The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-02

it more difficult for him to secure a
loan. CD The borrower always pays the
mortgage tax. 1t was to ease the bur-
den to the borrower that the mortgage
registration tax was made lower than
any other tax. 1t is the farmer and the
home owner, the man who makes things
go, the man who by his efforts to get
on produces work and prosperity, who is
the borrower. In the main it is not
wealth which borrowS, but overwhelm-
ingly the poor man. Here We have
Governor Olson, the self-vaunted de
fender and champion of the poor, de-
manding a tax which falls almost ex-
clusively upon the poor and the dis
tressed!
Sharply criticized by Martin A. Mel
son, republican candidate for governor
last year, for unsound and injurious tax
proposals, Governor Floyd peeviShly re-
torted that Martin is only small town
boy and doesn't know what it is all
about. Martin might fairly admit that
he is not city slicker. 1t was the
city slickers, it may be recalled, who
poked fun at small town Able Lincoln
and thought to take him for a ride, and
it was the main street lad from Austin
who year ago nicked pretty boy
Floyd of $4,000 of his 1882 plurality.
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The proof of the pudding is in the
eating and not in the garnishment with
which the pretty waiter with her
winning ways dishes it up. Political
panaceas have woeful way of failing
30 pan cut as advertised.
Minnesota may well hope that S. F.
3, H. F. % will be real pudding.
Strangely enough it has not been served
with very much punishment, which
adds to the hope that it may be a
tasty dish. This is the story of it. The
bill was drawn by State Auditor Staff
King with considerable care and is pat
termed after Michigan act. In 1882
Deputy State Auditor Matt Desmond,
who is real expert in state tax mat
tiers, in an address delivered before the
Michigan convention of county audi
tors, urged the adoption of a ten-year
plan of collecting delinquent taxes.
Michigan promptly adopted the scheme.
passed law to enforce it, and in 1884
collected $15,O0O,00O in delinquent taxes.
This year the collection of delinquent
taxes in Michigan will greatly exceed
last years collections.
S. F. 3, H. F. % recites the fact that
tax delinquency in Minnesota had
reached the appalling total of about
$85,OOO,0O0 on January LIST, 1895. For
the first time for several years the de-
lnquency has not increased this year
The collection of a substantial amount
of the Minnesota delinquency would
greatly ease the tax situation in Min
nesota and would help to solve what is
now an almost impossible tax problem,
providing, of course, that an era of
economy and sane spending can again
be ushered in. The proposal of the bill
is simple. 1t is simply to allow the
payment each year with the current
tax one-tenth of the individual tax
payers delinquency, all penalties being
cancelled. The scheme has worked with
remarkable success in Michigan; it
ought to work in Minnesota.
Authors of S. F. 8, H. F.. % are the
respective chairmen of the senate and
house committees on taxes, Senator F.
]. Miller of Morrison and Representa-
tive Dick Hart of Carlton, Senator Vim
Weber of Murray and Representatives
Marcus Nelson of Aitkin, Galen Finne-
gan of ItaSca, VIM. Syreen of Grow
Wing, F. A. Green of Marshall, Fred
Long of Hubbard, and Marius Waldahl
of Pennington.