The Sauk Centre herald., 1926-09-30
STATE MAY BE BOND.
LESS-TAXLESS IN 1885
GOV. CHRISTIANSON MAKES A
PREDICTION IN ADDRESS AT
/! FERGUS FALLS
BUDGET PLAN SUCCESS
50, 100000 SAVED TAXPAYERS
THROUGH VETO APPROPRIA-
TIONS-ADDRESS IN BRIEF

Minnesota, a bond-less and tax-less
state in 1885, so far as a direct levy
for revenue purposes is concerned
vigorous opposition, including the
power of the veto, to any increase in
the total of appropriations in 1927;
completion of the reorganization of
the state government; and placing
agriculture upon an equal basis with
industry, were high lights in the key
note address delivered by Governor
Theodore Christianson at Fergus Falls
Tuesday evening, Sept. 28th, formal
iy opening his campaign for re-elec-
ton.
Governor Christianson stated the
sum of $13,737, 1919 raised by tax
alton, has been used not for current,
expenditures, but to reduce the debts
and increase THE trust funds of the
State of Minnesota; that the levies
for all purposes for the past biennial
period aggregated 1878 mills and for
the present biennial period, 13. 10
mills, net saving of $1,326,68 to
the tax payers during the present ad
ministration. Indebtedness of the
state, exclusive of the rural credit
bonds, has been reduced from $780,
S94, 4,760.33 to $44,076,828.70, a
sum of more than $6,300,000; state
trust funds have been increased dur
ing the same period by Sc, 729, 1926.
Said Governor Christianson: "This,
then, is the fiscal program for the
future:
81. To reduce the tax levy
untilultimately there shall be no
direct levy for the State revenue
fund;
"2. To create no new obi
cations and discharge all obli-
cations heretofore created as
soon as mey be;
SO. To safeguard and in
crease the States trust funds"
The establishment of a budget
system, the most important feature of
the reorganization program, has
saved Minnesota $683, ,578.67 the first
year of its functioning or 46 per
cent of $14,723,830, the amount of
Interpretations for the departments
placed by the reorganization act un-
der the Finance Board. In addition
there are economies reflected in more
work done as in the highway depart
ment. Under plan inaugurated this
year, Minnesota buys it's own cement
and furnishes it to paving contract
ors, not only giving the State the
benefit of lower prices but insuring
the use of a proper cement mixture
IN all concrete used.
Turning to a discussion of Mime
sofas agricultural problem. Cover
nor Christensen urged the mainten-
ance of the protective tariff, but in
sisted that agriculture shall share
equally with other industry in the
benefits of that tariff; that the peo-
p6le of Minnesota are unanimous in
their demands for economic equality
for agriculture. The continued pros
perlty of American industry and bus
mess is absolutely dependent on the
restoration of the purchasing power
of American agriculture. A plea for
"a better understanding in each sec
tion of the conditions and needs of
the other was made by the Governor
when he quoted Frank O. Lowden,
the agricultural leader, who recently
expressed the same idea; "We are
hearing more and more of a conflict
between the agricultural west and the
Industrial. east. This bodies ill for
both. Nothing but evil in all our
Fhistory has come from sectional diff
ferences. And there is no instance
in which sectional difference has
arisen where the injury has not ex-
tended to all parts of our common
country. The interests of our great
country ARE such that injury to one
part will sooner or later react
throughout the breadth and length of
the land. There need be no such