THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT'
OCTOBER 15, 1903.
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Drcsca County
This is a typical county, where a
good many populists became possessed
of the idea last year that "there was
nothing to vote 'for in this campaign
no issue worth going to tne pous
for." The railroads were then paying
29.3 per cent of the taxes in Dawson
county, and it may be that other tax
payers there felt that, any effort to
brjng about equftable taxation, might
result in hurting them, even if it
should benefit many other portions of
the state. At any rate a good many
populists stayed at home and shucked
'corn election day and this year they
must help pay $4,300 of additional
slate taxes for allowing John N. Bald
win's board make the railroad assess
ment. . Dawson county assessors this year
added $183,091.88 to the assessed valu
ation of farmers' and business men's
, property. Baldwin's state board add
ed $4,499.23 to railroad valuations
about the ratio of $1 to $40. :
.The 1902 levy of state taxes was at
.-7 3-8 mills, amounting to $12,648.63,
divided as follows:
Railroads $3,713.01
Others 8,935.62
The levy this year at 9 1-2 mills foots
in $18,075.27. divided thus:
Railroads ............$ 4,823.61
Others 13,249.66
Thus the extravagance of the rail
road-dominated legislature of 1903
necessitated a heavv increase of taxes.
Dawson county farmers must pay 48.3
Tier rent more state taxes than last
year; but John iC Baldwin's railroad
gets oft with an increase of 29.9 per
cent. Hence, where last year the Daw
son county farmer paid $10 in state
tax, this year he must pay $14.83; but
the railroad's $10 tax in 1902 grows to
only $12.99 this year an advantage of
S1.84 over the farmer, or 12.4 per
cent. So for ever;' hundred dollars
the farmer pays this year, $6.20 goes to
pay what the railroads should bear.
This means abou $775 in the county
absolutely clear gain to the railroads
and clear loss to the farmers and bus
iness men. But thatlson state taxes
alone.. The local taxes have a similar
inequity and much more heavy.
When the new revenue law gets in
operation we may safely expect even
greater inequalities next year. Do the
populists of Dawson county wish to
have this law interpreted or construed
by railroad attorneys- on' the district
and supreme 'beneh? If not, they bet
ter get busy -hustling for Judge Hand
and Judge Sullivan. , -p
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Several times in this state when it
has been nretended that there was a
great contest between candidates for a
nomination in a republican state con
vention -and ballot after ballot was
taken amid much hurrahing and
shoutine - the moment -the nomination
was made, thousands of buttons were
distributed throrrrh the hall with the
candidate's picture and the office for
which he was running printed upon
them which had all been prepared and
wpre on hand before the convention
met. That would seem to be proof
positive that the corporations had
picked their man Ions: before the con
vention, even though nothing had bpen
said about it in the public press Not
vithstandinsr all this, several republi
can editors in thi state pretend to be
very much shocked because the pops
say that the pre?en. candidate of the
'republicans for supreme judge is the
railroad candidate. .
' Jefferson County
In the early nineties the populists of
Jefferson, in a triangular contest, were
n. pnod second in the race. Later by
co-operation with the democrats, part
of the county officers were captured.
Dissatisfaction because of mistakes
made by fusion state officials, and,
perhaps, some growing out of the lo
cal campaigns, which were made on
the "every fellow for himself and the
devil take the hindmost ' plan, caused
the populists to sulk in their tents, so
that the county now goes republican
bv some 500 majority.
Jefferson is a good example of a
county hard hit by the extravagance of
the last legislature and the servility o
ttfildwln's board to railroad domina
tion. This year' the assessors found
$168,481.90 more assessable property
in the hands of farmers and business
men than was found last year. But
the republican state board cut off
$7.rcS from the railroad assessment.
Last year the state levy was, at 7 1-4
mills, $18,300.94, divided thus:
llallrcads .....$ 4,278.8
'Others 14.022.13
This year, at 91-2 mills, the state
levy is $25,5U'J.U3, divided as ronows
Kanroads o.&.h.m
Others , 19,974.20
Thus others must nav an increase of
$3,952.08 In state taxes, or 42.4 per
-cent; while the railroad increase is
n.v Jl.25fi.02. or 29.4 ner cent
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erty which last . year paid $10 state
taxes must this year pay uui
for every $10 of railroad state tax last
year, $12.94 will , pay the bill this.
That is an advantage of $1.30. or a lit
tle mnrfl lhan 9 Der cent For every
sift bill uaid bv the farmer to the
(ounty treasurer, 45 cents is to pay for
what the raijroads snirK ana max is
m small sum when you calculate state,
county, school district, and other taxes
on the $2,100,000 of farmers', and dus-
inoss men's property returned lor taxation.-
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With the Donulist apathy which
seems to exist in Jefferson, it is prob
ahle that the railroad candidates for
supreme and district judges will carry
the county by a nice majority, am u
theco populists could be made to see
how Jhev have been robbed in this one
year's taxes alone, and what the new
revenue law is likely to mean next
vear, they would be out working to
carry the cotrty for Sullivan and for
Krcisingtr and Kelligar. Judge Sulli
van cairied Jefferson by a few votes
in 1S9i over Judge Post, whose term
onthe -supreme bench certainly made
him p. stronger candidate tnan Judge
Eaines. So if Barnes carries the coun
ty V.v any considerable figure, it can
be laid to populist apathy.
CALIFORNIA FOR THE WINTER.
Couldn't you arrange rour business affairs so as to permit of your spend
lng a couple of months In California this winter.
Caliiornia isn't ar away. The rate is not high. And there is no place on
earth whore you can enjoy a holiday to better advantage.
Elderly people who fear the rigors of a northern clime: semi-invalids;
those who are distracted by the worries and caws of business, are going to
California in increasing numbers. A hundred thousand people spent last
"winter there. More arc going this winter.
Think the matter over, and then give us an opportunity of quoting rates
and telling you about our through car service. , -
Second-cluss rate is only $25. JO; in effect dally.
F. H. Barnes, C P. A.,
' 1045 O St.
Lincoln, Nebraska.
While the fusion government was in
force at the stat house it reduced the
state debt $058,092.63. It paid off bond
ed debts to the amount of $449,267.55,
and reduced the floating. debt $208,
825.28, and it did that without increas
ing taxation. That was also done in
the hardest years that Nebraska has
ever lnown. The republican state gov
ernment in these years of prosperity
has paid off no bonded debts and has
increased the floating debt! That is
what the people of Nebraska got by
going back to republican pile. Bp
cause some voters stayed nt home and
pired corn on election dav. it will
cost" them and ail the rest of the vot
ers in" some of the counties aboit
$2.25 each. In increased taxes. The
sad thing about the matter is that so
manv thousands will p"v the $2.25
without nrntest. They belong to the
"contented" sort.
The rich have plaved the same trick
upon the pennle time and aeain for
more than 2.D00 years that the trusts
and promoters have been playing dnr
intr the last, fonr or five, years. In the
old book of nronhfiele of Am lf one.
resds it carefully, he will find that
Amos broueht the same char ires
aeainst the rich of that dav. who took
to themselves all the fruit3 of pros-
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PACIFIC
COAST.
DAOLY
Sept llth to llov. 30th.
Helena, Butte, Salt Lake
and Ogden, $20.00.
Spokane and Ellensburg,
$22.50.
Nearly all California, Wash
ington and Oregon points $25.
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perity that are" now brought against
the combinations of wealth by . the
"discontented" in these United States.
How very often The Independent has
warned the people during the last few
years that there was an effort being
made to enable the rich to tal'e to
themselves all, the increase of wealth
coming from the advance of science,
the discoveries of the inventors and
the education of the people. In the
very beginning, as the readers of The
Independent " ill remember, as soon
as the volume of money began to in
crease, it announced week after wleek
that that was the .intention of the Wall
street crowd.
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