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T.A fJRANDE EVENTXG OBSttftVEH 'WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1910.
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TAX COMMISSION STANDS FIRM.
The fact that there has been so
much said regarding the taxing of
notes, and the further fact that there
la a question In the minds of many
relative to this Important matter, has
caused the commission to make a
detailed statement of Its stand, which
is herewith reprinted:
Right now we want it to be plainly
understood by the county assessors
and by others who may be Interested,
that the letter of July 15 has not been
withdrawn or amended, either ' In
tempt has been made In certain quar
ters, either through Ignorance of the
law or through deliberate purpose to
misunderstand the law and the lnten
. Hon of this board, to misrepresent the '
letter and pervet Its meaning. But J
anyone who Is even, tolerably famll-j
far with matters of taxation know
that there are vital differences be-1
tween a tax on mortgages and a tax '
en mortgage notes. '
To summarize differences between
a mortgage tax and a mortgage note
tax: .. The former Is In effect a tax
on real property, the latter is a tax
on a certain class of personal proper
ty; the former Is applied at the situs
of the land, aud the latter at the domi
cile of the owDr, or o? the person ac
tually in possession; the former tlx
caa be assessed against both residents
of the state and against non-redents,
the latter can be assessed only against
residents, the note or other credit
must be actually within the state,
either In the hands of its owner or of
an agent, or otherwise localized for
permanent, as distinguished from tem
porary use.
It can of course be readily seen that
the general effects of mortgage tax
and of mortgage not tax are decidedly
different. Under a mortgage tax
resident and non-resident creditors
are on the same footing. The tenden
cy of such a law is to frighten outside
capital and keep it away from the
state. Under a tax on mortgage notes
and other credits, the home creditor
is at a disadvantage as compared with
the non-resident creditor. Where ful
ly understood, the tendency of such a
law Is to encourage investments of
outside capital In the state; for the
non-resident creditor, holding his
notes and securities at home, cannot
be taxed for them here.
We contrast this situation with one
of a few years ago when capitalists
living In one of the Eastern Oregon
counties, requestedUhat we direct the
assessor of that county not to assess
their notes for the reason that this
enforcement of the law placed them at
a disadvantage as compared with the'
capitalists living In the state of Wash
ington. Naturally, and properly, too.
they don't like the Idea of hij; tsi
on their notes, whether the money Is
placed at home or abroad, while
Washington capitalists compete with
them for Oregon loans and, holding
their notes In Washington, pay no tax
In either state.
In view of every fact In the case,
newspaper comments about the Tax
Commission trying to restore the
mortgage tax are silly. We are not
trying to resurrect the. repealed law,
and couldn't If we would; but we are
trying to enforce existing laws, laws
as vital and binding as any on our
statute books and laws, furthermore
commanded by our constitution to re
main as part of our scheme of taxa
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OF LA GRANDE, OREGON
United States Depository
Capital and Surplus $180,000.00
DIRECTORS
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service aad handle year traslaea s to year entire satisfaction.
Even If the members of this com
mission wished to do so they coujd
not, without disregarding their plain
duty and their oaths of office, give any
other instruction to the assessors than
it Is possible for them to list of money
and credits. Including notes secured
by mortgage and those not so se
cured. Furthermore the assessors
have no discretion to exempt this
property.
HOW HE SEES IT.
The North Yakima Republic editor
has the following to say regarding
prohibition:
"No thoughtful man who wants good
government and a decent neighbor
hood to live In need go farther away
from home than the neighboring state
of Oregon for object lessons which
will convince him that the county unit
Is no panacea' for the Ills of the liquor
traffic. If he doesn't want to travel
over that state, as this writer has
cone twice in jbe last few months, it
ought to be enough for him to read in
the newspapers of the fruitless efforts
which are being made in' all of the
larger towns of "dry" counties to en
force a law not backed up by public
sentiment. Only this week, In a town
not bo large as North Yakima, made
"dry" against the will of its people,
over 40 illicit whiskey dealers were
arrested, and .yet the authorities con
fess they are making not the slight
est headway against the unlawful
business." . . . '
; Augmented membership to the com
mercial club Is now a practical cer
tainty and with It will come activity
In a way that will be sure to count
for much good to La Grande. The time
Is at hand for the business people to
unite in an effort to emblazen the
name of the city not only In the
minds of all local people, but to carry
It Into other states where men are
looking for good Investments and a
splendid place' to live.
The music of a steam roller is,
about as sweet to the ear of the pro
gressive citizen as notes from grand
opera. The snort of the engine means
a bigger and better city. Completion ;
of hard surface streets Is the Initial
step to permanent and lasting advancement.
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CANDIDATE'S CARD
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S. F. WILSON, Athena, Oregon, candl
. date for Joint senator for Umatil
la, Union and Morrow counties sub
ject to decision of republican pri
maries. ,"I firmly believe in the dl
. rect primary law, economy in the
. use tf public funds, good roads,
better schools, strict and prompt
enforcement of law, the square deal
and eternal progress of man and his
institutions."
Rnorldgo to Speak.
Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 3. United
States Senator Albert J. Beverldge,
his democratic opponent fdY the Ben
atorshlp, John" W.-Kern, and Con
gressman 1. A. Adair are among the
speakers advertised for the annual
reunion of the old settlers of Jay and
Randolph' counties, to be held at
Rldgevllle, Ind., today.
Miss DIx to Wed.
New York, Aug. 3. Miss Margaret
Dix. daughter of the late Rev. D. Mor
gan His, will be married today to Mr.
Charles R. Lawrence of Mt. Kisco,
where Mrs. Dlx and her daughter are
spending the summer.
Ohio Riiiidinir Men.
Canton. 0., Aug. 3. Tbe Ohio State
League of Building and Loan Associa
tions convened here' today Tor an an
nual meeting. The session will con
tinue through tomorrow.
Ballot Is of No Use to Women.
By HENRY WATTERSON, Journalist.
AN baa no inalienable rights that woman has not. But God
and nature have given a woman a FIXED PLACE IX
THE WORLD a great place, which .she cannot change.
I deplore the agitation for woman suffrage and the other
related subjects, because I think it tends to create sex antagonism.
Woman is the moral light of the world. Without
her influence men would be ravening wolves and
there could be no civilisation, but the BALLOT
WILL NOT HELP MATTERS.
WOMAN 8UFFRAGE MAY WORK FAIRLY WELL
IN 8PARSELY 8ETTLED COMMUNITIES LIKE COLO
RADO,' BUT IF IT PREVAILED IN THE COUNTRY
AT LARGE IT WOULD DEBASE WOMANHOOD.
You will find that most of the advocates of wo
man suffrage are DISCONTENTED OR CHILD
LESS unless they are the society women who, hav
ing exhausted the excitement of other amusements, have taken it up
as a fad.
Drova Him Out of th
Field
Daddy's Bedtime
Story-
How the Little
Was Fooled
"Tn&IGS are DOt Very Clever anlma,s' nre they daddy r asked Evelyn, who
IV' had seen a performing pig at a circus aud thought it great fun to
IX.
THE BLACK HAND.
Origin of th Nam of This Group of
Daring Criminals.
According to the United States se
cret service, the Black Eland is a title
common to innumerable groups of
criminals operating under the direction
of some secret central government.
These men are blackmailers, using
murder, arson, kidnaping and bomb
throwing as punishments for those
who will not submit to their Iniquitous
demands. Black Band Is, in short, a
bandy name for a brand of crime pe
culiar to Italian criminals who are suc
cessful in it because of tbe tempera
ment of the foreign Immigrants and
their Inborn dread of the extortionist
Whether tbe central government which
guides the Block .Band society is lo
cated in the United States or In Italy
Is something which neither the Italian
nor American authorities can discover.
United States officers say the name of
the American . Black Band emanated
from Chicago about ten years ago,
when one of the Qrst of many myste
rious murders In tbe Italian quarter
remained unsolved. The victim of the
murder had received a warning that
death would follow his failure to con
tribute a specified sum of money. The
letter, was embellished with a erode
drawing representing a fist clutching a
dagger. Tbe fist and dagger gave the
name Black n.md-later to become mv
pleasantly familiar toevery citizen of
the country-und tbe 'sinister sketch
was soou a source of terror to all law
abiding Itailans.-Wlde World Maga
elne.
about a
farmer.
Bids for New Bridge
Rochester. N. Y.. Aug. 3 Bids will
be opened today for the proposed
Central avenue concrete bridge. The
estimated cost of the structure and
its approaches Is $160,000.
Rochester Harness Meet.
Rochester. N. Y.. Aug. 3. Rochester
will have two days of harness racing
at Crittenden park today and tomor
row. Today's program consists of
three trotting and three pacing races.
Anglers Tell Fish Yams.
Thousand Island House, N. Y.. Aug.
3. The St. Lawrence River Angers'
Association met here today In their
see the animal go through its tricks.
"Xo," said daddy. "As a rule they are not. But .1 once beard
piggy which fooled a farmer aud was later fooled himself by tbe
I shall tell you about it this evenlnir."
So that evening daddy began:
"Once upon a time there was a farmer who had a large patch of potatoes.
The potato plants were coming up finely, and when the farmer looked after
the potatoes he saw that they were doing very well indeed. They were about
the size of hen's eggs, and the farmer thought he would have a fine crop. But
one morning the farmer noticed something wrong with bis potato patch.
Some of the vines were rooted up. and some of the potatoes were gone. Of
course he wanted to learn who the thief was he wasn't going to grow pota
toes for any one who wanted to visit his fine patch and help himself, said the
farmer-rso he made up his mind to watch until the thief should come along
and then surprise him.
"Be hid himself among some bushes. But he saw nothing for a long
time, and he was just about to give up. greatly puzzled, when he saw one of
his own pigs, a fine, young, half grown porker, come slowly up the road.
That can't be the potato thief.' said the farmer. "Be can't get into the patch
through the new fence. It must be some one else who is helping himself to
tny nice young potatoes.'
"But couldn't he. though! That was a pretty wise young pig, 1 tell you.
He had found a way to get at the potatoes, and this was the way: One corner
ct the rail fence rested on a large hollow log. That hollow log was shaped
like a stovepipe elbow. One of its emds was inside and one was outside the
potato patch. The pig went straight to the log. crawled through and. coming
out at the other end. found himself in the field. Be was Just aUrting in to
root np the potatoes when the farmer called his dog and drove him out of the
field.
" Til fix Mr. rig: said the farmer. Then he turned the hollow log around
o that both its ends were outside the field. Then the farmer hid again and
waited. Along came Mr. Pig again. He crawled through the hollow log aa
before, but Instead of finding himself In the patch there he was out in tbe
road again. He was the most surprised pig in the world. Be wondered what
was wrong. He tried again and again, but it was no use. The fanner laughed
at him, and at last poor Mr. Piggy gave up trying to reach the nice new potatoes,"
farmers'business
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LAR ATIEHT10N TO
THE BUSINESS OF
FARMERS. WEC0R
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TO MAKE THIS WEIR
BANKING HOME.
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