The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-05-21

Guy anu village real estate lHCTtdSc'
but 80 per cent, taxation on railroad
property % per cent, on telegraph
property IA per cent, on personal
property 81 per cent. In addition to
the above, the farmer must pay q
state hail tax of Sc per acre on all
! tillable lands and an additional %,
per acre on all crop lands not with
drawn from the hail insurance pro-
visions prior to the date set by law.
In Towner county the state tax on
farm lands is S7s,75202 for 1919 as
against S17,599.70 in 1918. shownr
an increase of four times as much
for 1919 as for 1918, while for the
same period railroad, express, tele
graph and telephone companies in
crease is but one and thrce-fourth~
times as much.
Here are few individual cases
taken at random from various parts
of the state
Stutsman county, section 10, IA.
81, owned by Judge J. A. Coifey, paic
state taxes of $2S5.39 in 1917
| S347.S0 in 1919 and S522.6i in 1919
plus S1S hail tax making total in
crease of $192.S4 for 1919 over tn.
previous year.
Barnes county, northwest quartz.
of 10, 140-5S, owned by Frank Helm
county commissioner. S51.47 in 1917
s57.19 in 1918, and $220.46 in 1919
plus hail tax of S4.05, making in
creased tax for 1919 $167.32.
Cass county, northeast quarter Of
IS, 140-53, owned by r. B. Boyd
county commissioner. 1917 tax $500
1918 tax $49.43, and 1919 tax S117.5@
plus hail tax S4.6s, making increase
for 1919 S72.S3.
Richland county, southwest quar-
ter "a, 135-49, owned by p. f. Slet-
moe, chairman county commission
ers, 1917 tax $54 .43, 1918 tax $69.0l
and 1919 tax s121.63, hail tax $1.3S
making increase for 1919, S56.97.
Dickey county, northwest quartz,
5, 131-63, owned by Bruce Scott, 1918
tax 5000, and 1919 tax S1O743
without the hail tax added, the in
crease for 1919 is $685..
Ransom county, southwest quarter
3, 1885, owned by Joseph T
Grange, 1918 tax $56.97 and 1919 tax
S122.S7, without the hail tax added
increase is $659O.
LaMoure county, northeast qua
ter 6, 1850 owned by Sam Fclts
1918 tax 1896 and 1919 tax $7O97
without hail tax added, total increaso
for 1919 is $37.O1.
Valuation, Multiplied Five Times.
A most impressive exhibit is given
in the valuations placed on all prop
erty for the purpose Of taxation -
the State Board of Equalization
which shows that farm lands, excln-
sive of improvements. had an assess
ed valuation of 1921, 459,525 in 1919
This was multiplied nearly five time.
or 49, to be exact, the 1919 figures
being $1,072,167 .653. While the 20
tai figures for all property in 1918
was S403 ,25S, in 1919 it was
S1,523,767,4 Alb; and these figure,
analysed show that while in 1913
farm lands share of taxes was az
proximately So per cent, in 1919 the
farm lands of North Dakota must
bear more than 70 per cent of the to-
tai tax burden Of the state.
This naturally means that there i,
a marked decrease in the percentage
of taxation on town and city proper
ties, on railroad, telegraph, telephone
and express lines-at the expense OF
the farmers.
All this proves that it is the frn,
purpose of the Socialist leadership
of the Nonpartisan league to put in
to effect the Socialist program for
the confscation by taxation of all
means of Notwithstanding farm
lands; that is the gospel preached in
one of the text books of the Nonpar
tisan league, "The High Cost of Liv-
ing" by Frederick C. Howe, and his
Authority" for his Socialist Single
Tax theories, Henry George.