The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 17, 1917, Page 14

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Our legal blanks are legal because we have an attorney that keeps them so. Buy your legal blanks and supplies from us and when your man puts his name on the dotted line, you've got him. ‘We also publish a complete line of Elevator forms as adopted by the Railroad Commissioners. Walker Bros. & Hardy %% WE WANT YOUR [ CREAM Largest Cash Buyers in the Twin Cities direct to us. Quick return of empty cans guar. ant We pay daily Write for price list and shipping taga Give us a tri DE SOTO: CREAMERY & PRODUCE . CO. L MINNEAPOLIS ~ MINN., " A.J. O’'SHEA ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA League Enemies Try a Bold Deception (Continued from page .T) the persistent wet blanket thrower. “The blamed old League put that very same provision in Section 169 of House Bill 44. What are you going to do about that”? “Double-cross 'em, double-cross 'em,” ° replied the inventer with confidence and pride. “You're dull. We'll put constitutional section 176 opposite House Bill 44, section 166. Then we’ll tell ’em they're parallel provisions, print at the top of the constitution column ‘Omitted .portion in Italics,’ and the mutton heads will think the ILeague left out that church and charitable property exemption entirely. They won’t hurt themselves looking through all the other hodge-podge of legal phrases for that exemption. At the top of the 44 column we'll print ‘Amendments in Italics’ and they’ll think 166 is really an amendment to the church, charitable, and cemetery property exemption. Listen, how do these two sections sound for ‘parallel columns'?” Then he read: “Constitution, section 1786. Laws shall be passed taxing by uniform rule all property according to its true value in money, but the property of the United States and the state, county and municipal corporations, both. real and personal shall be exempt from taxation, and the legislative assembly . shall by a general law exempt from taxation, property used exclusively for school, religious, cemetery or charita- ble purposes—etc.” “House Bill 44, Section 166. Laws shall be passed by the legislative as- sembly classifying all property for the purpose of taxation and exemption therefrom. Laws for the exemption of property of a given class shall be uni- form in their application to property of that class.” “Ha, ha, ha, I guess that’s poor” said one of the cleverlings. “They’d never think the League exempted church, cemetery or public property from that ‘parallel.’ They'd think the farmers had soaked it to the churches and charities. That'll make the oxen roll their tails. But what will you do now with the Ieague church property exemption—tell us that, you dear, foxy old rescuer.” DOUBLE CROSS METHOD WORKED INTO A SYSTEM “Double-cross 'em, double-cross 'em"” he replied again with glowing pride. *We'll put the League church exemp- tion clause opposite a clause taxing. street car and railroad companies. We'll tell 'em this chureh exemption clause of the League is an ‘amendment’ to the railroad tax clause of the con- stitution and that'll make the farmers all sore. It'll help us make good on that joke about the League being in league with the corporations. Now listen to this, and if it ain’t as near a winner as anything we've hatched up yet, I'll keep on till I find something that is.” Then he read again, starting several lines down: “Constitution>section 179. The fran- chise, roadway, roadbed, rails and roll- ing stock of all railroads and the fran- chise and all other property of all ex- ress companies, freight line com- ganies, car equipment companies, sleeping car companies, dining car companies telegraph or telephone com- panies, or corporations operated in this state and used directly or indirectly in the carrying of persons or messages shall be assessed by the state board of equalization at their actual value, etc., etc.” (And parallel with it, this.) “House Bill 44, section. 169. The legislative assembly may by ' law exempt any or all classes of personal property from taxation, and within the meaning of -this section all fixtures, buildings and improvements of every character whatsoever upon land shall be deemed personal property ‘and all exemptions under this section shall be uniform in their operation. The prop- erty of the United States and of the state, county and municipal corpora- ° tions and property used exclusively for school, religious, cemetery charitable or other public purposes, shall be exempt from taxation, etc., ete.” LINING UP PREJUDICE AGAINST H. B. 44 ‘“Whoopee — with that ‘resounding: constitutional section about railroads opposite the exemption of farm prop-. erty, they’ll mever think about the church property exemption being there!” cried one of the war council exultingly. “And moreover, you cute old scout, you put their clause for exemption of farm improvements right- opposite the railroad tax clause of the . constitution. We'll make the city folks think from that pair of unnatural brothers that the farmers amended a corporation tax provision'with a farm FOURTEEN & .improvement exemption. Cut out taxes on the big corporations and provide: to exempt all farm improvements. Ha, ha. .You're a fit candidate for tha thirty-second degree in the Good Gova ernment League.” ; “But the 'Nonpartisans didn’t omit | taxation 'of-. the 'big rcorporations,” put : in the wet blanket doubter. “They do tax corporations and everyone . who reads our ‘parallel columns’' stands a chance to find it out if he reads it all carefully. There it is in Section 167 of House Bill 44, taxing all the sleep- ing car, dining car, telephone, tele= graph, and every other kind of cor- poration, only they change from a property tax to a gross earnings tax. How can we deceive them into think- ing all corporation taxes are left out? Maybe we are carrying this thing too far.” “Double-cross 'em again — double cross ‘em” returned the chief schemer. “They won't read it all carefully, that is just the point. We ain’t in this for morals, but politics. You're too honest, little one.” : “No I ain't,” returned the doubter resentfully. ‘'m not strong for honesty, only I don't want us to make it so raw.we can't get away with it. What constitutional section can wae place opposite Section 167 of House Bill 44, and mix 'em up and make it look like the League was mending blue overalls with a red patch”? “If this is toe raw to get by with, then we're done for. It’s our only hope We can put this opposite constitution 176, that provides for alternative gross earnings, and then raise a big howl how the League made a gross earnings tax positive instead of optional as it has always been, and destroyed the property tax. We'll make such a roare that the voters will not have time to think how the big corporations are es- caping taxation through the property valuation method. That's about the best we can do on that. THEY SLYLY OMIT PART OF THE CONSTITUTION “But here’s another good one. You know Section 177 of the constitution— the one that says improvements shall be assessed according to Section 179, but plowing shall not be considered’ improvements for taxation?—we can put that opposite their acreage tax for state hail insurance, Section 168 of House Bill 44.. That'll throw 168 up against 179 of the constitution for comparison, and as there ain’t no com- parison it'll help to tangle ’em up.” “You're overlooking another good one,” chirped a hitherto silent mem- ber of the ring. “You know in 1905 a constitutional amendment was adopted taxing ali wheat held in elevators within the state, and was made part of Section 167 of the constitution. The League has put that same provision in Section 165 of their dum cussed bill. Lets’ tell our readers that wheat tax is a new ‘amendment’ to Section 175 of the present constitution. Section 175 says: ‘No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of law and every law im- posing a tax shall state distinctly the object of the same to which only it shall be applied.’ -Those two sectiong don’t refer to the same things at alil. Guess that'll throw them off the track. We can leave out this wheat tax amendment from our column of the constitution entirely, Section 176, and maybe make a lot of farmers think this farmers’ legislature originated it and socked it to them and to the farm- ' ers’ elevators by taxing their grain.” And those are just a few of the things they actually did do in “A So- cialist Constitution.” They set parts of House Bill 44 opposite sections of the constitution which did not contain the same provisions, and then set the sece tions, of the .bill that WERE THHR SAME AS THOSE IN THE CON- STITUTION opposite other sections THAT RELATED TO ENTIRELY, DIFFERENT MATTERS. “GOING TO PIECES!” The Nonpartisan League is “going te pieces” all over the state, according to those. who would jump up and crack their heels together if such were the case. The, writer was informed by a Buxton man ' (a prominent anti- Leaguer)-that at Hatton all the League people had deserted. An inquiry from a Hatton man told the very opposite story. The Hatton man, on the other . hand, asked if there was any truth to the rumor that all the farmers in Bot- tineau county had “gone back on the League.” The same day we were in- ' formed by a Rugby man that the " League in Pierce county was “shot to pieces.” -When we asked a Pierce county farmer if such were the case, he denounced the statement as a fabri- - cation in terms. so violent as to be wholly unprintable. Notice, however, that it is always in some other county . where the desertion is taking place~— BOTTINEAU COURANT, o . s e g G A o]