The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-06-23
OUR FOOL Personal
TAXATION
That Permits the Big Liars TO
Shove Burdens Of Taxation
on Their NeIghbOrs.
County Board of Review Has a
Job That They Won't BE
Able to Master.

! Putnam County Sentinel, June l5.l
There has been many echoes of the
Sentinel article on the lack Of funds 10
run the schools. Not only Ottawa, but
practically every town in Ohio is in the
same boat. In many instances teach
ers have been employed, salaries in
creased, and contracts made for the
coming school year, without money
enough in sight under the new law to
pay the bill. A rule of law is that no
public board shall enter into contract
for the expenditure of money unless
the money is in the treasury or in the
process of collection. Governor Har-
mon last week vetoed the new Good
Roads law, which provided for a half
mill levy by the state for the construc-
tion of pike roads in every Ohio coun-
ty. The Governor used his veto in
this case, to cut down the expense so
that the one per cent tax plan would
work out. The Governor insists that
our public expense has become too ex-
travagant. Both the Democratic and
Republican state platforms in the last
campaign declared in favor of the one
per cent tax rate. Auditor of State
FullinRton, republican, has been do
ing his best to help carry out the plan
and make ii a success. Ii Is said that
a number of republican machine poll
ticians, and a half dozen spiteful DEM
ocrats are doing their best to make the
plan a failure, in the hopes of embar-
RAISING Governor Harmon and Audit
or Of State Fullington. The one per
cent bill should have been passed
l.aF, eI.a ~ kasu .-l.a L.
ors started out to do their work this
spring. The bad Indians in the Sem
ate purposely delayed acting on this
bill. They knew that so long as the
bill was not passed that many tax pay
ers would be unwilling to list as much
property under high rate, as they
would list if they knew certainly that
the one per cent rate would actually
become law. Colonel Kllbourne, of
Columbus, says it is the business of
every good citizen to help make the
new plan success. He volunteered
to raise his valuation $4,000 Some
supposedly good citizens are trying to
take advantage of the new law to pay
much less tax than before even
though the public business and schools
may suffer in the state. Before the
tangle is all Strengthened out, there is
likely to be a test of real patriotism
and good citizenship. Money is hard
to tax. 1t usually escapes. 1t knows
how to hide. If it is found by the as
SCISSOR one year, it the more securely
secludes itself the next year. There
are more single-tsxers in Ohio to-day
than ever before. The man with money
in hiding is helping to hasten the day
of his punishment. A glance at the |
of the assessor will show that |
some persons have practically listed |
every dollar they have in the world,
while others have been sadly neglect
full and forgetful. Unless the county |
board of review can find some way to
make all property owners toe the same
mark, there will be fewer patriots next |
year than there were this.
Those persons who have listed as
they should, should insist that the
yard-stick of equality and fairness
should be applied by the county board |
Of review without fear or favor.