The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-16
LOOK AT YOUR TAX BILL

The Progress hopes and expects
1t may for long be counted among
! the friends and supporters OF Gov
ernOr NestOs and his associates,
and for that reason if no other, is
going to speak right out in meetin'
on the things that dlsGlpCint.
Only ten days since the inaugur-
alton. and spokesman for the Ad
ministration are quoted as asking
for the creating of additional
boards and commissions to man
age state industries, more offices
to fill, more officers to spend
money, more salaries and expenses
to pay
The state has just ended five
years of extravaganza and waste
unparalleled Of taxpayers money.
Every available nook and corner at
Bismarck was filled with tax
spenders, officesr and privates in
venting ways to spend public
money.
The Progress has not been alone
in hoping and expecting that by
this time the Nestos Administration
would have made marked elm
ination Of the useless, extravaganza,
non-prQducing, purpOseless boards,
commissions bureaus and other
frllls inherited from its predeces-
sors. the majority Of these spend
ors separated from the public
areasury. and the administration
of state affairs and industries TAX
en- on in earnest by the men whom
the people elected for that purpose
1t still expects that will be done.
The Progress has not been alone
in hoping that the Industrial Com
mission would spend the minimum
in putting part Of the state mill at
Grand Forks into operation and
determining for the few who are
still in doubt. whether or not it is
likely to operate profitably, before
spending more millions upon it.
Instead. some sO-called friends
of the Administration proclaim
with glee, "just see, the League
could only spend a million. and
we're going right along spending
more" and selling bonds and more
bonds which some one must pay.
The Progress has not been alone
in hoping and expecting that he
ten millions of state bonds pro-
v:ted for might not Re issued and
sold until it was demonstrated that
the money Gould be loaned SD rs
t, get back more than half the H.
terest paid upon it. which we have
n, heen able to do win the mil.
ions already loaned.
inStcad t@ere seems to be un-
cal ia for ha ste to ret this :cl
milliOns in and out, and our own
friends boast of lending two or
three millions now in the same
time it took the Frazier Admins
tration to lend one, and in the face
II the fact that our experience in
the mortgage loan business has
been at least fifty per cent failure.
and our sister states who have
tried 1t longer are worse off than
we are. Private individuals and
business concerns are recovering
from the spree of extravaganza Of
1915, 1919. getting back to earth
and econmoizing or at least trying
to live within their normal in
comes.
The Progress is not alone in
hoping and expecting that the
State Administration, and the leg
islature will realize the need to do
likewise, quit borrowing and re-
turn to sanity, If not normally.
Every million dollars of bonds sold
nears an annual tax of 100000
to pay for interest and sinking
fund. besides the expense of spend
ing it. and it stick for twenty or
thirty years too.
The tax spenders have been at |
the bat long time. It's about |
time for the taxpayers inning.
LOOK AT YOUR TAX BILLS"
The Sheldon Progress.