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THE BOZEMAN COURIER
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Published Every Friday Morning at 43 West Main Street,
--"IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLET*—
By
THE REPUBLICAN-COURIER COUPANT
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Official Papsr of Gallatin County
Established 1871
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THE TAX BURDEN
Who bears the tax burden in Montana?
Let us see.
According to figures for 1924, compiled by the
state board of equalization, Montana's farms, ex
clusive of personal property, had a taxable value
of $191,246,492.
In the same year, on the other hand, Montana's
mines, including claims, machinery, improve
ments, and net proceeds, had a taxable value of
$11,531,952. '
In 1924 the production of the farms of the state
was valued at $89,601,000.
In the same year the mines of Montana pro
duced ores worth $65,333,000.
Of the total raised by taxation in 1924, the
taxable value of Montana's farms represented
43.88 per cent.
Of the same total the taxable value, including
net proceeds, of the mines of the state was only
2.61 per cent.
Who bears the tax burden in Montana?
The farmer. . .
mining corporations of
Montana pay the bulk of the taxes emanate from
either lack of knowledge or deliberate distortion
of facts.
As long as Montana's farms, which produce
only 25 per cent more than Montana's mines,
Lear a tax burden nearly 18 times greater, the
mining corporations have no kick coming.
Isn't it about time things were evened up?
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
You shall sell your farm produce for cash,
for we buy nothing from you.
2. You shall believe in us because we do not
know you personally.
3. You shall send your money to us in ad
vance, so we can buy the goods from the factory
with your money; you may have to wait a few
weeks, but that is our business method.
4. You shall get help from your nearest city
or village to build good roads, so you* may easily
haul our goods from the depot, but do not ask
help from us—we don't help to build good roads.
5. You may buy church bells and altar utensil
from us, and send the money in advance—that's
our rule.
6. You shall get all the help you can from
the business men in your neighborhood; although
we may have more profit from you than they
have, it is against our rules to give to your
churches.
7. You shall convert your neighbors also to
your faith in us, for we have room for more
money.
8. You shall look at the pretty pictures in our
catalog as often as you can, so as to strengthen
your desire for things you do not need, but which
you may order with other goods to save freight.
Send us all your ready cash so that you may not
have any left to buy necessities from your home
dealers.
9. \ ou shall believe us rather than your home
business men, for we want your trade. We get to
be millionaries on your support. Don't be bluffed.
10. You shall call on the business people of
your own vicinity for help and credit^ if you
meet with hard luck or sickness. It's your money
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we want. We don't know you unless your orders
are accompanied by cash—The Prairie Lumber
man.
STANFIELD REBUKED
News dispatches from the national capital
port that the Stanfield grazing bill is practically
dead.
With President Coolidge, the secretary of agri
culture, the secretary of the interior and the dir
ector of the budget all against it, this ill-advised
measure, introduced by Senator Stanfield of Ore
gon, whose biography proclaims him to be the
biggest wool grower in the United States, and
backed by other big stockmen using the national
forests and the public domain for grazing their
herds and flocks, meets a well-deserved fate.
Its deliberately designed attempt to grab public
property for private profit was the crudest under
taking that has come out of congress in a long
while. A selected subcommittee of the committee
on public lands traveled over the west last
mer and held "public" hearings in the inter
mountain and Pacific coast states that were de
liberately "packed" by interests seeking perpetual
and exclusive grazing rights in the national for
ests and on other public lands.
A majority of the members of this select
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com
mittee had a personal interest in the legislation
that they were seeking.
The scheme was unfolded at the first public
hearing at Salt Lake, where big stockmen gath
ered in large numbers and tried to manufacture
an atmosphere" favorable to the proposed raid
on public resources. Immediately The Spokes
man-Review exposed the design, and friends of
conservation west and east spoke out in sharp
disapproval. ,
If the designs of Senator Stanfield and his
colleagues had been achieved the national forests
would have been turned over to the big live stock
corporations, to the exclusion of small farmers
and largely to the exclusion of the general public.
Substantially the national forests would have been
obliterated.
So indignant was the protest that Senator Stan
field and his committee hastened to modify their
original purpose. But the bill remained a bad
measure. Its passage by congress would have
encouraged it# sponsors to follow up that advan
tage with a campaign for the full realization of
their original design.
The record that Senator Stanfield and
some
other members of his committee have made in the
last year is so flagrant an attempt to use high
public office for private gain that it should retire
them to private life when they come up for re
election.—The Twice-a-Week Spokesman-Review.
SHOWS STEADY GAIN
College enrollment for the United States gained
7 per cent in the school year 1924-25, according
to statistics gathered by Raymond Walters, dean
of Swarthmore college, from 184 colleges and
universities. The rate of increase is comparable
with the general rate of college expansion since
the close of the World war and indicates that the
higher institutions of learning are steadily grow
ing. The University of California with its two
branches again takes the lead with 16,294 stud
ents, while Columbia is second with 11,727. In
cluding part time' as well as regular students,
however, Columbia leads with the University of
California second.
Illinois is third in full time enrollment with
11,212 students; Minnesota is fourth with 10,170
students. Michigan is fifth and Ohio sixth in
full time enrollment.
The total enrollments of others among the
twenty-five largest universities are as follows:
Chicago, 12,950; Illinois, 12,785, Michigan,
12,181; Wisconsin, 11,371; Ohio State, 10,725;
Pittsburgh, 10,465; Harvard, 10,396; Boston,
9,687 ; Northwestern, 8,712 ; Nebraska, * 8,543 ;
Washington, 8,138; Cincinnati, 7,738; Cornell
7,420; Texas, 7,202; Southern California, 7,168;
University of Iowa, 6, 915 ; Syracuse, 6,479 ; Colo
rado, 6,155; Oklahoma, 5,613.
The five largest exclusive women's colleges are
reported as follows: Smith, 2,153; Wellsley, 1,
571; Vassar, 1,149; Coucher, 1,057, and Mount
Holyoke, 996.
No other country in the world is opening such
educational opportunities to youth.
DON'T KILL BIRDS
Department of agriculture estimates give 75,
000,000,000 as the probable number of birds in
the world, or about 40 times the number of peo
ple. There are 5,000,000,000 birds in the United
States alone.
Birds are mankind's best friends. Virtually
every bird is a costless, automatic, self-prepetuat
ing bug-and-worm killer, without whose aid the
country would soon swarm with insect plagues
like those of Egypt in the time of Pharoah.
It is, perhaps, good business for the nation that
gun and amunition prices are so high that com
paratively few people can indulge in bird killing.
There was a time when the household shotgun
was necessary to fill the family larder. But now
the pantry is best supplied by the absenee of
means to kill birds that save crops.
Don't kill birds. If you do, you work against
your own interests.
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Fourteen milliçn American homes are wired
and receive electrical current from central sta
tions. The comforts and conveniences of electri
city now are enjoyed by 76,000,000 Americans.
No other country in the world can even approxi
mate such a showing.
"The nation is reaching into an era of great
prosperity and needs only extension of present
policies, not experiments with untried theories.
—President Coolidge. '
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Caravan of Death 660 Miles
Long Is Nation's Auto Story
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NBnHKTD DETROIT
The 100.000 persons Killed
and R\M«d by Automobiles
in 1924wouM farm an
broken Chain of 660ml»»/
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A CARAVAN of death and suffering 660 miles long is what the annual auio
** mobile casualties of the United State« would form if placed tu «ne
continuous line. From New York to Detroit, painful mile on painful mile,
this ghastly and pathetic. human chain would reach. This graphic picture,
prepared by the Stewart-Warner Safety Council for the prevention of automo
bile accidents, tells its own story. Twenty-two thousand killed annually by
automobiles and 660,000 injured In the present toll caused by thoughtless
drivers and careless pedestrians. Only a small per cent of the accidents
are due to defects in the cars or can rightly be called unavoidable.
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — H. L.
Mencken of the Baltimore "Sun" and
associated papers, who is the un-,
crowned poet laureate of the liberals
in America, in his last syndicate ar
tide, complains of the passing of the
radical-liberal tribe of thinkers and
talkers, of which he has long been an
honored leader. He lists William Al
len White, Norman Hapgood, William
Hard, Miss Tarbell, and Mr. Villard,
as among the brave spirits of the j
The real trouble with these gentle
Democratic party leaders in the
North are working feverishly, pro
claiming and voting for the Coolidge
policies of economy, thrift and effi
ciency, in their effort to dress their
Democratic wolf in sheep's clothing,
they are having trouble keeping their
southern brethren in line. The north
ern Democratic cry for tax-saving
sounds strangely in the ears of the
Democrats from south of the Mason
and Dixon line.
Now and again the storm breaks.
Only a few days ago the Al Smith
Democrats were reduced to tears
when their southern party workers
broke on the floor- of the house to
declare they had no interest in re
ducing taxes when it was the north
erners who had to pay the bulk of
them. In substance the southern ar
gument was that as the money from
taxes came in the main from New
York,* Chicago and pbints further
west, and relatively little from the
south, they did not see why they
should be worried by reduction pro
grams. Talk like this makes Demo
cratic stump-speaking in northern
centers a sad and wearisome per
forma nee.
past, who have grown footsore from
marching, and mouthsöre from blow
ing trumpets to arouse unresponsive
audiences.
men is that they have been undone by
American common sense and pros
perity.
It is hard to gather an assembly of
the discontented when fat pay enve
lopes await every Saturday night, and
when the dinner-pail is discarded only
because the workman prefers not to
be bothered carrying it, and goes to
a restaurant instead.^ Even Mr.
Debs, as Mr. Mencken says, in his ar
ticle, has simply become an interest
ing historical monument of a discon
tent that Vas, instead of an element
of danger. But we can stand it.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—It is
fortunate the distrust of Mussolini is
affecting the congressional attitude
towards the ratification of the Italian
debt pact, negotiated in Washington
It will be most unfortunate if the
senate fails to ratify that all-impor
tant document. The opposition, curi
ously enough, has been recruited from
two entirely opposite branches. The
radicals here are fighting the Italian
debt because they object to the dic
tatorship methods of Mussolini; cer
tain conservative groups are fighting
because of Mussolini's recent man
date against Free Masonry in Italy,
The merit« or demerits of the déh*
settlement hav$ apparently;' passed
completely out 6? the discussion. It
is felt the vote when (taken will dem
onstrate that our people all appreci
ate R Is unsportsmanlike to punish a
nation and the people of that nation
because of disagreements with the
acts of the government of the coun
try- ~
The Italian debt pact represents an
earnest effort bn the part# of the
American government for a fair set
tlement with a people who through
their economic activities have lifted
their country to e position of stabil
ity. The agreement as made by the
American Debt commission is the best
♦Vat c~r!d be made. It is hardly fair
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to the American tax-payers to de
them of the tax reduction which
the senate ratification would give
them because of the desire of certain
of our citizens to register their dis
like of Mussolini methods.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—There is no
ignoring that the Democratic national
leaders in congress are engaged in
a bitter and determined contest to
unhorse the president. Prom the op
ening of this congress they have at
tacked each and every appointment
he has made. Even minor officials
whose confirmations in the past have
been purely routine performances in
the senate, have been summoned be
fore committees for examination and
investigation, solely with the idea of
casting reflections on the judgment
of Mr. Coolidge. Democrats are seek
ing to invade not only the executive
field which the constitution has set
apart for the president, but the ju
dicial field as well. Witnv's their
plans for investigations in which they
shall be allowed to pick not only the
prosecutors and judges, but provide
verdicts, a privilege which ap to now
has rested entirely with the courts.
At a time when the Republican n-o
gram is to reduce federal interference
in state affairs, these upholders cf
Thomas Jefferson are seeking to
force the federal government into an
evpn more absolute position of ccn
trot
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WASHINGTON, D. C.— -It would be
» really charitable as well as a hu
manitarian undertaking to broadcast
"to the people of the country at large,
particularly the young people, that
opportunities for government employ
'ment in Washington ar not cnly very
f €W , but are steadily decreasing. By
reason of changes in the law, for
example, the tax department which
has maintained thousands on its pay
rolls in the past, on July 1st will
make a substantial reduction in its
totals. In nearly all the other de
partments of the government by rea
son of changes in the law, and by the
reason of greater efficiency of the
remaining clerks, reductions are con
stantly being made. It is well for
the young adventurers to appreciate
that practically all Ithe places for
which they would be applicants are
under civil service. A jcurney tc
Washington without a civil seivice
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There , s a Home In Our
Pass Book
The surest way to get that Home of your own la out of
one of our 4 Savings Pass Books. Regular deposits pins
compound interest will get the "down" payment fas you.
WHY NOT START HERE TODAY?
Commercial National Bank
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1 qualification it practically hopeless..
Even with. a. civil service rating, un
less a direct order has been received
from a department offering employ
ment, it is a wearisome matter. Liv
ing costs in Washington are higher
; than they should be, and already cer
tain charitable organizations have
been obliged to assume the burden of
j returning some of these people, yonn ;
and old, to their own homes after
their little capital had been
^Banated.
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WASHINGTON. D. C.—The so
I called Elliott bill which provides a
fixed amount for public huildirgs
throughout the United States to cover
a measure
a .period of rive years is
which seems to deserve the support,
j of congress at large.
! denying that public buildings for the
j United States government are gener
! ally distributed like kissing,—
favor.
Greek palaces as postoffioes, while
county seats have to content them
selves with a postoffice in the
of the general grocery store. In th«
pre-Volstead days, it was known that
in. certain cases, at least, public
buildings were secured because of the
ability of the local congressman to
mix a cocktail or boy a good dinner.
They were traded back and forth and
votes were swapped for and against
them on trivial grounds. Under the.
"bill, log-rolling is eliminated. The
postmaster general and the secretary
of the treasury, sitting as a board,
decide where public necessity requires
a building, and once that decision is
reached, construction proceeds imme
diately from a fund already provided.
The new bill, of course, makes
essary the annual tour of the best
citizens to Washington, but with the
publie- building off their minds they
may be able to torn «heir energy into
There is n>
as a
Non-essential towns obtain
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unnec.
. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Engineer
fstimates that $500,000, one-half
a will be required to repair
^ white house roof, arouse a lot of
tCur iosity among the folks whose roof
repairing generally ends with a new
coat of shingles. One editor inquires
H h was proposed to gold-plate the
ro<rf - The engineering office of the
war department, however, says that
*° the roof, retaining walls
' ,n< * interior w »Hs with struts and
^ races w : 11 have to be installed, and
that tho figure on the whole is mod
- e8 ^* The white house roof is mere
than merely a roof. It is copper
R h®«thed from end to end. It con
* a * ns P® 1 ^ of the machinery for the
and it contains small
buildings used for various purposes,
*" n Edition, the lightning protection
»rangements are very elaborate. It
is P^hably better protected from the
P° ss ^le ravages of lightning than
any °^her building in the country, in
asmuc h as over the entire surface
there » network of copper cables
aîl .°* which lead to various'discharge
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While the war department has
P aren *ly convinced most of the offi
cers of the government that the re
newaI .*he roof is an immediate
T * ec ^ 89it y. it is understood it is yet
baying some trouble driving that
on the president. The possi
kility of the roof collapsing through
a snowfall, which is the latest they
have handed out, is not apt to worry
a man who was born in Vermont,
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Shelby— Homestake-State No. p
well is gusher. 4,000 barrels daily.
Lfl>by=—State will build big fish
hatchery here, dismantling
Ronan.
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