Milford chronicle., 1912-10-04
THE NATIONAL
TAX CONVENTION

having arrived home from Des Moines.
iowa, after attending the National Tax
Sonyennon, accompanied by Hon. Geo.
". sparks and wife, will say that this
was the best tax convention on record.
Ar. sparks read very interesting pa-
per on the system of taxation, which is:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects; local and self
so0trol OF county and even of school
assessments and expenditures of the
Money raised. -
When such men as Hon. Lawson Pur-
dy and Arthur G. Waddell, of New York
Professor Tudd, of Ohio; Alfred Wat
klns, Of Nebraska, and other gentlemen.
81 equally high standing acknowledge
that we have the best system of any
state, it is indeed a matter of high
praise. One of the most surprising fea-
lures to them was that we have no State
tax on our land, and yet fully maintain
me expenses of our State government.
The farmers here pay less tax than they
pay in any State of the Union. This
self government is closer to the people
than anywhere else, there are only eight
States in the Union having a constitu-
ton similar to ours. When acknowledge
ed by the State experts on taxation that
we have the best system, / think it
should be left as it is, only that it may
be regulated, as it grows and deVelopes.
by a Commission as has been done in
the past six years.
In Governor B. F. Carroll's address to
the convention, he called attention to
the enormous corn crop grown in Iowa
this year, saying that they would pro-
duce $50, 600, 900 bushels. After going
cut into the country and talking to the
farmers as to their ways and customs of
farming, growing, pricing their lands,
etc, found land worth from $3.50 to
$3.50 per acre, growing but one crop a
year, principally corn. have not yet
hgured out how long it would take a
farmer to pay for home growing corn
on farm that costs $500 per acre.
Going down into the farmers market
IN Des MOines and pricing the produce
sold there direct to the consumer, /
found the best table corn selling at five |
sents per dozen ears, cantelOupes three /
for a nickel, four or five pound chicken !
for fifty cents, and eggs eighteen cents |
a dozen. | failed to see how a market |
gardener can pay the price of land and .
and the high cost of labor and ever own .
bis farm.
On our way home through the State
1f Michigan | was surprised to see the
poor lands, the blowing sand and poorly
sept orchards, in many cases with trees l.
lead. While coming through New York
md Pennsylvania, found a rough and
mountainous country, where a farmer
must earn all he gets. In COM
'aring other States with ours, Delaware
'tfers many more advantages to home
eekers, and know of no State where
man can have the natural advantages
hat he has here. We have land not
My of promise but of realization. A :
armer in Delaware can grow a crop of -,
7heat and crop of corn on the same !
and in the same year, and leave the land =
overed with scarlet clover. l, myself, J.
ave grown 25 bushels of wheat and 40 ,
ushels of shelled corn to the acre on
he same land in the same year. There .
re many other crops that can be grown y
J ike manner. Two paying crops on
he land every year. o. A. Newton, !,
- Bridgeville, Del. :