The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-30

other roads about 32 1-3 per cent each.
The exact amount which each rail-
road will pay in excess of what it paid
last year is as follows:
Ianea re ..:..............-.. .$13,7lO.41
Union Pacific ...........-...,... 5,0S1.sI
missouri Pacific .............-.. 1,462.24
Iotal ..-..... .............. - $24 ,201.71
This goes to prove that the claim
which the state tax commission has
been making that you can't tell from
one county what effect the new tax law
is having is true.
Wyandotte county reported that the
railroads in that county would pay
$50 O743.20 less in that county than they
did last wear.
Now comes Shawnee and shows that
the railroads in this county will pay
$24,201 more than they did last year.
It's about a standof between Wyan-
dotte and Shawnee, and the probability
Is that the same will be found to be
true throughout the state. Some coun-
ties will be more and some less. This
difference is due to a complete read
justment of taxable values, by which
each county is supposed, at least, to
get more equitable 'divy' than it has
had in the past.
Information is being collected by the
Republicans relative to the increase or
decrease in the farm and railroad tax
in the various counties of the state, for
the purpose of finding out how much
truth there is in the charge that the
new tax law has decreased railroad
taxes 100000 and increased farm taxes
by an equal amount.
Many counties will no doubt show UP
just as Wyandotte and Shawnee: An
increase in some and a decrease in
others.
1--WE are not surprised that there has
ben decrease in the railroad taxes in
some of the northern counties of the
state" said one of the tax commission
ers. Some of the railroad property In
that part of the state has been over
taxed in proportion to it's value. The
new tax law>has brought about a com
plete read'ustment of values, and IN
equalities are being rectified. Many
counties will find this year that they
are getting more railroad tax than they
did last year; many VIII find they are
getting less. The aggregate tax which,
the railroads Will pay will not be any
less"
1t seems to be the farmers who own
the choicest farms who are doing moss
of the complaining about the new tax
law These farms have been assessed
so much too low in the past that the
increase in assessed value is conskdered
by the owners of the land as a great
hardship. The man who owns rough,
unfertile piece of land, which yields un-
certain crops, has been paying more
taxes, in proportion to the value OF his
land. than tine wealthy farmer, and
these poorer farmers generally get re-
duction in taxes.
Senator Gore, the blind senator
from Oklahoma, has arranged to make
one Democratic speech in Kansas on
from Kansas city Monday morning.
and when he gets to Winfield. Kan,
at 1 o'clock D. m, he will leave the
train, and make speech. After his
speech at Winfield, he will start for his
home in Oklahoma to be ready to vote
the next day.
senator Gore was originally billed
for a series of speeches in Kansas, but
owing to the terrific fight which was
being waged in the eastern states, he
was taken there by the national COM
mittee.
The Democratic state committee has
had $4,000 copies printed of card
board handbill which will be circu-l
lated in Topeka extensively. The hand
bill contains the same material that
appears on the Democratic show bills
in Topeka, and also bears good pic
ture of the scheme is that the card has
heavy black border, which makes it
look as though the Democrats had
gone into mourning before, instead of
after, election
From Republican state headquar-
ters there is being sent out today
| 1900 packages of pictures of Taft and
| Sherman. One roll of pictures goes
| to each voting precinct in the state.
| and the instruction accompanying is
| that the pictures shall be posted in the
precinct on election day. It costs
cents to send each package-over
$3.50 for the state.
The Republicans have also COM
menced to mail their final appeal to
voters. This is the biggest consign-
| ment of mail which the committee has
sent out, and will cost, in postage
alone, the tremendous sum of $4,000.
The Lawrence papers say that about
| 200 K. U. students will go home to vote
Saturday, of which number 125 will vote
| for Taft and rs for Bryan. Why don't
| the Democratic and Republican clubs
| of the university get together and
| pair their votes, as they do in con-
gress, and merely let the impaired vot-
ers go home? 1t would have lot Of
money for the students, because they
don't get any free railway passes this
year from either Republicans or Dem
ocrats.
Kansas City Journal: Chairman
Dolley has taken hold of the political
situation in Shawnee county. For some
reason this county is in bad shape for
the Republicans. 1t has been during
/ the entire campaign. 1t is one of the
few counties that doesn't show up well
in the Republican polls. Two years
( ago 1t went Democratic Dolley hopes
it will redeem itself this time
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