Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-18
Collecting she Taxos.


The New Castle Star reminds the
voters Of New Castle Hundred of their
duy TO pay the taxes In this way:
Remem Der that this 10 the last day
the TAX collector Is +, q nired by law t.
give notice 70 tax pay ors to settle. Those
who are made to suffer for non pay menl
OF their tax will surely have no one 10
blame but the nselves, as Collector Nc
Coy has done ali that is possible TO col
lect the taxes due from every citiz ia
the hundred, both white and black"
That is all right, and the Star is ex.
cetdtpaly kind in publishing the notice
gratis. bat we want to talk . little with
the Star about this notice and about
taxpayers be ore the subj sct 10 di smissed
from the mind. Remembe that this
is the last day the tax collector is re-
quired by law 70 give notice to tax.
payers to settle" Well, that is all
right. The notice is for all to come
and pay their taxes
IL Is equality too, so far, and no discrimi-
nation. But what Is to be done with
those who do not come forward and pay
their taxes? ThAtis where the milk in
the cocosnut Is found. We are told
that those who are made to suffer for
mon pay ment Of their taxes will surely
have no one to blame but themselves.
LIST us see about that. What will they
suffer What is the punishment ?
NOW We are getting down Into the true
tnwardness OF the whole thing. The
name o. Of those who are only assessed
Tor poll tax are to be returned by the
collector to the Levy Court and by the
latter stricken from the assessment and
deprived OF vote for the next year, In
al probability two years. But how
about those who are assessed for pro-
perty tax as we'll rs poll tax, are they
returned as dellnquents and their names
stricken from the assessment? Oh, no.
They are made to pay their taxes. The
county must have money and II 10 N uch
easier to collect it from property than
persons who own no properly. Here IL
DISCRIMINATION. IfJohn Smith o yes
the county two dollars OF a poll tax,
should he not be made to pay 1t the
same as Joe Brown is made TO pay bis
two dollars in property tax? Is John
omiths money not as good as j We
Browns money? Joe Browns nam.
will not be dropped from the assess
ment, because he owes two dollar
taxes upon his property. John Smiths
name will be dropped from the assess
mont because he ives two dollars poll
tax not paid. Now shed the benig-
nAnt rays upon this twinkling Star"
and tell US why the collector should
not follow John Smith up and dun
him for his two dollars the same "a he
follows joe Brown up and duns him
for his two dollars? Is not the money
OF one as good TO the county az the
money Of the other?
Why should j ohm Smith be let off
without being asked personally once to
pay his two dollars, while Joe Brown
Ia to be followed up and hszed and
heotored and damned for bis two dol
lars |, it not the money tho county
OF New Castle wants? Or Is 1t the
vote OF John Smith that the Demo-
cratic Off cials OF New Castle County do
not want and therefore they make IL
easy for Democratic collectors and
Democratic Levy Courts to cheat John
Smith out of his vote by cheating the
county out OF two dollars Of taxes?
But LET rs look little closer into
this Star" paragraph. We read
farther, as collector Mccoy has done
all that is possible to collect the taxes
due from every citizen in the Il undred,
white and black" Is this really true ?
Ii be has done this, then there will be
no m re taxes collected in New Castle
County on this years duplicates. Now
ms q matter Of fact are there not scores
OF men assessed who have not paid
9 ieir taxes, but who will be compelled
TO pay them even II after the collector
has asked them dozen OF times
personally, he will be com PEELED to sue
them Is this not true +? Thel
Star knows 1t is true. As matter Of
tact are there not scores Of men as.
sessed whose names will bs returned as /
delinquents, and struck from the as. |
sessment who have never been asked |
personally TO pay their taxes. This is
true and the Star knows it. How then
mas collector Mccoy done all he can to |
collect the taxes from all citizens white
and black?
We know the "Star +" wants TO bel
honest, then why does it not speak out
openly and condemn this assessment
law that puts it in the power OF coll
iector to disfranchise every poll tax
that he knows to be Republican,
while he Can carry all the DemocraticI
poll tax payers on his duplicates that
his party leaders give q guarantee
for.
New CASTLE County wants money. I'll
Ia half q million dollars in debt Trea.
surer Herbert says so. Bat for every
voter returned as delinquent who has
not been asked personally to pay his
taxes, the county is cheated out Of 70
much tax from seventy five cents to
two dollars for each. The voter can
stand this work longer than the county
ban. The county is getting deeper in
debt every year.
1t is cheated out Of four thousand
dollars every year by disfrsnc hisiug
from two to three thousand voters.
There wi J ba an end 20 this some day.
The voters u New Castle County will
not always remain more devoted toI
party than 20 honesty. The property
D Wners of Nav Castle County will not
Always submit to pay the taxes OF twoI
DR. three thousand non-properiy owners
Tor the sake of Keeping the Dem ocratic
party in power II
No, friead " S5'r," the truth of the
matter Ia the COLLECTOR OF New CAstleI
Hundred will nave to call personally |
srly and o. on, on the pro perty own. rsl
or their taxee, while the nou-property
sner, II known to be Republican, |:
has not bs-D and peit her will bs called
upon personally and asked to pay his
'Axes.
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