The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-20
Tax Paid by Dealers on This
Valuation Amounts to About
So, 900, County Records
Show.
AVERAGE TAxElD IN
WAYNE COUNTY, $6.45.
SaIoonists' Story That County
Would Suffer Immense Loss
Shown to Be artialIy With
out Truth.
By Harper.


BY Harper.
1t might be interesting to some per-
sons to know just how much tax is
being paid into the county treasury by
the sixty-two saloons now doing busi-
ness. The saloon men are putting up
story of how great loss the county
would suffer by the abolition of this
line of business and the great increase
in the tax rates that would become ne
cessary. The records on file at the
court house show that the saloon own
ers in Wayne county report the value
of the taxable personal property at be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000.
The tax paid on this valuation
amounts to just about $4OO, an i'm
mense amount of money the county
would lose by the loss of sixty-two bus
mess houses. This means the average
personal tax paid by each saloon own
er is approximately $6.45. 1t would be
surprising to some to see the valua-
tions placed upon their property by
saloon men. The personal property in
cludes the bar-room fixtures, the glass
ware, all furnishings and the goods on
hand. One saloonist returned the value
of all of this as $40. Another was
listed at $40,
One of the leading saloon men of
Cambridge City is advising others in
the same business, against taking up
the cudgel of Democracy and the can
didacy of Marshall.
Don't you know" ne asks, that if
we fight the Republicans and for the
Democrats, the Republicans will turn
against us when it comes to voting on
the local option question and put us
out of business?'
His logic is beginning to seep in on
some of the SaloonistS of this county
And now the Democratic leaders are
insisting that the Republican saloon
lists, who are supporting Marshall,
from the national down. Threats are
being made that if Bryan is not voted
for, the Democrats will vote against
the saloonist on the option PROPOSE
ton. Now isn't that placing them be-
tween fires?
At Wabash the cry was made that
funds were solicited from the saloons
to help defray the expenses of the Lin
coin league convention at that place.
The executive committee has published
afidavits refuting the assertions.
And then the boomerang came back.
The Republicans demanded a list of the
contributors to the Marshall day funds
By the sworn statement of the Demo-
cratic candidate for prosecuting attor-
ney, more than % per cent of the
money subscribed for Marshall day was
given by the brewery and saloon men.
William E. Burns, of Chicago, a vet
eran in the ranks of unionism, was in
the city today. He was scheduled to
deliver an address here this evening,
but the meeting was postponed. In an
address at Wabash, Mr.. Burns scored
nightly with the laboring men who
are aroused at the action of the DEM
Gratis in counterancing the forgery of
the name of the union labor trades
council to Democratic literature Mr..
Burns is locomotive engineer and has
been an officer in the national organi-
cation.
Local union printers are wondering
bit. Sam Gompers spoke here last
evening in the interests of labor. The
advertising matter used in advance of
the meeting was printed at Greenfield
Local typos are asking why the local
print shops were overlooked. Gompers
didn't tell. And he believes in promot-
ing the interests of the laboring man
wherever he goes.
They're getting better every day.
is the answer of every Republican lead
er when asked as to the prospects OF
the party in this state. The indications
are that the party will continue to con
troll Indiana.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
| INDtANA-ShoWers and cooler Tues
day night and Wednesday; fresh