The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-27

like Townley, Lemke, Bowen, Mills
and Max Eastman-who pay no taxes
in North Dakota-in their onward
march carrying the banner of THE
LEAGUE PROGRAM, which is the
specialization Of industry, followed
possibly, as in Russia, by the Ma
tionalization of women?
But let's see about the figures sub
mitted by this local medico, this new
wizard of finance. He says our taxes
in 1919 will be only trifie more than
per cent over 1918, and that even if
the Bismarck socialists, drunk with
power, should double state expendi-
lures, the increase, would be only
about per cent. OF course the learn
ed doctor means all taxpayers. In
selecting the name of "Mr Brown he
did not mean particular person of
that name or any particular taxpayer.
He meant a representative taxpayer,
the average taxpayer of this COM
munity, all taxpayers collectively.
| wonder how much premium this bios
soming political economist whose
learning and experience heretofore
have been confined to pills and plas-
tiers and splints and bandages, would
charge for a guaranty, with sufficient
sureties, that our total taxes in 1919
will not increase more than per
cent? Will he or can he guarantee
that they will not increase 25 per cent
over the year 1918?
There has been some discussion
lately concerning the building of a
community hall, which is needed all
the more because of the loss of the
Armory yesterday. Will our wise
doctor, who is turning his attention
from medical to political science,
agree and bind himself to donate one
thousand dollars of his money, earned
either by high-priced surgical opera
lions or saved by low taxation on his
residence, toward the building of a
community hall, Or any other public
enterprise that he prefers, or to some
public charity, in case state taxes in
the second year after the taxation pro-
gram recently passed by the nonpar-
tisan league legislature is more than
! SO per cent in excess of taxes paid in
Barnes county in 1918. The entire
county is made the test, because the
county is a taxation unit, and many
of our towns and village residents own
farm land scattered in different parts
| Of the county. s.
Most OF the votes which put the
Townley socialists in power were con-
trbuted by farmers, though the farm
ers' representatives which they sent
| to Bismarck might as well have re-
manned at home, for Townley ruled
supreme. Townley and his lieuten-
ants and his newspapers promised
| that the, farmers would be the chief
benefciaries Of the League Program,
| and many of the farmers who voted
the Townley ticket still believe this.
Will Economist Zimmerman who
writes so jauntily on taxation matters,
stake his money as above proposed,
on the proposition that the farmers
will not have to pay as large a pro-
portion of the increased cost OF the
Townley experiment, whatever 1T
amounts to, as other occupations, doc
tors and surgeons included, or other
forms of investment? If the good
! Doctor has the courage of his new
tangled and newly acquired political
| beliefs, which he is lately peddling IN
such profusion to his grinning friends
| and neighbors, his money will be
matched dollar for dollar by the I'M
dersigned, who disagrees with his po-
l;tical vagaries, and thus there Will be
a nucleus in the fund for much
needed community building to COM
nemorate the generosity and enter
prise of our citizens and the valor OF
our sons in war.
Respectfully submitted by
ONLY A TAXPAYER.