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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
Rewards for Land Sharks.

Unequaled taxation has many phases
In some towns unoccupied or unim.
proved land is held at high prices for
building purposes. It's value may be
yearly increasing by reason of the de-
mand for it, yet becar.se no income is
derived from it, the assessors allow it
to be taxed for perhaps a tenth Of the
price which the owner asks for it, until
sale is actually made to some one who
desires to improve it, or build upon it to
the benefit of the town, when the taxes
are put up at once, as they are produc-
tive property. This is virtually offer
ing a premium to the land sharks who
gather up such lots and hold them until
they make exorbitant profits by selling
to those who need them. Thus the idle
acres of the rich man are paying less
tax than the smaller fields of the
market gardener, or even the building
lot and family garden of the mechanic
by the side of him. The former is
classed as unimproved land, and the
two latter as productive land.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06

And. really, might as well combine a
little innocent amusement with the inn
pCrtant business that calls me to ".
Unless am vastly mistaken, this prom
Uses to be the most diverting experience
1 ever happened upon.
This soliloquy flashed through North's
mind in very brief time, during which
lie stood abstractedly in the center of
the group whose chatting remarks he
only half heard or comprehended; and
as it reached this definite conclusion he
resigned himself to his fate with sense
Of reckless enjoyment.
Certainly, colonel" he said, having
caught the title, though the name of the
gentlemanly manager had escaped him,
.'the same rooms, by all means By the
way. shall register?"
'sAs you please, Mr.. North; as you
please. When will you leave off jest
ing?" And the expression of vague un-
easiness again appeared on Col. Dayton's
round, rosy face. Just step into the
office minute, anyway. The clerk s
got letter that was sent up after You
left this morning. You didn't tell rs
where your correspondence should be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
Unjust Discrimination.

The collateral inheritance tax is bad
enough without extending its opera
tons to the direct Inheritance of person
atty.
Whether this species of taxation be
constitutional or not. it is wrong in
principle on account of a double taxa
ton of property in one year: in other
words. it places penalty upon death.
In the year of dccedent's death, his
property is taxed before and after that
event
There can be no justification for the
imposition of such burden.
In addition to that il is unjustly dis
eliminating, inasmuch as it is based
upon the idea that men must be pun
ished for accommodating wealth, and that
punishment shall be in proportion to
their success.
Such tax. 20 be justifiable at all,
should be levied on all estates without
reference to their value.
We arc not quite ready for socialism
in any Of its formA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
just Taxation: Not Socialism.

It seems that a contest is coming in
American politics between those who
favor freeing labor by raising public
revenues by the taxation of monopoly
values, -and those who believe in a So
cialistic government which shall own
and manage all industries. Against
the latter scheme the National Econ
omist, official paper of the Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union, makes
some pertinent objections. Replying to
a socialist paper which claimed that
because the Christian religion taught
cooperation as the law CT right living,
therefore. Socialism was Christian, the
Economist says:
"A more dangerous argument could
not be circulated among free and indie
pendent people. Christ did not teach
any such thing in the sense contemplate
ed in this article. Christ taught that
virtue and merit should be rewarded
and vice and wiclsedness punished. OF
all the wicked systems ever advocated
by man, and the most directly opposed
to the teachings of Jesus Christ and his
apostles the one that would rob man of
his freedom and independence, and sub
merge him with no rights and RESPONSE
bilities in a government so centralized
and despotie that it exercised supreme
power, and the subjects became merely
atomic parts of unified whole in which
there could be no conflict, is the worst
and most pernicious and debasing.
THE loss OF life in the conflict engen-
dered in the competitive system is q
very small matter compared to the loss
of life and character, of happiness and
soul, that must attend the degenerated
and hopeless condition of man with
nothing to encourage hirn to virtue and
action. God inaugurated the competi-
tive system in all kinds of animal and
vegetable life, and the wisdom of His
laws is always demonstrated when they
are fully understood Therefore, when
man finds his conclusions SO widely at
variance VITA the laws and teachings
of God as are those of the socialist, he
should revise his creed and study the
situation until an enlightened under
standing enables him to appreciate the
wisdom of the Most High, where dense
ignorance had prompted him to seek to
excel it
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
REPLY.

Neither the advocates of single tax
on land values, or those who favor
taxing real estate only, have ever pro-
pressed to double or treble the levy on
real estate. In the state of New York
for instance, the abolition of all taxes
on personal property would at most
add but one-ninth to the tex rate.
Even this slight increase would be
merely nominal, since real estate own
ers would receive direct benefits,
through the greater production and in
vestment of capital in all branches of
industry consequent upon its relief
from taxation) which would more than
compensate them.
The fears of the Times editor that if
land were as free as air to all, it would
become ''valueless and ownerless," are
wholly without cause. There is not
the least danger that men will stop
using valuable lard merely because
they would not be taxed on their per-
sonal property machinery, inn
plements, SC
If BIS dry-goods or money are taxed.
the tax will be shifted to the consumer
OF goods or borrowers of money. Inter
est will be higher, less money will be
invested in business or manufacturing,
and real estate will fall in value A
tax on real estate is the most equal be-
cause every person either owns or uses
real estate.-Taxation Society Editor
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
TAKEN AT HIS WORD.
A Witness who Knew How 60 Deal with .
Badgering LAWYER.

A Witness Who Knew How Co Deal with .
Badgcring LAWYER.
A lawyer who was cross-questioning
some witnesses, and had done every
thing in his power to confuse them.
brusquely asked them, when other
methods failed, to speak up louder"
The last man called, burly coun-
tryman, decided that he would take
the lawyer at his word, SO In response
to the first question, what his name
was, he replied in voice that rever-
berated through the building
John Brown, sir-r-r-r"
81 guess you've been drinking this
morning" said the irate lawyer.
stern1y.
eyes, sir-r-r-r," replied the witness.
as though calling to neighbor two
miles distant.
81 thought So" said the lawyer.
triumphantly. '.What did you take?.
Coffee, sir-r-r-r," shouted the wit
ness.
A burst of laughter from the court
room disconnected the lawyer for .
time, but when the merrimcnt had sub
sided he asked, nothing daunted:
II guess you had little something
else in your coffee, didn't you?"
Eyes; sir-r-r-r." still came the reply.
'Ah, now we're coming to itr' said
the lawyer, rubbing his hands. and
winking to the jury. .'Now, my good
man, don't be afraid, but speak right
out and tell the jury just scAat you had
in your coffee
The witness filled his lungs for q
tremendous effort, and thundered:
"A spo-o-o-on, sir-r-r-r."
The courtroom, bench and bar were
convulsed with laughter, and the bad
gering lawyer lost his cnse.-Yankee
Blade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
Success With biscuits.

The secret of biscuit making is preci-
sion and dispatch. Laggards and lazy
people are not successful biscuit MAX
ers. The best cooks always say they
simply throw their biscuits together,
and certainly they are not long about
it. The cause of success is that bis
cults begin to bake before the efferves-
cent qualities OF the powder CIR soda
are exhausted. They are live biscuits,
and are as light and puffy as beaten
eggs The best biscuits are rather
small. The very large ones arc not
likely to be quite SO light They
should be baked in a rather quick
oven. and, to be perfect, are a yellow
ish brown. They must be thoroughly
done through, or they are the most un-
palatable and unwholesome articles of
the bread kind.-St Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06

forwarded to, SO we were In something
of puzzle to decide" The rest of
the sentence was lost in the colonel'E
putting endeavor to open the heavy
swing door.
Allan North, attorney at law, was
glad to escape from the hilarious crowd
on the hotel steps and followed the
colonel into the office. But here another
difficulty confronted him, when 4
dainty missive bearing a lady's chirog-
raphy was placed in his hand.
True, the envelope was addressed sim
ply to ''Mr. North, Clement Eouse,
City," and was not he that gen.lemani
But then, very probably at the time
the letter was written he was not with
in one hundred miles of the Clement
house and had never even heard of the
place.
1t may appear to the cool, disposition
ate reader that North's proper course
at this point was too obvious to admit
of any hesitation or mental debate.
Nevertheless he did hesitate; and he did
argue within himself what line of ac-
ton he should adopt. Refuse to take
the letter? That would give rise to 70.
AC"Su queoIioAo, cAPidAsiIioi!S duu Iiol-
Guile, which, in view of his late trying
experiences, he did not wish to pro-
woke. How would it do, for instance
His reflections were suddenly arrested
by the discovery that the envelope was
not sealed. A vague sense of relief
came to his mind, as if he now saw an
easy and justifiable solution of the diff
ficulty.
He paused in his speculations. A
sudden suspicion darted like lightning
into his mind, then as suddenly was
dismissed.
''Oh, no. that is impossible!" he men,
tally declared the next instant. ''Quite
out of the question. And yet the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
Afraid Of Nothing z.

The girl had got the young mans
pocket book and was about to go int to it
Don't open it," he said warningly.
'Why not?" she asked. sis there
anything in there should not see?"
There might be-"
That's just why 1 want to open it. y
Eyes, but you mustn't"
ST WILL" and she began to open it
slowly.
"You ought to be afraid to do that, ,
he said reprovingly.
She tossed her head.
I'm afraid of nothing" she ex'
claimed defiantly.
II know it." he sighed, ''and when
You see what's inside that pocketbooh
you'll be scared to death
Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
Very Much Mixed About Taxation.

The editor of the Columbia Times.
Cincinnati, o., says:
.s.Tax Reform is the title taken to it
self of an association. with headquar-
tiers at Buffalo, N. Y. It discusses and
invites discussion OF taxation in its
varied phases, with the object of ulti-
mate universal conviction that taxation
should apply only to landed property.
and that it be taxed for all it is worth
or all it would sell for. The remodel
ing of the long practiced system of
levJing on personality and realty so as
to exempt personal estate and double
or treble the levy on real estate to
maintain government would surely
prove vexatious job, and not one
fraught with blessing. Certainly the
person rich with dollars Of money, on
which there could be no tax under the
proposed reform, would not seek to in
vest in land. in which every dollar of it
would be subject to taxation. and just
as certainly the land owner would be-
come extremely determined to sell his
land for money in order to avoid pay
ment of taxes. Under such conditions
in less than half lifetime, probably
in Henry Georges days. land
would lose its money value.
Improvement and progress would get a
knock-down, and the land become
valueless and ownerless; hence free to
all as the air that is breathed. The
article to the Voice signed. Bolton Hall,
shows careful preparation and ability.
But for the overruling avarice and PEN
chant in the majority of men for the
almighty dollar" which he failed to
have in view in writing it, it would be
as logical in point as it is smooth in
preparation. The tax reform and all
reforms are desirable, all well-meaning
persons. whether worth much or little,
will admit. But proposed reform that
would make A who has 81, 600 worth OF
land pay an increased tax to enable B
who has 81, 600 in dry goods or bonds or
money to go free of tax would appear,
and be, too palpably unequal in appli-
cation to be fruitful of good. Doubt
less. however, the association, en-
bracing the intelligence it does, will
bring out great deal of expression
some fallacious and some pertinent-on
the subject, and possibly through a
continuous investigation may really
solve the tax problem and evolve into
existence better condition for every
man, both as to preparation for his
death and his taxes"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
REPLY.

. les
You are undoubtedly correct in the
opinion that taxing improvements on
real estate would prove as injurious as
taxing capital. yet there has been no
system of taxation devised except that
proposed by Henry George (which The
farmers are not ready to adopt that
will not tax capital in some form
We venture to disagree with your be-
lief that if real estate alone were taxed,
the farmers burdens would be in
creased The assessed value of the
farm lands Of this state is only about
ten per cent. of the entire valuation of
real estate. Exempting personal prop
erty would in the long run benefit the
farmers more than almost any other
change in existing conditions
In regard to an income tax there is
little more to be said than in the chap
ter of "Who Pays Your Taxes" devoted
to that subject. which shows the weak
ness and fallacies of that form Of tax
ation.-New York Tax Reform Associ-
alton,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06

he Gle m e N t
house, sir! Here
you are"
The hackman,
d e S C e n d n G
nimbly from his
elevated perch
to the smooth
white pavement
of flag S ton e s,
threw open the
carriage door
and stood sur
veying the soli-
tary fare whom
he had triumph
antly captured
at the railway
station fifteen
minutes before.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
Another Want FILLED.

Downtown see you buy the Even
ing Smiler. Pretty bright paper isn't
it?.
Upton-Bright! That paper is so alb
solutely interesting that when you are
riding in a street-car, with a lot of Ia
dies standing. you don't have to pre-.
tend to be interested.-N. Y. Weekly
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
Stop TaxinE improvements,

ITHACA, N. Y, Feb Is. 1874
Mr. BoLToN HALL, New York City
Dear Sir: In q recent letter you called
my attention to the platform, OF tho
New York Tax Reform association
have since examined the same carefully.
and have read the book entitled, s.Who
Pays Your Taxes?" / find myself COM
PEELED todiffer from the views expressed
in the platform. I think the taxing Of
Improvements on real estate would
prove as pernicious as taxing free cap
itaL Moreover, to drive farmers away
is as bad as to drive capital away. I
believe in combining en- income tax
with real estate taxation. fear that
the exclusive taxation OF real estate
would, on the whole. increase the bur
dcns OF the farmers
Very truly yours.
EDWARD A. Ross,
Political Economy and Finance. Cornell
College.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
TAX REFORM DEPARTMENT.

fThis department aims to give everybody's
ideas about taxation mot tariff. Write your
opinions briefly, and they win be published or
discussed in their turn by the editor or by mem
Der of the Taxation Society. Address, Taxa
ZION Society,"" this cfice or p. o. Box 81 But.
falo N S
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
A Mean Husband.

Young Wife-What! II II only ten
o'clock, and here you are at home al
ready from your club.
Young Husband--Yes, left early ON
purpose; but you don't seem TO Be
pleased with my coming homo early.
cts al right. but was hoping you
would come home late, 80 I could Ret
of my first curtain lecture"
Sorry to disappoint Jon, my dsar.I
Texas Strings
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06

Bible Teacher-"Would you regard
the serpent in the garden of Eden as a
symbol or an actuality?" Student
1.-THE latter, certainly. don't under
stand that intoxicating liquors were
known then."-Detroit Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06

Mr.. LABoUcHERE said: 81 do not pay
any attention to this Henry George
nonsense; but if someone would pro-
pose one tax on land values, that would
be worth some hing. "-Er. Huntington.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06
The Joke is on the Taxpayer,

Some one wants to know why we
don't enliven our tax column with a
little more jokes. The way men pay
their taxes without knowing what they
are for is joke enough for our side.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-06

CHADTER r

Egan-why look you cold on mes You know
me well
Ant S-lnever saw you in my life till now.
Comedy Of Errors.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04

knocked at the ball, some say struck, and
failing to hit the ball, he violently threw
himself through the buggy wheel of Col.
Pete Briggs. When we remember that
the wheel was small, and the distance be-
tween the spokes was but three inches,
and that Colonel Albright weighs seven
hundred pounds, some idea of the velocity
at which he struck it can be imagined.
He will not be embalmed, but the wheel
will
Buck Blackwell, who was an interested
spectator, hoped that the colonel struck
out, but he didn't.
Col Harry Bass made good strike
But he started to run to third base first,
and was caught by DR.. Johnson, who was
playing in nothing but sunshine and his
undershirt.
John Mesley was to the bat and Col.
Wash Duke was on deck. John let his
tailor goose loose, and this attracted so
much attention that Bass made a good
run from third TO first and got home be-
fore he could be crossed OUT (Here
our correspondent says that he does not
know whether baseball is like the old
game of town ball"-but he hopes it is.)
Q. E. Rawls made a run from here to
Fairntosh, and struck Col c. T. Postley
in range six, town five, the northeast
quarter of the southeast quarter as you
go to Bragtown and knocked the stuffin
out of him. Colonel Postley apologised
to Colonel Rawls who told him that ow-
ing to the stringency of the times to
think nothing of it.
Colonel Whitaker made a pretty fly
from six to seven, and Col. Professor
Sheppe said he could have caught it, had
he had some fly paper.
The game proceeded quietly until Col.
Jim Southgate knocked q ring tailed
twister over the left hand gable of the
street car killing several people who
were merely spectators.
The coroner's jury is in session and as
| DR.. Johnson had TO come in 10 act as
coroner, the game quietly broke up. But
few people were shot.
The game was 10 to 6, in favor of Dur
ham.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04
BASEBALL TO-DAY, CHAPEL HILL |
VS.. TRINITY-4 =. NJ.

And the crowd went out there and is
there. With our special wire and our
flash press, as Joe daniels, in the days
when the fraud was real used TO say, we
can give the news hot from the electric
cauldron.
Durham has a good nine.
1t is we'll equipped.
Its personel, as we say in Belgium and
elsewhere and Bragtown, is as follows: I:
Catcher, W. \. Albright.
Pitcher, Harry Bass.
Short Stop, Chunk Mallory.
First Base, W. IL McCabe.
Second Base, Captain Hammatt.
Third Base, DR.. Johnson.
Fourth Base, John Mesley.
Fifth Base Col. Washington Duke.
Sixth Base, Q. E. Rawls.
Seventh Base, Col c. ID. Whitaker.
Eighth Base, Col Professor Sheppe.
Ninth Base, Col. Jim Southgate.
Tenth Base, j. w. Dowd.
Eleventh Base, Col. Caleb Green.
If there are any other bases your re-
porter was unable to catch their names.
The first wild play Colonel Albright
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04
AC 4 .STPPOPT

needs. 1t lessons the pains and burdens OF
child d-bearing, ensures healthy. vigorous OF
spring and promotes an abundant secretion
Of nourishment on the part of the mother.
It's an invigorating, restorative tonic,
soothing and strengthening nervine, and
the only guaranteed remedy for wornan's
fit or cure. in the case of every tired or az
fiicted woman, she'll have her money back.
On these terms, can anything else be Just
as good for you TO buy
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04

Mr.. Il. T. Gowan, who recently left
Durham to accept a position in the r. &
d. office at Raleigh, stopped over yester-
day, returning from Salisbury, and spent
the day with friends in this city.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04
MURRAY SOLD LIKKER
That Is He Has Been Charged with
Such a Crime.
He Is Bound Over in the Sum of Two
Hundred Dollars.
CAUGHT FOR RESISTING AN OFFICER
CAUGHT FOR RESISTING AN OFFICEF
He Gets $50 in the Way of Bonds for Re
sisting an Officer and All This Doubt
less Adds to His Solitude.

George Murray was arrested for selling
whiskey without license on Sunday.
Just below the electric light house
regular saloon was found by Officers
Crabtree and Cults.
The whole affair will be tried at the
October term of court, and Murray, who
is now in Jail, will make whatever de-
fence he has.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04
Eyes and Ears Open

and you will see and hear many things
to your advantage. With open eyes you
cannot fail to see the advertisement of
Simmons Liver Regulator, and with ears
open you will constantly hear of the re
lief it gives millions who suffer with In
digestion, Dyspepsia, Constipation of
Biliousness. A dose now and then and
you'll not know anything about Malaria,
that miserable, tired out feeling.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04

Col Sam Dickson returned to-day from
two weeks visit to his old home near
Hillsboro
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04

The marriage of Mr.. Ed Durham, of
Stagville, to Miss Annie Rawls, of this
city, is announced to take place Wednes-
day, the 9th instant
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-04

You're offered $500, or a cure of Catarrh,
by the proprietors Of Dr.. Sage's Remedy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-17

Miss Beecher' S lecture at the Falmouth
Hotel yesterday afternoon was well at
tended, and was, as usual, in happy
vein. Her words of wisdom were inter-
spersed with ongs by Mr.. George A.
Thomas and Mr.. John P. WEIGH, both of
whom were encored. After, the lecture
the Beecher Club adjourned, by invita-
ton, to the beautiful rooms of Mrs F..
E. Boothby, where bountiful tea await
ed them. Mrs. A. A. Strou and Mrs. j.
E. Blabon assisted the hostess in serv-
ing. Miss Beecher was the guest of hon
or, and other guests were Mrs. Frye,
president of the Woman's Literary
Union, Mrs. Beedy of Pennington and
Miss Gertrude E. Minot of Roxbury.
After refreshments, Mrs. j. Fl. Crockett
recited an original poem, addressed to
Miss Beecher, there were recitations from
Mrs. Louise Ingraham, and piano solo
by Miss Alice Spear, one of the grand
daughters of the Beecher Club, of which
Miss Beecher is the mother. The oc-
casion was greatly enjoyed. The closing
lecture will be gwen at 3 o'clock this af-
ternoon.