Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-07
PUBLISHING THE DELINQUENT TAX LIST

Capital journal published at Salem paid 80 column inch
or total Of sso for publishing & enqent tax Inst @ Of @ Malno9 @ COUNT &
fishing the list being $7744O
cusnt tax notice bi to b. the state
Ing publication Of the delinquent tax and the substitution Of
ie delinquency sent BY first eas letter mail by the tax collector to the
Capital Journal the b Tne initiative bill aimed
over job against the tax PAYERS and doing it all the name Of reform
ulators absaos who thrive
been trying publication of the tax list for years Session after @
q tax payer sold out the dark without notice that they may grow '
1t cost the tax payers Marion $77iO to publish delinquent
years back.
The publication the list is not direct notice to the property own
ths salem statesman anl there Marion county pe
who % Do not take axe those a Pc ~ and sseon tn ' Wv were a Gd away % @
cost the taxpayers Of the county $774o given percentage
chance being notified os Of their ia ia, ds"any % by v e s direct m "Sud @
mail notice each delinquent letter for each parcel
Of property contained in the list r4sm~ as p%sise,a 81 cited
In other words the Capital Journal paid for doing half Of the pub
paid so6Slo more than it should hav cost for notification property
n M e d @ is. wp% m % noa i p ye SSS SS an npn h @ WASTE
and injustice Of the existing law the reason why the Capital Journal does
Mr. MGichst merchant and business of Salem He
tate He allowed delinquent upon peccs plated
land As carried in the nqaen tax list these S$ parcels parcels fill @ a. m % col
Statesman for which he required each paper $l42 total pub
people viii believe that letter written by Tax Collector Nceda"
addressed Mr. McGicr his place of business telling him in detail that
his certain property by description and with the amount stated
tim would be direct and positive nice him Of his den
quency its penalty than Of the published in
which take and probably does edPorand Daily journal
The reprint above contains the essential parts of a
news" story recently in the Oregon Journal. The
publisher of that paper G. S. Jackson is initiating at
heavy expense to himself or more presumably to the
spectators backing him, bill to abolish publication of
the delinquent tax list in the newspapers.
1t is fair sample of the "stores" from different
counties from time to time and it is papaby intended to
prejudice and mslead the public
AS matter Of fact the instance of Mr. McGlchrst's
tax given Illustration is strong argument in favor
Of publication Mr.. McGilchrist had sold the land in
question under contract and the purchasers should have
paid the taxes but did not Mr. McGilchrist had full
notice through the newspapers of this fact and there
fore was position to protect his interests Under the
proposed Jackson scheme of selling out taxpayer in the
dark he would probably have learned later that tax
lien speculaor had title to his property from the sheriff
for delinquent taxes paid and it would have cost him
good deal of money and trouble get the tange straight
ened out
Mr. McGlchrist is not victim of delinquent tax
publication but beneficiary He is firm believer in the
advertising Of the delinquent list
This is only instance among many in every county
in the state where taxpayers benefited by the annual
publication Of the delinquent list large majority of
heavy taxpayers are in favor of the present method of
Only the petty spectators in tax liens and claims scapers
who infest most county court houses advocating
turn to star-chamber methods.
The tax list publication cost Marion county last year
$744O and half of that amount paid to the Capital