Show REM IRKS ON It FUSION ISION OF A few daya days igo we were asked to cooperate with the farmers of 0 drain age district no 2 and ask the conn coun ty commissioners to cancel all past due taxes tor for a payment ot of five per ert of the past due sums in other t t to give the farmers a new start tor for five per cent ot of what they owed the idea was to make a blan ket settlement over the whole dis brict we were in favor of making individual settlements in cases where they were needed but we were not no in favor of making a blanket settle ment we still hold the he same viewpoint in regard to not giving support tor for a blanket settlement mainly because there are many who can well afford to pay more than five cent of delin quent taxes and to make such a drastic cut will lly Ily raise the taxes on our own property and on the of others not bene fitted by the movement because of payment in full of their taxes also the plan will set a precedent which will be followed in future years by other sections of the county and prompt them to ask tor for reductions on the same plan within a short time we are plan ning tio to make a comparison of the 1 aes paid in the different parts of tie county and to give the people wro pay taxes some idea of the dit dif ference if it any between the amount of taxes paid here anid and other parts we have not looked into tl e mat t r very thoroughly as yet but are of the opinion that the west side is assessed somewhat higher than the east side |