The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-06-28

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would be issued and sold. These bonds would be secured by
first mortgages upon real estate or upon property of public uti-
tiles or industries" This does not mean, nor do we believe sena.
the farm lands in Bot Bottineau county would be mortgages to Sc
cure the payment Of these bonds: In the case Of Bottineau county
lots that the county has secured title to, and to which the senator
not sufficient in the estimation Of the bond brokers the bonds
S SeieTes 1f that ae f fos a moment 'o conte 81 il ssSt to Mortgage TT "a; r private Se
property to secure the payment of the bonds. .
Or does the senator want to stake his his r; reputation u lion for for truth
iy contemplated?
' "One Bonding Proposition Gone Wrong"
.;+;3 The u.s., senator t. x speaks m,s very e1oauf mt yof Of lone on th bonding 3I9s; Props Props
and sewer bonds in Bottineau: He points out the high taxes that
for re direct TT taxation ak in in place Of municipal bonds: Is he Sincere
when he uses this as an illustration? We cannot believe it. In
total Of bis city, county, state, school, sidewalk, sewer and water
tax and Charges ges. the whole t thing up to ex the e. water cssan works. 70 ks, and ,s1 sewer We
elusive Of special assessments. And these 72 mills are included
in the figures that Mr.: sandstrom presents to show that zone
bonding proposition went wrong"
Admitting that the bonding proposition in Bottineau event
w Sone wre aesS if n! these sen atGiti @eh 6ad Z be say paid sad for 70 b by direct &c: t azst . !
If Bottineau had the thing to do over again, would the senator
taxation? that would be the only alternative, unless he maintains
that the city should not have sewers and water works at all.
of water, there has been very little revenue derived from water
f Se plot sasie es ~Sie Gati in i9sefs is u w q rsPP sem ne Ri1e:q to 3 36e city,
both in the way of INSURANCE premiums and protection to proper;
ny cso"o' 10y ~ D' wy A"t W oo ""'o "N """A o"pP'' "0AN
be increased by direct taxation.
And we have yet to hear from the first citizen Of Bottineau
with the high taxes resulting therefrom. "
Average Tax Payer is Conservative.
The average citizen may be depended upon to use the utmost
to pay for. Most municipalities are extremely conservative when
it comes to a proposition of bonding for any kind of a public en-
a result Of ultra:conservatism. Bottineaa city had an illustration
of that at: a short hort time iS, ago y Mhsn the proposition gsfaaioq of b bonding d for for $1of
many It this is wa; a very asfa nsH@SS "a ~ improvement 4%a ssn IT, but th the . Ionse 4Gs5
would have to pay the bill.
would become suddenly and violently insane under a constitution
that would permit more latitude in bonding propositions than
they now enjoy?
Wants More Years of Experimenting.
Senator sandstrom processes to believe in state owned public
s ssfsso Of Ao 'san bsid RatsN1 t IS d a@S SRff e hi Is 1 SINCERE %' in h Gy p sns
socia1istiic proposition: He further expresses grave fears that the
management of these institutions would fall into the cesspool of
politics and it would be difficult to secure honest men to manage
these enterprises; It would appear, therefore, that he is not very
optimistic or enthusiastic about his "socialstc' measure.
direct taxation method that is never employed by any state
or other political subdivision in establishing public utilities Of
He wants us to go slow, the slower the better, and feel our
way along, as it were, to see if there is not something wrong about
Quoting for the state At the agricultural college for several years:
He wants further experiments. He does not seem to know that
pie as a a constitution and the state still continue es' Experimenting
and experimenting for the next thousand years, if it so desires.
Inc constitution merely PROVIDES that when the state has
had enough Of this experimenting it can proceed to do something
to remedy conditions if it so desires. And it does not have to
wait a generation till it has accumulated enough money by direct
taxation before it can thus proceed, if the people want it and are
willing to pay the bills.
There can be no question about the attitude Of the great ma
jority Of the people Of Bottineau county toward House Bill A.
Surely Senator Sandstrom knew that he was not representing
the desires of a great majority Of his constituents in Bottineau
county when he helped to defeat this measure. He was loaded
down with hundreds of petitions from his district asking him to
support this measure. And the people who sent in these petitions.
knew what they were asking for, contrary to the destinations Of
league program than does the average man in town, who has CIV
dments il the matter were probably well stated when he told