Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-04-26
NOT ANSWERED..

W. HV0 " In1O.
Some days ago the APPEAL, in Ie-
plying to the attack of the Silver
State on Ormsby ana other counties,
showed conclusiveiy BY tbs record
that the charge that Ormsby, Storey,
Douglas and others We're tax-shirk
my counties, came from abso'".-'
~, .-.oly
...x-shi1ker of the State.
Humboldt county.
In order to do this it was merely
necessary to pull the official records
and the statements made by the Sill
yer Stat. The Silver State claimed
two years ago editorially that Hum
boldt was worth more than the whole
State was valued at for taxable pur-
poses, and yet the assessed valuation
Of the county is less than four mills
lion
This statement Cannot be met by
Righteousness. 1t is plain fact and
should be considered by the people OF
Nevada. The Silver State, driven
into corner by the plain facts and
figures of the APPEAL, attempts TO
palter and parley and parry as fol-
lows:
1--WE submit that the revenue law is
bed law because it gives the Board
of Assessors too much power-permit
ting tax-shirking counties to COM
bine, lower their own taxes and in
crease them in the counties against
which the combination is. made. This
was done by the Board o. Assessors
at their ve1y first meeting.
Such injustice will not be tolerated
by the people of the State. We are
very much mistaken if this false rev.
eDue reform law is not repealed by the
next Legislature.
The above is a fair sample Of the
arguments raised everywhere by the
tax dodgers. They don't want the
In other words, they want to SO tie
the hands of the BOARD that no one
blu. the very poor people or the mid-
die classes need pay any taxes. Nc
law can possibly give Assessors the
power to collect more than an assess.
ment On 1.-The true cash value of prop.
e1ty.
The Silver State, in its zeal to de
fend these shirkers of the burdens O
maintaining the government. assert:
that the law permits the tax Sinking
counties to combine, lower their owl
taxes and increase others. Will til,
Silver State cease generalizing ant
state how this can be done?
AS matter of fact, it has the yer,
reverse effect. 1t permits the coun
ties that have been paying more thai
their share of taxes to see that tn
big counties, that have been payin,
on about one-six, of their valuation
are made to pay their full proportion
1t is only the counties that have bee
having IAN easy thing" all thes
years that are sending up protes
They want the old way and "le
we'll enough alone"
Our Winnemucca contemporary as
serts that the State rate having bee
reduced 20 per cent, the counties
tie combine get the benefit. This a
serticn shows how little the Siiv,
State knows Of the workings of II
law. The reduction of the rate is f,
all the counties in the State alik
Humboldt gets the same reduction :
any other county.
The bin was drafted TO make ia:
dodgers of all classes come to ii
front and pay like the rest oil the pu
lie The big corporations have BET
making good thing out of this Sta
and if this Boz I'd does its duty tn,
will be made to show cause why tn,
should not pay taxes where they la
so Systematically avoided them.
The assertion that the editor of t
APPEAL WAS the author of the bill
not true Senator Pitt, Of Hum boli
was the author of the clause prov