The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-26
Grady County to Join in State
wide Movement Meeting
will be Held at City Hall
Wednesday Evening
LEAGUE IS GROWING
THROUGHOUT STATE
Purpose is to Study Problem In
telIigensIy and Formulate Laws
to Remedy Conditions
Methods Explained

A meeting will be held at the city
hall Wednesday evening for the pur-
pose of launching Grady county
branch Of the Citizens Protective
league OF Oklahoma, having for It's
object reduction Of tazes, It's specific
purposes being summarized below:
Secretary McCracken Of the Retail
ers association announces chat the
regular meeting of the merchants
which was to be held Wednesday eve
ming is postponed and instead the mer-
chants will join in the taxpayers meet
ing
Il am thoroughly In sympathy with
the purposes or this movement said
Ed r. Johns. chairman Of the Grady
county board OF county commission
ers Our taxes are too high and the
only thing Tor the people 70 do Is to
get together and work out plans
whereby they can be reduced A coun-
~ and statewide organization is need
ed in order to carry out the necessary
reforms"
Dennis O'Brien is taking an active
part IN organizing the movement 10.
cally and has already secured 80 or
more members It is hoped 10 bring
into the league merchants, farmers
aud men Of al classes Every citizen
Is invited to attend the meeting Wed.
nesday evening
In an address to the business mep
aud taxpayers 10 Oklahoma City re-
Gently. Walter ". Pollock Of colum-
bus. O.. an expert authority on ques-
tlons Of taxation. declared that Okla.
homa "had no system by which as
sessments on property In the state
was made. he urged the adoption Of
a more scientific and systematic way
Of deriving at equitable assessments
in not only the cities and towns, but
Of the rural sections as we'll Mr.. Pol
lock spoke 70 the business men at the
Invitation and request OF the Citizens
Protective league Of Oklahoma, the
ssata-Ride organization incorporated
February &c, formed for the purpose Of
studying tie questions concerning tax
alton. aud Investigating the methods Of
The administration of the state, coun
ty. city. township, school and other
municipal governments.
Oklahoma is not alone Ia her com
plalnt of unequal nAatlon.a said SIR
Pollock. Tho same complaint 6
heard everywhere Assessors, as
rule, while doing the best they can
do not make a reasonable assessment
because they do not understand The
Fundamental principles Of valuation
In Oklahoma. where you have th'
county assessment plan, there arr
about as many systems Of valuation
as there are assessors
The expert complmeuted the worl
being done by the Citizens PROTECTIVE
League OF Oklahoma. saying the move
ment started would result In muel
good to The people Of the state, an'
not only a reduction IN taxes, but th
establishment Of a mort scientific AM
equitable system OF deriving at Yalus
tions Of property
Efforts arc being made by Oh
league 10 arouse state wide interes
IN questions OF taxation and OF the &C
minlstrauon Of the various govern
ments. Branch leagues are being o.
ganized In counties In Oklahoma. DuI
ing the last two weeks, almost doze
county branch organizations hay
been formed, and the total membe
ship at the present time is more tha
5000. and possibly 10000 1t is pr
posed to organize every county, an
secure a total membership OF 10000
taxpayers in oklahoma When this
done then meeting Of represent
tives Of the county organizations WI
be held for the purpose of diseussir
the various questions OF vital impoi
ance to the taxpayers, and, II deem'
advisable, to draft laws which, II e
acted, would bring about q remedy
the existing evils IN the state Wi
body 100000 strong, It is hoped tn
results viii follow that viii be Of be
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