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THE " WEST SIDE. E. CPENTLVND, Publisher. FRIDAY. OCTOl'ER !0. KW- TO OIK SH1SCKIBI KS.: The pink label on thin papa- td'i the datetowhich your subscription i iaid. Please examine and see that it m cor rect. Within a few wecfo we intend sending out statements and asking fir a renewal of subscription. These state ments Will U based on, the printed tag on yoiir paper each week.' & C.rEXTLAXD, Publhher; We will toe very much surprised if quite a number of our readers Uo not take exceptions to some of the opinions expressed in the Wr-sT Siee. If you do, you are at 1 iberty to present your side of the question through the columns of this paper, ' provided you confine yourself to argument and make no personal allusions. We ire asserting fat's. , We are not finding fault and offer ing ho remedy. We suggest reme dies. Shall our methods be ap plied! Investigation will surely bring forth the truth. Truth is what we want. How many thousands of dollars in taxes do you suppose the whole sale merchants of Portland gain in this way! Mr. B. a merchant, has a stock of goods which ho is selling partly on commission. He gives in his stock and these commission goods are supposed to be taxed in Portland. But are they! Of course the assessor could tax them them if he knew they were being sold on commission, but no one tells him. The merchant dons not consider it his business to do so. The mer chant gives in his tax list honestly and that is all he cares for. Let all property be assessed, wherever found, and without any indebted ness and the merchant would give this in for his own protection.-' A bill recently passed the United States senate which, though of con siderable importance, has hardly been noticed. It is a bill subject ing United States and national bank notes to state taxation. The bill provides "chat all circulating notes of national banking associa tions and all United States legal tender notes and certificates of the United States payable on demand and circulating as currency, shall not bo exempt from taxation under the authority of any state or terri tory. Provided, that any such taxation shall bo exercised in the same manner and at the same rate "that any such utate or territory shall tax other money within its jurisdiction," The bill is now in the hands of the house commttee on banking and currency, where it is likely to stay until .next season. It takes men to make a town. It does not take such men as you often find in town who do nothing but wait and think that the proper thing for a town to do fis to wait. Spokane Falls has men of the right sort. They can take off their coats and go to work when necessity re quires it. The opening of the Ex position at Spokane Falls is a notable instance of the pluck of the Washinsrtouians. On account of the strike of the carpenters it scorned probable that the building . would not be completed, and so baukers, merchants and business men volunteered and the work was completed in time. Great enthusi asm was manifested and on the opening night 12,000 people were present. Spokano Falls has only , 2.5,000 people, but her represeuta- tive men are good ones. Money has no value above its face when not earning its pro prietor anything. Money must be invested, Invest $1.0,000,000 in Oregon to-morrow and what do we have! We have $10,000,000 worth of property which is taxable. With draw that amount from Oregon to-morrow, in coin, and the amount of property subject to taxation would decreaso ten million dollars, and yet some people want money (gold and silver) to bear an unjust burden, and think thus .to do no haftn to our state. When you keep out money you increase your taxes. Wheu you invito money into the country you bring prosperity and reduce your taxes. When our law makers pass a law which assesses all property (real and personal) and deducts no indebtedness and taxes no credits, it is then, and then only, ready to say that no class of property is discriminated against. APOUT A BOS US. The people in this world are often surprised at the results of enterprise. Success in life is what we seek and disaster is what we avoid. In every town two classes of people are benefited by its pros perity viz: th merchants aud the property owners. You may " say that the iaboring man is also, but we do not think so to as great an extent as the others. The laborer when he works earns . his salary aud no more. lie cannot do two men's work. The merchant can , handle 1 000 worth of goods each i. haniiiA scwuirtft makes sil mast tifty times the profit, f jr his expenses do not iiierauw in proportion to his trade. Yet (here may be men who are benefited in just this way ami yet will not do one thing to add to the prosperity of their town. We owv remember hearing an intelligent business man say "I am going to quit giving money to ''boom" the town, it only brings in more people and raises my rent," and yet-that same gcutle mau was content ..three, years, ago to sell f 10,000 Worili of goods during the year, and this year will sell 650,000.:;.. Shall mortgages be taxed? Let us see! A mortgage is not like a hook account or any other form of credit. The' person who borrows money and gives a mortgage, gives to the lender a certain control of his property. A mortgage is a matter of record and can be iden tified at any time. If mortgages are taxui and the borrower allowed a deduction for ' the indebtedness, tlu nit will be only a short time until the money lender will loan his money on' a non-taxable 'mort gage and then '-virtually the. mort gage tax law will have been re pealed. How will this be done, our readers ask? Simple enough. Mr. Farmer borrows 2000 for five years at six percent, and he is to pay the taxes., lie is allowed to deduct io indebtedness.! Mr. County Clerk when he comes to m ke a trans cript of the mortgages, 'finds that Mr. Farmer has agreed to pay the taxes, consequently he does not re turn that ' mortgage as subject to taxation, but returns mortgages having no such clause. Our law makers can thus retain that mort gage tax law, which' is such a favorite with some people, and yet the money lender can by agreement in. writing have the borrower pay the taxes. "As the practice is now, Mr Fanner deduct 3 Ids mortgage, and Mr. Banker does not pay the taxes; he gets out of it in every way possible. Both borrower and lea der avoid the tax. There are two kinds of people who will oppose taxing properly without deducting indebtedness. One of this class is the farmer who thinks the merchant should pay on what he owes, and the merchant who thinks the wholesaler should pay on what he owes. How does this system work! Let us take the merchant for an example. Ho has a stock of 10,000, He has book accounts of $10,000 and he owes in Portland 10,000. The stock is assessed at $5000 (more than ordi narily); his credits at $5000, and he takes out his $10,000 indebted ness consequently pays no taxes. If the stock alone were taxed there would be a gain of .5000 in assess able property even at half its value. We. will now see how it would effect the farmer. - Ho has a self binder on which ho owes say $100. It is assessed at 100, and on that ho pays taxes. Ho is paying only on the property ho controls and claims to own, and the merchant pays on the property he controls and both aro equal, and the re duced rate of taxation makes it just as easy for them both. Is it not a belter plan! The. last Wed Shore of Portland has a double page cartoon on the probable course of our Oregon com missioners to the World's Fair. California, ' Washington aud other stales 'are shown as having long trains of cars loaded with exhibits, while Messrs. Wilkins and Klippel are represented as - walking to Chieago and carrying the Oregon exhibit on u long polo between them. Beneath the picture is this inscription: "Jn eighteen hunilrod'aud ninety three, ' This is tliu moving sight we'll see, Unless the business men of Oregon tal;e some intelligent action immediately. Why should the people of Oregon be compelled to make themselves out to be paupers in order to pros per? Is it not humiliating to every man to give in his property for taxation and then confess (and while confessing he is very frank and makes a full coufessiou) that ho owes as much as he is worth almost. Why have laws which cwnipel us to make public our private business! Is the assessor intended as a luerchantile agency? If ho is, he .signally fails, for no one is rated according to his assess ment in Oregon. Let us do away with the system, and let each man b credited with w'-a'- he has in his possession. , The usury law should be re pealed. There- is no more reason why a money lender should bo re stricted in his Kites for loans than that the tanner should be com pelled to sell his wheat at a stated price, or a laborer work at a stated price per .day. In Washington large sums of money' are being loaned as low as five per cent, and small sums bring fifteen per cent. Tiio system is based on business principles. "' The retailer charges more per pound for ten pounds of sugar than for a barrel, and the wlHIesa ler more for one barrel than for one hundred A man with good ' credit can buy cheaper than one '.. u ww." .n- ovon'iftiA n How shall batiks boassesscd? That is a knotty question. . How w ould it do to assess the building, the safest etc,, as every other cl.s of pro pel ty is assessed and then tax the deposits! Ton say the banks would not stand it. Let us see-. If such a law were m force it would f-timu-late deposits. The deposits of a bank are its chief source of profit The bank could afford to pay on all its money if by so doing the amount, is increased.. .Money can be buried and escape taxation, but the owner, perjures himself when he does not return it for taxation. If by depositing it in a bank he escaped taxation he could be in duced to leave it there where it is more convenient and much safer, How would the amount of the de posits be determined! Let every bank be under state survelance. Let each bank make a sworn state ment every four months, which shall bo. published, of its financial condition, just as a national bank does now. Let the amount of cash be amount subject to taxation. But yon say the banks would loan it all out and thus pay no taxes. Such would be impossible and the amount loaned out would be taxed to the borrower, and thus the whole sum of money wtiuld pay taxes. But then it will be seen that eveu the borrower would keep his money in the bank and thus avoid paying the tax. We would like to hear Irom some ot our banker s as to the disadvantages of this plan, This question of assessment in Oregon is an important one. We have wonderful resources and we want them developed. We want money to do it. Shall we struggle along requiring every man to locate here before he can invest his money or shall we have an assessment law which will invite him to place it in our hands for safe investment and allow both he and us a fair return! Readers of the West Side we ask you to express your opinions. Do you think we are prospering as we should? Do you think our present law meets our wants? Have you any suggestions to make! The columns of the West Side are open to you ail for a fair, imper sonal discussion of this question. If vou will sign your name to the articles, so much the better. Ee- niember that we are the governing power in Oregon. Our legislators are but our servants. If we instruct them as to our wishes they will most likely follow our instructions but if we remain silent, are they to blame if they do not act to suit us. The main question is this. If a tax levy is 10 mills on $2,000,000 after $2,000,000 of indebtedness has been deducted, would it not be on $4, 000,000 without indebtedness half the rate! If it would, then why take out the indebtedness.' What is gained by it? Please explain. We hope to have onr readers ex press themselves. Polk county is a farming county. Shall the mort gage tax law remain, or shall it be repealed? Now is the time to agitate the question. The whole state of Oregon will be more or less in fluenced by every word you write. REMOVE HIE RESTRICTIONS. The only chance for a decided split, in the forthcoming Oregon legislature on the enactment of a new assessment law will be the numerous fine spun theories which will be advanced to "catch" the money of the banker. A sacrifice of all other interests in the state will be made to do this, aud to-day what is ailing Oregon is that the money lender is"caught': too much already. The consequence is that the money lender fights shy of Ore gon. Washington has pursued a more , sensible course and invited capital to bo loaned in the state and as a consequence syndicates of capitalists are building factories and developing the country. Every dollar that is invested in manu facturing where employment is re quired adds two dollars to the per manent wealth of the country, Washington has no usury law. Washington does not seek to "cinch" the money lender. Money is as much a speculative property as anything else, and if legislation will treat it as simply property, and tax the money itself and not representations of money, it will bear its just burdens of taxation. We are not in favor of money be ing free from taxes. We are in favor of taxing it; but we believe in treating it as properly and tax ing the property. Let Oregon pass a law that makes a railroad a sub ject of special taxation as for instance, that all the school taxes shall be paid by the railroads and how soon would we feel the in tiuenee wiucit wonta result in a cessation of the bnild.ng o: rail roads. Money when treated in a like manner shuns this state. Now let us illustrate how money is dis criminated against iu Oregon, and it is all due to our system of deducting indebtedness. The pro perty (real estate) of a county we will say is assessed as $1,000,000, wmcu is u-o.u oue-miu io pernaps one - halt its real vame, tor tne method of assessment in Oregon is !" secret. 1 tie pouuty m wnicn i Una properly is located desires to . ACORN STOVES AND The Latest Improved The ACORN Heating Stoves are the best and Finest Finish of any. Everyone Fully Warranted and First-class. Come and see our Car load Assortment of the ACORN Ranges and - Stoves. - " GOODMAN & DOUTY, - , . . . . is levied. From this assessment, which we will say was originally $2,000,000, $1,500,000 has been de ducted for indebtedness aud $500, 000 added for mortgages and credits making our $1,000,000. If the property had been assessed at full value the total tax roll would have amounted to say $6,000,000, and the rate of assessment would have been 1 1 mills instead of 10. in such a case money, (actual money not credits) would stand its tax with the rest. Money, however, is taxed at full value and no indeb tedness, and property at one-third to one-filth and a great deal of spurious indebtedness taken from it, consequently money is burdened with a tax several times greater than it should bear. Is it any wonder that even Oregonians who have money, invest it in Washington! Is it . not a well known fact that Washington to day is reaping a rich harvest from Ore gon in just this way, Mr. A is a banker in Portland. He borrows $50,000 on his real estate here and invests it in Seattle. As he owes the money here ho takes out the indebtedness .here and leaves it in Seattle where he can have the advantage of no re strictions against money. He gains in two ways. He finds a favorable market for his money and escapes that tax which is five times too great. Some people wonder how some of our rich men are so poor when it comes around tax-paying day in Oregon. They are not poor and are dishonest either. They do owe the money in Oregon, and their money is in Washington and the tax collector cannot help him self. Nearly every town in Oregon bemoans the fact that its moneyed men are investing so heavily in Washington, and never stop to think that our assessment law is to blame. If the Oregon legislature will cast aside all fine spun theories and tax property only, where it is found, and take out no indebted ness and tax no credits, it will be only a short time until onr state will be as prosperous as Washing ton. The term "mossbaek" will be less often heard. 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