Show an AM answer to others vie views ws I 1 leave always thought that it was more inore or less an unscrupulous principal to defonce your neighbor publicly as being dishonest but since this esema to be the order of the day it occurs that perhaps it is a past time which might be indulged in by more than one the question of honesty which was elaborated arpon so profusely last week might well ile be applied in fields other than that of the small email town store keeper who lias aas always been as much opposed to the sales tax is as the assessor however since the merchants in most cases are not tois s they have no voice lit in the matter other than seeing tint that the law is is followell follo followed once that it has been put on the statutes if honesty had always been the policy in our county perhaps the county would not be holding the sack as it were tor for taxes due on thousands of dollars worth of personal property and livestock which has escaped taxation by being attached to real estate wo th no more than the appraised value of the first years personal property but which continued to carry additional personal in some instances until the property reverted back to the county at the time an all auditors tax deed was issued thus losing the tax for five years and the county had in turn become the possessor of another prece of land or the cornin comin neis would be compelled to accept whatever they could get for the acreage this condition can be brought about only by the or protection of 0 the flie asse assessor sor this person had without a doubt enjoyed the privilege of sending his children to school with tit the use of the county roads at the expense of the honest taxpayers the practice of allowing deputies to appropriate funds collected from taxes tor for their personal use and making final settlement to the assessor with a worthless check has also been tolerated at the expense of the tax paying public another good beason why we have insufficient funds with which to run our schools the de sired si red length of time it is even possible that the deputy who issued the worthless check tor for final settlement was re employed with a deficit remaining from the year previous this is not fair to the citizens who are endeavoring to meet their public ob obligations ligat ions we a few honest men who would wel coma this work we are reminded of tire the opportunity of graft in the setup set up of the new sales law certainly no field presents pie a greater chance fox for favoritism and perhaps complete tax evasion than does that of cie t ie assessors office the possibilities ties depend entirely upon the honesty of the individual in each case the merchants books are open ter for inspection to the proper groper authorities and will not disappear over when the time cornea comes tor for audit so lets not single out the merchant mner and have him be the only honest man rats have honesty in all pursuits which will be ai good reason tor for less le ss official corruption G C KOHL duchesne A merchant |