Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-08-18
RIGHT KIND OF REA-
SONING.
FACTS AND FIGURES THAT
ARE ABSOLUTELY
.uNANswERAsLE. ,AaD TlLLMAalTEs
And sheppardites Alike Must
Be Convinced by Them-A
Powerful Presentation for the
TI1lnaap Administration.
-fcoNr1SuE;p PROM LAST WEEK.


have is easily seen. You could
not covert it up if you would. You
are honest, and YOU make honest
returns. How can you be expected
to continue to do SO if other people
do not? must ask your close
attention while I indulge in more
figures to show that these charges
are not true.
HORSES.
Now I turn another leaf in the
records, snd I find horses first, so
i take up horses first, and then
take up the others in the regular
order in which they come. We
find that we had listed for taxation
62,O95 horses last year, with a
valuation of $3,72s.336, while
but 1856 were returned the year
before at valuation of $3,392,s45,
an increase IL Il the number of
horses returned for taxation of
3,24O, with an increase in the
whole taxable value of $685., 1863
on horses alone. We may bring
in the extra horses, and increase
the taxable value of horses, and it
is all right, but we must not
attempt to bring iu the surplus
and undivided profits of banks.
Now Ex-Governor Sheppard tells
you that the reduction of one-half
mill in the State levy does not
help you, a reduction from St to
"A mills does not lessen your taxes
on your horses. Let us see if this
is true.
Last year you paid taxes on 5S,-
355 horses at an assessed value OF
s57. .64each amounting to 81, ,392,s4e
on phich you paid 81 mills, making
$17,S12 Sc taxes paid on horses.
This year your horses are assessed
at s69.N each, $40 a head more
than last year. You returned the
same 5s,S55 horses you returned
the year before. This same $3.50
horses were returded last year at
s6O,O4 a head, amountingto 50, $780,
e54, on which you paid Al mills,
m. ling s16,7s4,S6 taxes paid on
the same'5S,S55 horses, less tax
on the same hoses than you paid
the year before by $1,O2S.1O.
But the story does not stop here.
We brought in 3,240 horses at
$6O.0 head that had been escap-
ing taxation, amounting in value
to $194,536, which, at A mills
gives us s924.01 taxes. But the
$1,033.1O that we saved you on
the horses you had been returning
is more than the s914.01 taxes on
the horses we brought in which
had been escaping taxation by
$1O4.O9.
So, on all the horses of the
State returned for taxation, includ-
ing the 3,24O horses we brought
in-on all you paid a less tax of
$104.09 than you paid the year be-
fore, while we have saved you
l,028.10 ON tho horses you were be-
fore returning.
Are you satisfied with the
refutation of the charge that you
are paying more taxes than you
did the year before? A saving of
$1,O2S.10to you on the horses that
you honestly returned, which added
to the $104,09 that nobody had to
pay, because the levy is that much
less makes a total saving to the
people who had been paying on
their horses 81 1928.
MULES AND ASSES.
Now I will take up the mules
and see how they came out. Year be-
fore last there were 1887 mules
and asses returned for taxation, at
an average of s63.69 a head; max
ing a total valLe of $4,457.531, on
which you paid / mills, making q
total tax paid on mules of $23, ,402
O3 Last year we reduced the
average price per head from s63.
SO to $59.26, a. red, ction of $4.4s
per head. You returned the same
70, S37 mules that you returned
the year before, but not TAT thetsame
average price, for the average price
had been reduced $4,43 per head.
These same 1887 mules were
assessed last year at $685. in
stead of $63.69 as the year before,
making a total value of s4,375,5 $50,
on which you paid 4 mills, which
makes a tax of $20,7S4.7S. The
year before you paid on these same
mules $23, 3,4o2.O3, and last year
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