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Charles F. Crisp,
•attorney at Law*
AMKKICUS, GA.
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B P. HOLLIS,
•attorney at Imw%
AMERICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
E. G SIMMONS,"
•attorney at JLaw,
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’building, south side of
Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort&
Simmons. janGtf
,f. A. ANSLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IS EQUITY,
Office on Public Squaiie, Over Gyles’
Clothing Stoke, Ameiiicus, Ga.
Aftor a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will he
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involving titles of
laud and real estate are myfavorites. Will
practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
oars
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, X have found It difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Dr. Eidridge’s drugstore, on the Square
janlTtf 11. C. BLACK, M. D.
Dr. J. A. FORT,
Physician and Surgeon,
Offers his professional services to the
people of Americus and vicinity. Office at
Dr. Eld ridge’s Drug Store. At night can
he found at residence on Furlow’a lawn.
Calls will receive prompt attention.
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Br. D. P. HOLLOWAY,
• DentisT,
Americas. - - Georgia,
Treats successfully all diseascsof the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved
method, and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
over Davenport and Sou’s
Drug Store. marllt
J. B. C. Smith & Sons,
ram yi) mm,
Americus, Ga.
We are prepared to do any kind of work
in the carpenter line at short notice and on
reasonable terms. Having had years of ex
perience in the business, we feel competent
to give satisfaction. All orders for con
tracts for building will receive prompt at
tention. Jobbing promptly attended to.
mav2G-3m
Commercial Bar.
This well-established house will he kept
in the same first-class style that has always
characterized it. The
Choicest Liquor and Cigars,
Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer,
constantly on hand, and all the best brands
of fine Brandies, Wines. &c. Good Billiard
Tallies for the accommodation of customers,
maygtf JOHN W. GOTNEV, Clerk.
Commercial Hotel,
G. M HAY, Proprietor.
This popular House is quite new and
handsomely furnished witli new furniture,
bedding and all other articles. It is in ttie
centre of the business portion of the city,
convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses,
&c., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to
none, among its permanent and transient
guests, on account of the excellence of its
cuisine.
Table Boarders Accommodated on
Reasonable Terms.
may'J-tf G. M. HAY, Proprietor. !
L GEORGE UMEWttr
AND SHOE MAKER,
At his shop in the rear of J. Waxelbaum
& Co.’s store, adjoining the livery stables,
on Lamar St., invites the public to give him
their work. He can make and repair all
work at short notice. Is sober and always
on hand to await on customers. Work
guaranteed to be honest and good.
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NOTICR
The books for receiving returns of city
property for the year 1883 will be closed on
the 15th July next. By order Mayor and
City Council. D. K. BRINSON,
jnnel3-td Clerk and Treasurer.
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INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1883.
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ADDRESS
Delivered at Andersonville, Be
fore Prof. J. A.Clark’s School,
on Friday, July Oth.
1!Y DU. ,1. >[. R. WESTBROOK.
Published by Request of the Patrons of the
School.
Ladies and Gentlemen'. On occasions
like this it has ever been the custom
for some friend of education, and of
the moral advancement of man, to ad
dress the people assembled on some
question of interest and moment. Some
question entertaining and instructive.
This custom is co-equal in age and
dignity, with the very first life breath
of civilization and of letters, and
should be the task of a master hand,
tho task of one whose attainments,
whose eloquence, and whose grandeur
of moral character could enable him
at once to get close down to the hearts,
and understanding, of every one within
the sound of his voice.
This task, allow me to repeat, is in
deed that only of a master hand, and
no one of my friends here to-day can
feel more keenly the difficulties, and
magnitude of the surroundings than I.
The care worn mariner whose bowed
form and snowy locks sper.ks in mute
eloquence of his tempestuous voyage
over the billowy ocean of life, the
aged pilgrim whose tottering feet are
about to tread the last round of the
ladder of time, must live over again,
The joys the fears,
The hopes the tears,
of a long life time. The star of hope
as it lights up the eastern heavens
with its shining glory should bo point
ed out*to tho hesitating and the doubt
ful. Youth aud young manhoodshould
hear words of encouragement and of
wisdom. The young mother and the
gentle maiden should he remembered
and words of caution and of strength
should he directed to their hearts.
All this, and more, is the task ol
tho orat ron days like this. Some
times it occurs as it has to-day, thai
lie who is called to this duty is une
qual to tlie task, and permit me to tell
you in all candor that 1 regret exceed
ingly that someone more fitting had
not been selected to address you. But
if 1 can offer one thought to-day thai
wiil bind additional strength to your
purpose I shall be content, feeling that
I have not labored in vain.
Now, in thanking Prof. Clark, the
patrons, and pupils, oi me suiderson
ville High School, for the distinguish
ed honor they havo Bo.n proper to do
me, we approach the subject of our
thoughts to-day, claiming your atten
tions only for one brief hour.
AMERICA, HER INSTITUTIONS, AND IIER
PEOPLE.
This subject is an old one, but for a
century has claimed the attention oi
Kings and received the adoration ot
Nations. The grand proportions oi
American Union with her matchless
advancement in the fine arts, her ready
grasp and masterry of the sciences, her
invincibility of arms on land and sea,
and above all, God like liberty and in
dependence of her people, deserves to
claim, and does claim, the profoundest
regard of the nations of the earth.
There was a time in the recent past,
when the very mention of this theme
to the A merican people evoked a proud
and loud shout from the hearts of mil
lions, aud every home, it mattered not
whether it was surrounded with the
luxuries and comforts of wealth, or
pinched and darkened by the hand oi
poverty, was inhabited by heads and
hearts, where patriotism reached out
and embraced every State and Territo
ry in the American Union. Reference
to our national emblem of strength and
liberty, the flag of our fathers, filled
the souls of the young and daring with
enthusiasm and marshall spirit. Noi
was this proud spirit found alone in
the bosom of her sons, her noble women
in all their loveliness, was found side
by side with their fathers and theii
brothers in this noble patriotism.
America was indeed the grand cen
tral star in the family of Nature. It
was an asylum for the oppressed, a
city of refuge for the persecuted. The
hunted exiles found a home in her bor
ders and rested iu peace.
Monarch* saw her proud propor
tions with awe and wonder, and tum
bled at her influences with the nations
of the world. The subjects of King
doms read her history and saw a fu
ture deliverance from chains and sla
very.
On all earth’s broad domains where
■ever intelligence was to be found Amer
ica had her votaries.
I have said there was a time when
love of country ruled the American
heart. Yea. May I not proclaim to
day that fifty millions of America’s
sons aud daughters are nursing the
glories of constitutior.al liberty and are
content.
Ours is a stable government, strong
because it i:s by the people for the peo
ple.
Statesmen and jurists may differ in the
(construction of American con-titntion
al law, great and heated political bat
tles may be fought in her borders, an
archy may threaten to rend her politi
cal fabric; hut there is an innate prin
ciple alive in the American heart that
bids defiance to disorder. And Amer
ica will live forever!
In no country on earth do the people
breathe the breath of freedom with
such perfect security. In no other
country is conskitntional liberty so uni-
versally felt, and in no other is civil
and religious liberty so zealously guar
ded.
America then is a democratic land,
aud her people a freo people.
From the Canadas to the Ever
glades, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
every where, within her glorious bor
der, the flag of our fathers waves tri
umphantly and grandly o’er a proud, a
brave, and an independent people.
In proud America’s bosom the only
solo sovereign acknowledged, is God.
The only religion and enlightened
conscience, the only earthly master the
law. Could liberty be broader or in
dependence more complete?
This grand American union is the
proudest, the strongest, of the govern
ments of man, and is destined at an
early day to embrace every foot of soil
on the American continent.
American history is of deep interest
to lovers of Liberty everywhere under
the broad canopy of heaven, and when
it is studied from its discovery till now
our own people find much to admire
and little to condemn. Monarciis
much to fear and nothing to encourage.
True the sunshine of peace has not al
ways shone upon us. We have occa
sionally found clouds of passion, some
times rivers of blood, causing a brief
eclipse thereby obscuring its brilliancy,
but as compared with its oft undimed
lustre, are but disc’s upon the face
of the great luminary, so far from de
stroying its light, the shadows are over
whelmed by its dazzling glory.
If we contemplate America in her
dominions we find well nigh a conti
nent.
Within her borders may he seen her
northern lakes covered iu ice, while her
southern boundary is basking in per
petual spring.
Bo varied is her climate that her
people are furnished with the fruits of
the tropics, and the cerials oi the colder
regions, the products of her own rich
soil.
Whatever heart may fancy or ambi
tion crave, may be found in its own
land of plenty. Diamonds pure and
sparkling, precious stones, gems the
rarest, are to he found in tho bosom of
American domain.
In the comparatively short period of I
•me century onr population has grown |
from three to fifty millions of human
souls. Looking at America’s wealth
and the solid independence of her peo
ple, we fin'! no country on earth that
presents such a grand and proud spec
tacle.
When we view America’s edcca
tional aspects wo can but enthusiasti
cally exclaim Gloria et Libelas, J)aus
et Hepublicci. We find in her cities
and in her towns grand structures and
lofty buildings to promote culture and
letters—to advance the fine arts and
perfect the sciences. We find on her
borders everywhere, these potent evi
dences of a nation’s greatness.
On this hill, in that valley, in every
community is seen institutions of learn
ing, built up, cherished and strength
ened by tho hand of a people, reared
amid the giories and the grandness of
constitutional liberty.
Ours is a grand, a strong and inde
struetable federation, and the sublime
truths embraced in our fundamental
law—the constitution of the American
States will ho studied and understood
and defended by unborn millions yet
to come.
Demagogues may prevail and sow
the seeds of discord and strife in our
homes, thieves may pillage, the chosen
officers ol our land may plunder, and |
pilfer, star route thieves may multiply;
wars and pestilences may overtake ns,
but amidst any and- every calamity,
the American union will live a perpet
ual monument to the wisdom of its
founders and to the patriotism of its
defenders.
On every sea under the sun is seen
to-day tho flag of our fathers, the stars
and stripes unfurled to the winds of
heaven, proudly proclaiming from the
mast heads of our vessels of commerce
and ships of war, the strength, tho glo
ry and the wealth of Democratic Amer
ica. In everv land, in every clime,
everywhere tha civilization exists, her
citizens are regarded and protected. *
In heathen China, in despotic Rnsia,
everywhere that the sun ot civilization
sheds the faintest ray of light, the
sons of democratic America, proud in
their consciousness of superiority—
strong in their convictions of security,
walk grandly erect, with a mien of in
dependence that le mg to no other sons
of the nations of toe earth. What a
land is this of ours; what a people!
Beginning only one hundred years
ago to bo regarded as one cf the na
tions of tho world, just from under
the oppressive weight of despotism and
the sting oftyrany, with only throe(B)
millions of inhabitants, it has, with
but one serious interruption moved “on
ward and upward” till to-day the
world sees with wonder and admira
tion fifty (50) million souls within her
borders, independent and free!
No wonder that crowned heads
tremble and despots pale before the
power of American progress and dem
ocratic glory.
Ours is a democratic nation, govern
ed by the people aud for the people—a
union of sovereign States, indissoluble
and indestructable.
The sad ravages of four years of in
testine war settled forever the que -
tions of desolation. The sword set
tled without revival the only vexed
question, the only salient clause in our
fundamental law, and to-day fifty mill
ions of American freemen are leady to
shout, “Union now and forever.”
Grand;-glorious old land of our fa
, thdTs, your life goes out only as the
shining sun of tho heavens, and the
earth sink forever behind the shores of
eternity.
Having said this much of America
as a whole, the natural emotions of a
Southern heart constrain me to offer a
word of laudation for our beautiful
“Sunny South” as a part. Without
alluding to the cause that so lately
crimsoned onr seashores, our hills and
our valleys with the rich blood ol
Southern chivalry, we would re
member with a depth of feeling, sincere
and true, the gallant sons of the “Lost
Cause.” When clouds of hate and
envy hung dark and lowering o’er our
homes, when the passions of fanatics
ruled the hour; when puritanical be l
gots hurled the demon of war at our
firesides, these sons rose up in
their manhood, and met the storm as
men and as heroes. With a deep love
of home and of section, stern and un
compromising advocates of the prin
ciples of their fathers, they wrestled
with armies ten times their numbers.
Weak in every recourse that gave
strength to forces, save honor, chivalry
and justness of cause—barefoot, bleed
ing and famished, they stormed and
carried battlements, routed divisions,
scattered corps and defeated armies.
Unequaled, unapproachable, without a
parallel in the record of nations, this
grand and mighty struggle of the
Southern soldiers, illustrates the sub
limest depths cf American honor and
American glory.
Let orators in impassioned eloquence
picture the glory ol American liberty.
The historians record tho daring, the
heroism and the invincible impetuosi
ty of American armies. The unerring
finger of truth points to the “.Jewel
decked >outh,” as the virgin mother
that gave birth and life to these shin
ing elements of her greatness and pure
ness.
True Massachusetts fired the first
gun for independence, but Virginia
furnished Washington, the military
hero and marshall genius who led the
American armies to victory. True
other sections reared wise statesmen
and sturdy soldiery, but our warm,
genii! sunny South furnished the pro
found sage, the giant intellect, the aus
tere duphimatist whose eternal depths of
wisdom created and whose immortal
hand penned the everlasting compact,
the mugna charter, the constitution of
the iStates, whose provisions guard you
in your privileges, protects you in
your rights, and declares the Ameri
can citizen a freeman.
True the north reared patriots and
jurists, but the South furnished the
matchless genius who divined and pro
claimed the laws of liberty; and to-day
the shouts of millions of America’s
sous, free and independent, waft the
name of Jefferson to the eternal shores
of heaven.
When the fast fading clouds of onr
one final entestine revolution shall have
passed away forever; when the pas
sions of men shall have ceased to stir
the bosom of American brothers; when
the American Union shall have cover
ed and embraced every foot of soil on
this continent, kingdom and monarch
ies will pause and lament their weak
ness, while tho world will uncover and
bow to the sublime grandeur of South
ern genius, and Southern achieve
ments.
All honor then to the martyed sons
of the “Lost Cause;” all honor to her
living heroes.
In answer to the sacred call of pro
found love, the fallen sons of our loved
South will ever be remembered with
emotions of the subiimest faith. The
Southern heart bows reverently to the
tomb other hero dead. The sacred
soil that covers their mouldering hones
is watered by the tears of noble South
ern matrons, while the gentle hand oi
the virgin daughters of Southern homes
covers their graves with the rose and
the tulip, and tenderly deck their tombs
with the choicest gems from our floral
bowers. Nor will these patriotic emo
tions of regard and addurations cease
to enthuse the Southern soul “till a
prouder and a more noble duty is done.
We would remember them by the erec
tion of a stately pile, a monument grand
in its proportion, matchless in its beau
ty, high above the raging elements!
higher! still higher! yet higher, till its
proud shining diamond capped pinna
cle shall kiss the eternal heavens.
I should feel that 1 had sadly neg
lected duty to-day if I fai'ed to offer a
word for our esteemed Prof. Clark and
the pupils oi his school. It is my
privilege, my pleasure and my duty.
With a commendable zeal, tireless en
ergy and remarkable fitness, he has
brought from darkness the proficiency
and telling advancement that you have
seen this clay so markedly exhibited
by the young men, the young ladies
and the bright little ones in his charge.
The history of no school in our
whole country presents such a field of
! study for the friend of tlie young.
I shall not undertake to give all its
history, enough to tell you that a few
years ago when Prof, Clark cami
among us, onr children were marching
along in the old track poorly taught
and sadly neglected. Behold the hap
py change! Behold the fruits of hi
toils and the results of his efforts. Not
only have you seen to-day great apti
tude and solid advancement of the pu
pils now in his charge, but you have
only to look around aud about you to
see that he has furnished the counting
room, tho field of letters and the learn
ed professions with bright shining
light that do honor to him, to their
country and to themselves.
Unmeasured praise then to our
prinoe of teachers.
While all this is true, I must telj
you my friends that this evident ap
titude, advancement and proficiency ol
our children is not alone due to the
work of our teacher. Our hoys and
girls have not been idle. At an eariv
day they caught the spirit of progress
and have been up and at work; they
have been eager, industrious, ambi
tious, and I proudly predict for some
ot my little friends here to-day a bright
future in tho field of literature, and a
Itigh position to tlie learned professions
Let me tell you young men that this
is an age ot progress, anti he who ex
pects to arrive to any decree of distiue
lion among men, without effort ant
without ambition is dangerously mis
taken. There is no place in our conn
try for the Dude nor the Dudee, am
the young man that parts his hair in
the middle and toys with his sweet
mustache is a failure.
My young friends of Andeisonvilb
High School, in wishing you God speed
in your laudable efforts to become wise
and useful citizens of our great and
rising Republic, I would beg you to hi
never discouraged. Honor, and nann
and fame belong to him who wins it.
I’m aware my dear little friends that
many of you know the discomforts o)
need, but let me tell you that in this
land of Liberty, name and fame, belong
to no man because of blood or of sta
tion, hut to him who fights and wins
Let me tell you that the sage of Ashland
tho matchless ( lay, and perhaps the
best loved of our great Statesmen, was
a bare foot mill boy at 10. That the
immortal Henry, whose impassioned
eloquence fired tlie colonial heart to re
sistance to British tyrany, was of hum
ble birth, and that tho great, the terri
ble and mysterious Napoleon, was an
humble son of a Dependant Isle. Be
vigilant, bo truthful, and let yout
march onward in life be supported by
the unfailing pillars of honor and vir
tue, cheerfully observing tho laws ol
your country and of your God, and
when you have climbed the rugged hills
and scaled the mountain heights, you
can rest from your labors in peace, on
the plane above, honored, loved, and
respected, by all mankind.
Governor McDaniel’s Message.
Ei Ei.UTIVE Dei-aktmknt, )
Btate of Georgia,
Atlanta, Ga., July sth, 1883 )
To the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives.
It is the duty of the Executive to
communicate to the General Assembly
Irons time to time information of the
condition, and suggestions for the gov
ernment, of the commonwealth.
1 regret to inform you that the treas
ury-department of the United Btau-s
has declined to pay the sum of $35,-
555.42, appropriated by Congress iu
the act appi-oved Match 3rd, 1883, “to
refund to the Btate of Georgia certain
money expended by said Btate for the
common defense in 1777.” The first
Comptroller of the Treasury has decid
ed that this sum shall be credited on
account of what is claimed to be due
for the quota of direct taxes, apportion
ed to the Btate by the Direct Tax Act,
of August sth, 1801. This decision
is, in my judgment, erroneous; and 1
have notified the Secretary of the Treas
ury that the Btate does acquiesce in it.
If the taxes claimed are due, the obli
gation is upon the citizen, and not upon
the State, which has never assumed the
payment of the taxes and cannot be
justly charged with them. All proper
means will he used to secure the pay
ment of the sum appropriated for the
benefit of the Btate.
The various matters submitted in
the messages of my predecessors in con
nection with tho annual Reports of
State officials, and otherwise, should,
and doubtlessly- will, receive the con
sideration their importance demands.
I desire to supplement them by- invit
ing your attention to additional sub
jects of legislation.
The Act of October lfith, 1870, pto
vidcs that “the Governor shall name
and appoint a solent, chartered bank,
of good standing and credit in each of
the following cities of this Btate: In
the cities of Atlanta, Athens, Augusta,
Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Rome,
Americus, Albany, Hawkinsville,
Gainesville, Griffin and LaGrange,
which shall be known and designated
as State Depositories.” In pursuance
of this law the following banks were
designated as State Depositories, to
.vit:
“Bank of Romo, November 18th,
1879; Savings Department, Eagle &
Pnocnix Manufacturing Company, Co
lumbus, November 21st, 1879; Central
Georgia Rank, Macon, November 24th,
1879; Griffin Banking Company, No
vember 24th, 1879; LaGrange Bank
ing and Trust Company, November
24ih, 1879; Citizens’ Bank of Georgia,
Atlanta, November 2(ith, 1879; South
ern Bank of Georgia, Savannah, De
cember 2d, 1879; Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company, Augusta, Decem
ber 2d, 1879; Bank of the University,
Athens, December 6th, 1879; and The
Bank of Americus, March 16th, 1880,
each fora term of four (4) years. The
Citizens Batik of Georgia and the Bank
of Rome have ceased to do business and
the Griffiu Banking Company, on the
18th day of April, 1881, declined to
receive further deposits of public money,
the other banks named continue to dis
charge the duties assigned them. The
act would seem to contemplate further
legislation at the expiration of these
terms. Under this construction tlie
power of the Executive to appoint de
positories was exhausted in the forego
ing exercise of it. No provision is
made in terms for subsequent appoint-
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meats of the same banks, or other
banks, pending the term of four years,
i r subsequent to the expiration of the
term. It is manifestly unwise to leave
a matter of such importance to Execu
tive construction. A mistake might
involve consequences of a nature too
-erious to be incurred without neces
sity.
Ihe act should he repealed or
‘mended to conform to the conditions
-oon to exist. The policy for provid
ing fot the safety of the large sums of
money necessary to be kept in the
Treasury at certain times in each year
to meet the expenses of the State gov
ernment and to pay the public lebt,
must he left to the wisdom of the Leg
islature. If the present system is to be
continued, I respectfully recommend
that the law he so amended as to pro
vide for subsequent appointments, un
ier any circumstance which may re
quire them. A recent application, by
certain sureties on the bond of a State
Depository- to he relieved from further
liability on tlie bond, upon the bank’s
giving other satisfactory sureties,
wliicli it was ready to do, suggests an
other amendment. I declined to re
lease these sureties, for the reason that
the act, under which they signed the
bond, makes no provision for such re
lease. The State could not be expect
ed to incur the risk of a change in the
bond, unless the sureties had contract
ed with reference to plain provisions
lor the exercise of such power by the
Executive in his discretion, and pre
scribing the mode of release so that
there might be certain compliance with
the law, involving no danger of litiga
tion. The law should he explicit on
this point, to the end that the citizen
should have no cause to complain that
lie was subjected unnecessarily to in
convenience, and that sureties signing
-'Uch bonds may understand that they
are bound, in any event, until the
uank makes full settlement with the
Treasurer.
.-.n embarrassing question has aris
en in the taxation of personal property
of railroads located partly withiu this
Btate and partly in another State.
The realty and the personalty located
in this State. But much of the per
sonal property ot such railroads is lo
cated in this, or another State, only
by reason of the rule of law which fix
es the situs of personalty at the dom
icil of the owner; or in case of a rail
road, where its principal office is loca
ted. In practice a difficulty arises,
because a ijoining States claim the right
to tax such proportion of the entire
personalty as the number of miles of
railroad located within their limit
nears to the whole number of miles in
loth States. This would seem to be
lie rule <,l eonvenience. as well as of
'tistice, and 1 recommend its adoption.
The subject of taxation cannot en
gage too much of your attention.—
Equality and uniformity are substan
tially secured, in theory, under our
system. But experience proves that
"tir lav.-s, ior ascertaining the property
liable for taxation, and its value arede
ective; its aggregate value being large
ly in excess of the annual returns. The
amount to he raised is regulated by the
necessities of the State, and the rate is
governed by the amount of propetty
upon which the levy is made. It is
manifest that when a citizen fails to
return any part of his taxable property
or undervalues what he does return, he
inflicts a wrong upon his neighbor who
returns all of his taxable property at
its true value, by raising the rate
which the latter is forced to pay. The
remedy for this inequality may be diffi
cult to apply. All systems of taxa
tion are necessarily defective. Ours
has been steadily improving, hut the
result continues to he unsatisfactory.
Some remedy can be devised by judi
cious provisions for assessment, or by
other adequate means, to secure an ap
proach to uniformity in valuation of
the visible property of tlie people, as
well as full returps of all taxable prop
erty; and I invite your earnest atten
tion to the task. it will not increase
the burdens of taxation. It will dis
tribute them justly, and rather promote
a feeling of satisfaction among the peo
ple, because of the lower rate of taxa
tion thereby made possible.
In view of the reduction in taxation
already effected by the watchfulness of
the people and the labors ot your pre
decessors, without impairing the effi
ciency of the State Government, you
can afford to give much study to this
problem. We collect from the people
of Georgia, for State and county pur
poses annually, less than one dollar
and twenty-five cents per capita. The
Federal Government collects from the
people of the United States annually
more than seven dollars per capita.
Contrasting these amounts with the
benefits received, we have just cause
for pride. It is surprising that so lit
tle interest is manifested in the subject
of Federal taxation and expenditure.
A common interest in the common
government should induce the people
of the States to give the same atten
tion to this subject that they bestow
upon local systems of taxation and ex
penditure. In no other way can our
complex government be administered
for the benefit of all the people.
I commend to your consideration the
varied interests of the Commonwealth,
which enlightened constituents have
placed in your care.
Henry D. McDaniel.
Physicians use Shiiner’s In
dian Vermifuge in their practice and
pronounce it a first class article. A
trial will convince the most skeptical
1 of its intrinsic merit.