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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.