Arizona republican., 1913-03-15
TAX PAYERS LEAGUE MAKES
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and let the people know by giving the system great and wide publicity that an equitable and just system is going to be put into effect So you can see l can strongly approve the two bills which are up in the senate. numbers and -"
 The greatest interest manifested among the members of the league was in regard to methods of assess ing mines Young said his people had no system for Valuing personal property. but that personally he be- licved it well to apply the principles of community opinion" the COmmun- ity 10 consist of all the mine owners of the state. In his opinion if each mine owner is convinced that there Is to be no discrimination in Valuing. he as no other less well inforemd man can, will give an absolutely fair judgment of the worth of the mine. It was brought out that the most universally endorsed way to value q mine is on it's real or land property and on its earning power or intangible value. This applies to railroads and public service corporations of all ma lures. For instance a street car company should pay q tax on the share of each street it uses just as the property owners along that street do.
 T admit that the laws which are now up in the senate for ratification are drastic. They must be drastic in order to work any reform what ever.
 License tax? We do not consider that. It is d joke.
 T believe absolutely in franchise tax as well as in real property tax"
 Gaines Views
 Secretary Gaines of the Cochisc county tax league avoided the sub ject of tax assessing because as he said that part was entirely covered by Mir. Young. He confined himself to making plain the manner in which a tax league could effect q saving of public money through the cXpend- ing rather than through the assessing end of the business. In the two years since the league was formed in Co chise a great deal has been done to assure dollar for dollar value to all the people.
 All State League
 An all state tax league was pre- dicted by Mir Gaines and others. Pima, Maricopa and Cochise all have leagues and now Yavapai is starting one. In q few more years the state can have a smoothly running eff cient league of county organizations which will be an invaluable ally to the tax commission and to the state equalizlng board. according to the en- thusiastic predictions of Gaines Heard and others.
 Dwight E. Heard opened the meet ing by reading the report of the cX- ccutivc committee to the members of the joint legislative committee yes terday morning. He then introduced the speakers in their turn. Mir. L.. H. Chalmers was one of the members who made the greatest effort at q formal speech, all the others trying informal discussion Chalmers showed how universal is the desire to bear an even share of taxes and pointed out that tax lodging is merely q result of the feeling that it is no use to pay in all that is or should be assessed for the money will be wasted anyway.
 At the end of the speaking pro l gram and of the informal discussion from the floor, President Heard called up all non- members to the desk and succeeded in enrolling quite q num- Der of new members. The meeting was attended by about 150 men and was held in the court room of the