The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 21, 1921, Page 9

ugly word”? I have hesitated to use it : because of the dignity of the position 7 you occupy. Yet I am unable to see * that you ‘are worthy of any special " consideration on the part of a fair 4 and impartial critic; and, on second 4 thought, I am not sure that it was en- tirely consideration for your official k ‘f‘ position that has deterred me from £ e [ using the “short and ugly word.” I | :‘ ory, woul& have applied the “short and am, after all, in doubt whether that would not ‘too greatly dignify your’ wholly reckless and inexcusable treat- ment of the North Dakota situation. You have put yourself into the posi- tion of a mere purveyor of second- hand falsehoods already disproven and discredited. W. G. ROYLANCE, Bank of North Dakota. Bismarck, N. D. 3 ::" Bouck Argues for the Nolan Biil ‘It Master of Washington Grange Says It Would Benefit Yo Farmers—What Do Leader Readers Think? ILLTIAM BOUCK, master of the state Grange of ‘Washington, is sending a request to masters of all state Granges to investi- - gate the workings of the proposed Nolan bill, which would place a 1 per cent tax on land values in ex- cess of $10,000, after eliminating the ' value of all improvements. “\ While the National Grange and the American Farm Bureau federation i have gone on record against the Nolan #bill, Mr. Bouck believes these organ- - izations are wrong. He states that .t ~his ‘investigations thus far indicate ¥ that practically all farmers would be { . exempt under this bill, and that they ¢ would benefit because the $1,000,000,-¢ 000 taxes that would be raised would : - reduce the consumption taxes that the farmer now pays and would eliminate any_ necessity of levying taxes upon tea, coffee, sugar, gasoline, etc., and -any proposition to increase letter post- age to 3 cents. In a letter to Johr-G. Ketcham, a congressman- who represents one of the most prosperous farming-districts in Michigan, Mr. Bouck says: “NOT FIVE PER CENT OF FARMERS WOULD PAY” “It is reasonably certain that not 5 per cent of the farmers in the' dis- & trict you now represent in congress %' would pay any tax whatever under ? this bill and fully three-fourths of this ‘& 5 per cent would pay only”a nominal @q -sum, not exceeding in any case more .. ~than a few dollars. But the great - b5dn this bill will be to farmers is not in the tax exemptions but in the posi- wiive certainty that at least one billion “dollars of the annual war tax burden : -will be shifted from—consumers, of 1.7 'which farmers and their families are &; approximately one-third, to the ground #" landlords and land gamblers. Another L gain to farmers will be-the stimula- &. tion of industry and increased demand : for farm products that will eventually k‘ " follow the shifting of the burdens of ¢ war taxation from consumers to the land monopolists. “The average sized farm in Michi- gan is 91% acres and the average value per acre of both land and im- provements in 1920 was $87. (See . table of .farm values on page 3, Bul- letin No. 874, U. S. department of agriculture.) This makes the present value of the average Michigan farm, . buildings included, $7,960, of which, according to the United States census .jmethod of computing land values, at ; Jeast one-third, or $2,650, is improved (n4¥ value. This makes the average land 5 B4 dvalue of the farms of Michigan not to s exceed $5,310, or little more than half ° %' of the $10,000 exemption allowed un- 'd' y el!]' the terms of the Ralston-Nolan r D111, “Fitl “I state it as my positive conviction, ' wand I say it in all earnestness, that the . Ralston-Nolan bill, so far as.it goes, . will put the burden of taxation on the #- large landholders of our big cities and . the land speculators and gamblers 04" who keep large holdings . out of use. . If T thought that the real farmer was i . being taxed I would favor a still higher exemption than the $10,000 provided in this bill, or a clause providing for the exemption of all farm land actual- ly in use. 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