The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-04-29
HOLLISTER ANSWERS
GOVERNORS SPEECH;
SHOWS INACCURACIES

mltCee winch approved the statement
condemning the cabinet bills of Gov
ernor Hyde, W. H. Holliser, yesterday
issued a detailed statement in which
he answers the speech of the Gov
ernor made at the luncheon of the st.
Louis Chamber of Commerce, We'd
nesday.
Mr.. HOLSTER shows that the con-
solicitation measures will cost the state
total of $2,467 ,120 during the next
biennial period against 81 ,452,000 dur
ing the past two years under Govern
or Gardner.
In his statement Mr.. Hollister also
shows that the increased taxes to be
collected on real and personal prop
erty for all state purposes is an in
crease of so per cent. The assess
ment for 1920 was $2,471 ,746,046
against $4,467, 451 ,6S2 as the amount
to be assessed for 1921. The total tax
es for all state purposes, in the event
the assessments are not changed, will
amount approximately to $6,522, 470.-
SO or an increae over the Gardner av-
erage of $2,179,313.22, or just little
over so per cent.
Mr.. HOLSTERS statement follows in
full:
AS one of those Democrats who
participated in the conference of Dem
ocrats, held in st. Louis last Monday,
possibly may have the liberty upon
my own account Of calling attention
to some facts in this connection. The
Governor expresses a fondness for
"cold figures" and speaks of "dashing
excursions in realms of unreality,"
"superheated resolutions" and the
like, so that he should be favored
thereby.
In the first place. the Governor in
sists that the increase of taxes to re-
suit from the increased assessment
will amount to only Is per cent. Let
US see.
During the four years of Governor
Gardeners administration, collections
for all state purposes amounted to
$17,372,684.56, or an average of $4,-
343,171.14.
The total assessment of real and
personal property for 1920 was 3d.
All, 746,046. This assessment has
been raised to $4,467 Ash ,682, or an
increase Of about 80 per cent.
Upon this new assessment all levies
made in Missouri under state law
must be paid. The taxes authorized
by existing state law include ten cents
for state revenue. three-fifths Of one
cent for school interest, two cents for
capitol bonds, and two cents for pen
sions for the blind, or a total of 14.6
on the 500 valuation.
The Governor ignores the fact that
these levies must all be charged
against the new assessment, and not
the ten cents for state revenue only.
The total receipts from these levies
for 1921, if the tax rates indicated re-
main unchanged, and the assessments
are not changed, will amount approx
mately to $6,522, 479.96, or an increase
over the Gardner average of $2,179,-
1892, just little over so per cent.
In figuring the taxes to be paid by
st. Louisans, the Governor likewise
only the ten cent levy FOR
state revenue purposes, when in fact
all levies must be assessed against the
new valuations. This being true, the
state taxes paid by st. Louis proper
,y-owners on their new 1921 assess
nent of 81 ,001 ,53O,939 will amount to
y, 412,235.17, instead of $1,001, $50 as
he Governor states. as against ST.
)96,194 for 1919. and $1,120,209 for
1920, taking the Governors own fig
Tres. So much for taxes.
The Governor insists that his con-
bills will only cost $4,000
more than the old departments, al
hough he does not make clear his
method Of figuring. Here are the
acts, partly taken from state records,
md partly from the Governors own
r 2cch;
The statement issued Dy the Demo
ratio conference declared that the
i've new departments, Agriculture,
finance, Labor, Public Welfare and
finance would cost approximately
100000 for the next two years, as
against an approximate cost of ST.
100000 for the last two years. The
Governor says that the legislature APP
for the new departments
or the next two years $1,927 ,120, and
ldmits that the four departments
to the new actually cost
or 1920, $1,452,248. Very well,
We invite comparison between our fig-
Tres and the Governors.
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