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I ? V ' Ut I' a i FARMERS' UNiON HOT ? AFTER TAX-DODGERS. I A FLAGRANT EVIL f.TTTINGLY DENOUNCED AND THE REMEDY PROPOSED. Editor County Record:? Please publish, equity tax-men all ^ver the State stand for this: If d rake-off in a liquor deal is grafting the State's money, what is IS^he man doing who is false-swearing f-\)ut the amount of tax he is due * /e often become awe-stricken Ly. corporation or foreign graft, | t have to be lambasted into pay- j 'g any attention to our big army of V bme-made grafters - tax-dodgers? t our own door. If it is a flagrant violation of law for the genial whiskey drummer and dispensary men to fail to turn in just revenue and profits to the State,is it not also a crime of the same class for our genial friends in other occupations to fail to turn in to the State every dollar of taxes he is due the State according to law? We farmers are prone to point to corporations and the business world - ?. l?1_: Ma;farc as me great, rxaruiuKcxa ui ^><>^">1 but the plain truth is no man or class of men can point the finger of scorn at any other clas and say thief! .grafter! The farme* has the same kind of human nature in his make-up that everybody else has. All the farmer has to do to rid himself of this conceit, let him take a peep at a few pages of his county Auditor's book and blush with shame at the black isheep there are within his own flock. . \ Why, bless you, not long since a t,.j farmer was looking over his county ^Auditor's books after another matI ter and uncovered the tax returns Lf another farmer who is worth E ' Jnore than one hundred thousand dollars,who returned his property at Rthan five thousand dollars! his well-to-do farmer pays less a one hundred dollars tax, while ther farmer near by, who does own one-fourth as much properpays two hundred and twenty ars tax. And, worse still," this rto-do tax-dodging farmer's son i the county Board of Equalization, while yet another son is the county Clerk. Now, this may not be Ujw^conepi racy, to have one son holding down the county Board of Equalization and another holding down the I lid ot the doors that contain records of the securities of his father, but | at the same time we are forced to say that if this ugly state of affairs is not a conspiracy,that it is at least t'" an all-fired convenient accident or | coincident to protect tax-dodgers. An Intolerable Outrage. WW Many of us know of cases where some unfortunate who owns nothing taxable save his head and heels (poll and road) has been chased for miles over the country and finally run down and in for from $8 to $12 co6ts and the employer is compelled to put up the cash for his unfortunate laborer or tenant, or his man .goes to the chaingang,while another ^ well-to-do tax-dodger is just as lawfully due the State anywhere from $50 to $100, but is allowed to forswear and go free. Another case is the "home-builder" (the slogan for * the safety of the State and nation) who pays one-third on his purchase for a home and borrows the balance! and after years of toiling under the j burden of high interest, taxes and I family expenses is closed out at last J to satisfy the money-lender's claim, which is lawful, but the holder of 'these iron-clad securities had not paid a dollar taxes on these notes fi, and mortgages during the whole j M* time this "horlie builder" was striv-1 ing to pay both interest and taxes, j Ask this money-lender why he does ryrt pay the taxes on his securities and he will have the gall to say a whole heap about double-taxing,to compel the farmer to pay tax on j borrowed money and 'the money ? lenj|Br pay tax, too, while the law says both shall pay tax, A King Tax-Dodger in a High ! Place. T am informed by a reliable source j that we have in our State a corporation that has more than one and a hp [ half millions cash in its business that Is paying tax on only ninety-five thousand, for the reason that one of the head officials of this corporation is on the Board of Assessors, and no doubt the State has all sizes of this I kind of graft in all its counties. Are the tax laws of the State ! made fpr the plain, honest people to i go by and the unscrupulous cunning to evade? Why is it that the county Auditors do not go down into this thing and place all the property on the tax books, as the law requires them to do? There are a few among them that have the "sand" to go into the lair of the lions that guard the voters, that drive the nails down in the shingles that cover their heads! Do these floundering officers of the la*' think more about their salaries than they do about the good of the people or ! the oath they take? Why don't the Boards of Equalization do their duty and place all taxable property upon , the books upon an equal basis? ; Is it a fact that many of them are ; tarred with the same stick along | with the common tax-dodgers, and the rest keep mum for fear of being ; called a "common knocker"? So far i as placing all property on the tax | books upon equal basis at its market value is concerned, the county Auditor's office is a farce,and the Board of Equalization is a huge joke. Who Pays for the Rake-off Held Back by the Tax-Dodgers? It is a stupendous fact that every one who places his property on the tax books at current or customary rates helps to pay the graft or rakeoff held back by tax-dodgers, which fact should enlist the active co-operation of all law-abiding citizens with Comptroller-General Jones in his commendable crusade for tax equalization. 1HE KEMEDY. Publishing all tax returns in county papers every four years at re-assessment of real estate is the one fell sweep that would attract the interest and aid of the people in each township of the State. This publicity is the gatling gun or bombrshell that would drive every hider out in the open where the populace can inspect the returns and see to it that no one shall pass muster without a clean record. For the same reason that we require publishing of expenditures of the-people's money, that we may see just where *it goes, we shouM also know who is not turning in all the just tax money due the county and State, The drag-net that would catch all ! the sharks that jump over and dive under the first of January as the date for^property on hand,instead of naming one day, the law should take an AVEliAGE OF SEVERAL MONTHS for a basis of money on deposit or in any business. Tax Inquisitors. A tax inquisitor for each Congressional district having the right to examine all public and corporation records, and the power to summon witnesses to testify as to taxable property as well as the right to convene county Boards of Equalization to suit the itinerary of his rounds, would also be the one limb of the law that might be made to bring in a revenue of ten or more dollars for every dollar spent on his work on either of the plans of a salary or percentage pay. Some think that these tax inquisitors should be required to change districts in their rounds, after the plan of the circuit Judges. 1/ X* m.'v PvTrv\t?rtn Ti V XYIINU ur XT1?|0I fV JL.-> rUAVL 1AA Laws. Our law makers should keep the fact in mind that these tax-dodgers are cunning masters in this art, and unless a master in the art of tax finder is sent after them, the effort will be futile. These tax inquisitors should not be floundering politicians or weaklings of the thirty cent calibre, but should be af selection from among the ablest men we have and paid accordingly for their work? men of spine, discretion and diplomacy, that know the law more than kith or kin, or friend or foe. somethining must be doxe. We have been moralizing over this tax-dodging graft about long 11 enough, it is time our represents ; tives go for these "parasites upor ? the body politic" with gloves off i and provide a sure plan to tighter i the screws down upon all tax-dodg ; ers alike. We have sent a Lyor out after the liquor grafters thai fetched in the game, and we now want a gang of Bengal tigers, that can see. to go after the wily taxdodgers. Something must be done to relieve the strain upon the consciences of our good people who are in the habit of sitting in the "amen corners" of churches singing psalms on Sunday, and going before the county auditor on Monday and swearing that the value of their cow is $8, when they know they could get 840 or $50 **r her, or their land is worth $ per acre when they know that othi r lands by them are selling from $40 \$100 per acre; or they have no other property, stocks, notes, mortgages, cash or any other property to their credit not listed in their returns, and spend six ; months afterwards trying to relieve j the strain upon their conscience by saying "they all do it" or trying to make themselves believe that false ; swearing is diplomacy or some other left-handed thing with no harm in it. A Show Down for the Demagogue. Most any man who has the pluck j to say that plain people do the double tax paying while the cunning rich do the stunts in tax-dodging is sure to be styled as a demagogue, and now is the time for each and every representative to be called upon to stand up and be counted as to whether a dollar be a dollar, whether it be in the hands of the rich or poor man, or in ironclad securities, or in the active producing: world. Give all a chance to say whether or not they go to Columbia to get something for the "interest they represent" that other people don't get. Is there an honest man in all South Carolina who thinks or believes that other people should pay taxes on his dollars? J C Stribling, Pendleton, ?> C. i Formers' Union Bureau. Solves a Deep Myslfry. 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