Show TAXES RAISED BY HARD TIMES Burden Is Lightest in Communities Communities ties Boasting Li Live e and Thriving Thriving Thriving ing Towns f I FARMER FEELS TilE THE EFFECT r Is Is Inclined d to Forget at Times That He la Is Most Moat Vitally Interested In In Prosperity of Nearby Near t Cities Cities' Copyright 1917 Western Newspaper Union talon Taxes are always heavy heavy to to the man who has hils to pa pay them them but but taxes in ID some communities are much higher than In others If you have ever stopped to Investigate the matter you have discovered that the lowest taxes are arc found In the most prosperous com com- And theres there's a reason The prosperous community has the lowest taxes because there Is a large arge amount of or wealth In the community against which the taxes may be as as- assessed There are prosperous merchants merchants mer chants with large st stocks of goods Upon upon up Up- on which taxes are levied Property values are high and there are thriving Industries which pay a large prop proportion proportion or tion Uon of the taxes The higher the property values and the greater the wealth of the community community the lower are the tax levies for a lower tax on each hundred dollars of 01 valuation Is required to produce the necessary revenue for tor the administration tion of the city and county govern govern- ments Other Taxes Are Raised i 1 iOn On the other hand band take a dead town Property values are low Merchants Merchants' stocks are small and they have little money In the bank Industries w whist ordinarily pay a large part of the taxes of a community have closed down There are vacant store buildings were formerly filled with stocks ol 01 merchandise upon which the own owner r paid heavy taxes Who pays s the tn taxes e that were once paid by the the manufacturers the bankers and the men who had large holdings ol oj priced high property I The taxes to tc conduct the city and county governments govern ments meats to maintain the schools s to build and repair the roads must be collected collect collect- ed from someone Who pays paS them 1 The man who owns his little home bome or Ot orthe orthe the vacant lot or two upon which he has been planning to build his home must pay double or triple the amount which he be paid in the times when the town was prosperous to make up for fOl forthe forthe the taxes which are not paid now by bythe bythe the merchants the bankers the manu manufacturers manufacturers and the big property owners owner wh who bore the heaviest burd burdens ns of ot taxation taxation tax tax- atlon when times were good The Thc farmers In the country surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding the town are also among the heaviest sufferers from the ebbing of 01 tho the towns town's prosperity A certain amount of money must be raised by taxation to provide for the expenses expensed of the county Roads must b bo be built bulli and kept In IIi repair Bridges must be built and maintained Salaries of 01 county officers must be paid Cou County it Institutions for the care of the sick and the poor must be maintained In In counties which contain one or more thriving towns a large proportion of the taxes for the count b county are paid by bythe bythe the towns The greater the wealth of the towns and the higher the property property property prop prop- prop prop- erty valuations the lower the tax levy for the entire county V When en the tai taz levy Is low the b burden rd n placed upon the farmer Is light Burden Falls on Farmer When the county contains no prosperous prosperous prosperous pros pros- and wealthy towns the greater part of the burden of taxation for the county falls upon the farmer The value of the farmers farmer's property does not nol fall In proportion to the value of the property In the town and the higher tax levy that results from the lower property values In the towns makes his taxes higher The farmer forgets at nt times Umes that he heIs heIs heis Is vitally Interested In the prosperity of his town He lIe thinks that It Is up to the town to take care of Itself and alid that It Is up to him bim to take care of himself and he overlooks that fact that the prosperity of the town means as much to him as It does to those who live In it The farmer who Is Inclined to overlook this fact has only to think of f the matter of taxes and he Is likely to change his point point-of point of view for taxes are one thing that Unit neither he nor anyone anyone anyone any any- one else can escape and they are one thing in which the farmer ordinarily takes a very lively Interest How Farmer Can Help There Is Is' Is Just one way yay In which the farmer can best promote prosperity Inthe in inthe inthe the town near which he lives and that thatIs Is by spending his Ws money in that town instead of sending it a way away to the far far- distant city Every time the farmer sends an order to a mall mail order house he helps to destroy the prosperity of his own community and to boost his own taxes When he be sends a dollar away from home he be gets none of ot it back buck ho spends a dollar at home a n part of ot that dollar comes back to him in some way It h helps the town where it Is spent to provide a profitable profitable profit profit- able market for tor his products products' and it helps the town pay a large largo part of ot his taxes The farmer is Is the Is-the the one man In the community above all others who should have no love for the mall mail order houses for they are doing more mor to add to his troubles than any D other one agency t a h i i |