The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-11-08
JUDGE WILSON ON THE MILLS
TAX JUDG.NE.N9,S.
WORTHISGTON. Nov. 7. 1883.


EDITOR ADvANCE:-I see in q cam
paign circular issued from Worthing-
ton immediately preceding the late
election, headed Misrepresentation
Refuted," l.. 3. Bennett swears that
after E. S. Mills had paid money to
him on a certain tax judgment lie i'm
mediately informed me of the fact, and
that he had turned the money into the
county treasury and that he had salts
fled the tax judgment, and that I as
sented to it rs all right. That state
n:ent is false liz every particular, and
no man knows it better than T.. Il.
Bennett. 1t is apart of my duty to
collect and satisfy such judgments,
and l have never delegated that duty
to MIR. Bennett Hor any one else.
On the night OF Oct. Goth ult., Mr
Bennett said to me, Il heard you said
there was over $10O in tax judgments
against Mills in your l:uuds,n and I
said e'no, it is between sos and $lO0. ,
Then he said, ''therei,;,s been over $50
paid" answered 81 know nothing
Of it.' That ended the conversation
1t is trne there WAS an arrangement
that certain: officers should do all in
their power to get all old taxes collect
ed, Il great amount OF which has not
yet gone into Judgment. but it never
WAS the understanding between those
officers that any one should take it upon
himself to perform any official duty
that belonged to another-which Mr..
Bennett well knows.
Z novor cLc,,l,1 Hnvo xo,o,1n o,u
ment for publication in regard to those
taxes had 1t not been unjustly charged
that it was my fault that all WAS not
collected.
GRO. W. WILSON, Co. Atty.
The above letter was Just handed Us
by Judge Wilson to set l.. B. Benefits
statements right. AS to the Mills tax
judgments, we adhere to our original
statements that the judgments remain
against INN unsatisiied just as stated
in the ADVANCE. We have q letter
before us written by Mills dated Oct.
29th, in which he admits $4l unpaid.
Any one caring enough about the mat
ter Can see the letter in his own hand
"A''AHS' Ah'o ~fI, Will ttCCl Heu III
terest, would probably reach $50. We
never char ged that Mills had not paid
any taxes. We charged that the jldg-
ments referred to in the ADVANCE
were not satisfied, but adm tilted that
the one for 1857, marked ''satisfed,"
might be. The statements made by
t,,X<
mentS.
MAKING TAE.MS;'LFi2S FELT Ar List
In what we had to say for several
months before the Ohio election, we
expressed the earnest hope that al
Spiritualists and Liberals woulu vote
the Democlatic ticket III order to re-
buke the Republicans for passHge of the
infamous Russell law. Russell. it
seems, was a biy6teu Methodist, who
aimed to turn the powc: Of the State
against Spirtualism and therefore drew
up the bill and his felioW-republican
were foolish enough to help him enact
it into Il law.
In what we had to say after the elcc-
ton, we stated that this Infamous law
was an important factor in the defeat
of the Republicans. There is no doubt
of this now. A special despatch to the
Boston Herald, or the eve of the cleo.
tion, said:
The Spiritualists in the State, nine
tenths Of whom have heretofore voted
the Republican ticket, will vote the
straight Democratic ticket Tuesday.
because Of the passage Of the Russell
B;ll requiring mediums and clairvoy-
ants to take out Il $500 license.
And the Washington Evening Star,
of Oct. l1th, gives the opinion Of First
Controller Of the United States Treas
ury, Lawrence, as follows:
First Controller Lawrence said TO-
day, in cOnversing upon the OHIO elec-
tion, that in his opinion the Repub-
licans lost nearly 20. 600 votes of Spirit
ualists who voted against the Repub.
licans on account of the law pa ssed by
the Legislature imposing tax oi,
and sniritualistic exhibi-
tiOnS.
Here is glorious hope for us. Here
is an exhibition of the spirit which will
teach the church bigots that they can
not trample upon the religious rights
and privileges of others without meet
ing stern rebuke. Here is hope that
if the Liberals of all classes will unite
with Catholics, Jews and those of other
religions, they can prevent the Evan
gelicals, us the Protestant element call
themselves. from succeeding in the
scheme to unite Church and State, and
make the United States what they call
a "Christian nation" May every Lib
eral VOW now that he will resist this
scheme to the death.