The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-04-04

gather speed with every passing
day, and those who have been so
busy bemoaning the fact that moth
ing has been done will begin to
view with alarm the fact that too
much is being done.
A score of important matters
such as pensions, unemployment
insurance, more moratoriums, mo-
tor vehicle licenses, transfers Of
departments, proposals for build
ings, the four big appropriation
bills, will jostle and jockey for
place with the tax issue overshad-
owing them all.
Politics will seethe through the
corridors and sit at each Salons
elbow. It will tinge every thought
and touch every move. Self-inter-
est and sincerity will struggle in
every Solon's heart. There will be
plans without number and plot
tings without end, petty chickering's
and noble effort. Sound and fury
will fill the air, confusion will ap-
parently reign supreme, but order
will gradually emerge out Of the
chaos.
And perhaps the Legislature of
1885 will perform something wor-
thy to he remembered"
Extra Session Threat
The tax issue still remains the
supreme issue Of the 1885 Legisla-
tive session. It will dominate the
Minnesota Legislative forum until
midnight of Wednesday, April Oath,
when the hour for the passage of
bills will expire; its repercussions
will be felt in the state for many
months; it will be an outstanding
issue OF the state campaign Of
1895.
The omnibus tax bill, put forward
by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
majority as the principal portion
of the solution Of the tax problem,
will intrude its multitudinous de-
tails into every hour and every is
sue of the remainder Of the ses-
sion, and dispute and dissension
over it will resound in every city,
hamlet and four corners of the
state.
Keep this in mind: the broad pro-
posals of the omnibus tax bill are
these-(1) elimination OF the &c.
100000 state revenue tax on real
property; (2) radical increases in
such ability-toIpay taxes as the in
come, inheritance, chain store, ETC.. +;
| go new sources of revenue through
a 2 per cent general sales tax and
various special sales taxes at a
higher rate.
Bear this also in mind: that real
property must have some relief and
that, in addition, more than $15,-
100000 in new cash money to meet
new and extraordinary expenses
must be found.
Otherwise an extra session Of the
Legislature looms.
Motor Car Facts
Number of cars in Minnesota
costing $4,000 or more, "a; number
costing from $3,OO1 to $4,000, 118
number costing from $2y001 to $3,00(
723; number costing from 81 sol tt
$1,000, 1851.
Total number of cars in Mime
sofa costing more than $3.50, II,
4O2. Total number of cars in the
state 593.506.
Number of cars in Minnesots
costing $500 or less is 523,817
From these facts and Figures |,
must be evident that if the motor
car license fee is raised it is the lit
%Ia fa1l1xxy xx,y,> will IN hit
It may also be well to remember
that the motor vehicle license ta1
relief, if any, which the Minnesota
taxpayer will get the next two
years, is the only tax relief he will
get. .,,....,
Soldiers for Peace
Representative S. A. Stockwell
Hennepin, dean of the House, hates
war and all its trappings and new
err loses the opportunity to cry
aloud against it. Probably he die
not go to Camp Ripley, Minneso
ta's new national guard camp al
little Falls, with the rest Of the Leg
islature last week.
What the Solons who did go saw
there surprises them. They found
one of the finest national guard
camps in the u. s. A. In fact, the
federal government is so pleased
with camp RIPLEY that it spends g
great deal of money there. The state
now owns 1900 acres Of land al
Camp Ripley, the federal govern
ment leases 5000 additional acres
and the eventual size of the ares
will reach 10000 acres.
The soldier boys at Camp Ripley
are doing peace time work as wei
as the other kind. They have bull
SO miles of roads, they have planted
pine seedlings and are engaging II
forestry on an extensive scale, Ion
deer and 80 beavers have found re
fuge there, etc., etc.
If the Legislature wanted Il
probe the Minnesota ational Guard
Adjutant General Walsh woult
warmly welcome the investigation
but it would not be necessary fol
General Walsh has demonstrated Il