The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-25

used in transportation What is that
value? One valuation has been made.
1t was made pursuant to resolution
Wisconsin. It took several Years to
$9O,000,0OO.
And they are asking you, not only
to give them such power of attorney,
but to consent to a doubling Of the
state tax on your farm. At the pres
ent time the state of Minnesota de-
rives $S,500.000 a year from tax on
panies. If the railroads became gov
eminent property, the state would lose
that revenue, for 1t would be futile for
the government mt to tax its own instru.
would have to be made up by an addi-
tional levy on all other property in the
state. An additional one EMIL levy
order to make up the sS.5O0.00O of lost
revenue, there would have to be i'm
posed on every farm and every other
piece of property in Minnesota practic-
ally four mills in additional taxes. The
average. state tax rate during the past
decade has been only little over four
mills. Therefore, Minnesota farmer,
when the candidates Of the so-called
Farmer-Labor party ask you to vote
for them, they not only ask you to put
a $4,000 mortgage on your farm but
to consent to doubling Of the state
tax rate thereon, not only for the next
year, or the next decade, but for all
time to come.
And let it be noted, that however
disastrous government ownership of
railroads would be, it would be rela-
lively harmless compared with the
adoption of the entire public owner
ship program Of the so-called Farm
er-Labor party.
Instead of adopting policies which
people of our commonwealth, let US
take steps to reduce those burdens
Let us make government simpler, not
more complex. Let us consolidate
rate boards, bureaus and departments
which now constitute the government,
Of Minnesota into fewer departments,
With xed respGnsioil fy ana increase
payroll every superfiuous public Of
fetal and employee, standardize SER
vice and salaries in public employ
ment. and place government on the
same basis of efficiency and economy
that is required in private business.
Born and raised on farm l share
the ASPIRATIONS of those who labor. My
sympathies are not with the drones
of society but with it's workers, for
have always had to work myself.
When l am in the executive chair the
farmers and workers of Minnesota will
know they have a governor who un-
derstands them because he is. one of
them.
The demand for economic readjust-
ment is insistent today. The Republic
can party stands for no revolutionary
overturning Of the economic order.
but for gradual adjustment of man,
his rights and conditions to his chang
ing environment. In making econom-
ic readjustments the prime object to
be sought is not dead leveling of
society, such as our radical friends
seek, but distribution Of rewards
that shall stimulate every man to
spend himself to the utmost for the
advancement of his community, his
state, the race and it's civilization. I
will not compromise with socialism
any of it's DISCUSSES; nor will I stand
for any general extension of public
ownership of industry, because exper-
fence has demonstrated that govern
ment ownership and operation of one
industry inevitably sets in motion eco
nomic and political forces which COM
pei government ownership and opera
ton of other industries. If we would
avoid socialism, we must refuse to
enter it's front door.
The people of Minnesota may be dis
satisfied. but they are not radical. 1t
will be my purpose to help them dis
cover the reasons for the conditions
which have made them dissatisfied,
and to outline policies which will help
remove those conditions. They shall