The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 11

~Township Ovid -~ Norden ............. Henrietta "...... * Bluebird Prairie .. Ruilroads La Moure Codntjy is Job of “Equalzzmg” FFICIAL figures are now avail- O able in LaMoure county to show the ' comparative . increases in taxes on railroads and farm lands as equalized at the last tax making of the state board of equalization. The Leader has printed a series of articles on th:ls subject, showing conditions in various townships. The state board of equahzatxon wanted- to increase the total tax revenue 20 per cent and could not raise the state tax levy, which is fixed at four mills in the constitution. So th only thing to do was to increase ~ the property valuations so” that the same levy would raise a greater tax. This' the board did. The result was that every kind of property in thé state except farm lands will pay the Same: or less proportion of the total - tax, but farm lands will pay a great B;‘oportmnal increase. For every dol- lar of increased taxes all other prop- LA MOURE COUNTY Ryan ... Cottonwood Golden Glen.. Pomonaview Grand Rapids . ‘Wano ... Nora .. Grand View .. Roscoe ... Glenmore Sheridan Saratoga Adrian’ .. Kennisoxi ...... Pay Less Good Example of Fine Farmer’s Tax Upward erty. will _pay, farm lands will pay $1.62. NOTE ACTUAL FIGURES The wa.y this works out in the town- sl'ups is striking. Twenty _townships of LaMoure county are given here- with, with the railroad and real estate tax for the years 1914 and 1915. In these 20 townships railroads were in- creased only 29 per cent, while real estate, practically all farm lands, was mcreased 36 per cent. Nora townsh:p is “typical of what happened in the other 19 for which figures are given. Railroad valuations in Nora were in- creased only about $26,000, while real estate in this township was increased over $45,000. Following aré the data for the 20 townships in LaMoure county, the figures being official, furnished by the secretary of the state tax commission: Railroad - Real Estate Assessment Assessment 1914 - 1916 1914 1915 -+$41,627 § 54,493 $117,756 $1683,873 76,661 100,381 117,768 164,569 29,676 38,922 113,233 155,156 39,282 51,652 115,660 158,230 31,601 36,288 94,495 130,069 41,287 47,427 120,497 164,201 73,447 96,233 . 128,713 . 173,920 37,526 49,248 125,609 - 170,830 44,619 58,3566 126,927 176,860 ; - 94,216 120,749 - 122,389 167,407 8,266 10,848 108,554 143,636 13,972 18,336 121,228 164,687 41,549 54,528 112,489 164,117 24,290 ° 29,148 120,450 165,678 49,742 65,280 115,361 158,586 9,217 12,096 132,231 180,290 16,239 21 216 © 123,285 ¢ 169,097 25,456 33, 1408 122,273 167,918 33,247 43,472 125,365 167,893 25,670 ‘85,139 - 128,771 176,276 Ao, $757,389 $977,119 $2,392,044 $3,273,192 Increase Rallroad Taxes—29 per cent. Increase Real Estate Taxes—36 per cent. THE FOOLISH FIFTY (By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in "l‘he Forerunner. ) If fifty men did all the work And gave the price to five, - SRS ey And let those five make all the rules—- You’d say the fifty men were fools, Unfit to be alive. And if you heard complaining cries" . From fifty brawny men, - SR Blaming the five for graft and greed St TS Injustice, cruelty indeed— - What would you call them then? : ‘Not by their own superior force - - ‘Do five-on fifty live, - But by _election and assent, -+~ 'And'privilége and government— i Powers that the fifty give. If fifty men are really fools And five have all the brains, ::The five must rule as now we find 3 ‘But if the fifty have the mind— Following is a copy of a letter . A Mr. Albert Weis, J. E. " March and 1st of April. rsed by the League. to support them:all. Why don’t they take the reins? __TAKES COURAGE, BUT FARMERS HAVE IT of the publxcatxons being used to attack the Nonpamsan League: i Editor Courier-News:' I see.by last Friday’s morning paper that you did me the great honor to publish my letter to you along with four others. ]i’helan Paul Ignatius and Shephard O. Smith. : It 'is very plain to see that none of these gentlemen are farmers. Neither do I think they haye studied the conditions of the farm. Mr. “* Shephard O. Smith said’ in his letter it requires Chnst-hke courage to - " ‘stand thus even in dry () North Dakota.’ ‘We as farmers feel that it takes Christ-like courage‘ to’stand to be mxsrepresented as.your paper and some others have misrepresented our '« ;i orgamzatlon, the Nonpartisan Political League. For I was at the caucus held .in my precmct- also ‘the drstflct .con- - vention at Bismarck on the 22nd of March and at: Fargo' on: the: 3lst of e - -And I wish to go on record as saymg if all the convenfions were: ~ a3 fairly carried on as the Nonpartisan conventions suich a thing'as the - Nonpartlsan Political League would never been thought of.. Now all we - ask 1s for you to be as fair vnth us, through- your paper,‘as we: are w1th sent to the Fargo Courier-News, one 7 GEORGE N _VARNUM e for the candidates indorsed by the League. Some of those who are not . aI}‘so vote. ior our men... “members will O, R. CRA] 000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000 (] (] (] o { ] (] (] { ] [ ] [ ] [ ] (] { ] o [ ] (] [ ] { ] (] [ ] (] °. 1 Harness { ) [ ] [ ] (] [ ] ® o o (] [ ] (] (] [ ] [ 3 (] ® (J ° (] (] (] I BELIEVE every member m thls 4 Enecmet is going straight down the $0000000000000000000000000000000000009000000000000000 SEED CORN Hish test, high grade, northern grown 1914 seed corn. 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