Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1891 — Page 5

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©he jpcntorraf Kates of Subscription. One Year, in advance.... . • SI 50 Six Months 75 Four Months. 50 All subscriptions not paid during- the year will be charged at the rate of $2.00. Oilice in Democrat Building, east side of Second Street—ground floor. THE NEW REVENUE LAW. What It Is and What It Is Designed To Do. Facts for the I‘eople, Laying Bare Gross Misrepresentations and Perversions of the New Law. a Respectful acquiescence‘for the laws of our country is the essence of Americanism. We have no king here, but we are loyal; we respect the laws which we have framed for our own government.. This is the rule, the golden rule of the American people, but, alas, there are some marked exceptions. When the legislature of this f tate ed the election law of 1889, the scheme met with a storm of riticule and criticism. Gradually, however, the minds of “the plain people,” as Mr. Lincoln so happily has it, discovered the honest.purpose and the immense advantage of the new system, and the hearts and conscience of all good men, irrespective of party, were won to the law. Now there is not left an honest voter in Indiana who is not heartily in favor of this great ballot reform, the last opposition being that of a demented justice of the peace down' in Wabash who is. said to have scrambled over the ropes guarding an election precinct with the purpose to be arrested, take his case to the supreme court, and thus overthrow the election law. At present, the disrespectors of law, haying been routed in their attack upon ballot reform, have turned their batteries against the new revenue system. They will meet with the same repulse from the honest citizens of the state. Reform in our revenue had become an absolute necessity. It was the most important duty beiore the legislature of IS9I, and the legislature did not shrink from the task, The revenue system of. Indiana has been placed upon an honest, equitable and safe basis. The opponents of the law were not at first satisfied to criticise, they went so far t<? falsity. They mad? bold • the new law fav ored the rai!r " oa that radroad axes a !m!nW)ed - 4HC thernseives were not bhhat opinion. There is not a provision that favors the railroads Or''diminishes their taxes. It ip ay be worth while to refer to the Sections of the law relating to railroads: Section 76 provides that all railroad property shall be listed with reference to its amount, kind and value on the first day of April in each year. Sections 77 to SS provide the manner of scheduling and returning for taxation * every variety and kind of railroad property. 1 Sq provide® particularly for the . of lands and personal property of railroads by the township assessors and declares that: “Such property shall be treated in all respects, in regard to equalization the same as other similar belonging to individuals ” Section S’" iput the auditor of annually lay before the state p.oa, d ;f commissioners all schedules and returns of railroad property. Section 120 ip specification 5 Fourth, as a duty itqte tax com tpissionera, '-'especially to seo : that all the rttilnjuds and, other corporations of the ■tate are assessed and taxed as provided by law.” Section 129 provides that the tax com missioners “shall not be bound by any reports or estimates of value of yaijroad property, real estate or other property as returned to the coqnty auditors or to the auditor of state, but shall appraise and assess all property at its true cash value.” Section 137 provides that “said board shall also assess the railroad property denominated in this act as ‘railroad track’ and 'rolling stock,’ at its true cash 'Value; and said board is given the power and authority by committee or otherwise to examine persons or papers.” In section 88 finally it is provided that “the county auditor shall enter th*> railroad property of all kinds as He ted for taxation upon the proper duplicate. * * * A-nd tqe county treasurer shall collect the charged against said railroad property and pay over anil account therefore in the same manner as other taxes are collected and accounted for.” With these provisions of the law and the severe penalties imposed for their violation, will anj candid man ®ay that railroad companies have received any favors in the now |aw? The fact is that the utmost pains is taken to see that railroad property of all kinds is assessed at its “true cash value,” and that the companics pay into the treasuries of cities, . ■ - .. . .

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counties and the state every cent of tax for r which they are liable. If assessors, audi--1 tors and tax commissioners do their duty ; as we have every right to believe they will, ' the people will no longer be deprived of a 0 just income from railroad taxation. And should those officials fail in their dutv the same tax law provides, the severest penalr ties for their punishment. The railroads will be fully taxed under the new law; no fear of that. If anyone is disposed to critise the new tax law, . let him do it honestly. Let him tell the truth, even for the sake of his oWn conscience, and also out of wholesome respect for the people, who sometimes become angry when they find they have been deceived by untruthful crit'cism. • Another cr’ticism of the ’aw, one that has been countenanced by a distinguished citizen of the state, in a late interview at Indianapolis, is, to say the least, a mis representation, unintentional, no doubt> but nevertheless a misrepresentation. It is that the sixteen-cent school levy will bring in far more money than is needed for school purposes. The distinguished financier knows that the sixteen-cent levy is no part of the new revenue law. The new law was framed to secure an honest and equitable valuation and assesssment of property of the state; it is in its nature a law permanent in character, whereas levies are liable to be changed from year to year, according to the needs of different funds. ® The sixteen-cent school levy has been on the statute book at least, since 1865. The tax law of ISBI (Sec. 6530, R. S.) pro- . vides that in the valuation of property “the assessor shall be governed by what ' is the fair cash value the market or usual selling price and if there be no market value, then the actual value.” . The tax law of 1891 provides that the valuation shall be “the true cash value,” — substantially the same thing. The chief difference between the two laws is, that thelawoffSSi says that property shall be assessed at its cash value, while the law of IS9I takes measures to see that this requirement shall be honestly carried into effect.” Now, was the legislature of 1891 to take it for granted that the people had not given in their property for ten years past at its fair cash value? that the taxpayers and assessors of the state had during all that time systematically violated the law, and had taken and subscribed false oaths as to property and its valuation? The legislature took no such harsh of the situation, but allowed the sixteen-cent levy to stand, knowing that if the true cash yalue of the property of the state should prove to be very much greater than it had been returned hithertofore, the-next legislature would take notice of that fact and reduce the school levy accordingly. But it is true, • - asserted in the Indiinterview, that the sixteen-cent levy has been sufficient for the schools? If so, how comes it that the state provided by the act in force June 6, 1567, for a local tuition tax of twenty-five cents as appears from section qqfxjand 4479, R. S.? The truth is that the sixteen-cent levy was found insufficient and the township and other school trustees were authorized to make up the deficiency by an additional levy “not exceeding twenty-fiye cents.” And the trustees have been compelled to avail themselves of this authority. In eight townships and school coiporations of St. Joseph county the trustees levied the full amount of twenty-five cents local 1 tqjtiun io. the year 1891; in one township the levy was twenty-one cents, in two it -was twenty cents, in one {eighteen cents, in two fifteen, in one fourteen and in one fiye cents. Here then is a very simple remedy soy fhv supposed excessive sixteen cen( ’evy. If the trustee of any township ,1 finds after the appraisement ‘o£ property is completed that the sixteen-cent levy will bring in as much school money as he needs, then all he has to do is to drop his .local tuition leyy, or so much of it as is no; needed. The twenty-five cent margin is large enough to cover the lull sixteen cent addition which is supposed to come from the new appraisement and leave nine cents over, and the trustee may omit the whole twenty-five cents if none of it is needed.. So it appears that the excess of school revenue which is conjured up a„ a result of the new revenue law is a mere scarecrow. It will be the duty of township trustees and county commissioners, as well as city councils, as soon as the total valuation of property is known, to do as they have always heretofore done, that is make the current levy orty for so much money as may be needed for school and other local purposes. But says some one, the state levy for state purposes is already made. That is" 1 true. The levy, while not a part of the revenue and while liable to be changed at each Session of the general asI sembly, according to the needs of the 1 state, was of nekessity -fixed by the legislature before it could .be known what : would be the new appraisement. It can • be changed by the next legislature if : found to be too high. But will it be too : high? The state debt is over $9,000,000. It takes money to support a state govem--1 ment. The|people wish to care for the • insane, the deaf and dumb, and the blind, t the feeble minded, and the soldiers’ orphans, to build a soldiers’ monument, to t support courts and pay the salaries of • judges and prosecuting attorneys, as well t as other state officers. The people have • been trying to have all these necessaries , Qf a great and progressive slate, but

they seem not to have realized that they were furnishing less money than it costto support those beneficient institutions. For yeats the income of the state has been about $1,000,000, while the expenses have been far in excess of $2,000,000. From the last report of the auditor of stale we find the total receipts,and expenditures of the state government for the year ending Oct. 31, IS9O, to be as follows: Receipt 5.................. .$1,448,151 45 Expenditures 2,315,986 91/ Was it necessary, or was it not necessary, to increase the revenue of the state? But one answer is possible. Then the way to increase the revenue .became the question. Would you simply increase the levy, and suffer the valuation and assessment of property to continue a farce, as it had been for many years? On that principle the levees of the Mississippi had been built up year after year, while the big river continued quietly to fill up its bed faster than the banks were raised by the levees, resulting in overflow disastrous to people and property. The Indiana Legislature did not care to give any further invitation to such disasters, and determined, that, while some increase in the levy was necessary, yet the important work to be done was to establish a just, uniform and equitable system of appraising and assessing the property of the state, particularly that large part of it which had hitherto almost wholly escaped taxation. The people who are to blame for our past financial troubles are our wealthy men and rich corporations, the men and corporations who failed to give in to the assessors their notes, their bonds, their mortgages, their money deposits; the men and corporations who undervalued great properties, who went beiore boards of equalization with skilled lawyers and persuaded the easy going boards to still furtherjreduce their rich possessions; the men and the corporations who have for 10, these many years, deadened their own conscience and conspired to make the poor of the state and the people of moderate means bear the burden of taxation. And to-day it is those unscrupulous money lenders and grasping corporations that are complaining of this new law, which they fear will compel them at last to do their equal share in support of municipal and state goverifment. They occupy the same relation to the revenue law that the boodlers did to the election law; but the people will discover in the one case, as they did in the other, that ; the law is equitable and just, that as the election placed all the on an equality at the ballot box, so the revenue law will place all the property of the state on an equality at the public treasury. T. E. Howard. Untold Misery. I have for many years been afflicted with fever and ague, and a severe pain in my right side which caused me untold misery. I cannot -find words to express the severity of rheumatic pains which I also endured. Dr. Johnson, an eminent physician of Chicago, said that the long continued state of inactivity of my kidneys and liver was the cause of the fever and ague, and also of gall stones which had formed, and resulted in great suffering. I was prevailed upon to try Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters, and they have entirely cured me. These medicines | are certainly a revelation. Royce, Oberlin. n u - Sold by W. H. neb. W. U. T. U. Notes. On May 25th the U. S- supreme upheld the constitutionality of the original package law and held that it is not necessary for the state of Kansas to shut out liquors in original packages? This reverses the dicision of the lower court. Chief Justice Fuller and the entire court were a unit in rendering a decision. A wail from the Champion of Freedom and Right (?) is in order. It has been proved by statistics that a life insurance company on the total-absti-nened basis, gains 30 percent by reason of the superior vitality of its policy-holders. Can we hope for the slaughter of drinking men to cease while the open saloons is maintained ? If the healthful energies and business capacity of our boys are to be expended in drinking and smoking, who are to carry on the affairs pf life when their fathers “shuffle off this mortal coil ? ” A National Event. The holding of the World’s Fair i n a city scarcely fifty years old will be a remarkable event, but whether it will benefit this nation as much as the discovery of the Rest five Nervine by Dr. Franklin Miles is doubtful. This is just what the American people need to cure their excessive nervousness, dyspepsia, headache, dizziness, sleeplessness, neuralgia, nervous debility, dullness, confusion of mind, etc. It acts like a charm. Trial bottles and fine book on nervous and heart diseases, with unequaled testimonials, free at W. H. Nachtrieb’s. It is guaranteed to contain no opium, morphine or dangerous drugs. Herne Normal School. The Berne Normal school will begin July 13, 1891, and continue eight weeks. The purpose is a review of the legal branches, instruction and other branches for which there may be a reasonable demand. There will be two courses; one for teachers, the other for fifth grade pupils. Prospects are very favorable for this term to be even better than either of the others that were so popular. We guarantee satisfaction. Tuition $5.00 per term in advance. Board can be secured more reasonable in this place than any other town we know of. _ Further information will be cheerfully given by F. G. Haecker, Prin. of Berne schools, Domestic, Ind,, or N.C. Hirschy, Angola, Ind. 7.4 Bosse’s Mountain Halve. The best salve in the world for burns piles, boils, fresh wounds, old sores, frozen feet, sore eyes. etc. Guaranteed to be superior to any other for burns and scalds. It has no equal for piles in all stages. SoM by all druggist*. * 1 ,5 > &&

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