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Show THE PAY50VLVN, PAYSON, UTAH 4 A Reply to the Argument of Shots from Jesse Knight, Opposing the Or Mi. fifty Constitutional Amendment for Taxation of Mines CHRISTENSEN j ag-Elizabeth Christeusan, seven years, dieJ at her home' Thursday, October 17, of pneumonia. She leaves a family of five sous ami three daughters, four of whom are not married, but they are all ure James Their names grow a. Christensen, merchant here iu town; Soldi Christensen, who farms here; Mary C. Davis, from here; Emma .illy Cubin, whose husChristensen; band is over there; Wilford ChrisA linn over there; tensen, who is Christensen and Angus Christeusen. The funeral services were held at The the home Sunday afternoon. Brother choir sang O My Father; M. (). Xash offered opening prayer; Faco to Face sang by Hazel Snow; 1). V. Jackman spoke; Bro. Hendrickson, from lrovo, spoke of her us a child and young girl at A Pilhome; Bess Gardner sang from Pres. Sanpete, Lund, grim; who has known her since a child, spoke for a few minutes; Henry Sabin soke, after which Glenn Rowe O Dry those of Spanish Fork sang There were many beautiful Tears. flowers. The corpse was taken to Pavson Cemetery for burial. M rs. Oliver Xash is rather ill Several of tier with pneumonia. children have Influenza also. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Mr. Leland Dewev, who died here last week and who was taken to Deweyville Tuesday morning for burial. Bishop and Mrs. his Dewey, parents; Mr. Robert Asa Gardner, his uncle, and Mr. Dewey, his brother, all of Deweyville. Th were here for the services. funeral was not held last week on account of little Bobby, the only He child, being suddenly worse. is improving now and seems very much better, although he is not strong enough to accompany them to Deweyville. Master Blain Tiffany is improving from pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hamilton arc make up our districts quota. Forty with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton. Mrs. Eli F. Taylor spent Friday in Provo. Mr. Taylor met her there and returned home with her to remain until after the funeral of Mrs. Tay lots brother, who died in Canada and is being shipped to Fairview for s rviees and burial. Mrs. Taylors brother leaves a wife, two pair of twins under three years of age and two older children. Miss Ella Sheen spent Saturday in Pavson shopping. The Misses Alweena PeterBon, Lil lian Grant, Ella Sheen, Jennie Fly gare, Lois Killian went joy riding Sunday with some Pavson friends. MRS. DEATH It is that the trary in claimed in this argument amendment is conproposed and theory spirit to the American government, that it savors of 1rnssianism, that it is taxation without representation in its worst form, that it opeus an avenue for political corruption and invites graft and blackmail. To fair minded people those assertions must appear ridiculous, in view of the fact that the same principle for the taxation of mines is retained in the amendment as now exists in the constitution, and the only power granted to the state board of equalization in 19U9 by a constitutional amendment, with the consent of the raining interests of this state. The Constitution as amended in 190!) reads: All the machinery used in inning etc. and the net annual proceeds pf all mines and mining claims shall be taxed by the State Hoard of Equalization. The proposed amendment reads as follows: All metalliferous mines, or mining claims, both placer and rock place, shall be assessed at $0.00 per acre, and in addition thereto, at a value based on some multiple or of the net annual proceeds thereof. The State Hoard of Equalization shall assess and tax all property herein enumerated. Note that the wording of the proposed amendment is exactly the same as the wording of the Constitution as it now exists, pertaining to the powers of the State Board of Equali zation to tax mines. The one single difference between the Constitution and the amendment is: Hereafter the legislature will have the right to de cide the number of times which the net proceeds must be taken in order that the full value of the mine may be obtained, whereas the present Constitution the legislature prohibits farom valuing a mine at more than once its net proceeds. Prior to 1909 the local assessors assessed and taxed the mines as directed by the legislature. The amendment to the Constitution in 1909 removed this power from the assessors and gave it to the State Boerd of Equalization. The Attorney General of the State of Utah gives his opinion as follows: If the amendment be adopted I am unable to see that any additional power will be give-of Equalization to the Board with respect to the taxation of . e - ' - mines. The legislature will neither be obliged nor permitted under this amendment to confer upon the State Board of Equalization the absolute power to assess and at a rate and tax mines value to be determined by them, but the legislature wi'l determine what the tax late shall be, how net proceeds will be determined and what the multiple or will be that is to be applied lo net proceeds, in order that mines may be assessed at e fid I :.lue. value mines for assessment purposes at a sum greater than their dividends for any one year. It is further claimed by Mr Knight should that the Constitution not be amended without grave consideration and imperative necessity which dot's not exist. The provision in the Constitution favoring mines, which the Honorable Thomas Kearns anti other members of the tax committee of the State Con st itirtional Cons cut ion insisted should be written into the fundamental law of the state, was not designed to remain there for all time. i.The framers of the Constitution ex pee ted a progressive people and a growing state to require changes in the Constitution, and therefore, pro vidi'd u way for its amendment. The biggest mine in the State of Utah has saved to itself from the public treasury in the last three years the enormous sum of $1,180,-Oilby reason of the defeat of a similar amendment to the constitution in 1915 and has thereby increased the burdens of other tax payers in pro portion. How many more years must we wail before there is sufficient reason for this change? Finally Mr. Knight contends that the amendment should be defeated and that an income tax for state purposes should be enacted which the mines would gladly pay. Yet the mine owners know that they bitterly opposed the enactment of a state in come tax law at the sessions of the last two legislatures. And even today the mines are paying the oceu pat ion tax uuder protest. It is a common policy of the mining interests to defeat legislation that affects them by proposing auothcr kind of legislation that musti of necessity lie enacted, if at all, in the remote fu ture. An income tax must be assessed upon all property alike, and this will not, therefore, withdraw the special privilege which the mines now possess under the (Tonstitution. This should be first accomplished irrespec tive of whether or not a state income tax is to be enacted. Moreover, an income tax will not reach the rich non resident mine owners of the state. power of of the legislature our democratic 1 Save Pennies Waste Dollars Some users of printing save pennies by get' ting inferior work and lose dollars through lack of ad' veitising value in the work they get. 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This has resulted in a loss In taxes to the State from counties and school districts of the vast sum of Si ,857,966.04 in three . years. v s A Fourth. majority of tho last recommends voters to of the the l.eyjslature Stale, for their adoption, the proposed Amend-ni- t nt to the Constitution a the bast and proper way to remedy this great injustice. Vote "YES for all the Amendments. One U for State wide prohibition one is for a reducvalue of homes, and on tion on the assesy-fis to equalize the burden of taxes between mines anu other property. JOINT COMMITTEE OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND HOUSE OF DELEGATES. they are form of government. Mr. Knight says it would be exto delegate to tremely dangerous the State Board of Equalization the power to tax mines. But this board now assesses and taxes other property in the. state valued at more than $100,000,000 and equalizes taxes between counties. At present it is composed of two Democrats and two Republicans who are appointed by the Governor of the state for a term of four years; but the legislature may decide at any session to increase or reduce its number, may make the members elective by the people, and may restrict or enlarge its powers. Mr. Knight claims that the amendment was passed without due eonsid eration. And yet this amendment in substance has had the indorsement of three legislatures both Republican and Democratic. It is now seven years since the Republican party pro posed that the state Constitution be amended so that the net annual pro ceeds of all such precious mota1 mines and mining claims shall In This taxed as provided by law amendment was proposed so that thr legislature would Vhave the right t( d The Democratic party declares for state income tax in ils platform, to bo enacted, however, at the close of the war. The Salt Lake Tribune in its editorial of October 2nd, states that an income tax for state purposes should not be enacted for the THR reason that this form of taxation is FACTS ADMITTED CONCERNING PKOPOSfcl) AMENDMENT TO THE CON and exhausted monopolized by the 8TITUT10N AFFECTING MINES. Federal Government. The amendment of mine taxation should be adopted. First. The Legislature of ISIS reducod tax The mines can not le tjixed at full value because rite 60 per cent in order to force all proper y the constitution prohibits? This con- to full value for aaseeiraent purpose, and conform to the Constitution a ad the stitutional limitation must be remov- thereby law. Article IS in Section 2 and S of the ed before there can be equality in Stole Constitution plainly state that all prop, taxation for all the property in the erty shall be assessed and taxed at full' value. Second. 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