Sept. 18, 1902
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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THEY MADE IT PAY
Tax Agitation la Duuflas Homiltod in liig
Dec rente in Stat Taxes
The tax agitation in Douglas county
resulted in a decided gain to most of
the taxpayers in that county so far as
state taxes are concerned. Relatively,
however, the railroads were the chief
beneficiaries. When it rains porridge
no railroad's dish is ever wrong side
up.
The principal argument made be
fore the board consisted in a compari
son of land valuations, and upon the
showing made, Governor Savage, Audi
tor Weston and Treasurer Stuefer cut
down the levy to iy2 mills. It was
7 3-8 last year within 1-8 of a mill of
the maximum.
Aside from the legal features of the
ct.se there is no doubt that this reduc
tiontion was too great. The increase
In assessed valuation was only lo4
per cent, but the board cut down the
rate 39 per cent, and this makes Dou
glas county's state taxes nearly 31 per
cent less t- in last year. The assess
ments for both years were:
1901
Railroad $ 686.6S1.0O
All other 21,695,111.08
Total $22,381,792.08
1902
Railroad $ 745.531.00
propriated about $2,364,000 from the
general fund. The two levies which
should meet this are those of 1901 and
1902. The levy for 1901 was at 5 mills
and aggregated $372,193.08. At 5 mills
the levy for 1902 might have been
$900,455.96; and the two would have
aggregated $1,772,651.04 an amount
still lacking more than $642,000 of
"being sufficient to realize the amount
necessary to meet appropriations."
However, the. law does not contem
plate that tne board shall accomplish
the impossible and it was impossible
to levy enough at the 5 mill limit.
But section 75 certainly requires the
board to do all it can to obey the law
and that means 5 mills for general
fund purposes on every county. What
did it do?
In 41 counties the general fund levy
for 1902 is below the 5 mill limit,
ranging from 3-1 of a mill on Sioux
county to 4 3-4 on Colfax, averaging a
trifle more than 3 1-2 mills to each
county. The result is that the general
fund levy for 1902 is nearly $115,000
smaller than it might have been and
legally ought have been. The figures
are:
Grand assessment roll. .$180,091,192.00
Levy at 5 mills 900,455.96
As actually made 785,504.23
All other 24,646,304.01 of July!
Short $ 114,951.73
No wonder Governor Savage thought
the levy wouldn't last till the Fourth
Total $25,391,835.01
1902 over 1901 3.010,042.93
The railroad figures do not include
property assessed locally, but only
that assessed by the state board. In
1901 this was 3.1 per cent of the total;
and only 2.9 per cent in 1902.
The levies for state taxes based on
valuations above are as follows:
1901 at 7 3-8 mills
Railroad 3 5,064.27
All other 160,001.44
FUSION IN LANCASTER
Total $165,065.71
1902 at 4 1-2 mills
Railroad $ 3,354.89
All other ,.; , 110,908.37
Total $114,263.26
Reduction in 1902
Railroad $ 1,709.38
All other 49,093.07
Total $50,802.45
(After all the bluster of the tax bu
reau it is astonishing to find that 107
miles of railroad in Douglas county
will contribute only $3,354.S9 to the
state treasury, or $31.35 a mile!)
It is well enough to encourage a
proper assessment of property by vary
ing the rate when it is possible to do
so; but the board not only made too
big a reduction, but had no legal right
to make any whatever in the general
fund levy.
Section 74 of the revenue law was
passed in 1879 and has never been
amended. It provides for equaliza
tion, which "shall be made by varying
the rate of taxation on the different,
counties, in case said board of equali
zation are satisfied that the scale of
valuation has not been adjusted with
reasonable uniformity by the different
assessors."
Section 75 of the revenue law as it
now stands was amended in 1881 and
provides that "the rate of the general
state tax shall be sufficient to realize
the amount necessary to meet appro
priations made by the legislature for
the year in which the tax is levied,
not exceeding five mills on the dollar
valuation. The rate of the state
school tax shall not be less than one
half mill, nor more than one and one
half mills on the dollar valuation."
The provision regarding sinking fund
levy is obsolete. The university levy
is a fiat rate of one mill on every coun
ty. "rVnw confirm 7 la a 1 a tor low fKon
section 74 and in case of conflict will
govern. Some equalization is possi
ble, too, by varying the school fund
rate. But as to the general fund the
board had no legal right, under pres
ent conditions, to levy less than the
full 5 mills on every county. The rea
son is, that the legislature of 1901 ap-
Democrats and Populist Nominate Legis
lative and County Ticket
For senators W. M. Maupin. demo
crat, of Lincoln; H. E. Dawes, pop
ulist, of Lincoln.
For representatives: Chalmers Bal
lenger, democrat, of Lincoln; William
Loder, jr., populist, of Waverly; J. H.
Becker, democrat, of Havelock; A.
Meese, democrat, of Lincoln l Milton
Schwind, democrat, of Lincoln.
For county attorney W. B. Price,
democrat, of Lincoln.
For commissioner Third district,
Lee Newton, democrat, of Bennet.
Delegates from the democratic and
populist parties gathered in conven
tion Saturday at the auditorium and
placed in nomination a full county
ticket. Both conventions were ad
journed sessions of the meeting held
just -before the state conventions at
which state and congressional dele
gates were chosen. At that time it
was decided to be the part of wisdom
to postpone the naming of candidates
until later in the campaign and a
recess was taken until yesterday.
The two parties met separately un
der the former organization and left
the question of fusion and the distri
bution of offices between the two par
ties to conference committees. In the
separate conventions some minor bus
iness relating to the. separate organi
zations was attended to. The popul
ists adopted a platform which was
the set of resolutions presented by the
committee at the first session, and
laid on the table with a county plank
?ttach?d. It was deferred at that time
to await the action of the state con
vention. After the candidates had
been a greed upon in joint session and
the delpgat'. f had listened to addresses
from their candidate for governor, W.
H. Thompson, and from Charles Q.
De Fiance, candidate for state audi
tor, thev divided again, each going to
its side of the house and formally plac
iug in nomination the selections of the
n.aa-i convention.
1 ne entrance of Mr, Thompson dur
ing a lull in the proceedings elicited
loud applause and calls for a speech.
It was decided to transact all the pre
liminary Justness first, however, and
then permit the candidate for governor
to use the remainder of the session.
The "self-made" men who are run
ning for office in these early autumn
days are very considerate They pre
fer to lay all the blame on themselves
for their existence. No one else had
anything to do with it.
The Railroad Literary Bureau
Here are questions that every voter
In Nebraska who believes In good gov
ernment and who objects to corpora
tion domination of "public officials
should ponder upon with all serious
ness:
Why are the railroads of Nebraska
spending thousands of dollars in the
purchase of newspaper space for the
presentation of cooked-up figures?
Have these corporations suddenly be
come sensitive as to public criticism?
Have they grown restive under the
lash of public condemnation because
of their tax-shirking?
By no means. The corporation be
ing soulless, cannot be affected by
criticism and so far as criticism is con
cerneu, ue corporation managers are
utterly indifferent. The reason these
corporations are spending thousands
of dollars for the presentation of these
misleading figures is that their man
agers are anxious to elect the republi
can state ticket.
.t-nd why are they anxious to elect
the republican state ticket?
Look at the record of the republican
state administration, voters of Ne
braska, and there read the answer.
Read the record of the republican
board of equalization. Read the amend
ed answer written by the corporation
lawyers and subscribed to by the re
publican state officers, which amended
answer was framed for the purpose of
enabling the corporations to avoid a
decree against them in the supreme
court of th3 state. That answer framed
by the corporation lawyers and sub
scribed to by the republican state of
ficers was referred to by the Omaha
Bee, a republican paper, as "the great
est act of perfidy against the people
of which any state official could be
guilty." Look upon the meetings of
the republican board of equalization
behind closed doers. Read the state
ment made by John N. Baldwin, attor-.
ney for the Union Pacific, ten days
prior to the republican state con
vention, in which statement Mr. Bald
win said: "We had a conference a day
or two ago, and we all agreed on
Mickey as our man."
It is not public criticism tht these
corporations see!; to avoid. It is not
public condemnation that they fear.
They fesr th election to offloe of the
fusion state ticVt. They fear the elec
tion of a govrrnor who will rr-fu re to
permit tl office of chif executive to
be used in the inrrrest? of the cor
porations. They fmr a board of equal
ization comprised of William H.
Thompson, Charles Q. De Franca and
J. N. Lyman men who will d-9.1 with
the corporations fairly and who will
alo deal with the public fairly and
will require the corporations to bear
their just proportion of the burden of
taxation. They fear the election of
John H. Powers as secretary of state;
they fear the election of Jefferson H.
Broady as attorney general; they fear
the election of James C. Brennan as
commissioner of public lands and
buildings. They want to defeat the
entire fusion state ticket and they
want to elect the entire republican
state ticket; and for that reason they
are spending thousands of dollars in
the purchase of space in the newspar
pers throughout, the state, and they
will spend thousands of dollars more in
the purchase of voters if they can find
voters who will take their money.
"Under authority of the railroads
of Nebraska," is the now famous line
that is printed over this railroad bu
reau's newspaper articles. The men
who are employed to prepare these ar
ticles understand what is expected of
them. They know that they may do
anything; they may present whatever
misleading figures their genius may
produce, it matters not how false and
fraudulent the figures are. They know
that they are perfectly safe in doing
anything "under authority of the rail
roads of NebrasKa," that will aid in
the deception of the people and con
tribute to the election of the republi
can state ticket. R. L. Metcalfe, in
Omaha World-Herald.
Del Mar on Money
Editor Independent: The contention
of Mr. F. J. Van Vorhis is that credit
affects prices and therefore should be
included in money. He appears to re
gard this as a novel discovery and he
chides our greatest writer on money,
namely Alex Del Mar, for not admit
ting its importance. It is evident that
he has never read any of Mr. Del Mar's
works. That credit affects prices is
recognized by Locke (1691), Montes
quieu (1748), Targot (1787), Thornton
(1817), Mill (1804) and especially Del
Mar (1858-98). Nay, the latter has de
voted so much technical labor to the
elucidation of this subject as to have
been able to decide in what degree
vf3 compared with money )credits act
ually affect prices. In his "Science of
Money," 3rd ed., ch. XIV.. he shows
that in the UniVd States at the pres
ent time the relation of bank credits to
money, in effectiveness, is as one is to
ten; in other words, that a dollar in
money does as much work in a given
time as ten dollars in credits, and that
the entire sum of credits employed in
this ountry at any given instant of
time, though it exceed the currency
tenfold, only equals it once in its ef
fect upon prices. Mr. Van Vorhis
writes in vigorous English and ,in
good taste; but his reading on the
subject of money appears to be very
limited.
CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA CO.
P. O. box 160 M. S., New York,
The Selfsame Quill
Of all the republican weeklies in
Nebraska the Niobrara Pioneer seems
to be the least affected by what The
Independent calls partisan insanity.
Its editor, Ed. A. Fry, has always
been somewhat of a free lance, and
recently he came out squarely for the
fusion state ticket and treated the
Prout-Weston-"Our-Man-Mickey" com
bination to a terrific scoring. Fry says
he refused to support Majors for gov-
EABACHE
At all dv3 irioies.
1 is 1 hi man urn hi
25 Daws 2Sc
ernor and exerted himself for Hol-
comb. That he drifted to Bryan on
the money question, but after the par
tial recognition of silver by the Mc
Klnley administration had relieved the
nation, he and his paper were found
in the thick of the last campaign as
supporters of prosperity. (Here's a
pointer for weak-kneed democrats who
think the money question has been de
cided against them.) His reason for
supporting the fusion state ticket are
that
"The present campaign is one in
which national issues cut no figure as
to how Nebraska has been adminis
tered or as to how it shall be in the
future. It is a simple business propo
sition and the citizens of Nebraska
have the serious side and not the
political side to meet The republl
can state officers have utterly failed
to improve their opportunity and de
serve defeat."
uf course the "thick-and-thin" re
publican papers are trying to destroy
the effect of Fry's bolt by calling him
a flopper and other offensive names,
but that does not frighten him in the
least. In answer to a criticism of the
West Point Republican, charging him
with executing a "complete political
sommersault," he said:
"The Republican is far-fetched in
the claim that the Pioneer has gono
over to the Kansas City platform. It
has a high regard for President
Roosevelt's manly and courageous ef
forts to lead his party to better gov
ernment. The state issues have noth
ing whatever to do with national af
fairs. They are local in their nature,
and the officials who are to be elected
are to administer the laws of this
state, not make them. Therefore, it
is a plain matter of business that
comes to the people of Nebraska in
their indorsement of men. How any
voter not hidebound to party preju
dice can indorse the present adminis
trative officers, or trust the new nomi
nees whose actions would be voted
down by the old officers if they hart
any notions of reform, which the Pio
neer sincerely believes they have not,
is certainly a feature that looks risky.
They are not that way inclined. They
take no steps, to that end. The entire
state bouse gang (except State Super
intendent of Public Instruction Fowler
pemaps) aim to Squirt through the
same old quill that disgraced Eugene
Moore fnd sent Joe Bartley to the penitentiary."
Shortsightedness
Capitalists always value the fran
chise. They never stay away from
the polls. We have known them to
cross the continent to cast a ballot
while some of the people interested in
saving what they would exploit, will
hardlv cross a school district. We
trust that there will not be a stay-at-
home fusion vote, in Hamilton county
this year. Geo. L. Burr, in Register,
Aurora.
Yes. and these franchise owners are
spending a large amount of money in
railroad tax bulletins attempting to
befog the mii-ds of the other taxpay
ers. If fusion state officers are elected
thi fa.n. the railroad assessment next
year will go up txV'fct least forty mil
lions. And that means an increase of
about $450,000 in railroad taxes and a
corresponding decrease in the amount
charged other taxpayers. It would be
shortsightedness to shuck corn elec
tion day.
At Ceresco
Charles Q. De France, populist-democratic
candidate for state auditor, ad
dressed the fusion forces of Ceresco
Saturday night. A fair sized audience
was present and listened attentively to
an hour's discussion on state matters.
Mr. De France was the guest of Hon.
C. D. Curyea, the populist candidate
for state representative from Saunders.
Internationa! Trade
Recent German statistics show that
the total imnort and export trade of
all countries is approximately $23,800,-
000,000. Great Britain and her col
onies head the list with the great to
tal of nearly $7,000,000,000. Germany
is Dlaced second with $2,618,000,000,
and the United States third with $2,-
118,200,000. According to United States
treasury figures the United States
share was $2,340,000,000.
flust Have Canada
The United States must have Cana
da. We can well afford to stop our
foray in the Philippines, our buying
of bankrupt West Indian islands, our
interference with China, but Canada is
naturally a part of our territory, and
the only menace to our peace which
exists. With Canada in our hands, the
Monroe doctrine would practically ex
ecute itself. With Canada, we should
need no standing army. With Canada,
the interests of our country commer
cially would be more prospered than
with all the tropics. We could af
ford to buy Canada, or to encourage
her people to demand admission to the
union. Boston Record.
South Dakota Taxation
Up in South Dakota the state board
of equalization has the power to add
to or deduct from the assessed valua
tion as returned by the local officers.
The railroad valuation is a little more
than half tnat of Nebraska, but the as
sessed valuation of lands is about $31,
000,000 greater than here. Apparently
it is expected that the assessed valua
tion shall be about 45 per cent of true
value. The following is quoted from
the Missouri Valley Journal, Cham
berlain, S. D.:
The state board of equalization
raised the land values of Brule coun
ty as returned by the county asses
sors and board of commissioners 10
per cent. The total valuation returned
by the county was $2,130,102 and a
raise of ten per ce.nt increases the val
uation $213,010.20. If the taxes on
land are 2 per cent, this increase
will cause the property owners of
Brule county to pay about $530,000
more than they would have done had
the state board left the valuation a3
fixed by public officers at home who
knew the value.
It Is noticeable that the state board
did not raise the assessed value of the
railway property this year over the
year 1901 although the traffic to and
from" the state is greater this year
than any other year according to pub
lished statistics. It seems from the
state board's equalizing report that
they made no raise on speculative val
uations in the state, the totals of which
were as follows: Moneys of banks,
$255,209; credits of bankB, $103,468;
moneys, other than those of banks,
$591,510; credits other than banks,
$' 99,022; bonds and stocks, $150,089;
shares of bank stock, $1,575,038, which
were valued at 45 per cent of par value
or $787,514, in the entire state; shares
of stock other than banks, value $70,
540. It will pay the taxpayers of this
state to carefully study these figures
and notice the fixed valuation of tan
gible and intangible property. The
total land value of the state is $111.
311,994; total goods and merchandise,
$4,941,101; total moneys and credits of
banks, $358,0 7! total moneys and cred
its in the state other than banks that
were assessed are valued at $13,905.32;
total assessed value of all shares of
bank stock, $787,514; total assessed
value of all railroads, telegraph com
panies, telephone companies, express
companies, sleeping car companies,
$13,410,396. In other words the total
land values as fixed by our public
state officials, show that they a' any
million dollars greater than at other
property.
Our Man Mickey
Sing me a song of Shylock
Who lives way out in Polk,
For the boar black pig
And cow named Speck
Is now a time-worn joke.
Today it's Tricky Mickey,
From Osceola town,
Who, as a modern Shylock,
Must merit wide renown.
He lent a man some money
In dollars thirty-four
And to se ure the payment
Took all he had, and more.
A stable and a hen house,
A granary and some stairs,
The poor for Tricky Mickey
Are the least of all his cares.
A kitchen and some fence posts,
And the platform of a well,
And then, to make it safer.
We really blush to tell,
He took a mortgage on a crop
Of corn and oats and rye.
Which hndn't been planted,
But would be bye and bye.
E. C. Wittwer, in Humboldt Standard.
Arbitration Successful
Through arbitration emploves of the
Chicago City railway company have
gained what they consider a notable
victory. They had only recently or
ganized themselves into a union, and
having won a recognition of the union
from the compan3r certain questions as
to wages and nours were referred to
arbitration by mutual agreement. The
union chose one arbitrator, the com
pany another and the two selected a
prominent business man of the city
as the third. This committee consid
ered the questions presented for some
time, and on Saturday gave . in a re
port. It conceded to the men an in
crease of 10 per cent in wages, and a
reduction of the working day to 9Vfc
hours, with time and a half for over
time work. Moreover, these conces
sions are to apply only to the mem
bers of the union a decidedly union
ists attitude for the arbitrators to
take. The result will be a rush of all
non-union employes to get into the
organization, which must now of
course embrace all the labor employed
by the company. Both sides have ac
cepted the report on condition that
the agreement is to continue one year.
Powers at Aurora
Hon. John H. Powers delivered a
thoughtful and interesting discourse
at the armory on Monday evening,
September 8, to a fair sized audience.
He has a wonderfully strong voice
for one of his years, and seems as vig
orous as in 1890. He has always been
true to the principles and reforms
he then enunciated, and is entitled to
a place on the best state ticket ever
submitted for the consideration of Ne
braska voters. Register.
Manual of Soil Culture
Send me a 2-cent stamp and I will
mail you free a copy of Campbell's
Soil Culture Manual a valuable work
that every farmer ought to have.
J. FRANCIS, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Omaha. Neb.
Promising Developments
Official Reports Concerning: Mt. Baker and
Yale Mining Property Flattering:
Mr. Henry Stanislasky, general
manager of the Mt. Baker & Yale min
ing properties in southwestern .Canada
where several Lincoln parties are in
terested, is now in New York city ar
ranging for the placing of stock on the
market. He is one of the best known
mining men in the northwest, having
been in the business for twenty-three
years, and Is backed by the best men
of the states of Washington and Ore
gon. His report of what he found at
the mine, made to the stockholders, is
decidedly flattering, and holds out flat
tering prospects for investors. He says:
"I have maue two visits to the com
pany's claims on Siwash Creek in com
pany with Messrs. A. B. Clark, the
vice president, and Ed. Thomas, one of
the directors. My time on both occa
sions was limited, but I made as thor
ough an examination as possible in tne
time.
"In the Gold Queen I found the first
vein to be 80 feet wide and the back
vein 125 feet They run parallel to
each other; I made about 200 horn
tests, marking each test carefully.
They gave an average of $9.80 per ton
n free gold across the entire mass
of ore in the tunnels and on the sur
face. I found pay chutes in the jore
body of these veins that will average
from one to tnree feet in width. I
had assays made from these chutes
by the most reliable assay ers, as fol-
ows:
"J- O'Sullivan. F. C. S., etc. (Lon
don) , v ancouver :
Assay No. 1 '.. $100.00
Assay No. 2 .". . . ... . . ... . 5S0.00
Oliver M. Gordon,' Whatcom,
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Assay No. 3 81.61
Assay No. 4 49.63
Average , ... $159.32
"un the Van Zandt and Lone Star
claims there are four distinct veins
one 30 feet, one 8 feet and two
smaller veins. I made tests only on
the 30-foot vein with an average re
sult of $16 per ton in free gold. Free
gold is visible on the surface and in
many of the samples. The veins are
parallel to the veins on the Gold Queen
Group and are in the .same formation.
I have thorough faith in these claims
and believe they will develop into a
very valuable property.
"In regard to conditions, accessibil
ity, formations, etc., I can indorse all
said by the reperts already in the
hands of the company.
"HENRY . STANISLAWSKY."
The following is a report of the
minister of mines of British Columbia,
extracted from the Sessional Papers,
Vol. 2, Page 1072:
"Great energy was displayed In the
early part of last year by the Gold
Queen Mining company, which stowed
considerable interest in their efforts
t develop their numerous claims sit
uated on Siwash Creek; firstly," by
erecting at their own expense a wire
cable 40C feet in length stretched
across the Fraser river at a favorable
point. A trolley basket is attached
suspended from the wire cable, and
passengers and provisions and all
necessary mining material can be eas
ily transferred to either side of the
crossing at a reasonable saving to the
prospector of that locality. Judging
from the character of the gold taken
from the alluvial claims of Siwash
Creek, together with the fine samples
of fold-bearing quartz showing free
gild, I consider the existing conditions
of a ruoFt promising character. The
stratifications, too. are most encour
aging ffotiirts, being associated with
the gold bearing rocks of the world,
v'Molr are a. Jrdispensibly necessary
for the production of metaliferous
ores ns wt-ter is for the life of man.
Lithologically, the general classifica
tion belongs to the carboniferous
shales with occasionally intrusive
bands or dykes of felspar, porphyry
(Elvan). Two samples of surface
quartz from the Roddick mineral
claim, one of the granular texture
while the other was a more fleecy char
acter, were forwarded by Mr. Teague
of Yale, through the post to the Royal
School of Mines of Cornwall. Eng
land. a d were assayed by the prin
cipal chemist, Mr. J. Berringer, who
found that the former contained ten
ounces cf gold to the 2,000 lbs., or $200
and th- iaiter $26 to 2,000 lbs. free
gold quartz.
"I consider the prospects of the
frf e-mIUij"ig gold quartz from this
creek aie indeed promising. The crush
ing mark durjug last summer b' the
little quartz mill erected by the What
com promoters of the Gold Queen Min
ing company was by no means discour
aging. If knowledge of the proper
treatment of the process in saving the
s;o!d had existed, the yield would have
been more satisfactory. As it was, not
withstanding the circumstances of un
skillful treptment, the yield ought
not to Le considered at all discourag
ing, the iTUPfalng made realizing $4 per
ton of ore taken from the lode almost
at the t-urtace."
A limited amount of stock may be
had new at 15 cents, but this oppor
tunity will not last" long. It ia con
fidently pretiicied that the stock will
soon go to at least 50 cents. The pres
ent sale is of treasury stock for the
purpose of raising funds for erection of
a 40-:tnmp mill. Stock may be pur
chased or further information received
by addressing James G. Givens. chair
man of the mines and mining commit-te-
of the chamber of commerce, Seat
tle, Wash., rooms 69 and 70, Union
Hock.
The National Match company, of
which we heard so much, has gone in
to the hands of a receiver. It was one
of the regular kind, had preferred and
common stock and twenty millions of
water.
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