Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-01-22
fceullarlties or Honesty.

Vanderbilt is just discovered and con-
victed Of defraudlng the revenues Of
New York.
Some thirty or more Of the immense
~ wealthy gentlemen ofBaltimore hayc
just been caught doing the same thing
in that city.
The Irish Ameyjcan Citizen this week
rcinforccs against the proprietor Of the
Baltimore SuR who reports his Office
fixtures &C., at only $4,000 for taxa.
ton, and ali Of his taxable values at
about one million, when heis notorious
" worth to 10 millions.
1t is astonishing how contagious cpl
denies Of this sort arc among the in
tensoly honest.
Last week, in StauntOn, Gene,al
Echols and several other funders went
into Judge Smiths court to be relieved
against the payment Of taxes on trust
funds, bonds, &C., on the ground that
the benefcares de, or shOuld,pay tax on
them as solvent debts, &c. The Judge
very naturally and pr3cedently threw
himself into a legislative attitude and
enacted repeal of a law OF 81 years
standing, so far as Augusta coenty is
concerned.
Bradley Johnson has discovered that
the Msdett whisky tax is nat of uniform
proportions and msves ITS repeal, aided
in the senate By two other funders.
Gay lie and Hurt. The rub is that more
whisky is drank in Richmond. Norfolk
and Dauyille than in some little villages
and therefore the tax is so much more
blrGenSCmC on their constituents than
il should be. IL view Of this, aud the
further consideration that Senators are
TO he elected next TALL. it is proposed to
abolish Tie punch, and put on a specific
tax that Will he Uniform, i. e. make every
dealer pay the same and yet raise the
same aggregate amount Of revenue.
How Johnsonian to keep on trying to
pay tie whole debt out of other peoples
money 10 treat his voters next Sum
mer and Fall at 20 per cent. of for leg
islatiye ingenuity.
Next we shall sec Royal expatiating
in the Virginia Law Journal on Judge
Smiths bond decision in Staunton, and
then Bradley Will follow for a refunling
Of tic tax he ought to have paid Oh the
$4,000 Of the States money which, he
may assert for the purposes of case, is
only held IN trust for the State till the
final adjudication Of the question by the
courts.
we would simply call the attention
Ofeur country delegates to these things
dongin the cities. It might be well to
remind them that the holder of a farm
pays taxes on its assessed value without
regard 10 the vendors liens upon il.
which are also (or should be) taxed as
Indebtedness in the hands of the holder.
They should also recellect that country
merchants are taxed en- their capital
and their credit, a system of unjust i'm
position unknown to civilized govern
monts; and when admonished of all
these things, let them just mildly sug-
gest that all the aX laws be repealed at
once and then We can have uniformity.
Let Us have the epidemic of how not
to pay taxes all over the State. 1t is
one OF the easiest ofall diseases to catch,
and not man Of our acquaintance will
run from it or be yacclnated.
In truth il seems to be the style and
poor people as well as others have a
hankering after style.
1t would be so nice to be Vanderbilt
or Garrett or Abel or Echols or Elder
or johnson ii only for a short time and
ID one very small particular.