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Time to Ml WtThe Wyoming Tribune finds food for thought in the ux notices that have just been sent to the people. In Laramie county the increase in taxation this year approximates 30 per cent, and no portion of the government is being run at a lesser rate than before* Everywhere, even in the commission form that was to work wonders, there has been an increase* The same condition probably obtains throughout the state. The tendency is up and up and up. When Wyoming changed its system of taxation to actual value instead of about 30 cents on the dollar, a law was enacted providing that not more than 10 per cent increase could be made in the amount of money raised from year to year, but this taw was repealed, and the bars seem to be down for all sorts profligate waste. The Tribune advocates a sort of day of jubilee, when a legislature will meet and transact the people’s business without making a lot of appropriations for new buildings of varous kinds over the state. It is afact that the state should be out of the hospital business, the armory business, the wolf bounty business, the fair business and a number of other things, confining the expenditure of the people's money to the legitimate needs of a state government. It is also true thmt much economy could be practised that is now- entirely overlooked. We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in keeping up a state militia that has never brought a cent ’s worth of return, a military organization that would have to be entirely revamped in case of trouble of any character.In this matter the Republican agrees entirely with the Tribune. It hopes that Wyoming will be able to hold a session of the legislature that will give special privileges to none and exercise economy from the first to the fortiethday.The Tribune says:“A suggestion has been going the rounds of the state press which we hope will find lodgement in the mind of the Governor, every other state officer and future legislatures. It is the idea that the revenues of this state, which will be derived from oil leases, coal leases and the sales of state Lands will defray all the ordinary fixed expenses of the state.“It is said that the Midwest Oil Co. is paying the state $4,500 a month royalties on Salt Creek wells; other companies are drilling wells on state lands in the Big Muddy, Grass Creek and other districts and it will not be long before the state wilt be receiving $100,* 000 a year from such sources*“A little later the Tribune is going to elaborate this suggestion with a view to securing the co-operation of all the newspapers and both political parties in a proposition to practically suspend all appropriations by the next legislature not absolutely necessary for administration.“Some people will say this cannot be done; we know that it can be done. If. for any reason there should be no meeting of the legislature during the next four years, every intelligent citizen knows that the insane asylum would get along with its present quarters and equipment; that the penitentiary would survive without new additions, that the University would meet the situation without additional structures, that the sarne is true of the hospitals, the armories, the state fair, thd industrial institute and every other state institution which every two years makes a large demand upon the legislature. l“The Tribune requests the newspapers of this state to discuss the proposition seriously with the view of estate liahing a 'breathing spell’ of two years, During that time, in order to be consistent, no salary should be raised and no new officers or commissIons created* We believe the idea is practical. What do you think of it!-Laramie Republican.
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Douglas Enterprise
Douglas, Wyoming, US
Tue, Dec 07, 1915
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