The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-07-25
Member Tax Commission
Scores Nevada Cattlemen
Says That as Result of Tax Commissions Labors Big
Cattle Companies are Forced to Pay Taxes on
Lands Which Heretofore Practically Escaped

in the public interest or a certain
technique in the handling of his
proposal that clearly leaves the i'm
preston of an awakening conscience.
Mr.. Taylor and his clique have nei-
Their the record nor the technique.
AS a "reformer" he appearsin a new
and unaccustomed role. Rather than
having had the public interest at
heart he and the interests which he
represents have been conspicuous
in every movement calculated to de-
prive the people of the rights in the
public property to which they are by
every consideration of equity and
morals entitled. The National For
est Service-aiming to obtain for the
people a reasonable rental for the
public lands used by the livestock in
dustry for years without compensa-
tion-the State Engineers Office de-
signed to determine the extent of the
water rights legally obtained by the
various users on VI streams to the
end that our greatest National asset,
the water on which our agricultural
development depends, may be GEN.
sored and equitably distributed; the
Tax Commission, which has nothing
to do with the burden of taxation ex-
cept to enforce the law which re-
quires every taxpayer to contribute
his just proportion of the expense of
government, have all met with per-
sistent and aggressive opposition
from that element in our citizenry
for which Mr.. Taylor acted as spokes-
man in his Elko speech. 1t is a far
cry from the interests of this coterie
to the interests of the people.
Mr.. Taylor urges the election of
business men and taxpayers to the
Legislature. If his candidates are to
be honest business men and honest
taxpayers representing no special in
terests not identical with the best in
terests of the people, his proposition
should receive unanimous endorse
ment. The thinking voter, however,
will naturally ask for a better guar
antee of good faith than has yet been
given on this point.
We have had administrations of
business men and taxpayers before
in Nevada. BLACK Wallace" of
unsavory political memory. engine
cred several such administrations
when the Central Pacific Railroad
was our leading industry in poll
tics. 1t was under some such admin
istration that the laws were passed
which gave away for a mere song
the magnificent principality which
the State received from the Federal
government in the land grants.
The other Western States CLASH
fled their lands and sold them
for what they were fairly worth.
preferably to those who would
make the best uses of them. Nevada
shuffied off her fine gifts for SIPS
on acre, rs cents down. the balance
in twenty years, irrespective of what
each acre was really worth and de-
~liberately submitted to the controlling
by a comparatively few persons of
the land with the water and the mo-
nopoly of range thrown in for good
measure. A string of 40-acre tracts
on the streams, and a 40-acre entry
on each spring would hold them all.
Taylor and his political associates
have been the beneiciaries of this
form of legislation. He says the cat
tie industry is the paramount indus
try of Nevada. 1t certainly has Sc