The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-02-18


pected that it will be spent. Neither
have we heard any complaint against
the half mill tax for agricultural col
lege extension, except from those who
do not understand it. They seem to
think this tax is intended to make
Ames college bigger. 1t is not so in
tended. 1t is intended to make every
farm in the state more productive.
1t is intended to build up the farms
and not to tear them down. Hence
there is no complaint about that The
only thing left to complain about is
the capitol extension Of the tax.
Which, thing you, Charles Escher
ought to make the biggest roar about,
Tie $7.05 capitol extension tax on his
719 acre farm, or the $2,S76 loss on
said farm through reduced tariffs on
farm products? This loss is not only
| for this year, but for every year to
come until the tariff is restored, while
the capitol extension tax will last for
but one year more at the present level
and then drop to about one-tenth what
| it now is for eight years more
Why should Chris Michaelsen COM
plain of the $11.95 assessed against
him for capitol extension, when he
has been robbed of $5.022 yearly by
tariff reduction?
1t seems to me that farmers gener-
ally, and republican farmers in par
ticular, are acting very foolishly when
they kick about a tax of one cent an
acre to build a needed improvement
and submit tamely to a loss of many
dollars an acre-we have estimated
lit at $4-through tariff reduction.
The damage to them is not being done
by a mouse in the basement of the
state treasury at Des Moines. but by
a herd of wild asses democratic
donkeys) rampant in the fields of the
country, which have already Destroy
ed at least thirty per cent of this
years crop, and OF many succeeding
crops unless they be driven from the
fields.
If our democratic county officials de-
sire to do a real job of explaining, let
them take little job out to the cream
cries of the county and tell the farm
ers there how nicely they will get
along in the future with butter from IL
| to Is cents a pound lower. Or let
! them tell man with several thousand
bushels of corn to sell just what nice
thing it is for him that corn is 20
cents bushel lower than it ought
| to be. That will keep them busy for
q while.
In order that people may know just
what all this howl is about, we give
the capitol extension tax on all these
overtaxed farms! The state nstitu.
! tons and the agricultural extension
tax are the same:
EScher farm, 719 acres .$7.O5
Gardner farm, $50 acres ...... 1915
Heese farm, 544.27 acres .... 4.93
keairnes farm, 1.04S.93 acres 90. 7.48
| Roundly farm, 500 acres .... GIT
Schechinger farm. 751.7O acres i. 6.1O
Gorsche farm, 751.7 acres ..... 6.75
Hess farm, $50 acres ...... .... 6.55
Michaelson farm, 1,255.44 acres .11.95
Bosley farm, 637.75 acres 80. -. 6.O7
Williams farm, $40 acres .... 4.63
Clapp & Pryor farm, 760 acres i. 7.43
Quinn farm. 719 acres .......... 657
Olson farm, $50 acres ...... 80. TAG
Porter farm, 649.61 acres -. 80. 5.92
! We have shown that 1913 was hard
year for the farmer. 1t was expected
1t would be, for the number 10 has
been proverbially unlucky all through
history. So far as the draught is con-
cerned. he can do nothing to get rid
of that. But he can swat the baggarly
politicians.
1t is up to him to determine wheth.
er it will be the gang which taxed him
less than one cent per acre to build
park for Des Moines, or whether he
will go after the gang which has re-
duced his income four dollars per acre
by breaking down the tariff wall and
permitting the farmers of the world
to dump their products into his mar.
ket.
Which, think We, the wise farmer
ought to do?-Shelby County Repub-
lican.