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Show Unpopular Tax Sales Tax. Sales of farms have recently recent-ly been halted in a number of Middle Western counties. Groups of farmers and other local citizens citi-zens have appeared at the courthouses court-houses when tax delinquent property prop-erty was to be sold and have made plainly known their opposition. Sometimes this action has caused the postponement of tax sales.1 On other occasions it has simply checked any intended bids. In one Iowa county when a tax sale was about to be held, the secretary of the local league announced: an-nounced: "There is no tax strike in this county. We are law abiding abid-ing people. However, if there are any bidders here who plan to bid for speculation at the expense of the unfortunate taxpayer, they had better go slow. They will not find public opinion with them.'' He sxpressed the common feeling feel-ing that advantage should not be taken of persons who have struggled strug-gled to become property owners and who are in temporary difficulties diffi-culties do to no fault of their own. And it is fired by recollection of fortunes that have been made out of just such circumstances in formers periods of bad times. The forced sale of property is made mandatory by law when taxes have reached a certain certain cer-tain stage of dilinquency. Those who adhere to strict legality may depreciate the actions of these Middle Western farmers. But it |