The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-10-11
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cent. IL per cent. 10 per cent ana
3 rer cent in others. In 1910, 90
counties were raised. the average
raise being about 10 per cent. In
1911 ~ counties have been rails
ed. the average raise being a lit
tie more than per cent. Thus
IL will be seen that, while the
state rate was not actually in
creased, the result was the same
in these counties as II IL had
been raised an average Of ~ per
cent in 1910 and an average of 3
per cent In 1911. This was equiv
alent to raising the state tax rate
on these counties from so cents
on the 800 to Sc cents in 1910
and 54Ih cents in 1911. This av-
erage raise of IL per cent on SO
counties in 1910 and per cent
on 72 counties In 1911 is equiva-
lent to a fiat raise of nearly 20
per cent on the entire 119 coun-
ties in the state in 1910 and about
per cent in 1911. And Il must
not be lost sight of that these
heavy raises were certified out to
the equities, and that all county,
city and district taxes were
thereby increased in proportion.
Take, as an illustration, a county
where the raise was % per cent
on lands AMI personality. A farm.
er listing his land at $4,000 and
personally at $1,000, making s4,-
600, found when he went to pay
his taxes that he was paying on
$1,000"
Unjust Taxation.
MY mind turns at this moment to
a certain matter. Mr.. Garnett has
Just spoken to you of plan to revise
the tax laws of the state of Kentucky
and that everybody was in favor OF
revising them, and believe they
are; but there is a different method
advocated by each party as to the
manner of revision. Let me tell you
that maybe you don't
know, and maybe Mr.. Garnett does
not know, hut it is fact, that a man
in Louisville has been taken from
prominent newspaper work and put
upon a salary of $4,000 a year 10
months in advance Of the approach
ing election to advocate before the
next leg stature the passage of new
tax law for the state CT Kentucky
and the principal feature CT that Is
to Illustrate, that If you own $40
farm and YOU have b1r owed s. OJC
On it, that the farmer who blrrows
the money shall pay taxes en- $1O,0DC
and the man who lends the s. 200 on
the farm may escape taxation alto
gether on the $4,000. | think and
believe every man who is to take part
in this fight thinks that when a mar
owns a farm and has money Dor
rowed upon it, that he shall pay taxes
only to the extent that he has &C
quired title to the farm, legal OF
equitable; and that the man who has
his money loaned upon the farm shall
not escape the tax; that is, in anoth
er form, if you have three-foJrths Of
the farm paid for, and you have
money owing to another to the eX
tent Of the other one-fourth, | say
and the Democrats of Kentucky are
saying, that you should pay take!
upon the three fourths value of the
farm only, and the man who ha:
loaned you the other one-fourtf
should pay the other one-fourth of the
taxes.
/ know 1t to be a fact that they in
tend to foist upon you plan which
will not tax the money. | know from
all | have heard of the Democratic
candidate for the Legislature in thi
county that they are not going to ge
that proposition past him; and
think every candidate should promis
before you vote for him that he will
not favor such an unfair and unjus
measure as will allow the monied IL
terests to escape taxation to the del
riment of the real estate owner.
Case of Caleb Powers.
Now, fellow citizens, am going t
turn to the present Democratic Can
paign Book for a few minutes. | read
1--WE denounce the action of
the Republican governor for his
partisan and unjust action in
pardoning the men indicted for
participation in the assassination
of William Goebel, the governor
of our state, and we assert that
those pardons were granted for
political reasons, and not upon
the merits of the cases."
This quotation is from the Dem
cratic platform. Governor Willso
went all over this state-this yo
know-saying that he would not graz
a pardon to any man until he ha
first been convicted by IL men ar
afterward found. to his belief, to
innocent. He said with uplifted har
all over Kentucky and pledged n
own honor and that of his party to
He has violated it, Among the me-
that he pardoned in violation OF b
pledge was Caleb Powers. The h
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