Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-11-03

unnecessary expense on the county.
II was claimed BY those responsible for
the,paseage Of the law was through
that means the taxes Of the county
would be lowered. This has proven
untrue because the taxes are much
higher. The only possible way to keep
down taxes is to keep down theexpeuses
OF the county. Instead Of the expenses
Of the county for 1911 being kept down
they were increased, because we find
from an examination Of the levy this
year while the county Is still under
democratic domination that the
expenses were s50,40s,o5 an increase
over that 81 the last republican admin
istrstion Of ss.os4,s2 an Increase over
that Of the first year of democratic
rule Of s4,iol, "a.
The republican party ia this county
favors lower taxes and keeping down
the expenses Of the county. The ex-1
penses OF the county can be kept down
by proper and business like adminis-
tration OF It's affairs II was also
said by the sponsors for the assessment
law. that some Of the people were
assessed too high. some assessed too low
and some not assessed at all, and what
was wanted was an equal and fair
assessment Of the property Of every
property owner. This reasoning also
falls fat and we need here only to men
tion two incidents 70 show the fallacy OF
the same. Only one man in the
whole town Of La Plata is assessed IS
less than $40 an acre and that man Is
Mr.. ThomasT- Owen, 4 rank democrat
who is close to the bosses and he has
81 acres Of land assessed at $2j 90 an
acre. Every man who knows Mr..
Ovens property knows that it is as
valuable all the way through il not more
valuable than any land in the town.
Another incident is at Indian Head
where one man Is assessed $750.00 an
acre while another man about one
hundred yards away Is assessed $50 90
an acre and his land is just as valuable
as that assessed at $3.50 Standing in
with bosses goes long way when an
assessment takes place according to
democrats 10 this county.
Ano her incident that We might
also mention 10 show the unfairness Of
the assessments is IN the case Of the
property of Mr.. Henry Wenk. Mr..
wenk in 1910 before the assessment was
made owned 402 acres of land of which
he sold 100 acres before the assessment
yet on the balance of 242 acres he pays
5000 more taxes than he did on the
whole 402 acres. Is this fair PROPOSE
tion? ae ai- al
Now as to extravaganza 1t was
stated and charged in the independent
some time ago that in the levy Of
1911 Mr.. William d. Clark, stenograph-
err and type writer for Mitchell ard
Digges was paid out of the peoples
money The sum SIS 80 for type writing
the report OF the road engineer, not
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