The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-10-18
The Political Field
FARMER-LABoR

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cording to Governor Olson, relief
administrator, fourteen thousand
families on the relief rolls have
been declared eligible to rehabilita.
ton measures which will make
them self-supporting by the next
harvest season. A recent study re
vealed that the drouth accounts fol
the plight of about two-thirds OF
these farmers. The remainder are
in need of such aid as pigs, cows
and chickens to supply food, ma
chinery, repairs to existing build
ings and additional crop land. The
Minnesota Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration division of rural rehab-
ilitation will make every effort to
provide these necessities. The aim
is to restore these individuals to a
normal economic status.
Overshadowed in public interest
by the major controversies of the
approaching election, but neverthe-
less of great Importance to all of
Minnesota, is state constitutional
amendment No. 1, which will be
voted on November 6. This amend
ment, if adopted, will ratify the &C
ton of the 1888 Legislature in add
ing more than 1000 miles of
county roads to the state trunk
system. It also will prevent the
addition of any more roads until
the expanded system has been rs
per cent permanently improved.
Every county which benefited by
having the state take over the
maintenance and improvement of
the additional routes should take an
active interest in seeing that
Amendment No. carries, according
to N. w. Elsberg, highway commits
sioner. The amendment will pre-
vent the trunk system from being
subject to change every two years
by each succeeding legislature. A
majority of the total vote cast will
be necessary for it's adoption. The
description of the amendment as
printed on the ballot reads, "Allow-
ing additions to trunk highways"
but the real intent is to prevent fur
Their additions until the present II ;
000-mile system is improved.
The amount of money that the
state asks from the taxpayers for
1885 will be $1,136,913 less than il
was year ago, it was announced
by the State Auditor in making
public the tax millage rates fof
1884 taxes, collectible in 1885. The
amount of the levy this year is
SIC, 900 as compared to ST., u.s.
913 of year ago. The tax mill
rate will be 11.95 mills as compared
to 11.06 year ago but the rise in
the millage rate is explained by the
mill production figure, the amount
of money it is estimated that will
result from one mill tax. The
mill production which rises and
falls with the assessed valuation
dropped this year from 81 ,617,741 to
81, 400, 900 and is the main reason
for the rise in the millage rate, it
is said. In addition relief needs Of
the state have boosted the rate of
taxation for the Board of Relief
from "a mills of year ago to IL
mills this year or a rise of almost
one mill. The drop in the total as
sessed valuation is attributed to
the Homestead Tax law which re-
duces the assessed valuation on the
homesteads valued under $4,000 and
thereby shifts the burden of taxa
ton from the home and farm own
er to the owners of income produc-
ing property.
Rumors spread about that. the
Federal government intends to es-
tablish bipartisan, board to
handle relief in Minnesota were
branded as pure poppy cock-the
widest kind of fiction" by Aubrey
Williams, Deputy United States Re-
lief Administrator. In telephone
conversation with Governor Olson
Williams declared that the stories
appearing in Minneapolis news
papers about the Governor being
relieved of the administration OF
Federal relief in Minnesota were
merely concocted by some report
er with flighty imagination" and
said that the federal officials were
more than satisfied with the way re-
lief was being handled in Minnie
sofa.
Teachers, ministers and priests
have come to the support of Mime
sofas department of education
stating that they feel the political
attacks being made on the admins
tration "are unwarranted" and
Politically inspired" 1--WE cannot
help but feel that these attacks
politically inspired as they are =
constitute an insult not only to q
man of superior qualities, but also
to the school and community in
which we take so much pride" 3
letter from the teachers in Litch.
field read.
It has been reported at the Cap
itol that attendance at the Cover
nor's speeches throughout the state
far exceed that of previous years
AT Long Prairie, supposedly a Re
publican town, there was not g
person to be seen on the streets
while the Governor spoke there
Cars lined the curbs but men, wo.
men and children jammed the
Armory to hear their Governor. In
town, mot creature was stirring
not even a mouse"
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REPUBLICAN
BY R. W. Hitchcock