The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-05

In order to be sure that next years
tax rate is sufficient to meet the needs
of the state it will be necessary to fix
the rate at IL mills or more. In fact.
if all obligations of the state are pro-
vided for, as they should be, it will be
necessary to increase the rate from the
present l1.06 mills, an all time high in
Minnesota, by about two mills.
If some departments cover up or hold
back levies which should be spread this
year, for obvious reasons, it will pile
just that much additional burden on
next year, and such action will, of
course, obviate the necessity of in
creasing the state tax levy by a full
additional two mills.
The state auditors Office is charged
with the duty of computing the state
taxs levy, and the computation is made
from the needs certified to the auditor
by the various departments. This work
has been done for many years under
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deputy state auditor; no more able on
conscientious official ever served the
state. MIR. Desmond will make the
rate just as low as it can possibly be
made and in this he will be staunchly
supported by his chief, Staff King, state
auditor.
| This years rate, 11.06 mills, after
four years of Olson administration, is
the highest in the history of Minnesota
and when the governor was campaign
ing for his first election he said that
the then rate of 81 mills was highway
robbery
Martin A. Nelson, republican candl-
date for governor, has at his home in
Austin one of the finest libraries in
Minnesota on economics and history
Mr. Nelson has always, from his very
youth, been an enthusiastic student Of
these subjects. He is widely read anC
a careful thinker. That is why his
speeches are so logical, so sound ano
so accurate.
Since the farmer-labor Big Three
took charge of the states employees
personnel the state payroll is puzzle
ment to the ordinary citizen. Nc
longer does each department account
for it's own employees. The off1cia
figures will not account for the en-
ployees in the governors office, fol
instance, because some of those en-
ployees are not on the payroll of the
governors Office. They are paid by the
state highway department. This con-
dition prevails in many departments
It's a great tumble and very con-
fusing 1t is the result of a desire to
beat the limitation imposed by the
legislature. 1t covers up lot of hocus-
pocus. 1t is purely an invention of the
last four years. Nothing like it was
ever known in the state capitol before
| Defeated, after months of inveStiga-
ton at the expense of the taxpayers
of Minnesota, in their effort to indict
officers and directors of the Bancorpor-
alton, the Hennepin county grand jury
having returned mo true bills" the
farmer-labor attempt to make political
capital out of this banking organization
was transferred to more tractable ter
ritory. The county of Clay, in the
famous Red River Valley, was picked
as fertile soil for the crop desired. The
judgement of those in charge would
i seem to be good, for in Clay county in
the June primaries Governor Olson
polled 1892 votes to GIT for Martin
Nelson and 353 for John Regain.
The Clay county grand jury promptly
returned the desired indictments. The
trial cannot be had until after Nov
ember 9Th, but although these men may
be 'as pure as snow, as chaste as ice, y
they will be, for the period of the
campaign, guilty to Governor Olson and
the soap-box bankers of his state
ticket as hell is hot.
| Hardly had Governor Olson replied
to the brilliant reasoning and rigorous
indictment of the four years of Olson
miSrule contained in Martin A. Nelson's
keynote address by denouncing the adj
dress as "mudSlinging, when the Far
mer-Labor Leader appeared on the
streets with charges of grave robbing
and widow and orphan plundering
against various prominent MinnesotanS
some of whom are republican candi.
dates for Office. The charge was made
in connection with the investigation by
State Insurance Commissioner Gar
field Brown, who has held Office TO
four years at the sufferance of TIT
Olson administration, of the affairs o
the Southern Minnesota Benevolen
Society, cooperative insurance com
pany. After relieving itself of the ad
jectives already mentioned and man.
other as well, the Farmer-Labor Leade
appends this remark, Commissions
Brown gave the officers and directors
bill of health and renewed the license
If the Commissioner of Insuranc
gave the officers and directors of til
company a clean bill of health, what
the Farmer-Labor Leader hollerin
about?
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