Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-02

900 in the General Fund, there was
enough cash On hand to run the State |
to March LIST, without touching a sin
gle dOllarof the tax money coming in,
and this included the legislative SEES
sion. The next meeting of the State
Revenue Board will result in a still
further reduction of the State tax to
20 cents On the hundred, the lowest
ever known in the history OF the
State
The State has also been prosperous,
under Fusion rule. We took it at a
valuation of $23,O00,OOO and the val
uations closing on the Assessors re-
ports this year will run it close to
$3O,OG0,0OO. The lowering of the tax
rate having brought in population and
] capital, and placing Nevada on the up
grade. Yet, when the Fusion forces
took charge of the State eight years
ago, there was talk of kicking it out
of the Union and giving half toUtah
anu nail TO CALIFORNIA,
The Republican papers had denied
the accuracy of these figures for sew
eral months, put they had contented
themselves with the denial and had
never bothered themselves with going
to the open books and getting the
facts. The bonded Indebtedness had
also been reduced $4,000.
If the people of Nevada want the
present business management of the
State continued and a further lower.
ing of taxation, they know what tic
ket to vote in order to get it.
The State Board Of Assessors had
endeavOred to give Ormsby county
the benefit of lower taxation by max
. ing the railroads pay their just share
They had assessed the Y & T. at &c.
! 600 mile and the County Commiss-
toner's had, without the slightest au-
thority of law. cut it down to $500.
acting in plain violation of the statu-
te and placed the twenty-five per cent
taken off the road on the shoulders of
the rest of the community. The road
now controlled the Board and the Dis
1 trfct Attorney and they now wanted
a to have the Assessor their way by
$ defeating Bill Einney-if they could
y but the speaker believed that on cleo
q tiOnday they would elect that whole
i Fusion county ticket; that there
e might not be any favored tax payer.
l. in Ormsby county. The State REEVE
# nue. Board had asked the Republica,
District Attorney OF Ormsby to brin,
o suit against the railroad for the 2
n per cent of taxes the Commissioner
If had SO kindly Knocked off, but up t
a date he had never even drawn a com
If plant.
e Nevada was a State that could no
Is possibly benefit by a high tariff. a
81 1t merely enhanced the price OF ever
t. thing we consumed
s. He showed copies Of the Lincol
IS County Record which was abusin
IS and cartooning him in zig job typ,
at One charge was made in a cartoo
"a representing him taking $l3.0OO,0
as out of DeLamar with bull team. H
IN said that at the rate the Repubica
as party was depreciating the price
re silver, by the time a bull team ha
ne reached a market with that amour
nS of bullion, it would not be worth tt
Ia hauling.
- He had been called liar befol
and once he recalled how the Repub
can papers had called him the boz
liar, when he had said in print tn
=, Republican thieves had looted the
no S. mint and after a jury had sent son
;o of these same Republicans to the Z
-, intentiary, none of those papers h,
ever apoligized. 1t was evident to t
,oa speaker that the Republican par
~ had acted so that they could not
=. trusted with the management of t
U. S. mint or State affairs The mi
had been closed up as a measure
ION precaution, but the State governme
no. was still doing business at the {
ri. stand. As for the prosperity and f
oil dinner pail talk, he knew that neal
nm o anu ni'y thousand toiit
rty