Sends In A Final Shot.

The governor says it is a bad time just now to revaluo land, and suggests that the legislatm-e postpone revaluittion untü the depression has paased away In a mensure. He oonuluilus a foüows: ''Forthe purpose of general tuxation other property is assesscd at from one-fourth to oneflfth Hs market value. This newspaper, asido from the real estáte, tías a oash aiarkot value of over $3, 000,000, and for many years has beeu paying divideuds on this sum. If it were assessed on the saine basis as other property its assessment woiüd Ije at lenst iöOO.OOO and it would havo to pi:y upwards of $40,UO0 a year taxcs. "Yet it manüges to escape with an assessinont of only K),UOO and pays ouly I about $1,MJO taxes, so that the owners oL this paper have for many years been able to pocket in the neighborhood of $40,00i I a year that should have gone to the public treasury for taxes. This, added to what should havu gonè to the school fund, makes ovar fÖÜ.OOO a year that has been diverted f rom ihe public into the hands of private individuals in this oue instanoe. As these newspapers have muoh to say about patriotism and higher oltiaenshlp they should sot a bettor example. V;ivIng the üag with one hand and planderIng the public with the other is a forni of patriotism that is getting to be entlrely too common and isdoing infinite harm to our country."