The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-04-23
the ASSESSOR TO
ThEFR0hT.
ne STRIKES THE DOLLAR.
While Crime Strikes the
Police.
TAXES vs.. CRIME.

NOW Cuat GiiO uooSoooi ~
warpa tn, and agreeing that the av-
ocation is lawful there are few
thin-s pertaining to the duties OF
the office, that always call TO mind
somc;needed reforms that might be
consummated by this class of c'tl-
zens
There is nothing too sacred in a
mans private business affairs for
an assessor to pass by. There is
not even a pebble left unturned,
when one of them gets through
with a man. One question after an
other is asked and answered, and
when at last the rigid program is tn-
ished, an oath, as remorseless as the
catechism, just gone through with,
is administered. The requirements
of the law and minlon have been
fhiflled. Now while the the bus
mess men and property owners are
pestcred and be-deviled by the as
SCISSORS, the rough, the bully and the
prostitute, sit back and laugh at the
proceedings that are necessitated to
a great extent by the crimes that
are promulgated by the Goddess
and unkennelled crews. The cold
nose of fhe hound is not moro un-
erring than the licensed agent OF
the law that runs down and sets the
seal OF scrutiny on the last penny
the business man may have. IT
then, they are successful in this
line, why would it not be wise and
provident to garb them with the
authority of the police officer, make
them a permanent institution and
see if they cannot locate the thous
ands of social ozenas that invest tho
day with heroic smells.
Year after year the assessor goes
down a little deeper into the affairs
Of the tax payer. Ho is asked to
carry just little heavier load /; it
takes Just a little more for the in
firmary, it takes little more to
support the State Institutions; 1t
takes a little more to support the
police force of our towns, a little
more to pay doctor bills, and all
because there seems IL lie no legiti'
mase way t" got rid of crime. There
is u successful way Of get
ting money out of men to bear cx-
penses incurred through the work
ings of c.ime, but there seems no
successful way Of obliterating or even
checking the manifold evils that
are year aftcr year increasing the
burdens of the taxpayer.
Let the assessor. therefore, while
he is clothed with authority to
hound the respectable portion of
society, also be instructed to waste
some of his time and talent on
that great class that is always ready
to raise b II if they can force de
cent people into it to take the part
of devils.
Unless there should be such a
change In the duties of the assessor,
we will always hold with the Irish
man, who elected the the tumble
bug from his glass of whisky: "He
may be clean bug. but l don't like
his occupation
We would mildly and kindly, but
firmly, suggest that our police, who
are paid as much per. day for the
task of suppressing crime as the as
SCISSOR is for finding property upon
which a tax is collected to pay both,
be equally as vigi'ant, aud look af
ter the dead beats and trash as
closely and carefully as does the
fellow who smells the track Of the
man who has got some property.
If our police can not be animal
ed to do their duty with zeal equal
to that of the tax assessor. let's
abolish the police and make The
man who hunts Our property for
taxation, the officer also who hunts
the class whose ldIeness and whose
ornrinoss adds to the heavy bills
the man of property has TO pay by
reason of the fact that he Is an
chored by property interests to tho
place in which he lives.
Surprising the Suspecting