Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-18
Attention. ..Anti.subsidy !"

EUREKA, New, Feb. II, 1881.
Mr.. EDITOR In your issue of Feb. 10 is
another letter from that enterprising cor
respondent 'sAnti-Subsidy," in which be
sets forth at length some amendments,
which are now agreed upon, and proceeds
to demolish the whole railroad project by
the broad assertion that " it does not re-
| quire a lawyer to see at a glance that the
whole scheme of these amendments are IL
legal, unconstitutional and void He
further says 'Under the constitution and
laws of this State taxation must be uni
form and equal, and no special laws shall
be enacted The amendments proposed
do not mention, refer to or contemplate
any different rate of taxation upon the
railroad company's property than that
levied upon other property in White Pine
county. They simply provide that all
county taxes derived from the taxation of
said road shall go towards the liquidation
of the bonds and interest, and that no
other county revenues shall be appropri-
ated to that end. In other words, the
amendments secure the county from the
payment of one dollar, unless the same
shall be realized from the railroad COM
pany's property by way of county. taxes,
thus leaving that county the States por-
ton Of revenue to be paid over to it as a
clear gain. The amount to be annually
paid by said county towards the liquida-
ton of said bonds and interest is, by said
amendments, left to be determined by the
amount which shall be levied and collected
from said county by the ordinary methods
of assessments and collection of. other
taxes and, so far from providing any
hope Of a different mode of or exemption
from taxation, the amendments only seem
to offer an inducement to the authorities
of White Pine county to place a valuation
as high as possible on the railroad COM
pany's property, thereby enabling that
county to realize the largest amount posi-
bic from the company's property to apply
towards the extinction of the bonds, and
the sooner to secure to the useo the county
the whole amount to which will be derived
from taxing the road.
"Anti-Subsidy" is a lawyer, and a
good la,eyeT, and rushed into print with
ont investigating his subject or rejecting
thereon, and will scarcely claim Especial
legislation" or anything approaching a
different rate Of taxation on the railroad
by virtue of the White Pine amendments
after he shall nave as thoroughly consider
ed the bearings as have some other people
whom he knows. If he does he will find
himself as far from being a correct ex-
FOUNDER Of the law as he now realizes he
was when he took his appeal in a certain
Courthouse case while employed TO pro
tect the County's interest. He seems to
have made a change of front since then in
! his devotions to Eureka County's best in
terest, and if he lives a few years will also
realize that his peculiar disposition and
personal feelings render him as blind to
the paramount and ultimate interest OF
Eureka, as he was in the matter above re-
ferred to. Neither "Anti-Subsidy,' nor
any other respectable attorney will publish
over his own signature an ''opinion" that
the White Pine amendments are either
=" illegal, unconstitutional or void"
Softly, softly, Anti do not let anger be-
dim your vision or your judgment.
Pardon my quoting one of your promises
in respect to "Citizen," when I say that
this is all Vale, Vale, Anti.
F. REFLECTOR,