Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-03-01

YET the proportion of reduction, and its re-
la-iDn to taxation, viii remain the sime up
on tie last amount given, being the average
earnings for nine years.
he reduction by the proposed law would
be Que G. ird of 81, 664, 73j.sS, or S2,55i,-
9ia.2 and this amount Is nearly four times
thu Gm0gnt taken annually by the Stare for
take. And for whose benefit is this to be
done? Largely for the commercial traye-
lers, estimated at about tHo Thousand in
number gnd q very large proportion Of this
numlCT living in Eastern States. Indirectly
the EeIchants Of the Eastern States who EN-
ploy these commercial travellers will also bo
benefited; merchants who have many of
them been very earnest and Jealous the last
year in tnGeavoring to obtain the abolition
of the cal load rate, thereby breaking down
AM crippling in business our own manufac-
tuIor, and jobbers.
Vendors Of patent rights who travel much
in selling their schemes and devices, such as
drive wells, Improvements in barbed wire,
/ etc, etc, will be largely benefited. So also
il will help eminent lawyeas going from place
TO place as advocates in important cases. 50
also skillful surgeons moving from point to
point TO perform delicate and difficult surgi-
4 cal operations for which their compensation
4 is Iightfully very large.
Ii would also largely reduce the travelling
expenses of the tourists and men of leisure
and wealth, seeking enjoyment and pleas
ure in travel it will also relieve TO a very
limited degree the farmers ana laborng
men, but its general result will be large
benefit to the wealthy and leisurely classes,
I with triiling benefit TO the poor and laboring
mCn.
TO the farmer or laborer, who goes hun
dred miles by rail in a year, one dollar will
I lie saved, and while aiding such men q few
cents per aHnum, the other leisurly, wealthy
gentlemen will be sayed hundreds and
thousands of dollars.
Is IL not plain that a very small per cent
of the deduction from the railroad income
Eamounting annually to more than two mill
lion dollars will go to the la5orers and wage
l Gamers?
Now what is the nature of the property
Nint6i,st which is to be affected by this pro
Hposed reduction in rates? The railroad
8prol city was in 1878, l4.l2 per cent of the
totai polcIty of the State, and 81 per cent
In value OF the lands OF the State appfaising
The land at SCI per acre; in 1886 it Is as
sess 50 al more than ten per cent OF the total
assessed valuation Of all the real estate, in
cluding town and city property.
Ii is an interest that has in the last nine
yeaTs Iaid 70 the State in taxes 81, 20, sos 81,
UconSit elably more than twice the amount
Xexp, Eded in building the Capito! OF the
XStltc. 1t is an interest which employs di-
Erectly about 10000 labOring men. and has
paid TO is labofers in Iowa directly IN the
kame period of ten years, the-sum OF $91,-
,xg2l,il
vi This sum. so paid TO laborers, Is nearly
4S23, Gee, 800 more than the total amount re-
1alized iOm gross earnings from passenger,
ANAL anu express business in that period.
Ii enc may net waste sentiment on these
soullsss corporations, at least as tax payers,
and furnishers OF food, through wages ~
more than 100,001 laboring men, women
and children in Iowa, one might suggest IN
members of the General Assembly that II
would do no harm to take care that we do
not kill the goose that has been laying the
golden egg"
IN this connection ii is well to know that
in 1878 the railroads of Iowa paid to theil
laborers in Iowa, in excess of the net earn
ings for that year, 81, 5sI, 94S.5S,
III 1917. ........S3 3, 3O7 90. "a
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