The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-21
MORE TAX ASSESSMENTS.
COMPARISON OF MAIN And FIRST
SfRRET PROPERTY AND our
SIDE ENLARGEMKNfS.
Official Figures From Assessments in
GOOdselIVlIEe, EllleEt's and Arch.
er's EnIargemenls, JacObsFIlle, and
German Building Association Lots.

Keep is before the people, that the CITY
assessment has been made just and fair, IS
well as equitable and uniform, by Inereas-
ing the valuation placed upon the dne
estates Of the richs and decreasing the -hp-
praisement upon the small lots OF laboring
men. thereby distributing the taxation
more equally according to the actual mon
led worth OF cGtizens.-EUGHsvilEs Courier.
Taking the bold statement Of the
terday official facts nd figures, taken
from the City Assessors books. to
prove that there was not one word Of
truth in it, but that the direct con-
trary was the official fact.
Taking the most valuable property
of the city. situated on Main Street
and First Street, where the heavy
business of the wholesale merchants
and bankers is principally carried on,
We have given lot by lot, piece by
piece, owner by owner. this high
p.iced real estate, and show BY the
Assessors figures that there has been
large and qtaiforns reductios.
When the fifty per cent. advance of
the taxable property of the city was
determined upon by Mr.. Van. Ripper,
the Chairman of the Finance Com
mittee, and the Council in order to
raise the assessment, to the fictitious
deceptive sum Of $24.000.000 from
SIC, 000, 900 in order to deceive eastern
bondholders and capitalists in pur-
chasing the Water Works bonds. this
desirable property, owned by rich men
was hardly advanced at all over the
appraisement Of 1869. An honest
Council DESTROYS of dealing fairly blythe
poor laboring classes. who were strug
Cling along in their daily toll saving ev
cry cent possible, in order to accumu-
late enough 10 buy lot and build
/ house TO shelter their families-a
Councii, DESTROYS of encouraging small
homesteads, would have first placed
the 80 per cent. increase on the valua-
bic real estate of the rich merchants
and bankers. But our Democratic
Council chose rather to place the in
crease upon the small lots of labor
ing men,"
And then when the 20 per cent. re-
duction was forced from the Council
BY indignant and oppressed tax pay
ers, these custodians of the peoples
intererese, first proceeded to take
the 20 per cent. deduction off the
Main and First Street property Of the
rich, which had not ~been advanced
the 30 per. cent!
The figures which we gave in de-
tail in our last article established the
fact that the real estate of the Ma
tional Banks and rich merchants at
and around the corner Of Main and
First Street, was. by the assessment of
1859, placed SEVENTEEN AND
ONE-FIFTH per cent. higher than
the assessment of 1870.
| We also proved. by citation Of
blocks, lots, the names Of owners in
detail, md the Official figures of.the
Assessors, that the outside" or resi-.
dence property in the Eastern En-
iargement, Owned, In most cases. BY
men OF limited means. had been al.
ca'sced, IN assessment by the present
Council, NINETEEN AND a.
FOURTH PER CENT. oyertba an
praisement of 1869. making a discrf,.
ination In favor of the rich real estate
owners Of OVER THIRTY SLY
| PER CENT. 80
That comparison is startling enouob
to convince even the most creduIons
that the present Council had not
made an assessment which was lust
! and fair" equitable and uniferm.''