The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-11
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NE SHo-e' running state. The Eagle Is
ot PAL cula, so... It's Ii tnat direction we
car 20 forever, stace It's iilairs
for the same money aggregate per an
mum. expenses wh.ch growth and de-
velopinent involve will necessarily
have to be Increased valuation
will to put up. average Kansas taxpayer
in paying higher Or paying very
greatly amount He is paying about
number Of his farm shop, home
that he five while the fact is that
the house and shop, rule, has
largely increased So far Southwest Kansas is
cerned we to asserted viz, that realty
practically doubled years. Upon the
other hand has been very little in the
value Of the farmer who Is increasing
his herds and his bushels of grain annually has
taxes in the aggregate meet but assessabe valuations
have put up commensuratey witt the actual
market advance in prices.
In other items, arguments, failed to make
ourself plain the Capital is duh OF comprehension We
said or tried to say that valuation OF the
property of state should be increased, not the
cent taxation the valuation is cut
down the rate for the that state county and
Kansas makes, and has always made great mistake in
assessing her properties at fully twothirds three
values instead from onefourh to
onethird has been the rule A contemplated Kansas
investor does not ask how much toto the taxes
that thousand dollar farm that five thousand
dollar house. but what per rate of
The may be low the value of the property
considered the value the rate will
be- is very high Still the total amount the tax
payer pays is the In this and in far the tax
Kansas always failure and the legis
Iatures amiss
As for other contention of the Eagle, stand
squarey by assertions cost is costing
a great deal more to Kansas than five and ten
years ago. The supplies all growing and
panding state institutions costing much per
bushe per pound per yard per Labor and pro-
fessorshps command higher these times of
high prices and prosperity 1t is costing twice as much
money to run the state nov as years ago with all the
certainty that hens commanding 80 cents now
against less half that price five years ago. that
81 per is commanding S. atthe white paper
that these printed costs three times as
much as it did five years ago
AS for anything else the Eagle for honesty and
economy the administration public affairs and of
srictest character This paper has stood for
anything else though often advocating expensive
public Improvements and costly public enterprises What
We are protesting against is the fractional effort being
hold Republican party responsible for the in
creased public institutions public service,
while such increased cost directly attributable to
growth ana TO market conditions expansion,
and the law of supply and demand To have it daily
into that Governor Bailey the state Of
fcers Cy Leland Albeugh and the rest thieves,
that they corrupt that they have been holding
taxpayers the state and that the faction who
itching their places the of unsel6sh pat
ots who are losing their sleep and appetes in their
anxiety the taxpayers Of the state from the
of band of organized booders makes tired
feeling inspired the editorial to which the Capt.
tai takes exceptions.
THE BOIL WEEviL PLAGUE.
Roosevelt earnestly congress to take