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T Jte Jtrali) and ||rai j Kitered at the Postoffice at HTew? wry, & C., as Sad class matter. E. H. 1ULL, EDITOKr IVn/JflTT CanfamVtar 19 1Q1Q A JL luaj y AVXV. ABOUT TAXES. According to the Greenville News, 1 the "tax commission has raised the assessment of Greenville merchants 1 half a million dollars. If this raising ; keeps up and the increased land values come in for increased assess- ' monts wp slinll Vinvp mnrp fny mnnpv than we know what to do with, but there is such a thing as making the ] assessment so high on merchants that 1 fhey will quit business. There should 1 he some talk of reducing the levy.? i Greenwood Index-Journal. ] That is just the point. The raising s of the assessment does not mean as ^ ^ t should, the lowering of the tax ' levy. It simply means more extrava- ? srance in the appropriations and the i expenditures. At one time we were * a very ardent believer^in th eassess- * ment -of nroDertv at its actual value. I but after an experience in the legis- I lature for several years we changed * our views very materially. We found * that the average legislator, and even 1 i he intelligent and* best among them, c failed to differentiate between an ex- * penditure or an appropriation and a *ax levy. What we mean is this: They would argue that unless you 11 increased the levy you were not in- c creasing the taxes, it matters not * what the assessment may be. In c other words, if you put the tax as- 1 cessment at twice what it is now, if * , hat is sufficient with the present jc levy to meet the expenses of govern- j 1 ment, you would not be increasing 1 the taxes even if you did not reduce Ihe levy. So that they could go back ? home and tell the dear people that < taxes had not been increased, that : he levy la3t year was four mills and * his year it is only four, mills, they '* ?elt they could fool the people, and ? rhey generally succeeded, and many ( of them were honest in. the position, ^ whereas, as a matter of fact, if you 1 had doubled the assessment you had J in reality doubled the taxes, though 'he levy remained the same. There- 1 fore, from an advocate of high as- / ;essments we have come to be in t favor of low assessments, t>ut what 1 we need is an equitable assessment < I x r I 1. Sold. ^ 9. Fivp-rnom cottasre. fir i . lots, on Milligan Str< | 3. Hurlong Place near I 6. Nine-room residence conveftiences. >i i a 7. Two large lots on Mc 9. 101 acres land, near '% - liary Gary place, on four-room tenant he % house, one one-roon ?.. 3 , ture with running str . i 11. Sold. -.i _ _ 1? 12. Sold. {] 14. House and lot on Ca 15. 252 acres land on t tween Garys and K schools and churches > j land. One four-roo houses. 16. 268 acres land, on y Saluda, nine miles i room residence, goc > 'i room tenant houses | timber. j 17. Five-room cottage c light and city water 18. Sold. >j 19. Sold. ! 20. Sold. 21. Four-room cottage < nice lot and conveni 3 22. Eight-room residenc I conveniences. One | 23. House and lot on Cc | and the lot itself is t both. i If you are interested ? I represent some of t j your fire insurance. I write Automobile 1 ' i so that the burden would bear even-1 [y on all property. Of course city property should not be assessed at $160 the acre, when it is easily worth five times that amount, and" ?old watches worth $100 should not be returned at $10, and pianos at $50 that cost $600 or. $700; and so on. unless all other property in the same community was assessed at the same ratio of value. But this question of an equitable assessment and 'an even division of the burden of taxation has always been a vexing problem, and will continue to be so long as human nature remains weak and selfish, at it is likely to do for many years yet to come. As ian illustration of how even the high officials and intelligent citizen look at the matter of tax reduction svhen it is found that the tax assess- , ments have been increased several ( nillion dollars, or rather we" should: say the tax value of the property has j t>een increased, here comes the comptroller general along with a statement which induces .the News md Courier to put over the article ;his head: "Entails saving of $200,)00." i Wherein is the saving? The ex>enditures are the same and the peo>le who own the property are going o have to pay the same amount of i - ^ ' AJ I noney to meet the expenditures, ui :ourse, if it were not for the flexible evy plan the $200,000 would be colected, but they need not be spent. The point we are trying to make I s, that there is really no saving be- J i;uce the expenditures remain as the j egislature appropriated, and the j ihances are two to one when the leg-, slature meets, and the members :ind that additional appropriations :an be made without increasing the evy, that the appropriations will be nade. The only plan by which you can ?ave the taxpayer any money is by jutting down the appropriations, ifou can never do it by increasing ;he assessments. And the chances ire that when you increase the assessments the legislatuie, instead of jutting down the levy, will increase ;he appropriations so as to take up whatever amount may be brought in sy the increased assessments. When there Tjas about two hundred nillion dollars worth of taxable property in the State on the tax books, 1 - 1 ?? a? snmafViinv /He icvy wixs iuui xsiiiiC) vx ike that. Now the taxable property. >n the tax books is around four hun,VE rHAi arden, city water, two large eet. Southern Railway. oil Glenn Street with all Kinley Heights, 50x100 feet. Kinards, a part of the Filthe Piedmont Highway. One >use, one three-room tenant 1 tenant house. Small pas eam and good well. ldwell Street. he. Piedmont Highway beinards. Very convenient to i and an extra good grade of m dwelling and four tenant the road from Newberry to :rom Newberry, one eight>d barn and crib, two four, good well and plenty saw % >n Mayer Avenue, electric >n Harrington Street. Extra ently located. e on Main Street with all of the best locations in town. >llege Street, very convenient 5 worth the price asked for in buying a home I would be g be best fire insurance companu Insurance for Less. JSk 8 / m f \ "? " > dred million dollars, and the tax levy is 8 mills or 9 mills. Yes, the comptroller general has under the j flexible^ law reduced it from 9 1-2 mills to 9 mills. We understand very well that the ; departments of government have j ! . been increased, and many new ap-1 propriations have been made for va-! rious things, and it takes more money j now than it did to do business for j the State as well as the individual, j but if ^re judge by our own experience the increase in the taxable values does not mean a reduction in the levy, becjrtfse it does- not mean a reduction of expenditures, and the levy must keep pace with the ex penses to raise the revenue. The government is after the profiteers, and rightly so. It should start at the fountain and make them feel the hard hand of the law. Any man who takes advantage of present conditions to make unnecessary profits and to cause suffering and privation should be made to suffer for it. The Atlanta Constitution shoots this paragraph: : ? "We hear of jails for sale, doe to prohibition;- but don't sell 'em^? keep 'em for the profiteers." That's the idea. Let's keep the jails for these teaches and if necessary build, more. But the jail is most too soft a place. Better put 'em on the public roads crushing stone. The News and Courier the other day carried a very suggestive cartoon by Irving, on the high cost of j living in which it shows Uncle Sam operating under difficulties. At the top of a very tall tree is ! the kitty of high prices. At the^ foot | -? ~ o?o oil oai4c rt-p rlnirs and i UX U1C lil cc ait Hit yvtvw VA v>?Sw ? | animals barking and screaming, such ' as strikes, curtailed output, increased ; cost of production, everybody ambitious to get rich without work, labor J demands, publicity, barking and creaming at the highest pitch, while Uncle Sam away up the tree trying to persuade the kittie to come down,' remarks, "How in the Sam Hill do J- j? Z4- /lmim yoiuexpect mc iu ni<nvc it cum? uunu if you keep scaring the life out of it?" ! And that about stfms up t>ie situation. -We can't expect very much to be accomplished if we keep barking 'and screaming at the thing and keep everything stirred up. No man who listens to doubt will .4a miiof Via infonHoH?Hftrbert Kauf uu rvnav uw aaavwa* man. - | TH ns Tt 24. Sold. 25. Sold. 26. Six-room dwelling with tl T-J/vVi-fc? ixrufekr rm TTar" llglltO, VII/J ?T VV4. J V A. ? 28. Vacant lot on Frifend Stre idence lots in the city or j 29. Sold. 30. Six-room dwelling practic at a very reasonable pric( 32. 780 acres land, 12 miles dence and good tenant wood and timber on the p 34. 65 acres land on public : Whitmire, known as Re timber on this place to p* 35. 33-5 acres land, one mile tenant houses, four ban tages, good pasture, plen ber. This place could b< state of cultivation, and into small farms with t\\ 4-"U I/./-* ?i rvV? UliUUgu xi/. 36. Sold. . 37. 100 acres land in No. 6 room dwelling, barn wi small pasture with runnii 45 acres open land. 38. 100 acres land in No. I Lane, one four-rooril dw and stream, ten acres op timber and plenty wood.. 39. Sold. 40. Sold. 41. 2121/2 acres land, 14 mi] good dwelling, two tenan ton house. 170 acres in wood. lad to have you call to see me 28 and would be glad to write RSI TThr* Cviilou 11 luajf. Globe 30c DRESS GING1 1 case, 10 to 20 yi - - 1 T colors, ueauujLui yailc day and Monday, onl; SEA ISLAND i 36-inch Sea Islan< weight, for unbleac price, yard 25c CHEVIOTS 28 inches wide, h< patterns, Friday, Satti sale price, yard PERCJ5 . 35c Percale, dark j 36 inches wide, sale ] HEAVY Ol 1,000 yards good oal . ' l fr o 9j wo axe ctu ig uu * Monday, yard Globe . * IL iE I iree acres land, electric Lid guccu et. One of the best resa good garage lot. :ally new in High Point 5 from Newberry, resihouses. Plenty cord lace to pay for it. road from Newberry to snwick place. Enough iy for it. from city limits, seven as, two four-room cotty wood, some saw time brought up to a high is an ideal place to cut ro public roads running ! Township with threeth four stables, shed, 1 g water, plenty timber, > township, near Garys elling, small barn, well en land, 100,000 feet in les from Newberry, one t houses, barn, crib, cot cultivation, balance ir v % I would like to bu; I negotiate loans c running from five to te ygjmTihYT MP (irBTWfcMeaMSBKBIMW ^6 n . l , aaturaay, ??? AT ? Dry (io HAMS 15c YD. ird lengths, fast Men's 25 ans, Friday, Satur d ir y, yard 15c SHEETING. i Sheeting, full ' Men's hed sheets, . sale Pair 19c v L 15c YARD. New shif savy weight, dark ed this wee irday and Monday, 15c ??i????? i ILE. 6 sdooIs and light patterns, price, yard.... 24c AJ JTING. Best Qua day and M heavy Outing that varj 5c,--Saturday. and 15c They wo ? Hru (In Newberry, S. C. dfp hiLi 3AI MI . V/1M J 42. 505 acres land in No, residence, nine tenar spring, 250 acres in oj 43. Sold. 44. Sold. 45. 234 acres land in No. south from Newberr\ three three-room ten* n i two wens ana spring, . 46. Sold. 47. 141 *-10 acres land < Hilliary Gary Home v extra good land. 48,. Sold. 49. Five-room dwelling or 50. Sold. -51. Tour-room cottage cc Streets. 52. Sold. 53. Sold. 54. Sold. 55. Sold. 57. 70 acres land, on the Charley Gary Place. 58. 218 acres land, three ' cottage, barn and th ' water and wells. f 59. 178 acres land, seven houses, good barn, p; 1 timber, 15 acres cord 60. Six-room dwelling w 1 water on Glenn Street three-fourths acres la i 62. >The Adams Place, 63. 40 acres land, seven-: i crib, two tenant hous one and one-half mile y 10 to 20 shares Mollohon Manuf< >n good farm land and Main Stree " M. 1. n years witft a smau payraem s Sale Mnrntav ods Co. / ?? 1 MEN'S HOSE. c Hose, Saturday and Mon 15c [EN'S OVERALLS. 1.00 Overalls, sale price, $1.65 ADIES' DRESSES. r mient Ladies' Dresses receivk. SPOOL THREAD. Thread ..25c Hi PRON GINGHAMS. lity Apron Ginghams, Satur- v /\n/4nTr Pon+ /IAI AKCI nwwiA rvnv i unu.a,y, laot tuiuio, pivp, j 19c - J i n't stay long at this price. ods Co. f i SIT' ^ ..J' n i- M , 6 Township, one six-room 1 it house, two wells and i * j )en land, balance in timber. 1 8 Township, eight miles r, one six-room residence, A int houses, barn and cribs, J 20 acres in pasture. q >n Piedmont Highway, the Place,' nice residence and \ ^ \ 1 Vincent Street. imfr'r.flllinnn and LindsaV / I A \ Ninety-Six Koad, near the miles from City, five-room ; ? ree tenant houses, running M room residence, two tenant I ^ asture. 20 acres good saw : ' wood. | ith electric lights and city i ;, lot contains about one and knd. acres. SOLD. room residence, good barn, ' .1 i ?es, one-fourtn mile scnooi, is from church. - I icturing Company Stock. t property at 6 per cent., i year. 8VE55EiflB9HBfiHIBEiD3&E?999C3C3K5aEEC&SEQEflHRB65^^ \ M /