The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-31
WHY HOWEY SHOULD'T WIN
ALLAN NC DERMOTT ARGUES JUDGE
GREENs CASE WITH THE PEOPLE

Candidate Hswsy Has Always Voted
with the Re1lroads-The Local Tax
Problem Csmsidered with Reference
to the Campaign.
CITIZENS OF Jz1szY CRY:
Believing that the official duties which
have been called upon to discharge during
the past three years Gas member of your
Board of Finance and Taxation and of the
State Board of Asssssors) have not been
altogether fruitless Of benefit to you. I ask
your consideration ct few facts concern
ing your interests facts which, believe,
affect the solvsnoy Of your municipality,
and therefore the value Of your property.
While do this with Q desire to Influence
your political judgment at the approaching
election, shall sndsavsr to write, an ask
ysu TO read, in spirit abeve mere parti-
sanship. shall present the facts, and
suggest what believe to be the remedy.
Whether OF not ysu agree with me in the
remedial proposition, ] ask yeu TO consider
the figures presented, which are taken from
authentic sources. A single fact 10 worth
dozen theories, and its value is inherent.
That you may bsax with nae in patience,
will be as brief ne possible.
TO every resident Of Jersey City the sles-
ton of Noysnber q, 1856, is of more than
ordinary importance, and the citizen who
lays this document aside without reading
to its conclusion viii have acknowledged
that he is uninteEested in facts which con-
Germ his home, his property and his busi-
ness. The taxpayers of this city-and
every man who pays dollar Of rent is .
taxpayer-are burdensd beyond the poins
where payment of taxes is merely the per-
Torrance Of public duty. The present
rate of taxation is practically confseAion
of property.
Many, probably q majority, of the peo-
pie Of jersey City have very vague idea
of the extent and value Of the railroad
property embraced within its municipal
limits. Prior to 1884, there was net any
valuation of this property established by
an authorized body. In 1883 ths people
of New Jersey elected Governor Albeit.
His long experience az Cooperation Ceun-
sci Of Jersey City had thoroughly familiar
lied him with the extsRt Of land that is ex-
empted frem taxation in Jersey City, and
his first demand from the Executive chair
was that the great wrong which had been
done his fellow property owners should be
righted. He demanded that property
should be taxed according to its value, If
respective Of its use. The House Of As
sembly passed bill for eq1al taxation.
It was amended in the Senate by y provis.
ion which limits the rate of taxation fer
municipal purposes to one PER cent. Gov
ernor Albeit signed tbs bill under protest.
| and has in each of his annual messages,
| referred to the injustice of this limitation
| Under the provisions OF this act State
Board of Assessors was appointed, and the
result of careful assessment of the prop
erty in Jersey City used for railroad and
| canal purposes. fixed the valve of that
property at $50, 626, TIA. divided as fol-
lows:
Central Railroad Of New Jersey $50 722
| Jersey City and Bergen Railroad ..... 247. 507
Long Dock Company Observation-Disclosures 9OT. 7ss
Norris Canal ana Banking Co. ..... $50. OF
| National Docks Railway e1o,6Ot
Norris and Essex Railrsad .......... 5000. 1si
| Newark and Hudson Railroad .......... "a. 45t
New York. SusquehAans aaA wsss4n
Rail Road. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. o,SAl
Northern Railroad Of New Jersey. ls.oet
Paterson and Hudson River g. R., $500. 11s.o3t
| United New Jersey B. n. and Canal
4.sei. OK
| Main Stems (rsad- beds}. ............. 5000 0o(
| Grand tot al.................. $50, GAG, 514
Ofthis property o, 0OO, 900 is contained il
| the road beds of tho railroad companies
| and the WntaP WaV nf tina Maria Canal