The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-01-17

Don't think of hunting up winter
resorts with the brand OF weather
we have been having on tap for so
long.
CAN they STAND IT?
Sioux Falls Arpus-Leader: Just
how much longer the taxpayers
of the state can stand the
reform administration, we do not
know. That administration went
into Office on a pledge Of ECONOMY"
How we'll 1T kept the pledge every
taxpayer now knows. The legislature
elected by it spent $3.50, 600 more
than any other legislature which
ever met in the state. 1t levied the
highest-~taxes v e known. Even
with this ..hiph.levy, there will be a
deficiency of S400,0 900 for The first
two years of reform. Continued for
two years this would mean a debt
put upon the state OF very close to a
million dollars. In other words in
four years of reform. the state would
have accumulated a eebt about the
equal Of the debt paid by the wicked
stalwart ADMINISTRATION in the eight
years which preceded it. II the tax
payers think they can stand this,
they ought to vote for Crawford for
senator, and for the insurgent cam
didate for governor. Then we will
keep on piling up the debt until the
taxpayers get weary. and decide that
we had better have a little less
reform and a little more cash. The
various counties Of the state are now
figuring up the ..cost of the reform
administration. 1t runs all the way
from $1,000 to 1926, 900 per county,
for one year. Next year the taxes
for stat" PURPOSES will be higher
than this year. How long will the
taxpayers of the state be willing to
stand 1T?
A%djectives and figures Of speech.
and cheap talk about corporations
and bosses are one thing. The tax
receipt is another. For eight years,
the stalwart administration resisted
the encroachments on the treasury
In order to get the state out of debt.
1t bad the satisfaction to turning
over to Mr.. Crawford a state without
a bonded debt and with twice as
much money due in unpaid taxes as
the floating debt amounted to
Then there was a change. The
%reformers spent the states money
like a drunken sailor. Every body
who asked for an appropriation col
1t. Every chap who wanted a new
Office established got it. Money wa!
spent with a proGiRal hand, and O
course when the representatives o
the people spend their money, tn,
taxpayers have to make it up. Thi!
Is the eason that taxes on farm
lands are more than double wllal
they we're last year. This is the rea
son that there will be a deficit O
over four hundred Thousand dollar!
for the first two years of reform. II
idoes not explain Why the bank as
sessmeDt was reduced that Is another
story. It does not explain why To,
Northwestern railroad was taxet
lower than any other railroad cor
poration doing business In the state,
That also is another story. 1t is ont
thing to talk 'sreforn.' 1t is quite
another to deliver the goods. III thu
people who paw the freight are salts
fed, they will vote for two year.
more of money-wasting reform. ant
then no doubt they will be glad t
return to the stalwarts under Whose
administration the debts OF the state
were cleaned up. ana that too under
a low assessment and a low rate O
Taxation. 1t was done by not spend.
ing the states money. Some enemies
had to tie made in turning dowr
appropriations, but tie results
counted.
MIR. Crawford is now a candidate
for election to the senate, and lie
boasts about his record as governor.
This is the only record he has. His
promotion would be an endorsement,
of this record. DO the voters OF the
state want to endorse it?
The Bristol special attorney u atte,
is Il cead issue. The president has
withdrawn the OREGON atom v from