Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — CRITICIZES GOODRICH TAXES [ARTICLE]

CRITICIZES GOODRICH TAXES

Alexandria, Ind., Sept. 30. —The Goodrich tax law transcends all other issues in Madison county, according to Mrs. Minnie Draper. Mrs. Draper, like thousands of other people in Indiana, has personally tasted of the injustice of the centralized power scheme. “Take my own individual case as an example,” she said. “I happen to own a modest little farm the 1 Delaware and Madison county line, 1 the boundary dividing the land. On one side- I am assessed slOl an ' acre and on the other $145, exclusive !of improvements on either side. The quality of the land and production is the same. “To keep the rate just so the discrimination and extremely high assessment for either side was made, 1 our total assessment on our own farms is above $50,000 and it does i not yield 3 per cent on our Invest- J ment. Industries whose output pays them' 100 per cent are assessed In I my own county for less money. | “I’ll give you “ another instance of the Injustice of the Goodrich tax law. We were in 1019 assessed the highest In farm history on our live stock. The Ink was scarcely dry on ..e assessor’s blanks when the whole bottom of the market fell out. In our own case plague attacked and killed 100 head of hogs shortly after the assessment. Six months after, these already highly assessed hogs were dead a horizontal raise was made and these top-notch-assessed end now dead hogs were assessed again. “There must be hundreds of such cases. I am for the governor candidate who has promised farmers places on the state and county boards and for relief from Goodrichism.”