The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-22

ject The third will appear tomorrow morning)
accepting president pro senate
Edwards delivered speech which he concluded with the following
but fact The summarized in sentence the idea which
be uppeno the minds Of the people the time
Nearly who has the situation
since the legislature convened has referred INEQUALITIES Of
asmsn a s s s s q t h s sae sd BE-
trbutio Of the burdens Of taxation fundamental principle c
If the eqaa'ies of exist either that
defeat their that the administration OF the law
is defective, or both. @
There doubt that of the fundamental laws Of Mon
aa in relation taxation has been pessteny violated Section
must be assessed at its full value It that the practice
Of % s1%' a % % s s has oSsrD" sn in @ @ jI" Ii I sf % r ,n ,
declared that millions of dollars Of and property escaping
FORE most uneqy distributed Ten later the bureau of
census s estimated the he taxable ee Of Montana % n
the actual value of the the state assessed for taxation
the m s LANDS wealth. s s @1'f be mo-
that the taxable property of the state today if not
only *4s7 sss s5s that about onehrd full value
One could further illustrate the of property
qu,sae 1916 report shows that value Of horses
all live stock little $52oooooo At the
rmen Of sss asps""Fe estimates the value Of horses farms
600 That is live stock in Montana assessed according law
n"seS nt at less than % hsf of its , % ,, v.Ts % Similar nj
well as in the assessment of real property
asram inequalities must result When property assessed full
Standard fa his mn s r he % y E @ to he @ a" inst
nous But when consciously below
there is limit to their arbarncs They may
go per cent The assessment will not only from county
COUNTY but from town to town and from individual to individual
This has been cnclusyey proved by official Investigations made
board Of equalization can do much to correct these INEQUALITIES
the burden Of taxes relieved OF course every
that for Of county and municipal taxation
gam TO- the average TAXPAYER in an underyaon of property;
mpA hlUhp tpOftH afinn
1t is true that in Montana the burden of be
III that the counties of collected average
capita from general while the counties of
in the older states the considerably Montana
third or fourth among the States with the highest
that Montana spay populated county
must fail heavily on the shoulders of the individual No
will better the growth of population and wealth
for OF state taxation the of which limited by
most Paying two and half mills third property is
evidently less expensive than paving mills half
state taxation lifted from shoulders which could well
But the result that suffer
VIDE open all the evil of arbitrary
II there are INEQUALITIES between individual and individual and
county and county in the burdens of taxation they are
primarily due to the arbrarness assessment The
4dhes IN TINS ease are the penalty for the disregard Of the law
situation similar that existed other states
and have been made in recent remedy The State
Idaho by special effort equalization
raised the assessed valuation of the
to in 1911 In the State of Colorado the total
valuation OF property from 1922 O79 in 1912
in 1913 In Arizona the commission by strict
100000 in 1912 1877 1913 is the valuation was
almost rebled in each of these three The
has been not only equalization of the shares taxation bu
reduction in the In Colorado taxation dropped from
ever four mills in 1912 and three l93 Ia
Arona in order large
providing that taxing district should
more than ten per cent the of the
If we Ireet shasp p tie INEQUALITIES Of taxation which ara dina >,