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THE NOME TRI-WEEKLY NUGGET. MONDAY OCTOBER 20. 1919
GETTING OFF LIGHT.
The syncopated individuals who arc just now raising their annual
l-tey forgot t.) include their handsome, gold watch ami chain, their hank account,
their own wives’ jewelry, their limt; ■ Judd furniture, and icossildv wide
ngo of other taxable values, when making their personal property returns
So far as revealed by the assessment blanks r Turned tc? the assessor,
there are notion- than a half dozen individuals in the cit.v who have include 1
personal property. Judging from the returns duly 'signed and attesiod. not*
filiation to bedeck ones self with gewgaws, rare or costly. Kxcepting the j
bv our estimable citizens Stern minds generally disregard fripperies, hence
"He might deduce from the invariable sheer blankness of the space provided
. the bulk of our citizens at least are of the stuff of which philosophers and
only .me Individual in Nome is guilty of possessing a gold watch, if
f ' ' displayed b.v the solemnly subscribed blanks that not .1 hal£ dozer
cud others of the mere lioi polloi—th.- unwashed roughneck and others who
don't amount to much anyway. Yet. whether the abode of peer or wop. tlu-v
The tax returns indicate that not only are our citizens of t!u
fern mould that scorns such idle Irtish as jewelry but are actually so aescetb
trey disdain the humble carpet, the .. stove, the chiffonier and rocking
• hair and don't even use a bed ! Apparently at least 95 percent of Nome’s
1 csidents must eat in the grub shops and sleep on the bare floors without even
hi'dclothing- -something like the tough old Spartans, who held in contumely
such physical comforts as were not provided by their cloaks.
Another singular revelation of the assessment blanks*!* ttyit Nome mer
chants have no credit accounts from which they expect to receive returns.
1 "garding this phase of their business. There may be one who admitted he
l ad "debts due and to become duo” but we are sure that the* remainder failed
record such prospects when making their appraisements:
1’ossibly they have found that prospec ts of pay are too slight to ‘'put if
■'".vn" when customers apply for credit. It may also be that Nomeltes. in
addition to shunning jewelry and furniture, also avoid debt and so relieve the
local purveyors
The story told by the returns, however, is one that ill accords with
reason. Not even the most foolish or gullible will believe for a moment that
Nome people do not have watches and other jewelry or furniture in their
homes. By no species of reasoning r an it become faithfully Impressed th.-t
the million odd dollars held as deposits in the hank does not belong principally
• to residents of the city. It is equally absurd to suppose that Nome merchants
Jt:rv«- no debts th:^t are due or to become due. Kvery one. with the faintest i
spark of reasonable comprehension knows the contrary Is the case We have
■reard the merchants wall too often about credit accounts to 1 relieve that no one
owes them hills from which they expect to receive rc mure-ration. We.know
too that a majority of Nome homes are excellently furnished and that many of
their owners possess valuable jewelry. We are also well aware that most of
our citizens, including many In the humblest walks of life, pay their obligations
bv means of checks drawn against open bank accounts. T'v average citizen
<>f None is fnl'y as prosperous in very way as the average c;listen of any other
industrial town of the same size to bo found in America. There exists, how
f'ei, a marked diinc lination toward paying taxes on these possessions The*
small property owners as well as the business men of the community appear
to consider that they are under no obligation to pay taxes If they can evade
doing so. With deplorably few exceptions, they invariably seem to consider
that it is a g</od and just deed to beat the city out of every possible cent of its
legal dues if ways and means can Ik- found. The question of how much
they receive In the shape of fire and police protection, schooling for- their
children, in the benefits of paved and well lighted streets. In return for the
taxes they give appears to he entirely ignored. Time and events have long
since proved with certainty that the town Is full of people who are not in
the slightest degree adverse- to employing the most deplorablo~.tactles to escape
paying the city a few trifling cents. One need look no ffirthcr than the pres
<nt yearly tax returns to discover that many of the leading citizens are not
in the slightest degree adverse to deliberate falsehoods when making their
• ♦•turns. The failure «»f citizens to include in their statements to the asscssoi
the approximate value of personal property such as household furniture
money and Jewelry cannot he accounted or attributed to oversight or forgetful
ness. The items arc too plainly marked on the assessment blanks to a coop
the view that they arc overlooked. The failure t*> make entries must b<
looked upon as nothing Iok^j than deliberate attempts to deceive in the hope
of escaping payment of what is justly due the city.
Possibly those who ^fffploy such tactics fail to realize the actual repre
h« nsibllty of such evasion.'ttffut tho fact remains that every failure to me»|
an understood obligation Is deplorable and reprehensible, regardless of. whethei
the obligation is due an individual or a city.
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