The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-26

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We are publishing a second article
on taxation matters in Barnes county
in today's paper, which gives the tax
PAYERS an insight into what is being
done in regard to the boost in taxes.
You know it is common argument
for those who favor the present state
regime and want to stick up for its
extravaganza to say that it IS the
county commissioners who are 10
blame for the big raise in taxes. \
glance at the figures given in today's
article will dispel any such notion
from the mind Of any fair minded
man. The raise in county taxes Is
little over six thousand dollars as
compared with 1918 so that it will
readily be seen with this amount
spread over the entire county it will
make but very little difference to the
average tax payer. This in itself
knocks out the argument of the
Lacquer that the county commission
ers are to blame for the high taxes.
You have got to acknowledge the corn
that it is the state administration that
is doing things to you in the way of
taxation.
When you see the legislatures of
states like Maryland, Mississippi,
and South Carolina refusing to grant
woman suffrage, one is inclined to the
belief that those states are going
backward instead of forward. Thirty
two states have now ratified the con-
stitutional amendment and only four
more are needed and there is no ques-
ton but that these will easily be OBJ
tanned from the remaining states
which have not as yet acted on the
constitutional amendment. In the
state Of North Dakota we have legis-
lature who grants suffrage but refuses
to stand for a free and untrammeled
press-perhaps thinking that the less
light that is shed on the party now
in power the better it will be for that
party. In the states we have men,
toned above they have free press
but they refuse to give woman the
ballot perhaps thinking that more
light might be thrown by the women
on rotten politics in the south. 1t is
all in the point of vieW-but then we
are progressing after all. Get out of
the old rut.
BY careful analysis of the tax ar
ticles that have been published in the
Times-Record the past fe" days you
will notice that the county commits
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tlonal levies to the amount Of only
S1260 outside of the legislative en-
actments Of the 1919 legislature which
compelled the county commissioners
to make these levies and this was a
non partisan legislature SO that If
there is any blame to be attached to
anyone it must be placed to the credit
Of this legislatures And in this con-
nection we might add that one thous-
and dollars of that $3.50 raised was
for fixing up the judges chambers at
the court house and this in our opin-
ion was money very we'll spent and alb
solutely necessary. So You see that
when you get this dope all smoothed
out our county commissioners have
handled the affairs Of the people of
Barnes county very satisfactorily in
deed. We would like to know though
where that terrible extravaganza on
the part Of the county fathers comes
in in spending $3.50 and also just how
the league advocates are going to boil
ster up their cry that the county COM
missioners are responsible for the
raise in county taxes.
A great deal is heard and read about
what is known as the Adriatic ques-
ton in which President Wilson has
lately taken hand. The question
seems to center around the city of
fiume and for the benefit of our read
ers we are giving few facts here
with. Fiume is thriving city on the
east side Of the Adriatic and has a
fine large harbor. The population is
composed mostly of Italians, who by
their own vote indicated that they
wished to join Italy and Italy seems
determined that they shall, but Presi-
dent Wilson comes along with the de-
claration that the city should be turn
ed over to the Jugo Slavs and should
become their principal seaport. After
hot discussion in the peace confer
WIZ AIdAy "iIlluAC" IdtilC1 tlldH give
in to Wilson's demand that the city
should be given over to the Jugo
slavs and thus the question stood still
unsettled. The Italians made several
concessions to the Jugo Slavs in other
directions and it is claimed that the
question was about to be settled when
Wilson comes along with new note
urging the Slavs to hold out against
italy and thus delaying settlement of
that question for some indefinite time.
It is not known exactly what conces-
sions Italy made but these will come
to light later.
We read with considerable amuse-
ment in the league Fargo daily Friday
morning that the progressive republi-
cans are in revolt against Judge N.
c. Young and others in the state over
some imaginary dissatisfaction over
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