Editor
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1890
KMTOKIAIj NOT15S.
Tin: particulnr Attention of our read
ers is called (o tho letter of "An Old
Timer" in this issue. It treats of mat
tors of importance that should interest
nil thoughtful men.
EH-gjiut.i,jLJc.mwwnLu.iui
Theke were 2G70 foreclosures of farm
mortgages in Kansas within tho last
six months. This is probably one of
tho things Ulaino meant when ho
spoko of the "triumphs of protcciion."
The Greeks observe Monday as a
day of rest; the Persians, Tuesday; the
Assyrians Wednesday; the Egyptians,
Thursday: the Turks, Friday; the
Jews, Saturday; the Christians, Sun
day.
The Texas Live Stock Journal gent
ly remarks that "as another evidence
that tho cattleman is ngnin on the
highroad to prosperity, and that his
standing financially is once more as
suming a degree of responsibility, it
may bo montioncd that tho shrowd
banker with his moncy-bngs is begin
ning to again cultivate him, instead of
avoiding him, as heretofore.
Tiiinoh have como to a pretty pass,
eays tho Courier Journal, when
tho farmers of tho West and Northwest
must mortgi'go their farms and thoir
crops at 7 and 8 per cent, intorest in
order to got enough money to tido them
over a bad crop, whilo tho fatherly
government at Washington voluntarily
Biipplics tho luxurious wants of the
Wall street, speculators by paying
them a years interest in advance on
its own bonds.
imxw mm iiiinuwuijijitw
We judgo from tho communication
of Shelton it Carroll, last week, that
Attornoys Crawford, Wilson and llack
kott aro rosponsiblo for tho dismissal of
thoso contest eases. As yet these
gentleman havo not deigned to mako
any explanation of tho matter. Unless
thoy do so very soon tho peoplo
will draw thoir own conclusions in
tho matter and Tun Scout will feol
called upon to talk a great deal plainer
than it has heretofore done.
We clip this valuablo pioco of news
from tho I'rinovillo news: In answer
to Bpecial inquiry, and for tho informa
tion of thotio interested, wo will stato
that a man tuny abandon a prc-omp
tion land claim for good reasons and
mako a second pro-emption filing upon
another tract. This fact has been cs
tablishcd beyond a doubt by recent
decisions of tho commissioner of tho
general land office. Of course, in such
cases tho first entry must bo cancelled.
The inossbaoks who compose tho
council of UakorCity aro making some
street improvements. Ono portion of
tho ordinance which thoy passed re
quiring tho work to ho done reads as
follows :
See. 4. Tlio cost of grading nail tilling of
Raid Htroct shall bo assos.nid proportionate"
ly, with reference to frontage, upon tin
lots or parts of lots abutting thereupon.
Ridiculous, isn't it? If thoso old
fogies will como down to Union and
havo Mayor Kennedy hold their heads
whilo Councilman Wilson and Editor
Davis scrapes tho moss oil' thoir backs
with a shingle, thoy will go homo with
a cloaror perception of how things
ought to bo dono. Why don't tho
Uakor City counoilmon buy tho prop
erty adjoining tho proposed improve
ment and then mako tho taxpayers at
largo pay for tho work? Darn a moss
back, anyway 1
Tm: Uakor City Ulado, in a recent
issue, speaking of Louis Davis, whoso
fcoblo intellect is supposed to guido
tho destiny of tho Eastern Oregon
Whnngdoodlo, Bays:
It must ho ratlior tuuhaiiK'lng to tho
new editor of tlio Union Republican to see
articles that lie has stolen from other pa
pers published in soiuo of his exchanges
anil credited to his paper, wlillo his own
writings are passed unnoticed,
Well, lather; but what it would take
to embarrass tho now editor of tho Re
publican would embarrass a jaokass.
Two to ono that ho doonn't know tho
moaning of tlio word. Wo aro unablo
to dwido whether tlio Ulado meant
tho abovo aa a disparagement of tho
Stato Univorsily, whoro Davis says ho
got tho degree of A. I), or a slur at Da
vis hiniiolf. If tho former, tlio criti
cism is just, for such degrous must bo
very oay to got and worthless whon
obtninod. If tho latter, tho criticism is
unkind, for Davis is certainly not to
blanto for being tlio thing that naturo
mntlo him. A leop.ird uannot ohango
his spots; noilhur win a natural born
toady ohango liw oharaotor.
Amos K. Jones,
OUP. METHODS OF TAXATION.
Tho Union County Tax Lovy Crltlolcism
of the Now Departure In tho Lovy of
Road Tax-Some Interesting Figures.
EniTOK Okeoo.v Scout:
Will you bo kind enough to allow
mo sufficient of your valuablo spnee to
notice, briefly, tho assessment roll of
Union county for tho year 1800 and
tho tax lovy mndo thorcon by tho
county court, for that is a subject of
vital interest to all good citizens and
taxpayers. Let mo say right hero that
our system of raising revenue for state
and county purposes etc., is a farce, a
fraud nnd a snare to catch honest men
and fools and allow rogues to escape
taxation.
It does seem passing strango that
there is not sufficient intelligence or
integrity in our legislatures to prompt
them to enact just and equitable taxa
tion and assessment laws. The assess
ment roll fliows creditable increase in
tho taxable property of the county, but
there is ono fact in connection with
tin's increase of taxable property that
is proper to consider well in making
assessment which is tho fact, that in
this State, there is no Stato Hoard of
equalization to adjust or equalize the
assessment of the several counties,
which loaves every county assessor free
to make the assessment of his county
in his own way and if property is as
sessed proportionately higher than in
others or than tho general average of
tlio assessment of tho several counties,
tlio taxpayors of that county aro com
polled to pay an unjust proportion of
the Stato tax.
It is true that tho law requires all
property to bo assessed at its actual
cash value and it is equally truo that
no assessor protends to comply there
with, in lact the circumstances ofi'er
i strong inducement to cacli assessor
to got below all other of tho assessors
n valuation, and I am creditably in
formed that in some of tlio counties of
this Stato, Multnomah most notably,
real property is not assessed to exceed
20 percent, of its value.
.It is very apparent to every intelli
gent person that radical changes aro
demanded in our revenue laws. Tlio
great wonder is that tho peoplo of tho
State havo so paticntly.borne this out
rageous tax system this long. As tho
legislature is to convene within a short
time it is right that all honest men
should agitato this tax question, and
demand in a loud voice of that law
making body a more just and equita
blo law for assessment and taxation.
Tlio 20 mill lovy made by tho coun
ty court on tho !?!!, 11 ,755 assessment
amounts to a tax of $88,775.7:1 if it
wore possible to collect all of it, but
tho very nature of tlio case makes
(hat impossible. There is always a
considerable portion of tho assessment
of tho county on which no tax is col
lected, though tlio Stato levy's hor as
sessment on the full amount whether
collected or not, which is another great
injustice On this assessment as above
staled tho Stato lovy, estimated at 5
mills as tho lovy is not yot known
amounts to $17,072.27, which must ho
paid whether collected or not, and 1
venture tlio assertion right hore, based
upon tho past history of tax collect
ing in this county, that tho taxes on
at least $200,000 of this assessment
will not bo colloutod, which will obli
gate tlio county to pay to tho Stato, at
tho usual 5 mill lovy, $1,000 on assess
ment upon which there has boon no
tax collected.
Tho levy of 5 mills for school pur
poses will raise a fund of $17,072.27.
Of course tho school fund loses what
ever proportion of this tax that is nut
collected, but this together with tlio
county's proportion of tlio irredueoablo
school fund, makes quite a largo fund
for school purposes, sulllcient to main
tain schools in each t-ohool district in
tho county a sullleieut length of time
to givo every child of school ago a very
good common school education, pro
vided thoy would attend and mako use
of thoir time and opportunity, but un
fortunately, thoy do not.
Tho taxpayers of tho Stato and coun
ty aro burdened with a heavy tax to
maintain schools to educate the fu
ture citizenship of the republic, nnd
yet a great proportion of tho children
remain or aro kept from cchool and
allowed to grow up in senii-ignoranco,
notwithstanding tho law on the statute
books requiring the attondanco at
school at leant throo months in oaoh
year of ovory ohild botweou tho agoa
of 8 and 1-t years. Tho law tdiould
force a longer attendance, hut indili'ar
once on tho part of tho parents or
gwmlians, logots imliltbroiico and
often aversion to school on tho part of
tho child, llo that could or would
Miggost a practical remedy for this
groat evil would doscrvo to bo Mossed.
Tliis lovy of 2(5 mills on tho aisew-
mont of $!M 11,155, will milu a fund,
if it oould be oollootod, of i?S8,7fft.83,
divided as follows: For school our-
, poses, 5 mills or $17,072.27, payable in
t coin; Stato tax estimated 5 mills, or,
j 17,072.1.5 payable in coin ; Contingent
ft,,, tax of o miH8 or $0,828.91 pay-
iablo in coin and a road tax of 2
j mills or $0,828.01 payable in coin, and
county tax for general purposos of
12 mills or$-0,97.'5.-10 payable in county
warrants, so that if a perton is assessed
on $1000 worth of property, they will
pay $2G taxes, $5.00 school tax, $5.00
State tax, $2.00 contingent tax, $2.00
road tax all payable in coin and $12
county tax payable in county orders.
Tin's road tax is a new departure of
tho erfunly court, The legislature of
1880 passed an act empowering county
courts in certain counties, to lovy
this road tax of 2 mills, but I do not
understand the law to bo compuleory,
but simply gives them the power, to
mako such lovy. Tho tax howevor
may be paid in labor.
You published in your issue of tho
0th inst., tlio section of statute under
which the county court acted in this
instance. Now whilo I am decidedly
in favor of making the road tax pay
able in money, and bolievo wo will
securo but little improvement in
our public roads, until wo reform
tho old slipshod manner of working
them, yot I am quite sure that the
fund provided for in tho statute under
consideration, is wholly inadequate for
tho purposes intended, for tho county
court elects to made the levy of 2 mills
and a poll tax of $2.00 on all persons
subject to a Stato poll tax, that shall
bo tlio on'y tax levied and the only
funds us-.d in opening or laying out of
now roads, or improving, tho roads of
tho county, or the building or repair
ing of bridges.
Tho roads and bridges of this county
during the year 1880, as shown by the
county records, cost tho county over
$20,000. Now while this was an extra
ordinarily heavy expenditure for roads
and bridges for a single year, and may
not be necessary for a number of years,
if any ono year, again the fund of $0,
828.91 and $2.00 poll tax on 1G0G per
sons returned by tho assessor as sub
ject to a poll tax, which $.1212 or alto
gether, property and poll tax, if it
were possible, to collect all of it, would
create a fund of $10,010.91? but as a
matter of fact, thero is not tho least
probability that a fund of more than
$8000, will bo collected for road pur
poses on this lovy, and I verily be
lieve that $7000 will he nearer tho ac
tual amount raised, for past experience
convinces mo that tho sherifi' will col-
but a small portion of the poll taxes,
except of persons who pay a property
tax, whereas tho supervisors of tho
sovoral road districts, could, and did,
collect a road poll tax of most all per
sons in tho county subject, to that tax.
There are always quite a numbor of
persons in tho county, who aro tran
sient, but who are subject to a road
tax, and this character of tax will bo
lost to the roads under this law, as the
supervisors will havo no authority to
collect it. We will suppose that tho
county court is enabled to raise a fund
on this lovy of $S000 which I certain
ly do not expect, there aro forty-four
road districts inmho county and tho
compensation of tho road supervisors
will averago about $50 each, or say
$2000 in all, leaving a road fund of
$0000 to bo divided among forty-four
districts or $l!i(.3( to each, or other
wise $181.81 to each district, all told,
to pay supervisors and do the road
work, and not ono dollar to oxpend in
opening now roads or in building or
repairing bridges. It seems to mo
that tho prospect for improvement
in our county roads and bridges for tho
next year at least is not a very llattor
ing ono.
And now, Mr. Editor, does not tho
number of poll taxes', returned by tho
assessor strike you ns being a littlo
peculiar? Sixteen hundred and six
porsons reported subject to a poll tax
in the county on tho heels of an olec- J
tion in which over HG0O votes were 1
polled and quite a number of, persons
in tho county too who nro subject to a
poll tax who aro not untitled to vote.
The law ays every male pen-on over
tho ago of 21 years and under 50 yours,
who are not a public charge or aro
unablo to perform manual labor or
actual members of a firo or military
company, aro subject to a poll tax.
1G0G persons, subjeot to military duty
out of u voting population of HG00,
surely not a very good war footing.
C!ue&j wo belter not pick a quarrel with
somebody.
An OiO) Timkk.
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A. K. KLUS, Ticket Agent.
TIME TABLE.
Trains depart from Union daily as follows:
west hound.
Fast Mail, No 1 5:00 P. M.
Express, Xo 7 1:35 A.M.
KAST HOUND.
Fast Mail. No 2 7:tO P. M.
Express, No 8 11 :45 A. M.
Main Line, Nos. l and 2. "The Overland
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Coaches, between Portland and Denver,
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J!Q3j?ijX TO XjXj
FUO.M I'ORTliAKD. FllOM SAN FI.A2SCI8CO.
At 10 p. 111. At 10 a. 111.
Oregon . ....July S Columbia ...July 3
Columbia " 8 State . ... " 7
State ' 12 Oregon 11
Oregon ' l(i Columbia.... " 15
Columbia " 20 State " 19
State, 24 Oregon " 23
Oregon " 28 Columbia... " 27
Stato ' 31
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41.