The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-10-03
SOME REASONS

The Portland Oregon Journal began
campaign Of yillihcation directed at
the country press Of Oregon as a part
Of It's program IN fostering bill, mi
tlated bv Journal financial backing and
To- be voted on at the November cleo
ton, 10 prohibit publication Of delln-
quent taxes The attacks Of the Jour
nal were based on Misrepresentation
and has placed honest country journal
ism of Oregon in bad light. The
Oregon Journal has SO made its accus-
ations that the casual reader might be
lead to believe every country paper of
the state was conducted by dishonest
AL INSCRIPTIONS persons.
As the Glacier has said before, the
Journal, with shrewd trickery, knows
that il IS an easy matter to reach the
ear of the public with anything that
smacks Of rendering aid to the prop
erty owner and lifting the burden Of
taxation. The Journal has made il ap-
pear that the bill it fosters will do
this, when in fact it will not. The
Journal hopes to slide In with We
tory, and thus it hopes to gain state
wide prestige But if the electors Of
Oregon carelessly allow this bill, fos-
tered by an organ that has been known
to lean toward single tax, to be voted
upon the statute books Of Oregon are
they not inviting deluge of freak no
tions and radical deaisms?
The following are some facts about
delinquent tax publication and why it
is a beneficial system Of governmental
procedure:
First The uniform practice of the
states o the Union is to notify owners
of dellnqent property Of such delln-
quency through publication notice.
Second That because Of the failure
Of county assessors. past or present. to
correct assessment rolls SO as to con-
form to the deed re ord, sheriffs are
not in possession of the names and adj
dresses of owners of delinquent prop
erty and a written notice is therefore
Impractical.
Third That under the system of
mailed notices the mortgagee of in
numbered property is not notified of
tax delinquency
Fourth That the entire cost of the
publication notice IS paid for by the
owner of the delinquent property and
not by the general taxpayers.
Fifth That the owner of delinquent
property is not the unfortunate toiler,
but the boom real estate operator or
the careless person The former
should receive publicity for the protec
tlon of poor persons who are pure has.
ing from him on installment contracts
and have no other means of learning
of tax delinquency. The latter needs
the published notice to direct his at
tention to his delinquency.
Sixth That the discontinuance of
the published notice will result in far
more property becoming delinquent
thereby reducing available revenue to
the state and its political subdivisions,
and increasing the Opportunity for the
operations of the delinquent tax shark
Seventh That by increasing the
amount of unpaid taxes the general
taxpayer is compelled to raise addi-
tonal revenue. Therefore the reten-
ton of the present publication law is
for the protection of the general tax
payer.
Eighth That if the end sought is to
reduce the cost of permitting taxes
to become delinquent then the subject
should be approached in rational and
scientific manner. A measure should
be framed providing for reduction in
penalties or interest, but in such man
ner as will not endanger delinquency,