Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-02-08

The people OF this State Will
watch with great interest, the votes
of its representatives on the bill
which provides for the printing of
the tax roll once a year in the
newspapers. The only argument
so far made against the bill, and
positively the only one that those
inimlcal to its passage have been
able to bring forward, is that each
taxpayer will be compelled to pay
twenty cents a year to some news
paper.
The Enterprise looks upon it as
raid upon the peoples money by
the newspapers, in spite of the fact
that Assessors assert that it would
Immediately result in a larger in
crease of revenue to the counties
of this State.
The opponents Of the bill urge
that even if the publication of the
list would result in a more thorough
assessment and less perjury In
making returns to the assessor, it
must Of necessity be a bad bill If a
county paper makes 5000 out
of it.
1t is all very well to save
thousand dollars, but if 5000 pass
to the press. the saving is imprac-
ticable. Now it is easy enough to
see that beneath all this talk the
opposition really comes against the
bill from the class who are willing
each year to swindle honest tax
payers, by making incomplete re-
turns to the Assessor. A suggest
i've feature Of the opposition IS,
that the members from tho cattle
counties are beginning to see grave
objections to the bill. A member
of the Assembly yesterday said to
the writer of this article:
''Of course it is COED bill, and
would result in greater revenue,
but there a good many cattlemen
in my county and they wont
stand it.
The depleted condition of the
public Treasury, and the scarcity
of public money in this State so
touchingly described by the Enter
prise, is largely brought about by
the continued lodging of taxes by
the wealthies class of men in this
State. These are the men now in
this city fighting the bill; they
shrink from the position that the
publication of the taxes would
place them in. The honest tax
payers of Nevada, upon whome the
main burdens of taxation rest, are
DESTROYS that these burdens should
be lightened. They are weary of |
seeing men with cattle upon |
thousand hills rolling in rapidly |
accumulating wealth, and keeping |
three-fourths of their taxable prop
erty away from the Assessors who |
in MANY counties cannot Re elected |
without the votes Of the class who |
own them. They are tired of see
ing heavy capitalists year after
year Sinking the responsibilities Of |
taxation, while the men Of the mid
die class and of moderate means
pay in proportion the amount Of
property they own, ten times the
pro rata Of their wealthy neighbors.
There are men in this State who
must have remarkably elastic
We can name case in Eastern
Nevada, where a man put in the
value of his cattle herd at $4,000.
A few weeks later he sold $50, 1000
worth Of cattle, and wants $4,000
for the balance.
He evaded taxation on $35 900. 4
hundred instances Of this kind can
be named. The people, when they
fully realize the Importance Of
this law, will make it an issue Of
the next campaign. If this bill
is beaten, the press should take
the matter in hand and publish the
list of tax dodgers gratis.