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THE JACKSON ECONOMIST.
■OL. VII.
I WES MADE
IN TAX LAWS
optroller ■ General Wrifiht Has
ssnei Annual Instructions
To Collectors.
' THE LAW WILL OPERATE
I lroad and Bank Presidents
3 seape Payment of Profess-
I ,nal Tax on Account of an
I 'versight in the Passage of
Ie Section. Dealers in Brass
nucks are Also on the List—
iddlers of Smoothing Irons
ust Pay SIOO tor Each Coun-
Canvassed.
imptroller General William A.
*ht has just issued his spec a!
■uctions to the tax collectors
eorgia for the year 1899, and
pampphlet is of special inter
tills year on account of the
ly changes which were made in
tax sheet by the last general
ring to the fact that these
il taxes are levied at the time
y the same act imposing ad
em taxes, it is thought that
taxes are rot due until the
ilorem taxes are collected, but
however, is not the case, but
fic taxes for 1899 and 19J0 are
nd must be paid ill full on
irst day of January of each
or at the time of commencing
business.
'here are many classes of busi
s taxed this year which were
taxed last year, and there are
.y changes to he noted by read
the special instruction pam
3t. At the same time paacti
v everything taxable last year,
a the first paragraph of section
aid there are to be found sev
changes. Tax collectors are
rueted to collect a tax on all
htects, every practitioner
hiarmacy, all civil engineers,
•hanical and electrical engi
r3- This is m addition to the
sheet of last year. In this
lli paragraph bank presidents
railroad presidents have been
of the list by oversight,
These two classes will not pay
taxes this year, althpugh the
intended to include them,
unique error was made in last
a instruction pamphlet The
u nv-rchandise was written by
take “medicine,” and on ac
ut of this little error which
T int i point, many peddlers
h od paying the fifty dollar tax
1 the law intended to impose
them, The word is plainly
‘ted and correctly spelled this
t and the fortunate peddlers
a *t must pay the amount
tul this time,
nne of the Many Changes.
I'lig the changes and addi
his year are the following:
•e is a tax of S2OO imposed
dispensaries.
? x has been levied on
WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1899.
all dealers in metal knucks, com
monly called brass knucks.
Agents of packing houses, in
stead of t>e packing houses, are
taxed this year $lOO each. This
tax must be paid in every county
in which the agents do business.
There is a tax of $lOO for the
peddling of smoothing irons, this
tax to be paid in every county in
which the peddlers do business.
Brewing companies must pay
$BOO this year.
Peddlers and dealers in agricul
tural implements are taxed $25
for each county. This also applies
to all patent articles which are
peddled from house to house or
town to town.
Detective Agencies Taxed
The following paragraphs in the
lax:
Upon each detective agency,
company or corportion doing
business in this state the sum of
fifty dollars for each place where
such agency, company or corpor
ation has an office.
Upon dealers in cigaretts, whe
ther principal stock in trade or
not, five dollars for each place of
business.
Upon the proprietor or owner
of every park or place where base
ball or football or anv similar
game is played, or bicycle races or
contests are had, and where ad
mission fees are charged, fifty
dollars for each such place: pro
vided, in place of less than ten
thousand inhabitants, twenty-five
dollars shall be paid.
Upon each railroad ticket broker
otherwise known as ‘•scalper,” or
other railroad ticket agent except
agents actually employed by some
railroad company,.the sum of fifty
dollars for each place of business.
Upon each person, firm or cor
poration engaged in the business
ot making abstracts in cities or
towns of twenty thousand in
habitants or over, twenty-five
dollars: in cities or towns of ten
thousand inhabitants and less than
twenty thousand, ten dollars: and
in cities and towns of less than ten
thousand, this tax shall not.he
required of attornys at law who
have paid the tax required of them
by paragraph 2 hereof.
Upon each company of traders
or fortune tellers, usually known
as Gypsies, twenty-five dollars in
each county where they carry on
business.
The Insurance Tax.
The tax on foreign and home in
surance oompauies, although the
text of the section is the same as
last year, has a proviso that is en
tirely new. The section with the
proviso is as follows:
Section 5. Be it further enacted
by the authority aforsaid. That
all foreign and home insurance
companies, or insurance brakers
placing insurance upon property
in this state, doing business in
this state, shall pay one per centum
on all premiums in money or oth
erwise received by them, provided,
this shall not include return pre
miums on cancelled policies; pro
vided further, that this shall not
apply to mutual, co-operative or
assessment fire companies organ
ized for muauai protection against
losses by fire, and receiving no
premiums other than the assess
ments of its own members; and in
addition to the tax imposed by
this act upon the gross receipts of
such insurance, all such companies
doing brokerage business in this
state, such as discounting notes,
bills, drafts, or exchange, lending
money, or in any manner doing a
business pertaining to banking or
brokerage business, shall be taxed
upon the capital so employed in
the same manner and at the same
rareasothor moneyed capital in
the hands ot private individuals is
taxed ; provided, however, tiiat all
loans by such companies secured
by real estate mortgages and by
stocks and bonds, in which such
compaies are required to make in
vestments, shall not bs considered
as a brokerage or banking business
ora business pertaining thereto;
and provided further, that the tax
required by this section shall be in
lieu of all other taxes whether
state, county or municipal, against
such companies, except a per cen
tum tax on their premiums and a
business license by the town or city
in which such company does busi
ness; and provided further, that
nothing herein shall be construed
to exempt the real eetate of such
companies from taxation, but the
same shall be returned for taxation
and taxed as other real estate in
this state is taxed.
The Tax on Bicycles.
The section regulating the tax
on the salo of bicycles in the state
is as follows:
►Section 11. Be it further enact
ed by the authority aforesaid.
That every bicycle manufacturer
selling or dealing in bicycles, by
itself or its agents, m this state;
and all wholesale and retail deal
ers in bicvcles selling same manu
factured by companies that have
not paid the tax required herein,
shall pay one hundred dollars for
the fiscal year, or fractional part
thereof, to bo paid to the comp
troller general at the time of com
mencement of business. Before
doing business under this act all
bicyle manufacturers, their agents
and all dealers shall be required
to register their names with the
ordinaries of those counties in
which they intend to operate, and
exhibit to said ordinaries their
license from the comptroller gen
eral. All unsold bicycles belong
ing to bicycle companies, dealers
or their agents, or others, shall be
liable to seizure and sale for pay
ment of such fees, license anu tax,
Any person who shall violate the
provisions of this section shall be
liable to indictment for a misde
meanor, and on conviction shall
be punished as prescribed in sec
tion 1039 of volume 111 of the
Code of 1895.# None of the provis
ions of this section shall apply to
licensed auctioneers selling second
hand bicycles, or to offi*ers of the
law under legal process, or to mer
chants buying and selling bicycles
upon which a license tax has been
paid as herein provided, and who
keep the said bicycles and sell and
deliver them at their place of bu
siness, such sales not being on
commission; provided further,
that manufacturers, dealers and
agents having paid the taxes here
in required, shall be exempted
from any county or corporation
license tax for selling bicyclej.
Many Questions Asked.
In the list printed for the mak
ing of returns of property there
are many new questions asked and
the detail is much more minute
than to former years.
The amount of money you have
in bank, the number of promi9ory
notes, then amounts, the money
you owe and ie due you, must all
be given under oath to the tax col
lector.
You must also tell him how
many tax fi.fas, are in your pos
session, their face value, where
they were purchased and all about
them.
The printed changes are being
sent out today and will afford
much information to the tax col
lectors throughout the state.
Good Men and Good Laws
Many persons have the idea that
if we will only elect good men to
office in the Republican or Demo
cratic parties that is all that is
necessary to insure political re
form.
Has not that been tried hun
dreds of times and failed?
How many times have good, hon
est men belonging to the old par
ties been elected to legislature or
congress to bring about certain re
forms, and little, if anything, ewr
heard from them afterward? And
it is no cause for wonder that this
is true.
The honest Republican or honest
Democrat will be controlled by his
party caucus or he will ceas9 to be
long to his party, And his party
caucus is controlled by his party
machine, and his party machine is
controlled by the touch of a pluto
cratic button in Wall street, New
York, or Lombard street, London.
. But. savs another, good laws are
Vila t-we really ‘need, and by the re
ferendum we can get any thing we
need.
t
A es, but good laws have to lie
enacted, and interpreted and exe
cuted,
Experience has abundantly prov
en that an old-party legislator can
so draft a proposed law that it will
appear to give th people just what
they want, yet at- the same time
will, in fact, give his plutocratic
bosses just what they want.
Hundreds of instances proving
the truth of this statement could
be furnished, but one will be suffi
cient: John Sherman drafted and
congress adopted a law prohibiting
the formation of trusts and syndi
cates, and when have trusts and
syndicates multiplied and flour-
ished as they have during the past
six years in the face of that law?
Again, it seems to be an ever-re
curring coincidence that laws
framed in the interest of plutocra
cy almost invariably pass muster,
.vhile laws framed m the interest
of the pec pie and against plutocra
cy are, with few exceptions decl
unconstitutional.
Agaiiq a good law whose execu
tion is in the hands of an official
or officials who are opposed, from
selfish motives or otherwise, to its
enforcement, is virtually a dead
letter, and its repeal is sooner or
later demanded because it is a
dead letter.
A good law, to which the money
power is radically opposed, must
run the gauntlet of non-enactment
non-euforcement and misinterpre
tation before it can be made effec
tive, and it is no wonder the good
law fails to reach the goal intended
when the party in power is subject
to the opponents of the law.
A good law, to be effective must
be enacted and executed and in
terpreted by honest men who are
heartily in favor of good laws.
Principles, not men, is the mot
to of some; men not principles, is
the motto of others; principles
AND men should be the motto ot
all.
Good principles supported by
good men can be enacted into law,
but to be effective those laws em
bodying correct principles must b
enforced and interpreted by men
elected for that purpose, honest
men who heartily believe in tho
laws they have been chosen to ex
ecute.
Are uot honest people of all par
ties so tired of party corruption,.,
party tyranny and party treachery
that they are willing to themselye#
take politics from the hands of
professional politicians an and
through the initiative, referendum'
and imperative mandate injecfc
honesty and competency into po
litical campaigns and thus insure*
the enactment of just laws and tfco
election of honest officials to en
force them?
The demand is great and thu ■
time is ripe for just such a move—
rrmut —Chicago Express.
It is refuelling to pass from
Bryan’s speeches, in which he off
ers no remedy except free silver”
and wabbles as to the ratio, to'lbs •
following remarks by ex-Gover?>osr
Adtgeld of Illinois, at the Demo
cratic Jackson Day banquet a
Omaha, last week.
“This is an ago of concentration in a! I
thing’s, and the firm itiou of private
monopolies in particular Competition
lias been wiped out. In harmony witL*.
the law as it has stood for centuries wo -
denounced that, but to no purpose ;we ’
have legislated against it, but in vain
When they could not defeat legislat ion
by bribery they went b Tore some sab
servient federal judgo and had it de
clared unconstitutional. Our reine&-sr
has failed. Private monopoly is as m.*-
jurious and as much ot a crime as ever,
and we cannot stop its birth; wo mast
change our tactics and convert prbrtzte*
monopolies into., public monopolies*.
(live the whole public the benefit.-:- oi
the monopolies instead of a few vadl ■
viduals. Lost the government Jake't
them. This is not state socialism i-t
simply protecting the people and there
fore is democracy in its broadest seusev.
The European people flfht socialisnx.
but get the greatest benefit from coV
leotive ownership.
“There seems to bo no other way to*
protect the public and it involves ouio
very existence as a party. The Demo
cratic party must alwas stand for the
great masses or else have no missfora.
The Republican party stands for privaV -
monopolies and rottenness, and the- ou>
nopolies will always supporc it ansi b:>-
to crush us. It is a fight not only fwr
burnauity but for our very existence '
“We are in a crisis. The liberties of
a mighty people are at stake. Theire- rw
uo ipental ground; trimming and tracV
ing can‘no longer be tolerated, ®at
world demands earnestness and coudsr
Ido not believe in the black flag, guvr
every honorable enemy quarter. Ktiv
we have a sacrod black motto whi and.
wo must ko; p to the front, and that is -
‘Woe unto him who triffes with tbe-
American democracy.’ G-rover Cleve
land is dead and he left no friends tc
whom to send the obituary notices..
Scores of wabbling statesmen are today
looking through the fence into the*
graveyard for a burial place, because
they were hit by the wrath of a deceiv
ed people. Each ago furnishes a weap
on for the people. The weapon for ibis
age is initiative and referendum.
Through it we can restore democracy.
“Then fill our people with the spirir
of Andrew Jackson, and the corruption;
of Hamiltouism, as well as th 9 hypoc
ricy of McKinleyism, will no longer
threaten or disgrac? our 'and.—Missouri
World.
These are daugerous times for ti**-
health. Croup, colds aud throat
troubles lead rapidly to Consumption,
A bottle of One Minute Cough Cwrti
used at the right time will preserve lifs>,
health and a large amount of mon&jv
Pleasant to take; children like it.
DeLaPerriere.
N) 2.