Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-09-20
4 Problem for our Constitution Makers,
In the article upon revenue and tax.
alton the Sd section reads as follows.

In the article upon revenue and tax.
alton the Sd section reads as follows.
S&o. ,. The property, real aud person
al, ot tue United States and the property
OF the State and counties property OF mn-
nieipalties common school property :
cemeteries not owned or used for private
or corporate profit and public libraries
shan be exempt from taxation ana all
laws exemptng from taxation property
other than that hereinbefore mentioned
shall be void.
Now, by the plain intent and inter
probation of this organic law, what is to
prevent great corporation, having in
its employ majority Of the voters of a
county; or league Of majority Of tax
payers Of county, believing themselves
oppressed with operous taxation, to
make their dependents or sympathizers
county officials, then let their property
be sold for taxes, and take means to see
that nobody bid at the sale but the
county officials designated by law to do
50 in lieu Of bidders refusing, by in
tmidatioa or otherwise, to advance the
tax price and costs? The property
sold and bought by the county would
then ba "thc property of tho county"
and those having its possession as de-
iaultlng taxpayers could laugh at as.
SCISSORS and tax.colleetors so long as they
managed to control the county officials
in their interests. This condition of
county affairs is not impossible, and the
above is constitutional provision TO
uphold the attempt. fit is adopted
what club kearney could make Of it
IN his mode of moving the slums !!
There are four or five other just such
weak places in this constitution, which
We shall point ont between this time
and November. .-AoHhern Pacific
Times.
SOLUTION OF THE ABOVE Problem.
Young THOMAS wooGa and won the
heart of his delectable Carry. Matters
IN their courtsbip ran smoothly for some
time till at last Thomas considered that
he was in condition to marry and he
proposed that sho should namo the day.
This aroused her thinking powers and
led her to study some objection. The
next time they met and he pressed the
question. Says Curry to Thomas: "If
marry you, what is to prevent you
taking it into your head to run for
Governor, and if you run, what's to
prevent your being elected and when
Governor what is to prevent you doing
some bad deed that will cause
you to be impcached and deposed I?
What then would prevent you from go-
ing away to some lone spot and settling
upon farm on the bank of some lake or
river! And you know Thomas that VIC
will be liable to have little Charlie, or
Z little Emma, by that time, and what
would prevent the little darling when
it got to be three or four years old.
and just the best little darling living
from straying away some time upon the
bank Of that lake or river, and falling
in and getting drowned And in
that case what would preven. my heart
from being. broken entirely 7" Here
poor Carry sobbed and sobbed, while
Thomas looked annoyed at FIRST, then
burst into loud laugh. Do YOU sup
pose that Thomas could not answer
her questions satisfactorily? He did
answer them that night and they were
married IN less than one month after
wards. 1t would require no more to
prevent the consequences foreshadowed
by the Times than it would to prevent
the drowning of that little darling.
which constituted 80 strong an obiec.
ton to Carry's getting married. II the
Times whose editor says he is sambi.
tious to attain" to be "a railroad or
gan" can't suggest more difficult
"problem for the constitution makers" +"
these constitution makers will not have
much to fear from his opposition.
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