Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-27
COUPONS AND TAXES.
THE MOVEMENT 10 HELP TIE STATE
BY M0NHy PAYMENTS.
Arguments Used BY Governor Lee ana
Mayor Hliyson In Talking
TO Our People.

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The anti.coupon movement continues 70
| be the chief topic 10 business circles.
The State needs money TO maintain her
| courts aud run her asylums aud keep up the
Cover nmentai machinery. Coupons VIII not
do; currency is what she needs.
IL has come to this, that those who have
been using coupons to pay their taxes must
stop, or the State Treasury will be embar'
raised.
The gresttst argument In favor OF an extra
session OF the General Assembly Is that
legislation is needed TO kin the cut-worms oil
the Treasury.
n The patriotism OF the people can be
aroused the session will not DO necessary,
but n the Governors and Mayors appeals
/ fa,I-wby then a called session may be in-
dispensable.
The JIq~uor.dealers, In meeting assembled,
! have resolved 10 pay In money. Otner
branches OF trade will be called upon 70 DO
likewise.
THE GOVERNORS ARGUMENT.
The Governor was asked yesterday
what argument be had used In bis adj
dress 10 the liquor.deslers aud 10 others
with whom be had talked on this sub
iecf. lie said that be was induced 10
make the effort to persuade the people 10
nav their taxes In money and not In coupons
because be found a most unequal and unjust
condition OF things existing In virginia.
From SIX cities and seven counties came all
tho coupons paid for taxes on judgments du-
ring the past fiscal year from september 5o,
1887, to September 80, 1888. one oil tue SIX
cities did not pay much. and the aggregate
amount paid by SIX OF the seven couhIies
only amounted to sl.61i, 80 that The nVe
cfies-viz., Richmond. Petersburg, NOT
folk, %Lynchburg, and Alexandra ana ine
county OF H~enrico-have the great question
of the debt settlement In tbeir bands. IL the
people therein would follow the example OF
The pinety.three counties Of the state and
the other cities aud towns who pay thelI
taxes dollar for dollar, the debt fs settieui
and then will flow the multiplied blessing'
to cities aud counties from such q oistnroine
element being removed from our midst.
IL Is idle, said he, now to talk about any
other settlement involving . greater amour
OF principal and interest than the settle,
mept OF 1882, for II involves an increase OF
the take, OF the people. Over 100000 voter
/ settled the debt question. and we Know Una
they would settle a Legislature that enacted
any other law and unsettle the settlement
they made Just az soon as they get an oppor
tunity TO vote for another General Assembly,
The coalition OF the people who are nov
paving their taxes 10 money, 10 oruer Una
the nublic schools be maiutained. The asy
lup. supported. and their State Goverpmen
carried on. il financially worse than those II
tina cities. some OF whom are paying 10 c0u
poHs. - :,
Real and personal estate has increased II
the cities and decreased IN the counties.
The cities therefore should be the last U
use coupons and not the first. Those wa
nav taxes in coupons will ultimately Drlni
increased taxation TO the peoplef that couI'
he done. while on the other hand a geners
pavmcnt In money settles the debt question
Is IL hest 10 ssttle the debt in the way IN
great majority OF the 800, 900 voters decide
shall be settled, without reference to our 10
dlyidual OPINIONS on tho subject, or 10 al
tempt to increase the taxes OF our people
These are the only two questions that con
front us at this hour. What VIII you 90
What win the FIVE cities do! WIN they SET
tie the debt question and thus largely increas
their values in every way, or must tne Leg,s
lature he called to devise means that WI
make taxation uniform, as IT should DC
throughout the Commonwealth
There - no way to make the people OF
, State make any s,ttlcmen, involving IN IN
crease OF their t1xe', for there Is no way
increasing their * without TIER con
sent. Both political parties, added th
, Governor, tender The same se'tlemeI
"a those who hold their obligations
I, The state can stand its non-acceptanc
longer, much longer. than the English Donc
holders, and in the mean time they get no 10
terest. for she pays none. The interest
|, ali. however, demands that a settlemei
! he no longer postponed. The peace an
prosperity OF Virginia awaits the future az
> tion OF some OF the people OF some oil nc
Q cities.
WHAT THE MAYOR SAYS.
: Mayor Eilyson being asked to give for pu'
~licatlon an outline e the views ne had ao
yanced TO those with whom he had spoke
on the coupon question, said
Z The interest | feel in this question Is I
0 iold-frst "a n Virrinian, and then ana MOI
especially IA a citizen OF Richmon0-an
, when the Governor = few weeks ago ala III
l the honor 10 consult me in reference 10 ca
t ing an extra session Of the Legislature, an
/ made known the fact that the use OF coupon
was confined to five cities and seven COUNT
Of the Common wealth, | realized the gre
e danger Richmond would be in with q Legi
o laturo called together to remedy the MI
d chief which the payment OF coupon
= by her citizens had wrought upon u
s finances Of the State. II would be vel
b natural for the country members to place Q
u additional burden OF taxation upon u
d shoulder. Of these who bad, by using col
4 mons. brought this trouble upon the stat
d This tney would seek to do by raising oil
license taxes and adopting vexatious ar
auuoyipg legislation in respect to coupon
We really could not expect any better trea
d ment. especially when 1t ia remembered th
the counties have been growing poorer an
% the cities richer.
The returns in the Auditors office sho
u that 10 the fifteen years ending with Is
Il the value OF the personally In Tue count
OF the Common wealth has decreased mo
l. than two millions Of dollars, and the vail
l. OF real estate has fallen of more ttan MT
- one millions OF dollars, whilst 10 the clti
Is during the same period the personslty b
increased more than five millions OF dolia
aud tae real estate has been enhanced
value twenty.ulne millions OF dolisI
= These facts would not be calculal,
TO make The Legislature feel very kind
m towards The cices who. whilst themsei'
h, " richer, had not been willing TO p
their taxes in currency 10 contribute tn
n full shxre to the support OF the pup
- schools, asylums, and all the other cxpen'
tb OF a State government. | fully appreci'
): the fact that many who have been using CO
7. poDs have been doing so without once thin
inc OF the serious consequences that won
7. follow their general Use, and IL has been We
y gratifying to be tod by so many that they
0. now satisfied OF their mistake, and that III