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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 ]
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Commission
Merchants
220 Bay E SAVASSAN, OA. j;
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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,
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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.
I am selling th>- famous DANE
MOWER. ">»e of th*. host nmde.
See me at oiicp for prices, terms, j
etc. D S. Williamson,
721 Uvalda. Ga
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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
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should lie Mu.plv iln pr.■ idl ll g
officer 111 'I I i S- ;I li■ I s|| 11(1 not
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"Champ C nk i- j i-i ! lie- n.an
to lead in lln inauguration nf
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