The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 4, 1921, Page 12

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Handsome 8 gint pitcher and 6 tumblers — cul ‘l'l‘:mpop;hr 'Vi:'; pitcher nncl 2o0n tumilar-. oth- ing finer than genuine cut tails for at least ",“..:{“}"""“‘3:’5‘."‘,‘""'““‘"'“" 0 cards oo Urder chotce todey: Bomt prmatine 509 CHichee FREE tanc= EASTMAN More Letters on the Nolan Tax Bill Will the Proposed Measure Be Injurious or Beneficial to the Working Farmer? z] DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- er: I am exceedingly glad that Charles H. Carlson, chairman of the legislative committee for the Lyon County (Minn.) Farm Bureau, offers criticisms of the article by the writer in your issue of February 7, which article was in sup- port of the Nolan tax bill. I believe the most important ques- tion for us to conmsider is, “How shall we develop in America a cultured, prosperous, contented, home-owning class of farmers?” If farming fails our whole civilization is in danger of collapsing. All of our economic and social problems must, in their last an- alysis, answer this question, “How will this or that policy affect man- hood and womanhood?” Which policy makes for good morals, justice, hap- piness and permanence? “Seek first a kingdom of right so- cial relations, and. things will be so abundant that all legitimate wants will be more than supplied.” Land values are largely in the cit- ies. I favor a gradual shifting of taxes from improvements (from in- dustry), from personal property to land. If land in Iowa soars to an av- ~ erage ,selling price of $500 per acre, it will still further help to destroy the prosperous, contented, home-owning farm elass for that state, in which al- ready in some counties more than one- half of the farmers are tenants. If $100 per acre on the average for land in Iowa is enough (and the writer believes it is more than enough) to pay for all farm improvements such as fencing, tiling, clearing of land, and buildings—which are values added to land by labor—then the farmers in Towa who want $300 or $400 per acre for land are quite like the railway franchise holder who has invested $2,000,000 in roadbed, rolling stock, etec.,, but who demands dividends on $4,000,000 of issued stocks and bonds from the consuming publie. CAN PROFITS BE MADE ON HIGH-PRICED LAND? = Will Mr. Carlson kindly explain how farmers are to give current rates to capital on $200 per acre land, pay lJabor so that it can maintain an American standard of living, send their sons and daughters at least to a high school, to say nothing.of a col- lege course, receive for themselves and wives fair remuneration for man- -agerial skill and labor? In the writer’s opinion, the drift of the bright boys and girls from the farm will not be stopped until the ex- ploitation of farmers’ wives and chils dren is halted, modern conveniences installed in the homes and an organ- - ized social life developed, all of which is absolutely impossible if farmers.are asked to strain every nerve to make dividends on billions and billions of fictitious, inflated bubbles of air. Just across the street from my of- fice is a little parcel of land, some 20 feet frontage on the Capitol Square by 125 feet in depth, which has been sold during the short space of 40 years for $6,000, $16,000, $30,000 and $40,000. Within some dozen of years the land fronting the Capitol Square has advanced from $1,000 to $2,000 per foot of frontage. Supposing the frontage of the Square to be 4,000 linear feet, the speculative, unéarned value of increase in a period of 12 years is $4,000,000. When the selling price of 12 years ago was $4,000,000, the annual interest charge on this amount was $240,000 at 6 per cent. The farmers upon whose shoulders most of these burdens rest could then - also. pay this interest charge with 480,000 bushels of oats at 50 cents per bushel, but today it will require 960,000 bush- els at the same price to pay the inter- est, or ground rent, on this inflated, unearned increment. 3 Not only interest is paid by the farmers on speculative land values, but in nearly every case from one to six turnover profits are added to the original ground rent and passed on to the ultimate consumer. Society is reeling today-under fright- ful burdens. Diseontent, resentment, are prevalent and increasing. Are we farmers going to let the privileged class pull wool over our eyes and lead us to put our necks voluntarily into the yoke prepared by a class “who toil not, neither do they spin,” “but who are so richly arrayed that Solc- mon would look like a mendicant were he to stand beside them”? GEORGE F. COMINGS. Madison, Wis. APPROVES CARLSON IDEA Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I wish to inform you that I sincerely agree with the article from Charles H. Carl- son of Marshall, Minn., in your issue of the Leader of March 7 in regard to the_Nolan land bill. The exemption should be at least $30,000 in order to be just to the farm- ers who live on the farm-and make ‘the farm their home for the following reason: I paid $7,200 for 160 acres here in 1909. I have spent for improvements to make it fit to live on, to date, about $6,000, making the cost to me of 160 acres $13,200. It is worth that to me because I have to date paid that for it. I will be subject to the tax at the $10,- 000 exemption rate. My farm is not for sale and so the farm will have to produce that much more to meet the extra tax. My dear friend, are you not aware that the farmer pays war tax on his bill of lading when he sells his wheat or other grains? And when his implement dealer gets in a car- load of farm machinery the farmer pays the war tax on that bill of lading Every business adds the tax to the thing it sells and the consumer pays all the tax besides his own. Why increase his heavy burden? My farm cost $82.50 per acre. It is assessed at 871. That is nearer its actual value than most industries. The inflation .of land values are not considered in this, for that amounts to nothing to the dirt farmer who buys a farm to make his living on. That bill, as I understand it, is simply to tax the thrifty farmers. It will reduce farm ‘owners, for the small farmer will soon be taxed to death. The éxemption should be raised to at least $30,000 to tax the nonproducer and land speculator only. Mr. Editor, think of the vast number of farmers buying a quarter or half section now- adays and paying from $16,000 t0.$32,- 000 for it and go in debt for one-third of the amount and meeting the graft and greed of all kinds from those who continually are trying to get what lit- tle profits the farmer makes, which in several seasons is nothing, and in some even a loss. I was surprised to note what you said below that said article—that most letters were favoring the bill. I be- lieve that if ithe farmers were really aware of that bill by far the most let- ters would be against it. / 5 FRED MATTHYS. Fargo, N. D. : Mr. Matthys is in error in believing he would pay any tax under the Nolan bill; if his farm is worth only $7,200 PAGE TWELVE = $159 : THE AUTOMATIC Vs ‘ HureTTie Binder Knotter Hookl The Sure Tie Binder Knotter au- tomatically adjusts itself to any size or diameter of twine. With undersize, oversize or uneven twine it makes a perfect knot even with double or triple strands. 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