Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-09-30

protection Of employees and the enforce
ment OF laws relating thereto and Great
bureau.
Additional Aid for Rural Schools.
Additional laws for the promotion and
consolidation thereof and free transporta-
ton thereto in certain cases, with addi-
tional appropriations in aid thereof.
the municipalities Of this state. providing
for the public ownership and operation
or street railway, telephone and lighting
pants and providing new and prac-
ticable system for financing the same.
similar to the system devised for the
state OF Illinois,
The Prison Harvester Plant.
establishment by the state of farm
machinery plant at the state prison to
manufacture harvesters, binders and
mowers to enable Minnesota farmers
Whereby to more successfully cope with
the harvester trust
New regulations for the state binding
Irvine plant at the state prison, permitting
tue state board OF control to sell Irvine
OUTSIDE OF the state in order to more sue
CessfuiIy compete with the Irvine trust
likewise providing for more adequate
reserve supply OF binder Irvine to be sold
TO producers for cash at not more than
one cent per pound above the cost of
production and transportation.
Laws extending the powers and duties
OF the dairy and food department so as
TO make it more effective in aid of the
states great dairy industry and greater
protection to the consuming public from
food adulteration
ton Of the livestock sanitary board for
the protection of the livestock Of the
eases. ".
The creation of a Minnesota state i'm
migration bureau with an adequate an
preparation in aid of the settlement OF
state agricultural lands.
For Good Roads and BRIDGES.
Improvement of the state highway
laws In aid of a state system of good
roads; and additional appropriations ag-
pended by the county boards of the
eighty-five counties of this state for con-
structing and improving roads and
bridges. "
Laws to further advance 2 system IF
s ste drainage, and an appropriation of
~loo,oo0 as. fund at the command of the
s.a'e drainage commission for the drain
counties; with provisions for ASSESSING
aralnase benefits upon private and cor
porate lands. WI
Laws for strengthening the state bank
ing system and for the abolition of Dri-
vate banking by requiring all private
Danks to incorporate and come under nlh
nc supervision and public examination
the general public.
increase capacity and facilities for
s.ate institutions, including an enlarged
tiin:pus and more adequate salaries FOR
the state university, extended Improve.
ments for the state agricultural Station
and substations, and the organizat ion Of
. state industrial school for girls.
A Challenge to Mr.. jacobson.
p 1t greater array of practicable and
progressive constructive measures for
INC states general welfare and deveI.
opment, for the preservation and pro.
lection OF the states natural and in.
st'tut!onal resources, for the protection
OF the states industries and producers.
TOR the advancement Of it's great edu.
cationa', charitable and corrective in.
situations, for the recovery of state
revenues and property lost by previous
pad administration and negligence, for
the production Of new revenues bv re.
curing those who have ESCAPED taxa.
ton to bear their proportion of the
tax burden, or if a greater number Of
vital and practicable reforms in the
state government have been carried
into administrative effect than durjnu
the past two years, as family denoted
by the above catalogue Of measures,
has been achieved during any previous
administration or during any leafs.
'atIve session of which he has knowl.
edge, my worthy opponent will bestow
a great favor upon the state and add
a great chapter to its history by man,
ing that session and administration.
Analysis of the States Expenditures.
Now let us take up this charge of
extravaganza and taxes, and let us
analyze it and see what it is worth.
Let us take whole burden of state ex-
penditures and the whole sum of taxes
Tor state purposes, and see what the
burden upon taxpayers amounts to.
The gross expenditures of the state
government OF Minnesota for all state
institutions, all officers and depart
ments, all funds and properties, all
improvements and developments, all
investments and all miscellaneous Dur
poses, aggregate about $12,O0O,OOO a
year.
One Dollar and Fifty Cents a Head.
And how much of this total ex-
penditure falls upon the general tax
payer? About one-quarter of the total
expenditure, Or $3,O00,0O0; that is to
say. $50 a head for the two million
people which the state had at the
last census.
AS a matter of fact, the actual tax
collections of the state treasurer in
1907 were $2,53S 900; in 1906 they were
$2,404OOO, and in 1905, as levied in
1901. they were $2,21S,0 0O or an aver
age OF about $1.20 a head for each per-
son IN the state; and of this sum over
one million dollars is directly RENTED
back to the several counties for dis
trbution among the school districts
for popular education, and is not dis
bursed by state officers; and another
quarter OF million goes back there
for roads and bridges. And here you
have in a lump for your edification
and horror the whole chapter of state
extravaganza and state taxation.
The increase for 1906 and 1907 was
about 100000 year, or eight cents
a head for the people of this state
Let us suppose that when the state
treasurer reports the 1908 tax col
1ections they will cause the burden
OF taxation, due to divided respOn-
sibility,' to show an annual increase
OF ten cents a head for each person.
At Cost of 10 Cents Each.
That is to say, "since the