The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-21
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AuUIAu8pOIbs July $A.-SOM0 1ulCE-
esting figures on the increases and de-
creases in the tax rates in wet and
dry counties in the state have been
gathered by the state statistician. and
the anti-saloon league is making use
Of them in its campaign. e. s. shu-
maker state superintendent of the an
ti-saloon league, has prepared an ar
ticle for publication in the American
Issue. the oficial organ of the organic
alton in which he says:
During the county option campaign
last year the liquor men everywhere
proclaimed that the voting out of the
saloons meant an increase in the farm
er's taxes. So far as the county tax
rate is concerned, that could not be
true for the reason that the county H.
cense fees are paid into the school
fund and that fund is apportioned to
the various townships and then they
are applied to the tuition fund.
However, it is interesting to note
how the predictions of the liquor men
as to increased taxes for the farmers
have not been realized in many of the
dry counties Of the state. The removal
Of the saloon has q tendency to reduce
the county tax rate for the very suf-
ficient reason that Jail expenses, ex-
penses of county poor hoses, orphans,
etc., would be reduced with the reduc-
ton Of the liquor drinking and drunk
enness.
~. L. Peetz, in charge Of the Indi-
ana bureau Of statistics. has just COIN
pleted the compilation Of tax rates for
1909 and 1903. The 1903 taxes were
paid in 1909. while the 1900 taxes. lev
led in September last year, are paid
this year. The following dry coun-
ties have voted decreases in their
county tax rates as follows: Henry.
Jefferson, Noble and Shelby. cent;
Bartholomew, Clinton, Daviess, Glib
son, Owen, Wells and Whitley, 2
cents; Harrison ~ cents: Lawrence
IA cents; Newton 651OO cents;
Benton, Clay. Fulton and Wabash
cents; Brown, Randolph and White 4
cents; Fayette, Fountain, Jackson,
johnson, Upton and Warren cents:
Elkhart and Jay cents; Huntington
8 cents; Hamilton 8 cents; Adams 10
cents.
Thus. 80 counties, or 421z per cent
Of the total number of dry counties of
the state have actually reduced their
rate of taxation over that OF one year
ago.
1.-The following dry counties have
the same rate Of taxation as one year
ago: Boone, Carroll, Decatur, DeKalb.
Delaware, Green, Hendricks, Jasper,
Jennings. Kosciusko, Lagrange, Nor
gan, Steuben, Sullivan and Warick,
fifteen in all. In other words, Al of
the dry counties Of the state. of 81
per cent of the total have not increas-
ed their tax rate for the present year.
This leaves only q dry counties in
which the rate Of taxation has been in
creased, or 80 per cent Of the whole
number.
I'm the following wet counties the
rate of taxation has increased as fol-
lows: Blacford and Posey 2 cents;
Franklin and Tippecanoe cents;
Clark and Spencer 8 cents; Dubois and
Porter z cents; Lake and Laports Ii
cents, making ten Of the twenty-five
wet counties of the state in which the
tax rate has been actually increased, or
4511S per cent of the whole.
Wayne Rate the Same.
I'm the following wet counties the
rate Of taxation remains the same:
Allen, Dearborn, Knox, Perry, Ripley
and Wayne. six in all, of p per cent of
the wet counties.
"Thus in q per cent of the wet
counties of the state the tax rate has
not been reduced, while in only ~
per cent Of the counties. in all. has
there been a reduction in the tax
rate.
ITO sum 1t up: IS per cent Of the
counties of the state have this year
reduced their rate of taxation. while
% per cent Of the wet counties have
done the same. In 81 per cent Of the
dry counties the tax rate has not been
increased. while In q per cent OF the