Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-09-21
FIGURES And
STATISTICS

declared unconstitutional by the su-
preme court and that money, like the
insurance money, was turned into the
general fund to pay stenographers,
buy stationery and meet running ex-
penses. 1t was necessary to do some
thing there so the state paid $4,000
water tax, thus making the district
sound and the land board sold the
land under the law and got $282,00
back in profit A pretty good deal /
would say The 1919 share of this
$4,000 was $4,000.
Now these seven items total So
307,50O a n d miscellaneous items of
smaller nature make up the balance
of the S2,400.O00 of increased state
taxes. These items that have ex-
planned show you exactly why it was
necessary to raise the tax levy when
the republican administration came
in in 1919 The cabinet form of gov
eminent had nothing in the world to
do with it,
DEPRESSING for a moment to answer
the talk that Idaho taxes are higher
than any neighboring state Captain
Conner showed that in Washington
the per capita state tax is 1870, Ore
gon $1211, California S6.71, Nevada
s1S.47 and Idaho s6.13, indicating that
state taxes in this state are lower
than in nearby states.
Taking up the cabinet form of gov
eminent Captain Conner showed that
this system is using less employees
and costing less money than the other
form Under the Alexander admin
istration there were boards and de-
partments in great numbers, indepen-
dent OF each other but often over
tapping" said Captain Conner
By means of large chart Captain
Conner showed exactly what the cab
met form OF government has done. He
showed the departments in the cabi-
net form and what they replaced as
follows:
Department of Agriculture = Re-
placing three boards and six depart
ments. Costing only the salary of the
commissioner of agriculture and saw
ing the expense of all these boards
and departments. There were 10 en-
ployees. There are Is employees now.
Department of Finance n Replaced
four departments and is headed by
the old state bank examiner. Merely
change of name
Department of Labor, immigration
and Statistics-An office created by
the constitution and where no change
was made.
Department of Law Enforcement
Replaced the fish and game, motor
licenses and Is other boards. The
Il secretary of state was named to head
this department and it did not call
for ny additional salaries Under
this head came the state constabulary
which is to be abolished by the plat
forms of both parties and the athletic
commission, which does not cost the
taxpayer any money as it is operated
by commission on tickets to boxing
matches and westling bouts.
Department of Public Investments
This is simply the old office of
register of the state land board and
| now handles the investment of IA mil
lions of your money with only two
more clerks than were used when only
| 10 millions were handled.
Department of Public Welfare-Re-
places the dairy food and sanitary in
spectors, three boards and three de-
partments.
Department of Public Works-Re-
places the highway engineer. two
| boards, highway commission and Gus
todian of state capitol.
Department of Reclamation II
/ clHlptN lHt Sldtt engineer uDueI all
other name.
Captain Conner then analysed a tax
! receipt given him by n local citizen.
| He showed that only Is cents of each
state tax dollar goes to the state de-
partments commonly called the state
house" The other S5 cents goes to
maintain. schools. asylums. peniten-
tiary, etc, which even Alexander ad-
mits cannot be reduced.
you have heard that certain can
didate is going to save you million
dollars by abolishing the cabinet form
of government" said Captain Conner
| Nov the fact is that if he would close
the state house and abolish every
function of our state government he
could only save you Is cents out of
each dollar of your taxes that goes to
the state. Where is he going to save
the million? 1t can't be done without
closing our educational institutions
our asylums defaulting on our bonds,
and ceasing to function as a state
Don't forget the big Boundary Coun-
ty Fair October 5, and Z.
A nifty line of sweaters-the Brad
lev xcf .,.swr