The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-01-24
TAXING CLAIMS.

IAe oltste "uelt tnlS WIS uOl6.
The letter from Attorney General
Wilson to Capt. Mills, published in the
ADVANCE of January Sd, quotes the
decision Of the Supreme Court, and is,
as the Attorney General says, decisive
of the question. "Unt,l final proof has
been made and the settler has become
entitled to patent, the land would not
be taxable, :" says the Attorney Gener-
al.
Where our County Auditor got his
authority for instructing claims to be
listed upon which proof had not been
made. we are not informed. Certainly
it could not have been, from the decis-
ion of the Supreme Court, the interpre-
tation of the Attorney General, nor the
instructions of the State Auditor. He
must have ''eyolved it from his inner
consciousness" with a view to reliev-
ing those who have proved up by in
creasing the amount of property on the
duplicate, and also with some remote
reference to an increase in his own in
come from the business of the office.
Of course the tax cannot be legally
collected in such cases, and will there
fore not be collected. Our county will
have to get out of the difficulty as GER
tain meeting did which had put its foot
into it over some vexed question. The
difficulty was overcome by adopting
the following resolution: "Resolved,
That this here meeting never was
held"
THE MESA GE AND THE ADVANcE.
We are not a little gratified to see
that Governor Pillsbury, in his mes
sage, published in our columns last
week, recommends, upon so many
points, what the ADVANCE has urged
whenever it has had occasion to speak.
l. On the question of State Railroad
Bonds. the Governor urges their pay
ment with marked force and shows
thatsthe State can afford to endure any
calamity that might befall US better
than it can afford to bear the stigma of
reputation and bad faith. He thinks
the vote taken in June last WAS only a
protest against the proposed plan Of
settlement and not an expression of the
people against paying the debt. We
should think so, for certainly no hon
orable man would long wish to live in
the State or would wish to come here,
it the issue had been squarely made as
to payment or non-payment and the
people had voted squarely against pay
ment..
2. AS to immigration, the Governor
urges upon the State some more eff
Gent action toward securing our pro-
portion of the immigration pouring
westward. We have always urged that
Minnesota was far behind her sister
States in making her advantages
known and in some active system for
immigration. She is the belle among
the States, the beauty of the sister
hood, and probably counts on her nat
ural charms to bring every one to her
feet: but, as in most cases of the kind,
her more homely sisters will carry off
the husbands, unless she is willing to
do share of the counting.
8. The Governor urges proper efforts
for fit display Of our products at the
Paris exposition. He says ''but for the
unaccountable blindness of our legisla-
ture of two years ago, Minnesota
would have secured fair share of the
wealthy English stock breeders who
were lured to Kansas by the incompar-
able display of the products at the Cen.
tennial Exposition, and who have prov.
ed so valuable an acquisition to that
enlightened young State"
4. AS to the financial question, the
Governor expresses little faith in ''finan.
cial panaceas." OF course, legislation
upon the subject is important, and the
government must have some financial
policy, but no Congressional tinkering
OF the currency question can relieve
the business of the country of it's pres,
ent depressed condition. Thorough
economy, increased production and the
clearing off of individual indebtedness
are the chief means of relief which
must be resorted to.
We commend especially to our farm
er friends the wise and sensible re-
mar ks Of the Governor upon going il
debt for machinery and other article:
which each one is apt to think necessa
ny to successful farming. The mes
sage is one of the most sensible docu
ments Of the kind we have ever read
and if any of our farmer readers espec
tally have not read it, We hope the,
will get last weeks ADVANCE and Civ,
the message careful perusal.
SMALL POX.
The MankatO Reviow ronorta tho1