Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-30
IN Response to Mr.. jacobson.
March "a. 1900.


p. March "a, 1900.
EDITOR HERALD: Commissioner
Jacobson has evidently heard from
his constituents, therefore finds it
necessary to follow the example OF
Messrs. Page Morris, Tawney, ct al,,
and do a little 'explaining." Mr..
Jacobson wonders that the people Of
Morrison county fail to comprehend
why certain individuals and corpora
tions should sbe allowed to evade
their taxes while the farmers and
tradesmen are compelled to pay the
full amount assessed against their
property! Therefore he tries to
justify the high handed proceedings
of the commissioners in abating the
Antlers hotel and Pine Tree taxes
in a long winded article published in
the Transcript of the 22od inst, where
n he assumes that the people:are too
ignorant to understand such mat
ters.
It is not necessary to go over all
the details pertaining to tax abating
in general for while in some cases the
commissioners might be justified in
accepting a smaller sum than :sthe
tax lists called for, the two [parti-
cular cases that have reused the in
aignation OF the whole county, i, e.
the Antlers hotel and Pine Tree cases
present no facts to sustain !single
contention Of the honorable commits
sioner.
In the case OF the Antlers hotel: the
taxes were $500. Landau offered
$500, Mecusker $4,000. The Trans
cript said that the owners !: would
have paid the taxes in full :rather
than let Mecusker hold a:tax deed to
the property, therefore ..the full
amount of $500 could and would
have been collected by the County
if Mr. Jacobson and his colleagues
had not accepted Landahps :$1500,
thereby making a gift to EMr. Ian
dahl.of $4,000. Justfying this..out.
rageous action their mouthpiece, the
Transcript,e said that it was a
scheme OF Mecusker's to bleedI Lam
dahl. What business was it to them
what kind of a scheme it was, so
long as the money was actually in
the hands OF the treasurer to pay
$1,000 more than they accepted from
,IIandahl2 and another $1,000 sure
to come thereby causing the county
to lose $4,000. This is no 1853 cut
over pine land sand bed, but a val.
liable hotel property, the most
favora oily located Of any inssthe city,
1t was extremely unkind Ito Mr..
jacobson for the Transcript to pub.
lish beside his labored ''explana.
tion" the following proof of the
value OF this property. He certainly
has a grievance against Fuller:
"Several experienced hotelmen
have been here lately looking over
the property and desiring to rent
the hotel, but it is the intention ol
Mr.. Landau to first put the proper.
ty in running order and then to Of
fer it for sale. Should it not be sold
early this spring it will be rented but
as it is offered for sale at only q
small fraction OF the original cost
and as easy terms can be had by the
purchaser and there would seem
to be not possible doubt but that il
would pay rom the start and prove
a very paying Investment, a pur
chaser will probably be found. L
not, it will be offered to rent, anC
under any circumstances it will bt
running this summer"
Mr.. jacobson will hardly claim
that the above is not the plain, IN
varnished truth of the Antlers hotel
matter, and it is childish to try ex
cuse his short comings under the plea
that Mr.. Meyer approved, when it is
we'll known that Mr.. Meyer refused
to issue a receipt to landau until
compelled to do so by the commits.
sioners. MIR. Meyer is not the coun.
ty board.