Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — THE TAX ON LAND. [ARTICLE]

THE TAX ON LAND.

Shall It Be the Stifle Tax! The Democratic State Convention met in I ndiaoapolis, August 28, 1 ft9o, and declared in favor of umlormityof assessments, but promised nothing in definite terms. The Republican State Convention met September 10, 1890, and declared in favor of laws designed to oom pel personal as well as real property to bear its full share of the pub.ic burdens. This made a clear promise to give needed relief, and. it called for some sort of response from the Democratic party. t>o the Indianapolis Sentinel, the organ of the Indiana Democracy, on Sept. 14, 1800, had tills to say: ■ “For one thing’, those who read, and think, are becoming more strongly convinced every day that the taxation of personal property, everywhere and under all circumstances, is a fraud. It is a fraud because it never is, and, in the nature of things, it never can be. equally enforced, it is a fraud because it offers a premium on dishonesty, and puts honesty at a disadvantage? It is a fraud because it discriminates against the poor and those of moderate means, and in favor of the wealthy. ,The tax on personal property ought to be wholly repealed. * * ' * The prospect is that the system of private property in land will remain as it is, for some generations at least, but that all taxes, at least for State and local purposes (except such as may be derived from the sale of franchises) will in the near future, be laid upon land.” What do the owners of real estate in Indiana think of the idea of making real estate pay,all the taxes? (Shall the tax on personal property be -repealed? Shill all taxei be laid upon land? Does the land pay too little taxes now? If you are opposed to this Democratic plan of relieving personal property from all taxation, vote the Republican ticket. :