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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1910)
POINTERS ON TAXATION. In all agvs men have been i iric to kick ami growl some ' ,iit one thing - and some alxiuf ' other hot the matter of taxet j > the attention of ; 11 1 less n uni hers. As far us ’ arid citizens of Mont- 1 .nery count; , are concerned. ! is sotni’thintt ft> growl tit. state of Georgia has a rotter 1 tion system, to begin with; 1 j 1 1:js, of course, comes down ‘ ,ugh the p- 1 ir channel to; • countie- ;ul municipalities. ! ; is lack of law and system is i] (parent i hat the fool cannot ] mistaken therein. It is a • ..in which re.-ults in common •' ■ tortion to the man who does square thing by his neigh- 1 him elf and the common ex- 1 ~,|uer. In which law and order j are maintained. ! 1 irst. if ihe state of Georgia i a respectable and business- j system of taxation, hy which ‘ reel aha • oiild be forced in king return: and the same 1 rive of force used in making 1 collections, the evil would iie ' < ; ecked and a few men would • I >,t lie Called -a to pay the pub- 1 tuxev ~ d i.e remainder a1,.,| ~,| in jo ■,, .. paltry payment, any at all. I'ins I hing is a dis acc, and a travesty at justice; '•!, who hto blame ! Not any e individual, of course, hut the stem in general. It certainly ,ks as if toe time has come for : • linn against tliis public nui ,nco this plan by which the ,v are robbed and greater nuni f,r,. relieved of a public duty. The general assembly of tht ■ ~» cniild adjust this matter ir, hich the people are so vitally i , seemed, it it had the hack iiie. tin- manhood, and was not minecied l>y the corporations. j c people, in choosing repre datives, should demand tha y aliyn themselves squarely th the element which stand; ■ just 1;; vn! hill for cqilillizil m. and hi' ■ imnon right ant • ul. Ami tliip some law coult enact* d h\ which the pooi ul would dav otne protectioi .oust tin. 1 richer and more in .etitial (in robbing tin* publit i ill of his pro rata share of taxes.) \\\> do not say just what forn legislation this should ht*. Hut do not mean to advocate ; ■her rate of taxation: there is shiny wroity with the state , \y, or the common plan of an ial levy ;is made by each coun in the state. The method ol vv is till right, if the spirit of ■ law was executed, and all , re made subject to the same \ and collection. 1 lie weak . (feature of the whole thing is > lame manner in \vHit'll returns .>e made. There is simply a icl'iil lack of public honor. And teiv honor fails, law should be * acted to support it. la other words, it there was iie plan of tax equalization put i to effect in Georgia, there v ild not «boa necessity of high taxation each iiuiu would feel i o burden iiilvo. according to, supply ", this world’s yoods, 1 no man would Ik* rohhed by j . iny a higher tax than his less >:pulous ne'eli 1 H>r on the same ■ nit of values. Values should vary to any appreciable ex •, i t iii one locality, but a ylance our tax books will show that : s simply a system of voluntary i a piny in tncordiny to the ' ics'y ;iud tasP sos the prop- ' v holder. This is the opinion 1 me of the highest authorities • hi* st;iie of t’.eoryia. in reyard ji t . s':e,■ s X s etn of taxation ,w in v ov. i . I not simply the ni.>i. , , >r of this pa i or : ,i ivocate of just 1 , ixation -s a fact which the .he - ,i \ av are ot. and ;, *I. ... . \ !he at tent ion of 1 1 few ne'ii. r p viaily those o indulye in the half-fare 1 ,n exeui'sioti rates. ;i> it were. 1 the exuense of the man in 1 union onvumsiances. Hut. let tha state at larye re- 1 in for the present, and revert oi4T own county, in which the 1 rate is as hiyh now as il was ’ a years ayo. when the hand- ] ie court house was built and d for with one year’s levy ot bciny a lit tie over #lB on the 1 i .sand. The funds arisiny n this levy, however, were plemented with a balance to county's civil it which, up to ; time, had resulted throuyh , ,ect nia■ at by the lioard t uni'.: ; ■ Roads and enues. i bailditiy. alone, :e c :•. *e. was .<;>i*.- added !i v i.i a was a sitni .:n amt sorta: i lUUV. fittings . fixtures. plai s, etc., makiny a due of over Stiff. ObO. ice this time, we have had no i, .movements to call for any s •'h amount of revenue, and wav the exorbitant tax rate.’ Toj raise money for current exjtenses, of course. This money must come, even if the minority’s pockets have to be emptied to furnish it. The tax values of Montgomery county will compare] with the best of them, and yet her people are subject to a double rate to yet up necessary cash, j For this we can assign as one reason, the fact that a few peo ide pay the taxes and the others, and larger per cent, of the flock, are allowed to run at large, in a mild sense defying law and civic regularity. Or, to be exact, this horrible state of affairs exists, imply because the State of Geor gia cannot boast of laws sufficient io collect revenue in any other j manner than that of the common donation plan, the weaker broth- j i*r bearing the brunt of the tax burden. The people complain, at least a part of them, hut to no materi al good; the thing goes on and on from year to year. Before the tax collector has finished jug gling with one year’s tax pay ors, it is time to lieyin another year’s lal>or, on the selfsame ba sis the common contribution plan referred to, in which the financial timidity of the rich i* very noticeable, and in which the poor man, and many of them too honest to engage in this back ward manner of handing up the dough for public revenue, are always in the forefront. Christ told iris disciples that the poor would always be present and they are here, doing the tax stunts just as they have from time immemorial, while the wealthy preserve the same re retiring disposition, when it comes to paying out honest tax money (“the things which are (ktesar’s.” > Another practice resorted to is to give in, or have given in, a piece of property, in one name, hut when pay time conies, it is found to lie inalienably that of another, who, after the projierty lias lieen put to the block, sud denly returns to wrangle about false levies, costs, etc., in many ;ises being relieved of the costs. Another beautiful practice :tl -1 ved by the good old State of •rgia whose bounds produce I'Uesmen (?) as freely as jaek rabhits is for Mr. Doe, of finan cial modesty, to refrain from •loaning any tax donation at all. In fulfillment of a common duty, the Collector issues his usual execution, and the Sheriff’ pro ceeds to levy and advertise for his first Tuesday matinee. If Mr. Doe cannot attend, he sends one of the little Roes as his mod est ami innocent representatives. (You have met him around the court house front or you will behold him loitering around there on the first Tuesdays in Febru ary, March and April.) No one dares to buy the property, even for a few dollars, as Mr. Doe is a privileged character, under the law of Georgia, and will take it hack in a few months; and thus his taxes, which should amount to more than a hundred dollars, are cancelled for six or eight. This not 1 >oing enough to pay the ■ •gal costs, the officers and others who have been put to expense and trouble are the losers, by force of the very law under which we live. This is a subject for the law and order leagues to Inigin work on. (And incidently they may drop down in Montgomery and inquire into the increased road tax and other small matters. Possibly the public would like to lie informed.) And right on down the line to the little owns and villages, the same state of affair exists the well-to-do taking a luick seat and the small fry paying the toll, .lust so in Mount Vernon, and possibly the other towns in the county, .lust today one of the town officials exhibited his little receipt U>ok, properly made out. perhaps, hut on the jig-saw plan some times up and sometimes down. No one to blame of course. Nothing to do hut pay as you go, and say “nobody to nothing." It’ the money is well ?tlent, and the public inform al. it is all right:and if it is not. it is still all right we will not mow the difference in a thous and years, and the tax man will •till oe rambling up and down in lie earth. Ana the poor -well, hey. t * hi, will he present and loing business at their same stands. Seed Wheat. 1 have for sale a f«w bushels of rple straw Georgia Seed Wheat f my raising, 4- per bushel. F. It. Williamson, Uvalda, Ga. THE MONTGOMERY MONlTGr*—mi. KrfDAl’, DECEMBER, 15, 1010. SOUTH GEORGIA JOINS MACON IN THE FIGHT. Cordele. <ka., Dec. 0. Each day in this section of South Geor gia brings renewed interest and sentiment is rapidly increasing in favor of Macon as lieing the log ical place for the capital location Many prominent business men in th«* city and county, and many representatives from adjoining counties have been approached by the Telegraph’s representa tive and without a single excep tion all have favored Macon in this matter, and each volunteers an argument and an idea to sus tain the statements. In conver sation with a newly elected rep resentative from an adjoining county, he made the statement that he had discussed the matter of removing the capital to Macon with several of his legislative friends, and that all were solid for the Central City. He made the further statement that he be lieved that every representative] from South Georgia, and the people generally would favor this move. Some enthusiastic ones have gone so far as to say that when the time comes that they would take the stump for Macon in this case. The fact that the Atlanta papers are taking this capital movement as a monu mental joke, and are inclined to j poke fun at the scheme to move the capital, does not appeal very to South Georgians. Many other representative men believe that if the capital was moved to Ma con, that South Georgia might have an opportunity of electing a South Georgia man as a gover nor. As it is now, this section of the state assists in voting and paying their prorata part of the expense of the government, and all appointments and all execu tive officers with an occasional exception goes to North Georgia and to “North Georgia citizens, and the people in this part of the state is awakened to this fact and will resent with their ballots such conduct. This section is being rapidly developed; in fact; more so than any other part of the state; the population rapidly in creasing, and the time has come when these people will demand recognition in shaping the destiny of the great state of Georgia, arid Cordele and Crisp county stands ready when the time comes, to assist Macon with their ballots and their purse. FLYING MACHINE HAS ACCIDENT. Atlanta, Duo. ff.—Tin* opening of Aviator K. C. Miller’s winter headquarters at Ft. McPherson yestMid'iy was marked by an acci dent to his diminutive little tty-1 ing machine, the .Santos Dumont "Demoiselle. He was about to make his second attempt at a flight. More than one thousand soldiers were watching him. It was on the parade ground. The machine went scudding uiong for about two hundred yards and then started to rise. It ascended some thing like twenty feet without a hobble, then paused, tilted i dangerously, and began to fall. By the time it hit the ground there was a crowd around it, fully expecting to rind Aviator Miller! hurt, but he disentangled him self from the rigging and emerged without a scratch. The front wheel of the machine had col lapsed, but beyond that it was unhurt. The Santos Dumont “Demoi selle"’ is file smallest of all Hying machines. Its general outline resembles that of a huge seagul; yet it looks ridiculously small for ‘ soaring to the clouds with a man. ; Such a thing it has done, how ever, taking its famous inventor; around the Eiffel tower in Paris in one of the most sensational flights ever made. SURE CURE FOR PANICS GUARANTEED BY M'VEACH. Washington.—National econo my and financial reform consti tute the keynote of the annual re port of Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeach, submitted to congress today. The secretary guarantees a sure cure for panics, deplores the presence of politics in the financial institutions of the I’nited States government, score* the statement advanced by Senator Aldrich that #!k)0,000,000 annually could he saved in opera [ ting the government, and discusses and recommends freely upon every phase, feature and issue m the treasury department and its 1 allied branches. i RESULT OF PATTERSON’S WORK IN TENNESSEE. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. o.—As an indication of the manner in which the old Confederate vote was split up in the recent election that resulted in naming as gover nor a Republican on a fusion ticket, word comes from Paris, a ! west Tennessee town, to the effect j that the local chapter of the! Daughters of the Confederacy was , disbanded on account of internal differences over politics bivouac over which former Governor James D. Porter presided wus likewise so rent internally that it. too, lias yielded up the ghost At the start of the gubematorial campaign the latter organization was flourishing with about 75 members, but heated differences growing out of the governor’s race resulted first in the failure to at tend meetings of the more peaceable and conservative and finally the few hot-heads attend ing were unable to transact busi ness NEW STOCK. About the first of Jan uary we will receive another carload of fresh mules and horses —all good and guar anteed—just as those we have been selling here. If you need other stock, it will pay yau to wait for this new car. It’s coming, and will be sold at right prices. Date will be announced later. Mcßae & Bro. Money on Hand TO LOAN. LOANS PROMPTLY CLOSED. We have a good sup ply of cheap money on hand at this time and can close loans very promptly, either on farm or city property. If in need of cash, come to see or write us at once. Southern Loan & Investment Co. VIDALIA. GA. E. M. RACKLEY Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co. MT. VERNON. OA. in. P. CANON W. a. BAUNWELL J CANON & BARNWELL ] ji Cotton Factors and jj Commission Merchants 220 Bay E SAVASSAN, OA. j; ; I (Members .Savannah OotlOß ExcUauge) i | ! Handlers of Upland, S*»- | Island Flomdora Cotton Special Mte.iion dive, to F. 0. B. Cotton Handlers of Upland and Sea lslaud Bagging, Ties and Twine A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, »• MT. VERNON, GA. Will Practice in all the Courts of tbs Stats. HONOR TO PEARY- Washington, Dec. 9.—Com mander Robert E. Peary, dis coverer of the North Pole, in all probability will be recognized by congress before the close of the present session. From members of the naval affairs committee of the house it is learned today that the oppo sition to rewarding Commander Peary by bestowing upon him the rank of rear admiral is being dissipated, and that those who opposed such legislation last year now approve it. MOWING MACHINES. 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PRICE 50c AND SI.OO ■■■■l SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY ■BBSHHBHNH Mt. Vernon Drug (Jo.; Palmer ©rug Store, 1 Ailey; Rivers Drug Company, Glen wood. ► ► ► ► WM. J. BRYAN IS JUBILANT. Lincoln. N*-br . Dee 11. —To- day’s issue of Tim Commoner con tains uu article by William J. Brvall 111 which he exults over Ihe del hroneiiielit ol Cil 1 111 on is 111 and bul.s the IVm crats. under lea(le r* s h 11) of Champ Clark, to go forth to battle for a change in house mlew M Brvan sivs: ' Hon eve:- p . p e mm differ as I.i It | ■ n i, - i 1 • r i In t ' •ii • v I • p ;I- ■ i N -in • 8 lino rii li lie III) ''ll I) h t C sm "a - HI e i i | it • , 11. ( lln I-) 111 C - l|e h* sit t• i • r o 'U i • in-in aid >si a b -h e o . u v •• i g ress ill lln i l . 1 Mi. B\ i - h -1 , ■ i should lie Mu.plv iln pr.■ idl ll g officer 111 'I I i S- ;I li■ I s|| 11(1 not appoint coin m 111-esl 1 1 -es niilmg: "Champ C nk i- j i-i ! lie- n.an to lead in lln inauguration nf the reform ”
