Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-07-05

IN PENNSYL vANlA.
Measures which the state Grange
Has Secured or Is Advocating.

Measures Which the state Graage
Has Secured or Is Advocating.
Especial Correspondence.
In state matters we stand By the ma
tionai grange programme. AT the next
session of the state legislature we shall
ask for legislation covering the follow
ing subjects:
First rolleys to be given the right
10 carry freight
Second Every candidate to pledge
to not accept personal transportation
favors from any transportation COM
pany during the term of Office to which
he aspires. We commend the mo pass
order Of the railroad companies.
Third We want the corporations to
live up to the constitution Of the state.
The mining of coal by transportation
companies, directors furnishing sup
plies to their own corporations, the
owning or operating of parallel or COM
peting lines we want stopped.
Fourth. We want no discrimination
in freight rates.
Fifth. Uniform passenger rate of 2
cents mile.
Sixth. Licenses and personal prop
erty taxes returned to the counties.
Seventh Equaliza ton in taxation.
Eighth.-An increase of state aid for
township roads from Is to so per cent.
Ninth-An increased appropriation
for centralized township schools; also
township high schools.
that corporate and personal property
shall pay the same tax as real estate.
Some kinds of property escape taxa
ton altogether. Manufacturing cor
porations are taxed only locally on the
average of per cent of their valua-
tion-in other words, per cent Of
their real valuation is assessed for 10
cal taxes, but nothing is paid to the
state by these companies.
The grange has secured the gradual
Increase of the common school appro-
priation; also the return Of three-quar-
tiers Of the personal property tax and
the greater part of the retail liquor
tax, together with some other tax con-
cessions.
In the new state road law we had
Incorporated our idea of dividing the
money that the state appropriates to
the roads according to the number of
miles In each county. Thus If there
are $4,000 miles Of township roads in
the state and county has 1000 miles,
and the annual appropriation is ST.
100000, that county would receive $16,-
900 for permanent road improvement.
OF this sum the county adds one-eighth
and the township or townships through
which the roads pass another eighth,
the state paying three-quarters. Our
new. township road law provides that
where the township decides for the
money tax the state is to pay 10 per
cent of the money raised
The grange has defeated many bad
measures during the last twenty years
and has effaced the passage of many
obnoxious laws. 1t advocated uni
form primary election law, which was
passed at the special session of 1906.
The present anti-oleo law is the work
of the state grange. The appropriation
Of $4,000 for the years 1906 and 1907
was secured by grange influence It
has brought the question of trolley
roads carrying freight SO prominently
before the people of the state that the
measure is sure to pass at the next
session of the legislature
The grange has done great deal to
elevate the farmers of our state. 1t
has taught that in union there is
strength, and whenever you find a
grange community one is sure to meet
progressive and intelligent class of
the tillers of the soil
WILLIAM T. GREASY,
SECRETARY Legislative Committee