Show A 4 TION v OK TAXES E. E Exposition of Drainage Taxes Tax'S Made le by Attorneys Who Vho Take PosItion Differing from Publication t c t Continued from last week 1 the other handy hand why should a or- or person per n or group of pensIOns who h ha ne io furnished facilities to drain a J tract of land be given glyen any more se- se under the law than one who has furnished money With which to supply water wate to that t land Or has furnished Implements machinery or orI I seed to st In making that land land prod ve or who has ed building materials for tor fences end buildings which greatly Increase the value of that land There are are poss pose ably one or two plausible reasons and we lire re personally Willing to accept them as sound but we still that they ere aM not so 80 ent as the reasons for giving general gen gen- oral eral taxes priority over drainage taxes That Is the law It la is reason end and It Is just It may mar work hard bard ships ships' In Individual cases but we do donot donot not believe it will be sp speedily chan chan- god by dUr courts or our It Is not a technicality It Is good broadminded and logic The further pursued the more apparent the logic Let t us thle practical re- re suits Can a person It if the decision Is upheld let Jet his general taxes go goL L for tor tour four years take a Iced tram from the county AND DEFEAT ms DRAINAGE TAX TAX- HE CANNOT Let us pauSe a moment in n this discussion That pithy query and Its concise answer settle the whole is- is hue Bue as fan las ps We are concerned It If our readers will take the legal gal decision de de- of and Crafts the authOrs ot of the tha reply a We pre Meekly printing then they will wUl know that the drainage tax cannot be de de- fEU ted by the policy of allowing the general tax to go unpaid for tor tour four years and knowing that It cannot be defeated by this maneuver they will not Mt try It and the talk to do so soby c by that means will die out That talk talk SOl so hurtful to our credit SO damaging to the needs of our country count count- ry 17 further financing on credit la is what we aimed nt at and which we 1 hoped to squelch We will quote t just one more sentence for this week L 1 and 16 j words sink irti 11 for tor a week 1 t. t when w we will resume the article HE CANNOT The drainage I tax was against him and It itis Is hIs hIB obligation and attaches to him himas tr as well as the land as tong long as he re- re tams title to the land Lot that sink In for a week and be spread with comment It helps i what we set out ut to correct better botter i. i l than any remarks of our ow own and whole While we will continue the article r with further of other points of law the talk so hurtful to tot t the credit of the Whole country will wUl wille y subside if e- e To e continued next wok wOOk |