Show Railroads and In the coming national election farmers will wilI have their first real opportunity to vote vote- on government oW ownership of railroads The Third Party has made it a direct campaign issue by this platform pledge Wo Wc declare for public ownership of Df railroads with definite safeguard I against bureaucratic control as the Ule only solution of the transportation problem There her are many conjectures but only ono one certainty what government ownership of the railroads offers the farmers particularly those of the Middle Nest and the That t is increased ta taxes es For Ford as property of the United States the railroads be a ar exempt from state and local taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion ns as the post offices s. In 1923 1921 the tho Denver and Rio Grande Western Vestern system paid the following taxes in Utah Utah Utah- State Tax County Tax Highway and and Road Tax School Tax 97 City and To m Ta Total otal Taxes paid in Ut Should the railroads railroad become gov gOY property p this source of or revenue rO for maintaining our public institutions would be cut oft off Not No only would we lose the t abo amount from the D. D R R. R G. G G but similar sinn aim ilar liar ilar amounts from the other great railroad systems of of ot the state so BO that our losses in this state from this source of revenue would aggregate aggregate ag ag- ag- ag between a million and a half to two million dollars i in n taxes th that i would have t to be made up from the remaining taxable property of the state Government ownership own would mean a flat increase In taxation of from m 7 to over 50 per cent agricultural in in the counties No agricultural t to state can afford o have sixth one-sixth o or r one tenth one or even le one-fifteenth one of its total tax revenue lifted off property mostly owned ow e elsewhere and piled the remaining upon property ed eci at mostly ott-nl ott OWned own OWn- home Advocates Ad of g government go ov ownership owner owner- ship hip sa say it will alo allow tv economies will that permit a a. a low 10 g o of f fF fg freight lates I f Farmers F arme rs cannot afford to take a n certain loss for the bling bung for sake of g gambling gam gam- a nt a theoretical cal benefit And that the F success of the La t healer ca campaign inet for gov- gov 79 nt ownership of woi would railroads mean a loss to them put certain is indisputably indis indis- |