The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1920-10-01
N. D. Press ASSociatiOn
cAPlToL NEWS BUREAU,
Earle r.. Tostevin. Secrotarv.

ENrtS H., o6tevluy 0eCTUSATys cE
That 1t will cost the state $217, ,148i
more TO run the state of North Dakota
during the year than 1t cost last year:
is the admission made by the Town
Economical Administration,
which, has "lowered''''s:: taxes to three.
times Emore than they formerly were
not. M yE hrs, {. i-s!sf, H., & I.
TheHfgures and the fallacious argu-
ing Of the. Townley Kept Press and
professional tax jugglers are clearly
showns up in an open letter by Assists
ant Attorney General Frank e. Pack
ard, who using the records and the
figures as given out by Tax COmmlsas
sionerA Wallace demonstrates beyond
cavil the weirdness, of the. present re-s
gime. N His. article follows: It v I33tfs
""The Bank of North. Dakota in;
du1geS in luxury unknown; 1aven-e
ture, to any other bank, in Christen7;
dom "a propaganda expert whose sole
duty appears to be the dissemination
Of half truths or whole untruths, In.
support Of the present Socialistic re-
gime lin North Dakota. This gentle.
man, Professor VIM. G. Roylance, late:
of the University of Utah, closest
economist and school room theorist,i
in recent newspaper article declared
that the writer was Il nut" or some!
thing to- that effect The occasion of.
my SHINING was a little gentlemanly
derision Of Tax Commissioners, G: E.
Wallace's statement that, the current
tax levy for state purposes would only
be Z of one mill. I ventured that it.
would range somewhere between 81
and 21 mills. -:'''%-.%%': 5**t:S
After pitilesslys tearing my poor
logic to tatters, Prof. Roylance con-
cludes-"A levy of 3 of a mill would
more than cover that amount Qevy
for state purposes) so that it Is plain
that the levy Of Z mills proposed by
Commissioner Wallace will be ample.
1T will be remembered that, Mr..
Packard went about the country dur
ing the summer of 1919 lecturing on
North .Dakota's financial debauch, and
this is where he ends.' f=s.t
It must have been that the State
Board Of Equalization. overlooked
Prof. Roylance and his far reaching
knowledge Of public finance when they
made the annual levy for the current.
year, since they made it 10 mills and:
not g of Il mill, as the distinguished
gentleman FROM the City $of q Many
Wives contended would be sufficient.
Packard, who it appears has arrived
at. naughtl in,,shas controversy with
Prof ROylance, siig ggested this @as a
and in5spite of an the Boards
could sl0 they coMld not &. ges saMtI
its ma shdd TO- 1sVy CHS FafhefS
than 3 Of a mill. #
The levy for the current year fixed
by the State Board Of Equalization
was for the general fund, 1.O44 mills !;
sinking :, fund, O.56 :, mills; interest
fund, O.O5G mills; total, 1.15O mills, or
nearly four times as great as Prof.
ROylance declared would be ample.|
Adding to this, Q.75 mills for the SOL
dier's bounty, we get 1.9 mills.
On q valuation of 81 SOC, 900, 900 (es-
timated by State Tax COMMISSIONER
this levy will produce $2,847, ,186.O0.
This, however, does not tell the en-
tire story. The income tax, the oil
tax, and the stock and bond tax, all
new and direct taxes, Will produce
his year $1,O46,OOO, according to the
State Tax Commissioner. His esti-
nate for next year is about the same,
80 thatato the So, ,S47; 1856 general pro- !
)erty levy must be added these spe-i
,ial direct taxes, which makes q bur- :,
len OF @ $3.50 os loo. IN IN Aynv iaSy yos @ 50
,pecml direct taAss' t,le s. its" ths,, fnr r. $ba
'b,oss, OF soingMn TSn 80 tees sost ~ noar % ,vas
,.4125 mills. ~ sts&iit #il
IN lylo 3, the levy levy 4or s'rae os +b,s vsoy
cnn,sn IMe .r q Nil. IN :1a12
vas si'e9v: % 'st2 ~ 90 u i n,;1is and in
: vas sc, ai;oo .. ~ 81 % ~, tha Hon.
loAo tne ils. t;n. tIxy ' - ~ e. All as4
"a aomnlstfa'loi' i,,i1 :. "''s = :
u inn.s ,,.,,;..,,,s .+bro,1. prof
, NY asseltlon ~ aem ,..,,,n ~ ,,,as .+h,t =
,l.o suct ase ,a e.o";a,is, ma so. val
evy Dasea upon the iae-slist pr :,He,,t ,n;11s
latlon Moul ~ il.as ue,,,,, - = naade5 a a. FMS
o prouuce tne l1semue ne - that this M
l!ne 4,, ~ ma1!;I nG u| tha Iau;as IN % E,ol,ars
5 tlue dahis ~, t''s th,..ir eor ondl tha
or OF lasI yenr anu ~ .n'h hase seA1 snH @ Ant
DIV vaiuatloh ; as l,.e oas ve,;an,,a u mon ,
Q produce this years, N revenue 81 11 upon ,1}1,s
ne l9Io ltS ;Vstt.lalluqn, .ll'lq, tn,-;na. - th;s
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