value thereof; all un- used.Jand or lands of any other kind or description. Cl: the following, wh and assessed at 60 per cent of the full and true value thereof.” All un- used lands, Now that would werk \eomething like this. a comparison, M vacant lot kitty-cerner from the post office. We will say that lot’ is worth $10,000. Roy Logan has‘a used lot adjoining worth $10,000, The assessor comes along this year, and. say this jaw had become @-law, he would as- |= sess Mrs, Slattery’s lot at $10,000 and Roy Logan's lot at $6,000, and we will say that the tax rate of Burleigh coun- ty and the city of Bismarck 4s,5 per lands Bill Property described in this section to the extent herein limited: shall be ex~ empt from taxation. That ia:to. say;|cent, the owner of that house is going to pay $50 more in taxes than I am it my house was worth the same as his. So who is going to pay the $50, the tenant or the man who owns the house. Next ‘we have the printing law. You the next pay day. I was up there on}structures and improvements used as homes on town or city lots to the amount of $2,500, provided that. the total value of such structures and im- provements be not\in excess of $3,500. a very ‘short period prior té.the time urer OJjson showed me rk ihe in this administration got jint signify anything, all because“fhe gen- eral fund is always fluctuating back’ and forth, but I want to show that the state of North Dakota is nct bankrupt, that there was more than two million dollars in cash in its various funds on the very date when Mr. Kositzky said that the state was broke, andi I want also to show you that at the) present time there is, nearly one. mil- of North Dakota from the, various counties and from the railroads too. Now’ why. didn’t Mr. Kositzky make public these facts? Why. didn’t he say there was two million dollars on deposit in the various banks?, Why didn’t he tell you there was a .mil- lion dollars owing from the counties? Why didn’t he tell you that this state has assets worth millions and millions of dollars? Oh, no,’ that wduid not serve his purpose. He wanted to cre- ate the impression that the Non-parti- san league administration had wasted these funds so he“gave out a one- sided false and.inaccurate report about these things, Now. before Mr. Ko- sitzky gets off here I am going to ask him a few questions. I am going: to ask these questions so you can hear me, and when I have finished asking these questions I am going to give him this paper so there can be no mistake about it, and 1 want-him to answer these hefore he gets /off the statement to the press on April 3, platform. there the other day and/state treas-}How will that work? power|ina row. The first house cost $2400, where the general fund was over-|the sécond house cost $3500, and the drawn, and once it was overdrawn|third house because. of beter -plumb- more than $100,000. That does not/ing.or because it is painted a little better is worth $3600, the first house would not pay any taxes at all, the second house $20, and the third house worth $100 more would pay $72. That is what that would do, and in time the kept press, you might say, are say- ing, why didn’t these officials who are objecting to the measures appear in the caucus. Mr, Langer and I\did appear in caucus seVeral times, and we ‘talked-to some of the members about these measures, but what was the. next thing we heard, “theysare trying to run things.” The law pro- vides that as state auditor of this state I have a perfect right to appear before any legislative body, not only that, but section 132 provides that the state auditor shall submit recom- Did you or did you not: give out a of North Dakota is worse than bank- rupt? debts? i Is that’ statement true? $150,000? yy Did you. or did_yow not issue this the public treasury had been exhaust- ed as the result of extravagance and mismanagement? a Is the impression you tried to create fair, honest or correct? Did or did not, the state of North Dakota have large cash halances of liquid assets in its various funds on April 1, 1919? Did you or did you not assert in your interview of April 2, 1919, that Secretary Charles Leissman of the Board of Regents said the Board of Regents was paying $300 on_jnterest on loans every month? Is that statement true? Did you or did you not declare that the various state institutions owed $700,000 on that daté? Is that statement, true? Says He Was Insulted “When I went to Mr. Kositzky I had ever met Mr. Kositzky before, never had talked to htm.on it, and I went into the offtce with the honest inten- ition of discussing these matters with hfm, and he was very insolent. He said I do not talk with henchmen of Townley. He said all of Townleys henchmen were alike. I said Mr. Kositzky I did not come to debate with you or afgue with you, I cage up here to talk about the facts. He said, I don’t want to give you any facts although as a citizen of this state 1 was entitled to those facts, and he went on to say I am not on the witness stand. I want to tell you Mr. Kositzky you are on the witness -etand today, you are on the witness stand now, you are on- the itness stand before the people of North Da- kota today. Mr. Kositzky, not only as comcefns your treachery and your — - |falsehood to the nonpartisan league, as: concerns the conduct of your ice, and when “you. get through answering these questions Mr. Kosit- any. I have one or two more I am mendations for the improvement and 1919, in which you state that the state} managemient of the public revenues, etc. So as a state official. I had a x perfect right to object to these Jaws, Did you or did you not in that|and as a tax payer I also had a per- Statement infer that the Hanna ad-]fect right to object to these laws. I ministration left the Frazier admin-| went before the tax committee several istration with a large cash balance}times as you all know, and objected in the general fund and no unpaid|to these measiires, and Mr. Mees and several other members, took up my » | fight, and they were finally amended.. Did or did not you: declare that on] But what next.? Mr..Townley. called April-1,,1919, the state only had,-$9,-|me up-in his room and. damned me 369.78. in its general fund and owed| because I went before the tax com: 4 mittee.. He said we have experts hired to draft.these laws, and we are paying interview for the purpose of making| them. big, salaries, and .you have no the voters of this state believe that| business down there. Your -business is up in that office, Now they. are fore the caucus if we had any, objec- tions to make. 1 believe that our ed- ucational ‘institutions \in this state have during the pagt twenty or twen- ty-five years educated many men and women who are able and competent to draft any law,;which the people of this state desire placed on our.statute books. 1 believe that the attorney efficient and competent to dyatt any law that the, people of this ‘sire placed-on our statute books. 1 don’t believe that it was necessary during the last session of the legis- lature to import any long-haired ex- perts into this state from Washington, California, Utah and Minnesota to draft the laws ‘that are now on our statute books. The tax laws were amended 500. per cent better than the original drafted bills. They now work something like this. Improvements on farm lands were exempted, but the tax-was shifted from improvements to livestock. Livestock was raised 150 per cent so Mr. Engdahl will find when he comes to pay his tax this, year he is assessed 150 per cent more than he was last year on his cattle, horsés, cows, sheep and hogs. The farmers of this state will find that last year where they were assessed §7,- 938,144-for improvements on real es- fate, they will find this year. that live- stock was’ raised 28 million dollars, So you see they are not going to save much by having their improvements exempted from taxation. Now I say this law was amended 500 per cent better than the one originally) intro- KOSITZKY’S OPENING ADDRESS | Mr. Kositzky: | Ladies and, gentle- ‘There is.no doubt in my mind lass 2 shall include h shall be valued Here’s A Gentle Laxcti For Elderly People A daily free movement of the howels becomes’ a seriou: problem as you step from middle-life into old age, and much dependence can no longer be placed on nature herself. The | bowels find artificial aid necessary. Sea The stronger the physic, as old people soon learn, the greater the contraction of the bowels thereafter, and so the ‘wise purposely avoid salt waters, pilis and other harsh pur- gatives, Many have learned to place sbite’reliance on thé ge: tle but- positive action of a combination of jnople laxative herbs with pepsin sold by druggists under the name of Dr, Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It produces an agreeable movement as nearly natural and’ free as high pharmaccutical, skill can make it.. Thousands use it regularly, in the small dose prescribed, and Fern them: selves’in fine health and good cheer, and engieely fr Ne IYER | The druggist will. refund your\money if it faile to do as promised. “GN Dr. Caldwell’s 'YRUP PEPSIN The Perfect B Laxative PRICE AS ALWAYS: In spite of great! Increayed Inboratory costs due to the War, tha absorbing war , ~ Mrs, Slattery’s Lot “We will take mrs. Slattery’s lot aa . Slattery owns a @ in part rea Draws Comparison _ “We will say here are three homes |Connected with it. as introduced created a new printing the members to be the secretary of state, the attorney gen- eral, and the state treasurer, but you remember about that time attorney Langer exposed the Valley City daylight bank robbery: the same time Obert Olson started an; imsurance company, and of course! any pérson owning property worth |Chief Townléy told him that if there} more than $3500 would be paying| Were any insurance. companies t more taxes than probably ten or fif- The Courier News and the Leader, ling wehould have appeared. be- eneral and his assistants are able, State de- duced, and will work something like this. ‘Paké\Mrs. Dunn down here, she runs a boarding house, has for several years. She has a house we will say worth $4000. Dr. Smythe has. @ house next to it worth $4000. Now| point a E> Te TEE EEE ES ee Soy FREE SAMPLES— If you have: never used Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin send tor « fre2 tsiat bottle to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 468 Washi St., Monticello, Tit. “If there are bables at hanis ask for Bay of Dr. Caldwell’s Care of ye"? 1 taxes we have, main- tained | the at which this family lax- wold druggists for the past Mrs. Dunn because she uses her house as a business proposition, she is: going to be assessed 100 per cent on the cent this year. Applying the 5 per{@ctual value of that house, while Dr. cent on/ pe Sh Heres unuesd Ly Smythe gets $1000 exemptions and 50 would produce $500 in taxes, while Roy Logan’s used lot which was as- sessed at 60 per cent of its true value would produce $300 in taxes, so Mrs. Slattery would be paying $500 a year for an unused.ot, while Roy logan would be_paying $300 for a used lot, and this can be applied to other real estate, lands in the country, unused ue well as used lands. Senate|the owner of that ‘house doés not get 8 as-follows: All|#ny exemptions and ‘will be assessed $1000 valuation more. than my house, so if the tax-rate this year is 5 per If the tax rate this year is 5 per cent Mrs, Dunn will pay $200 Dr. Smythe -will; pay take. my, property, we orth $4600 or $500 T will, have $1000 exemption and the balance ‘atter deducting the $1000, will sell at 50 per cent. My neigh- ufty, lives in a rented house, per cent off, in $75 in taxe: will say it be as have heard a great deal abaut the printing law. ‘This law has a history The original bill commission, general Langer on that printing commis- ‘sion they put the’commissioner of ag- riculture and labor and the land com- Someone went to} Prater, well, it was me, and I put him next as to what might happen to him, and of course they amended the | bill again and’ put on the chairman of the railroad, commission. They wanted somebody up there\who would appoint; the newspapers of this state which were favorable, favorable to Brinton, the man who controls 40 or 50 news- papers in this state. bill provided that all printing, city, county -and state be given to these newspapers that were. appointed by this _printing commission. It will amount Yo ‘about a@ milliqn and a quarter a year, that is what it wil] amount to, and if Mr. ‘Townley; or Brinton want to save the dear people of this state any money, why didn’t they embody in that, bill a provision requiring that. bids be submitted and give it to the lowest and missioner on This printing that in there. They didn’t mention the rate that should be charged. repealed all former acts-in conflict with this bill so they could charge they’ wanted to. statements here from county auditors of this state, and I will defy Mr. Town- ley of Lemke_or anyone else to show where they will save oyer $50,000, they say they are going to save $200,- Now we-will say that the newspapers are designated. All print- ing will then go to these papers, given to.these papers by the printing com- Before I go-mmy further in my talk though, I want-to give you a little more history of this bill. bill was afterwards amended and they They voted four times. on thé emergency clause, but before they voted the. fourth time on the emergency clause I happened to\be in the House Chamber, I happened to be standing in the rear end of the House Chamber and I listened to the discus- sion, and I witnessed as one. member after another was called out in. the ante room by the leaders of the, league, and afterwards. when | was, informed that these members were threatened with political ruin unless they voted for this-measure, it, made my. blood Whenever a man gets so drunk with power that he can place laws on our statuté books by threats or with force, it is at bad_state of affairs, and high time that that mam be deprived of that power, and it again be restored back to the people. four times on the emergency clausé of this printing _ bill, clause did not carry. several of the members opposed it, others were about to oppose it, and then several of the leaders got busy and telephoned to leaders in.some of the counties where these members And what did they tell them? So and so has jumped the traces and you had better “get Busy. from Ransom county sent 43 tele- grams, signed them all, and claimed he got permission by long. distance or over, the telephone to sign them for these yarious parties. Of course, they did drive quite a few of them in liné, but not enough to carry the emer- gency clause. Now you talk about your kept press I have neve® seen After they voted the emergency But before that and misstatements. so many damnable lies_printed in the last few weeks and last few. months as printed in the Courier News and Nonpartisan Leader. On the 22nd of April the Courier from , J ton ie, and that the voters will,be allowed, to select these newspapers. -I would like to have Mr, Liggett or anybody show me where this bill provides that the papers are to be selected by. the -peo- ple in the counties. They .also had an editorial in the Courier News just prior to that that the nonpartisan léaye paid all my traveling expenses. I te them a letter. t Mr. Kositzky: Probably: there - is other money. charged to people that they’ never got. Now then, shortly aft- erwards there was a statement, given, out tb the press to the effect that on certain dates “there were . certain amounts in the state gerferal.fund. Mr. iLiggett told you there were two mil= lion dollars balances in the fe gen- eral fund. That is absolitely u false- hood... There is schoo! money, ‘teach- ers’. retirement,money, elevator money and funds of-that kind and. we cannot pay one dollar. out of those funds for general state purposes, and when- rever 1 give a statement to the presg my name-is generally signed to iz. I would like“to have Mr. Liggett show me where I ever gave. out the state- ments he has just read to you. I would like to see a single statement to that effect, I dare him to show it. On April 10 the Courier-News,. the kept press, came out again with a statement to th eeffect that on certain datds:the state general fund was over- 1 wrote the editor a letter”: started he was entitled to start them, dais ‘the, Jade “one: }. am: going, {0 teen houses adjoining it. It works |So he got in bad too, and they amend- also this way. We will say a large|ed thé law and instead of having Olson owner :of houses could, build -ten: ar, fifteen houses,:-each ,valued, at. $2400, he could rent those) houses ,and get revenue from them’each month jand. wouldn’t have to. pay a cent of taxes, but if a man owned a house worth 3600 he would be paying taxes. for the privilege of living in his own house. Now these tax laws were amended because several of us state officials appeared .before the tax com> mittee, and objected tothe. viciousness of these measures. he write; I mean the last one I am going : to write to the Courier-News’ editor. ~ , The -most:of:that this printing “bill “ will save is $50,000 a-year.. They’ tell’ you that! Burleigh ‘county will save $4,964.81." That! is the total cost of all © the printing, “All the printing ig; ndt‘ done in one paper, but in three: papers, * All the printing that is done.in three papers is the county commissioners’ * proceedings and notices of the. county, * and that onty amounted to $1,300'.in * - this county; according to Mr. ‘Flahet- ty’s figures: Now, if Burleigh county is going to save $4,964.81 and ‘it’ costs $1,300 to. publish the county Commis: < sioners>froceedings in three papers’: each paper gets $650, so we are goitig to save twice that amount, we Will sity’ that. each “county saves: $1,600."' There aré 53. counties in. the:staté; which will amount to about $53,000. But* there are ‘some counties; where the county. printing. is only. $356, so it is going to reduce that amount, to $50,000, 1 say it, is going to reducé that amount of $50,000 instead of ins. creasing it. Now they, have. told around that I was a friend of. The Tribune. Last fall. when,,we. let. the contract to“The Tribune for the state printing, we advertised~for bids and we let it out on competitive bids. The Tribune was the lowest and the Globe- Gazette was the highest and the Knight Printing Co. was the next. The. next: paper was the Public Opinion. The Bismarck-Tribune wwill.do all:the print- ° ing that will;be done:by the state for two years. We save the-taxpayers “of North! Dakdta $10,000, by giving it to the lawest bidder. We did not propose to.hand itout to the fellow who.favors us, we were doing justice to the tax- payers of-North Dakota by ‘giving it to the: lowest:.bidder, and we «saved © you $10,000, Mr..Brinton sent a repre> sentative up there and’ told us to give it. to anybody else: but The Bismarck ‘Tribune. You rémember he had jsomé trouble with the editor of The Tribune, and he wanted us to give it to‘anybody * else but The Tribune, ‘Is that: fair, * is that right, is that doing justice to the taxpayers of.the state?” Last win- ter on legislative printing we saved $1,524.73 just on-legislative printing, and we saved the ‘report-.of the commissioner of agriculture and labor on his printed ‘report $126.50, so you can’ imagine how much» money: we, saved. the taxpayers by giving it’ to the lowest bidder. You have. read a lot-about the immigration bill. -That inl appropriates $200,000 for the pur- pose-of inducing immigration into the }state) I got hold of this supplement to. the North Dakota Leader. I don’t know whether it was intended that I shold have one of these or not but anyhow. I got hold of this, and on page*16 it says. Th ebill creating the imiit- gration department and appropriating $200,000 is intended to attract séttlérs and enterprises to the state. It is ih-. tended to attract‘settlers and business enterprises to the state. That'is what it skys. It says right over here slan- ders will We refuted. Part of this money will probabil? be spent in ¢or- recting false impressions of the of North Dakota circhlated by the Mifi- Reapolis chamber of commerce. HOW ABOUT CONSUMERS’ STORE What is he going to Say abotit the Consumers’ Store company, the_Pub- lishers’ National Sérvice’ buyeau, ‘the League exchange, the Federal” Develop- ment company, and bank companiés, and all other companies working under - the auspices of the league? What is he going: to say-to ahe farmers down there when thef ask him about’ the stories printed about these concerfa? What is he going to tell them? If-tie News printed an editorial in which y. these newspapers are ap- by the county commissioners, tells them the truth he is going to tet them that these mei who wake wp » (Continued oa Page Tareg.) ee