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NOME, ALASKA, OCT. 11, 1916.
.uient i he tux question, M o cannot
but agit ■ v, ith Lite view of "Taxpayer'
uliu.se communication appeared in the
. .uurday issue of me Nugget, tliut all
mis fuss and bother about tlie payment
• f taxes is decidedly unseemly when
the lneusuie of benefits derived by the
citizens through tlie city government
.tie taken into consideration. Kuch year
there is a wild scramble on the part
of taxpayers to aved taxes and sun
dry and divers kicks are the order of
the day, promptly with the completion
"t the assessment rolls. No account
is taken of the benefits received and
no thought is given to what might be
the conditions were the civil govern
ment not existent. Any excuse that
will provide a seemly' just ground for
registering a kick is seized upon with
astonishing avidity and hammered and
dinned upon until it Is really nothing
short of disgusting. As a matter of
fact there are few people in Nome
who really pay what Is their Just lia
bility True it Is there are a few,
particularly among tho small cabin
holders, who have a Justifiable kick
c ruing. but. In a comparative senso,
they ire few indeed. True It Is also
that, equitable valuation considered,
nearly every real property holder Is
ssessed somewhat higher than he
ought to be, but at the same time
there are scarcely more than ten per
cent of these same people who are
paying a cent of persona] property tax.
A glance at the assessment blanks re- j
turned to the city clerk Is speedily
convincing that there are a mighty
lot of people In tho community who are
howling about an over-assessment on
their real property that are far from
being over-assessed If their full liability
' nsidered, even If their real prop
vt\ ig taxed at a rate two or three
ndied per cent in excess of a fair
ablation. With a very few exceptions,
non., of the property holders aro pay
ing one cent more than their actual
liability, if full account were taken of
the value of all their holdings, both
, teal anu personal. As pointed out by
Taxpayer," there were nearly one
million dollars on deposit in the banks
about the lime the annual assessment
v .is lev led. All this is taxable anil
i i lie larger portion is owned by the very
people who are the loudest in tlieir
enunciations of the council tor sub
jecting them to "an excesive tux" on
I itielr real property. The tax on a mil*
! non dollars would go a long way to
| solving the tlnanclai difficulties of the
i city and If honestly paid would prob
| bably result in a considerable lessen
ing of the much complained of “over
! ^sessment" on real property. But,
| i.s 9uicelently pointed out by "Taxpay
er," "the sworn statements of tax
payers or tax evaders, do not show the
existence of any part of this million
collars," and this Is true, not only this
but every year If the taxpayers of
the community have any kick coming
-1 all it Is not that they are paying
more than they are Justly entitled to
pay for there are few who are paying
one read cent more than they should
if the full value of all their holdings
are considered. There are some who
are, in the phrase of the street, "get
ting a bit the worst of It" and It Is
eully too bad that they should be
made to sutler In uny degree because
i the failure of others to pay what Is
meir just liability, but, it must be re
.leintiereU that the council cannot by
my means in then' power segregate the
deep from me goats, if everybody
ciapiayed a Hue civic spirit by “com
ing through m accordance with their
Jast liabilities lliere would be ho neces
sity for tins annual howl arising. If
ihere is uny luck coining about taxa
tion It is solely on the ground that the
iHxution is not equitably distributed,
•mine pay their due but the majority
are assessed tar below what they ac
tually should be. The remedy lays
wall the council and therefore should
"e made an election issue us It is
plainly to be seen that relief In this
inspect cannot be obtained otherwise
• e have no sympathy with the present
unt il in their difficulties because of
>he vacillating method of meeting the
■sue, but at the same time we cannot
mol that they are entirely to blame
hut matters have reacned their present
stage The fuult lies primarily with
the taxpayer who evades his honest
cues and attempts to conceal his de
falcation by howling at the Injustice of
'he eouncilmanlc methods.
GIVING THE MELTING
POT A REST
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(.Philadelphia Ledger.)
'lhe war is giving the United Slates
.1 much needed opportunity to assi
milate the foreign-born population.
For the last ten years an average ot
1,000,000 immigrants have entered the
country every year. Of course, some
of them have returned, but the net
gain in population from this source
alone has been ustounding. It has
taxed the powers of the nation to ab
sorb this vast mass of humanity un
familiar with American institutions
and American Ideals. With the out
break of the war the rush of immi
grants stopped suddenly. In the year
ending with June 30, only 326,700 land
ed in American ports. As tho war has
gone on the travel this way has con
tinued to dwindle. July brought only
21,500. and only seventy-one of them
landed at Philadelphia.
The problem of making good Am
ericans of those here is becoming eas
ier not only through the decrease in
the number arriving, but through the
return to their native country of thou
sands who had not yet become citizens
and were compelled to respond to the
call to arms.
NO RESULTS.
(Boston Record.)
The United States commission on
industrial relations has come and, for
the moment, gone. Peace to its ashes!
It has produced a wildly whirling mass
of confusion, a hodgo dodge of good
intentions and poor sense. It lias
wobbled and tetered, it has projected
disagreeing reports in such complexi
ty of interpretation as never a commis
sion before offered a public which
hoped for better things. Mr. Walsh
j lets been well advertised. Air. ltocke
IVIler lias had some sharp kickd un the
shins. Air. Manley lias produced u sec
t iiiiial report of engaging structure,
llach participant in the investigation
has come out apparently worse defud
dled than he went in. And what has
llie public in return for the expendi
ture of a large amount of public
money? it has just zero, industrial
conditions in this country, which are
far from what they should be, must br
and will be. ore better than they were
ton years ago We are making prog
ress—despite occasional set-back.!
magnified in sensationalism. Public
interest in these matters Is keener and
more lntellgent than it was. We shall
continue to go ahead and make things
better. Intelligent employers and
workers are busy to the same end.
They‘will not find much to help them
in the hysterics of this absurb com
mission which has committed little but
Indiscretion
ALASKA
NOTES
Charles Bindatroia. of Chatanlka,
committed suicide at Fairbanks by
blowing his head off
Prospectors returning from Bower
liver, in the Kaiyuh range, report
nothing worth while in this district.
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Ur. diaries B>. Carter, who has re
Mued at one camp or another in the
north fur tlie past sixteen years, lias
one outside, to Victoria. Pie will
mist in ihe service ut the allies as a
dentist.
A white mans’ body was found
boating in the Yukon river by a nu
live, near Bridies. It is thought to
i>e that of a man named ffudson, who
ieft for down the river in a small boat
..bring a gale.
Ur. Alfred 11. Brooks, bead of tin
cluska mineral resources divigum o.
me t inleu si tales geological survey
coming oul by way of Fairbanks
u um Uie interior, wiiere he has been
investigating mines and mining.
in consequence of a miners’ strike
■mi two employing concerns are op
rating on Bong creek and Bear Pup
• reek. The operators offer to pay
14 per day for bucking, but the men
want $5, and have struck to enforce
their demands.
Airs. Alary D. Wilson, wife of Ser
geant Wilson, of the quartermaster
corps, was drowned in the Yukon op
posite Fort Gibbon July 27. Her
husband, who was with her, made a
desperate light to save her, but was
unsuccessful. The body was found
two days later by a native.
t.'nited Statos Alarshal Harding's
sale of foxes at the ranch of Lahev
iV- Handley, near Haines, last week
resulted in George Vogel buying six
teen cross foxes, one black fox and
;i family of minks, and George Hinch
man purchased one cross fox and all
the red foxes, says the Skagway Al
askan.
Juneau is one place where soap box
orators or street speakers are not
welcome and that class are giving the j
city a wide berth. So strictly is the
ordinace prohibiting street speaking
enforced that permission was recent
ly denied by the city council to hold
religious meetings in the open air
where traffic might bo interrupted.
Itinerant merchants who attempt to
compete with the merchants of Fair
banks will find themselves handicap
ped by a license of $200. At tho last
session of tlie territorial legislature a
law was pasaed giving town councils
tlie right to pass ordinances fixing
license fees for itinerants and the
Our 9maller Manufacturer
sited dredges of light power
with buckets drills capable
from 1'/2 foot of sinking 5 in.
capacity to 5 holes 50 feet
.foot capacity. deep,
lead all others
W0 design, _ . ,
build, Install , .
design fm0 gold
and operate for . . "
. , ... saving devices
a period o* 30 . „
installed on
days.
dredges of the
Drod0e, de flume type
signed and
built to suit -
conditions
under which Write for
they are to prices and
operate Double Hutne, Screen Conveyer, Ty(.e of Aewiicut! Cs';. - particulars
AMERICAN DREDGE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
503-504 PIONEER BLDG- 3. BERNARD Manager C-ATTLE, WA8H
Fairbanks council has availed itself of
I the law t<> protect its home merchants
aaiiinst the fly-by-nights.
Skagwav enjoys the distinction of
being one of the few northern towns
which is working practically on a
cash basis. The tax levy this year is
m!y ten mills The town is equipped
with u tire-fighting apparatus which
has no superior on the coast The
water and light systems, although
owned by private corporations, have
i con considerable and have establish
ed very reasonable rates.
The fact that mining operators of
Fairbanks who have made money op
erating in that and other camps are
buying interests In Tolovana is a sub
stantial indication of their belief In
tiie future of the latest northern plac
er camp. Dan McCarthy, one of the
original locators in the Fairbanks dis
trict, has disposed of his Tolovana
holdings to Sam Godfrey for (32,000.
Luther Hess, who has made money
operating on Cleary and Eldorado,
Fairbanks, has purchased all the in
terests of J. W. McCord in Tolovana.
A huge gold nugget was recently
found in the Engineer group, at At
lin, B C„ described us 36 Inches long,
is Inches wide, 2 inches deep, and
valued at $40,000. W. A. Blair, secre
tary of the board of trade, at Van
j cuuver, has requested that the nugget
i ne purchased by tiie government, at
cording to tiie Dawson News. Mr.
Blair states that tiie San Francisco
fair directors have offered (2,000 for
tiie loan of tiie nugget, and says tliu,
it would be a fatal mistake to allow
it to get into the hand3 of the Amer
icans, as it will be of lnestima
value to British Columbia.
Angus Sutherland, sustained a brok
en leg while working in an open cut
for tiie l'ukon Gold Company on
Greenstone creek. He was brought to
Ruby, at 11 o’clock Sunday night, and
at 2:30 next morning he was put
bpon DeVane'a launch and started to
ort Gibbon, where he was placed in
tiie military hospital. The break Is a
very serinus one, the leg having been
broken at the same place last Novem
ber He was working In a cut beside
a batik of muck only about three feet
high, when a portion of It caved In j
and struck him from behind —Ruby
Record Citizen.
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