Daily Republican., 1884-10-03
ray Your Taxes.

yesterday il there was any chance for
them to go and pay their County taxes
before the election comes of. Such
persons get the papers regularly but GER
tainly fail to read them or they would
have come across frequent appeals in
them to go and pay their taxes. The
collectors are in their Office, 6O2H Mar
ket street, upstairs, every day and also
in the evening, waiting for Taxpayers
to come and pay their taxes. As we
have often said before 1t will not do to
wait for the tax-collectors to call upon
you, especially If you are only q poll
tax payer, that is If you own no real
estate.
If you wait for them to come and
present their bills you might wait un-
til the crack Of doom before they came.
II you own little real estate they
might be hunting you up, but they
might put it off until after the election
| it you ale known TO be a Republican.
We do not say this to reflect upon the
collectors, because IL they do give
little partisan twist tn the law against
Republican taxpayers, they are doing
nothing more than is expected OF them
and nothing more than the law per
mits them to give to it. Let it be dis
tinctiy understood then that your taxei
are due and the collectors are in theil
| offices ready to receive them, and you
have to 60 and pay them in person. II
will not do to send them by somebody
else. The collector must receive it from
| your hands. If you are very anxiou:
to pay your taxes this will be no hard
thing to do. We must suffer few
privations and 60 to some trouble fol
the privilege of exercising the privi
leges of citizenship.
| We would say farther that 1t is YOU
duty to go and pay your taxes. You
rights are protected by the laws Of thu
State. that liz, all laws no. relating to
politics, and you ought to pay YOU
share towards defraying the expenses
Of the State government. 1t is NO ex
cuse for not paying your taxes to say
that our laws are behind the age, arr
obsolete, are arbitrary, are not impair
tial, and all such things as that, the!
are be ter than no laws, and if 1t wer'
not for them we would have confusion
anarchy and a general breaking down
OF society and good government. Yor
owe something to tae State to keep vi
this government, and you ought to pa,
lit. Poll taxpayers have no great caus
to com plain of excessive taxation. 1
is less than a dollar q year for labor
ling man and hardly even more thai
20 for n = N N n
: mechanic or artisan. Nobody can com
plain much of that. Many poll tax
payers pay more than that for cigar
for a single week, to say nothing of beeI
The protection we receive to our pre-
perty is worth more to us in dollars an
cents than the paltry tax We are aske
to pay the State.
We cannot get along without 'Squire'
coastables, county row officers, n
pairing of roads and bridges, and "
T would be- worse than the heather di
we not take care of the poor. All the:
things cos money, and the man wi
l. pays p)ll-tax has no business TO tai
j advantage of a loose partisan law TO c
b lcape paving what LIE honestly owes Il
/ county. That partisan Legislatu
has made the collection of the taxes
i partisan concern does not justify
II citizen Taxpayer in taking advantal
;, OF such a law. We owe so much u
> every year to The county and State, al
we ought to pay it, even though the
4 is constructive collision on the pa
. of receivers and collectors of taxes
X keep certain classes from paying it tn
e political party may profit thereb
le We have only to say in conclusion,
ii right away and pay your taxes.