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For Business Efficiency put a cross in the square as shown above at the election Tues day, November 4th, 1924 VOTE FOR FRANK B. L1NDERMAN Republican Nominee for United States Senator \ & I / "I have no individual platform. Individual political platforms j are promises of personal performances, and I do not feel competent I to reconstruct all things for all men. I will stand with President Calvin Coolidge in carrying out the promises contained in the National Republican platform, which is my j platform, and I promise always to be a Montana citizen and a Mon tana Senator as well us a United States Senator. I am anxious to sec taxes reduced, the fanner helped and our border safeguarded in the interests of the new immigration law." FRANK B. L1NDEBMAN j A VOTE FOR UNDERMAN IS A VOTE FOR MONTANA. Circulated and paid for by Lindermnn for Senator Club, W. R. Hop kins, president, Helena, Montana. PEOPLE WOULD PAY IF RAILROADS WERE GOVERNMENT OWNED Third Party Plan Would Take Revenue From State* Involved. ; If the railroads of the United States should be taken over, owned and Op I erated by the government, the vast \ taxes now paid hy the railroads would have to be paid by the people, oecord ' iug to Will It, Wood, member of con gross from Indiana and chairman of i the Republican National Congression j al committee. Mr. Wood has made a careful analysis of the situation, noting the tax payments by the rail roads to the several state governments last year. If the roads were owned by the government they would be tax free Just as the post office* now are. The slates would still need the money, Just as they do now, and us a result additional tuxes would have to be lev ied on the citizens. Mr, Wood's complete analysis fol lows: "Robert M. I.u Follette, the Soclal Ist-tblrd party candidate for Presi dent, Is trying to convince 0,000,900 fanners that the surest cure for their Ills Is to bring about government own ership of all the railroads In the coun try ; that, If this Is done, transporta tion rates of all kinds would be Im mediately reduced. "There are a lot of things, however, that would transpire If this scheme were curried out, that Senator LaFol lette Is woefully silent upon, lie Is not telling the fumiers (hut the gov ernment pay* no taxes on Us proper ties und that It would pay no tuxes on the railroads of the country If It owned them. He Is not telling them that the railroads are paying into the various county nnd state treasuries of I the United Slates more than $300,000, 000 annually, which sum would have to be paid, In large part, hy the fann er*. once the government began the ownership of the railroads. "Take the state of Wisconsin for In stance: Last year the railroads paid the state of Wisconsin $7.321,076 In taxes. In the state of Minnesota the railroads paid, last year, a total tax to the state of $8,125,082. In Iowa they paid $11,8-10,708 ; In Kansas. $0,730,310; In Indiana, $13,004,027. In these live stales alone the railroads paid $ 12 , 431,034 of the public tux burden. I have taken the figures In the above named states because they are large ly agricultural and In the event that j the government became the owner of the railroads of the country the fann ers of these states would have to bear the greatest part of the burden In pay tug these additional taxes. "In the state of lovvu If the LaFoI Lette scheme were curried out, It would mean an Increase of $32 In taxes an , mmlly levied against each farm In the state, or $2.80 for each man, woman I and child in the state. In Kansas the burden would be $40 against each farm ! or $3.00 for each resident of that state. In Minnesota, where Mr. l.uFullette Is making a strong appeal for votes, he would take away from the farmer, under the government ownership plan, a tax Income now paid by the rail roads and place it ns an additional as sessment of $47 against each farm In the state, or $3.80 against each person residing In that commonwealth. "I am told that, la one county In Montana, the total tax paid by the rail roads amounts to 38.51 per cent of the In midsummer of this entire levy. j year there was $104,102 of the total j tax assessed In that county delinquent, j upon which a penalty had been laid. This is convincing evidence that this county was already taxed much more than It was able to pay. Yet Mr. Lu I Follette would take away 38% per î cent of the tax revenue of this coun ! ty, now being paid by the railroads, I and place It as an additional burden ; upon the Individual taxpayer. j "In my awn state of Indiana, the ; railroads pay $13,01)4,027 In taxes an | nunlly. The total tax of the state la j $124,800,700. The railroads share of j this tax Is over 10 per cent. If Mr. LaFollette's scheme were put Into ef j feet, the Individual taxpayer of Indl | ana would have to pay this additional sum of $13,094.027 each year. In Marl on county the railroads pay annually $715,388 In tnxes, a very substantial Item in the total of the tnxes prald In that county. "The figures that I have given, ap plicable to the five agricultural stales named, differ only In degree from those (hut might be given for every other state In the Union. "Not only would the farmers be bur dened by the payment of these ad ditional faxes, should the government become the owners of the railroads, but they would also have an additional burden to bear, Wie size of which It is hard to ascertain. In the shape of deficits occurring In the operation of the railroads of the country for main tenance, extensions and upkeep. "Some Idea of what this burden would he, may be bad, however, by recalling the experience during the period of government operation of the rail roads under the management of Wil liam O. McAdoo, when the amount of the deficit over the earnings of those railroads taken over by the govern ment was more than a million dollars a day, exclusive of the payment of exorbitant salaries to an army of offi cers. "The farmers of this country, before Ihey afeept the panacea of government j ownership of railroads, which Is but o forerunner of the socialistic state, will do well to 'Stop, Look and Listen.' " Farmer Expects Big Yield From Handful Of Hulless Oats Lewistown— Last year when Ed ward Thomas was out rustling grain A Record Made is the Best of Promises Re-elect SCOTT LEAVITT To Congress Republican Ticket "For the Groans! Good to th » Croatia I Number" CtramUtmé ted paid tor be Scetl témoin That $3,000,000 Davis-Daly Deal vr A fair sample of the kind of campaign that is being waged in behalf of the proposed Metal Mines License Tax is shown in the distortion of the story of the Davis-Daly Copper Company taxes. The unfairness is apparent of using a single instance of assessment as typical of an entire in dustry. Many cases might be cited where large tracts of land have entirely escaped assess ment, but that is no reason for urging an increased tax upon land generally. But when the facts of this single Instance are unfairly and incorrectly set forth, it is enough to discredit the entire tax campaign against the mining industry. Governor Dixon Stated .As a Matter of Fact in his speech at Dillon, Sept. 26, 1924 ; "I am sorry I couldn't get the county treasurer to give me some yard stick of measurement here; but here Is what the Metal Mines Tax really means. I think I can give it to you bo that you will understand it. Last February the Davis-Daly mine in Butte was sold and bought by the Ana conda for three million dollars. They had gotten into a little litigation in the federaJ court, and finally a majority of the stockholders sold to the Anaconda for three million dollars in cash. That was last February—the Davis-Daly mine. And McIntyre, the county treasurer of Silver Bow County, certified to the tax commission, that the tax that year on this three million dollar cash deal was $2,B49; that was the entire taxes, net pro ceeds, machinery, surface ground and everything, on a three m illion dollar sale-was $2,649. ,r The taxes paid by the Davis-Daly Copper Com pany for 1923 were as follows : Property Tax (County).... $ 2,141.08 Net Proceeds Tax (County) 11,087.66 $13,228.72 Property Tax (City). Net Proceeds Tax (City).... $ 1 , 112.12 994.83 $ 2,106.95 Metalliferous Mines License Tax paid to State— Colorado Mine . Hibernia Mine . Mount Moriah ..... $ 640.C8 . 2,917.34 $ 3,506.42 1.00 TOTAL TAXES PAID $18,894.09 The Montana Mining Association has in its possession the original certificates from the County Treasurer of Silver Bow County, Montana, and the City Treasurer of Butte, Montana, show ing Davis-Daly tax payments, as given above. The certificates from County Treasui tt McIntyre and City Treasurer Riley read as follows: OFFICE OF CITY TREASURER OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER Silver Bow County, Montana. Butte, Montana, Oct. 11th, 1924. Butte, Montana, October 11, 1924. Montana Mining Association, Helena, Montana. Gentlemen ; Montana Mining Association, Helena, Montana. Gentlemen : In response to your inquiry this will certify that the taxes paid by the Davis-Daly Copper Company for the year 1923 on its mines, ma chinery, net proceeds and other property in Silver Bow County amounted to the sura of $13,228 72. This does not include its City taxes c r State License Tax. This office did not certify to the Tax Com mission or any one else that the entire taxes of the Davis-Daly Copper Company on the net proceeds, machinery, surface ground and everything for that year was the sum of $2,549, or any other sura less than $13,228.72. In response to your inquiry, this will certify that the Davis Daly Copper Co. paid City Taxes to the City of Butte for 1923 as follows: Mining claims, buildings, and machinery and supplies. Net Proceeds .. $ 1 , 112.12 . 994.83 TOTAL $2,106.95 Yours very truly, JOSEPH E. RILEY, City Treasurer. J. MeCARTHY, Deputy. (Signed;) Yours very truly, II, A. McINTYRE, County Treasurer. (Signed;) Company against the Davis-Daly Company; counter claims were made by the Davis-Daly Company; each company claiming the other company had mined mil lions of dollars from its ore-bodies. The cost of de velopment at great depths to prove these contentions was tremendous. The Governor's statement aa to the $3,000,000 value of the Davis-Daly property is equally as erroneous as hi* statement of the amount of taxes paid. The facts are as follows: The Davis Daly Copper Company owned a number of raining claims adjoining claims of the Anacondr Copper Mining Company. Ore bodies at great depth, two thousand feet or deeper, had been developed in the Davis Daly ground, and it was claimed by the Anaconda Company that these ore bodies had their tops, or apices, in the Anaconda Company's ground, and were owned by the Anaconda Company. Serious controversies arose. One suit to recover many millions of dollars was Instituted by the Anaconda The result of the whole situation was a compromise, including the settlement of all controversies, the release by each company of all claims against the other and the conveyance of the Davis-Daly properties to Anaconda Company, all In consideration of the pay ment by the Anaconda Company of $3,000,000, Mr. Dixon jumps to the conclusion that the amount paid, ($3,000,000), was entirely for the purchase of the property. the MONTANA MINING ASSOCIATION By Chartes S. IHluffly, President : and other product* to be exhibited at I the state fair, he ran across some hull |Ie*s oats. There was just a little of the grain and no one knew exactly how it came to be growing there w'here it came from. or Mr. Thomas gave the oats, a smell handful, to Ly I man Royce. Early last July Mr. Royce gave the grain to George Davis. who planted it out at his place July 8 , it being so late that he had little hope of its making anytWng. However, the grain came along in splendid shape, matured and from the little handful of seed Mr. Davis got BUSY BEE CAFE X + Try Our MERCHANTS LUNCH An excellent Noonday Meal for 40< We Specialize in Delicious Luncheons for After-Theatre and After-Dance Parties. I ♦ X You Will Like Our Delicious Coffee half a busketful of grain. It looks very fine and Mr Davia estimates that it will produce 100 bushels to the He is going to use what raised this year for planting in the spring and will have quite a lot for seed from that. he acre.