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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
HOW TO SOLVE THE TAX PROB
LEM.
Let tho Counties Make Their own Ia
LAWS.

Let tho Counties Mako Their own Tar
Laws.
The bill introduced in the assembly.
to establish county option and home
rule in the matter of local taxation, il
substantially similar to that introduced
during the last session, and defeated
through the opposition Of the country
members, because they professed to
think that it conferred special benefits
upon the people of the cities-an as
sumption unjustifed by the facts. The
bill is perhaps more explicitly worded,
but its purport is the same. It provides
that assessors in every county of the
state shall, in assessing real estate,
separate the value of land from the
value of improvements upon it and
shall make also a separate assessment
of personal property. After the total
assessed valuation of the county shall
have been obtained in this manner, the
board of supervisors may, in their dis
cretion, direct that all taxes in such
county for local purposes shall be levied
exclusively upon one or two or all OF
the pieces of property assessed.
It would be permissible, for example,
under the proposed law for the local leg
islature of this county to say that the
sentiment of the people of this county
warranted the exemption of personal
property from taxation. and that here
after all taxes should be levied upon
land and buildings; just as it would be
permissible for the board of supervis-
ors in tan interior farming county to
take just the opposite course and ex-
empt real estate, while placing the
burden upon personal property. In q
nutshell, the bill provides that each
county should determine foritself what
class Of property may best bear the
burden Of taxation. It is provided in
the last section of the bill that nothing
therein contained may be construed as
diminishing the proportion of the state
tax which any city or county may be
required to pay into the state treasury
under existing laws-N. Y. Daily
News
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

of fine dust, raised by the wheels o.
passing drays, hung suspended in the
heavy air, and added to the genera
discomfort of those whom bushes:
compelled to be abroad. Friend.
greeted one another with groans an6
comments upon the extraordinary heat
August was outdoipg itself.
The heated bricks burned Janie's
feet through the broken soles of hel
shabby shoes; the heavy basket, stored
with the fine needle work whereby he1
mother kept want from her two chill
dren, dragged painfully upon the slen.
der arm. From under the battered
straw hat flushed and tired face
looked cut; but even WEAKNESS and
heat could not daunt the brave spirit
that looked out of the grave eyes.
Taking advantage of such slight shell
ter as was afforded by the dingy avn
ings, the child plodded along.
On turning a corner, her face bright
ened into almost a smile. The one
oasis n her tedious walk was in sight
only a florists little shop, with the
sprinkled sidewalk before its door
banked with wealth of bloom. Pots
of gay tasselled fuchsias were there;
ranks of flaming geraniums; baskets of
crowding pansies, regal in purple and
gold; languid, heavy-headed roses; a
cloud of soft-toned heliotrope. Janie's
eyes expanded to take in all this well
come sight, this feast of color. 1t was
to her limited experience like glimpse
of the glories of heaven-a JOY unfail-
ing. To her childish imagination the
6a1 frfn
out the odorous golden gloom cast by
the sheltering awning. With sigh of
satisfaction, she loitcred past, drinking
in the riches of odor and hue.
A heavy crash within the store, fol-
lowed by the harsh tones of an angry
proprietor, startled her. AS she shrank
timidly back. clumsy Newfoundland
puppy dashed ont of the door, and
knocking geranium from the stand in
his headlong flight. vanished around
the corner with dropping tail and u
mournful consciousness of mischief in
his detected ears.
jamie stood rooted to the ground,
with Mortified eyes fixed upon the
broken plant Would the proprietor
understand that this was but another
calamity to lay to the dogs account, or
would he charge some blame upon her?
At a hasty step in the doorway, She
raised timid, deprecating eyes. There
stood the owner OF the angry voice,
with a no less angry face. Great drops
of perspiration stood upon his shining
forehead and rolled slowly down his
rudy cheeks.
Mr.. Perkins read the look in the
startled eyes, and being in the main
kindly man. albeit somewhat quick
tempered, his rage melted away in a
mighty laugh.
Don't be Altered, little 'uu," he
said. cheerily. Il don't bite. Yes,
yes. know it was the dog'-as jamie
attempted to explain. "Drat the brute!
Don't know him we'll? He does a sight
o. mischief. and costs me heap o.
Yet I can't lay it up agin the
pesky critter fur long. Glad twas no
wuss!"
AS he spoke he lifted the bruised
plant, and, after short examination,
deeming it of too small account to fos-
ter into renewed vigor, lifted his hand
to toss it into the street
''Oh!' gasped jamie, then blushed
very red, and dropped her eyes to the
tiI Of one small shabby shoe
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
REPLY.

My Dear Sir: In reply to your favor
which 1 was much pleased to receive,
l would say that the only principle that
I have yet been able to see in taxation
is that a man should pay for what he
gets In my personal opinion this leads
to the taxation of all monopolies and
of all special privileges in land, and to
nothing else. admire your difidence
I think the wisest thing ever heard
said came from boy of six. His sister
asked him: Pennington. do you think
it is going to rain?" He said: 81 do
not know" She said: '.We1l, what do
you think?" He replied: II can not
think some things about what I do not
know" I feel much in the same way
myself. The adoption of the single tax
idea seems to be at present impractica-
BILE, and until we get that do not see
that we can hope for much in the way
of principle. am, yours very truly,
BOLTON HALL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
6ISMARCK'S FIRST MEDAL.

How the Creator of United Germany Won
HIS Proudest Badge.
In the summer of 1853 Prince Bis
marck won his first medal 1t occurred
in this wise:
AS cavalry officer he was on duty
with other officers, and standing with
them on a bridge over a lake. AS he
was about to give an order, his groom
Hildebrand rode one of the horses to
water close By the bridge. Suddenly
the horse lost footing. and Hildebrand.
clingiug to the animal, disappeared
with it in the water.
A terrible cry resounded. One of Bis
marck's biographers relates that before
the other officers had collected their
senses, Bismarck had thrown off his
sword and his uniform, and had thrown
himself in the lake to save his servant.
BY great good fortune he seized him,
but the man chung to him so closely in
his death-agony that he had to dive be-
fore he could loose himself from him.
Bismarck rose to the surface, raising
his servant with him, and brought him
safe to land in an unconscious condi-
ton.
The next day the servant was as well
as ever. But the little town that had
witnessed the brave rescue was in great
connection. They petitioned the super
intendent, vino obtained for the young
officer the medallion "for rescue from
danger"
And now. on great occasions, the
well-known Prussian safety medal may
be seen beside the proudest stars in
Christendom on the breast of the IA
NOUS creator of united Germany.
Bismarck. it is said, is prouder of his
first medal than of all the rest put to-
gether.
One day in the plenitude of Bis
marcl's power a noble minister APP.
preached the premier, and with a tinge
of satire asked him the meaning of this
modest decoration. He at once replied:
81 am in the habit sometimes of saw.
ing life"
The diplomatist lowered his eyes be-
fore the reproving look which accom-
panied Bismarcl>'s lightly spoken words.
Youths Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
An abused Letter.

The letter ar" has met with almost
as many vicissi.udes of late as the I'M
fortunate British 3D." and the ''r," I'M
like the ''h," is not exempt from dan
ger in America. To be sure. the most
elegantly soft-spoken American does
not pronounce modern as if it We're
written mod'n, a common pronouncia-
ton among the upper classes OF Great
Britain, but the ''r'' sufferers a some
what similar elision in many words
throughout this latitude. and even the
superfluous II" often heard in the New
England pronunciation of ''law" in and
about New York. Curiously enough,
most persons who are guilty of this
blunder seem incapable of distinguish
ing between the correct and the incor-
rect pronunciation in the mouth of
third person.-N. Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
Crude Tax Schemes Criticised.

Were Macaulay's New Zealander to
visit the halls of legislation of our state
and examine the bills introduced relat-
ing to taxation he would conclude that
the question was new and important
one with which the solons were unfamil-
lar Hewou1d not infer from it that there
haze been centuries of legislation on this
subject; that nation after nation and
state after state had spent effort, time
and money in trying to devise some sys-
tenn which would compel men to bear
their equal and proportionate share Of
the general burden.
Bills to tax incomes; bills to tax in
heritances; bills to tax mortgages; bills
to tax railroad lands; bills to tax ex-
press, telephone and other co mpanies,
and one bill, worthy of Draco, purposes
to put the owners of hideable personal
property on the rack, and set the in
quisitorial powers of the courts at work
to compel them to divulge their hidden
wealth to the tax gatherer.
ALI efforts in this direction have
failed, and always will fail, because
there is no man SO cunning as to be able
to devise a method of taxation which
other men would not be cunning enough
to avoid.
If experience teaches anything it is
that the true direction is in making
fewer instead Of more articles carry the
load. Natural monopolies like mines
should be held to be the states prop
erty, and made to yield as large reve-
nues as possible. Artificial monopolies
like railway street-car companies, tele-
phones and telegraphs should be made
to share their earnings with the public
which gives them existence. Some day
when this mad hunt for taxable things
and drastic methods shall have run its
course and broken down with its own
weight there will be quick and sharp
to very few sources Of reve-
nues.-St. Paul Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

you said--we-we were to give up
something's
Before Miss Eaton could speak she
had turned and run swiftly down the
church and out into the quiet night.
Miss Eaton!' exclaimed Blanche
always the first to speak-''surely you
are not going to put that common geran-
auns with the lilies!'' The horror of
her tones was reflected in the seven
faces.
Let me tell you its history first, -
and Miss Eaton's face was strangely
moved as she seated herself on the pull
pit step with the little plant in her
arms.
And to the listening circle she told
the story of JAMES treasure, and the
little dead child who had loved it so
well. 81 think, girls" she said, in
conclusion, ''our dear Lord would say
of jamie, as He once said of another:
She hath done what she could;''
With tear-wet eyes Blanch, impul-
sively lifted the geranium and set it in
the midst of the white glory. And
there it shone, a spot OF fire amid the
snowy garlands, when, on the golden
Easter morn, the church was filled
with earnest worshipers. And many
wondered at the sight, but in the seat
by the door knelt woman and a child
with happy tears.
One more surprise was yet in store
for jamie ere the day was past Late
in the afternoon two shabby figures
passed in at the cemetery gate and
made their way to distant corner,
where lay little unmarked grave be-
side a longer mound. JAMES heart
ached still, as she thought of the bur-
den she was to have brought to show
to stranger eyes that loving hearts
watched over these graves; but she
grasped her mothers hand the closer
and crowded back the tears
''Why, jamie dear. look." cried Mrs.
Turner, in glad surprise.
eyes, and. at the sight which met
them, gave a joyful cry. The low sum
light sending its level rays across the
quiet city of the dead gilded the dear
- bnre and neglected no
longer, but heaped high with si1very
lilies, while on the baby mound the
scarlet geranium burned and burned.
s'Mother!'' jamie, kneeling by Alice's
grave, lifted face glowing with Joy.
1T is Miss Eaton and the girls who
have done it! / never told you, mother.
but thought they didn't like me-and
see how kind they really are. I'll
never doubt them REHABILITATION
in Harper's Young People
THAT while ito be dexterous in
danger is q virtue, . so, too, to be an
adept at fruit and flower raising is no
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
TAX REFORM DEPARTMENT.

(Ihis department aims to give everybody.s
IDEAS about taxation mot tariff Write your
opinions briefly, and they VIII be published or
discussed Ia their turn by the editor Of by mem-
Der Of the Taxation Society. Address, TAXA
ton Society" this ONCE or r. Q. Box O. But
falo. N W
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
Driven From Detroit BY Taxation.

The Michigan Peninsular Car co..
embracing plant worth %. 0Oo. 600, and
employing over 5000 men, is about to
be removed to Chicago. The company
is the largest freight-car building insti-
tuition in the world. It embraces no
less than seven different plants for the
manufacture Of every piece Of material
used in the construction Of the cars.
The company is headed by Senator Me-
MILAN, of this state, who also holds o
majority Of the stock Excessive taxa
ton is said to have influenced the ra
moval
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
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For He who raised the widows son.
And brought to blind Bartimeus sight
The scourged and sorrow-stricken one
Lay dead within the night
No voice of love from Bethany,
Where Martha wept and Mary prayed,
No anguish from Gethsemane
Could vex where He was laid.
But ere the early mornings glow
Broke o er the landscape dark and gray,
The faithful women came, but 10!
The stone was rolled away
The watching angels in the dawn
Kept tryst beside the lowly bed,
But He, the man to sorrows born,
Had risen from the dead.
He gained, through suffering and pain.
The blissful rest of Paradise
And as He rose to life again
So may our souls arise!
Our true ascension may not lie
Within the walls where anthems rise,
And earthly sense may not descry
A mansion in the skies:
No rock bound tomb may hold our soul
Throughout the lingering midnight hours
The heaven-born clouds may not uprou
Mid scent of Easter flowers,
But yet each soul can feel the thrill
The common story brings to all.
And eyes unused to tears may ill
As they the tale recall
Awake, o souls. and feel the pulse
OF life and love throb in each vein,
Seek out the good, reject the false,
And strive new grace to gain.
The air with vital strength is rife,
And buoyant forces pulsing thrill
Impatient through our common life
Their mission to fulfill.
For far along an upland path
Lie dazzling heights as yet untrod.
The fullest need Of generous earth
And sacred gifts from God.
These pledges wait fruition rare
From souls too closely wrapt about
With folds Of self and dark despair,
And walls Of fear and doubt
Break now each bond of selfishnesS,
o hidden souls embodied deep
Within 4 goid-hued chrysalis,
The sheath of careless sleep!
The Easter morn Is risen fair
Across tie rayless gloom of night,
And every soul should claim it's share
OF sweet eternal light.
Helen N. Packard, in Springfield (Mass.) RI
publican.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

THE census shows the total value OF
real estate to be twenty-three billions
of dollars, and of personally twenty
billions. 1t is believed that this is an
over estimate Of personal property.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

THE cities of Toronto and Hamilton
have exempted machinery from taxa
ton. Let them extend the principle.
If it is bad they will be the sufferers
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

--Tommy-Look here, pa, when doea
the Bible say that paper money was
first seen? Pa-Don't know, sonny:
guess there's nothing said about It In
the Bible. Tommy Yes pop, it does.
It was when the dove brought the
green back" to Noah--hei he! hel hal
hal hal Pa--That's SO. sonnie!"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

WEALTH IS any natural product %
adapted By labor expended on Il. as -
gritty any want
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

IF you collect, in taxes on Land, all
that man owes you. what is the good
Of robbing his corpse?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30

THAT while ito be dexterous in
danger is q virtue so, too, to be an
adept at fruit and flower raising is no
mean accomplishment
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-02
The GREATNESS, OF tho south

We have read q great deal recently rela-
tive TO the reasons of the new prosperity
which has come TO the South. and which
promises TO spread aud increase in blessed
ness in the future. We have noticed state.
ments in agricultural and commercial
Journals, wherein many reasons are alleged,
such as circumstan,Ial statlsticIans hnd
and reason on.
Our own conception of the South's
present greatness and of the beauty OF her
future arises from knowledge OF the
deep herOism and glorious courage IN the
hearts Of the men of the South. Some
day, when the development of great ten
denotes has gone far enough to crystalline
q splendid history into expression. grand
poem will be written of the South. When
the man comes with a soul deep enough
TO feel its greatness and heart broad
enough to give 1t voice the soul OF the
South will be spoken as no song was ever
yet spoken in all the glory and the grand
eur of the past.
There will be deeper and nob,er music
in this song than any that ever Homer
heard by the waves of Scamander or the
shores Of the f,gean. II viii be q song
which will not tell of the battles
of swords and spears, but OF That
fiercer aud more horrible warfare with
want and sorrow and despair. That
fearful warfare, where the battle-heid
Is the farm and freside. where the
foeman are deed aAd debt and distress, and
where the victorious weapons are the
dauntess resolutions. the unyielding pa
tlence. the sublime nope which have raised
the South from her sorrows and planted
her Wilderness with beauty.
1t will be q song Git for the lips OF angels
and worthy the harps of the seraphim. Tor
it will tell. as no history or minstrelsy ever
yet attempted, the sublimest victory that
ever human love and courage gained IN
the cloud of the bitterness Of death.
1t will be an epic of all that's patient and
brave and true-and the soul of the song
will tell why the South is great and why
she forever must be.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-02
yn,,nr for rlyr caaaldates.

To 1,e Editor Of he DisDatca:
A convention with five candidates be-
fore IL voting for two ut time. how many
votes will two candidates have TO receive
In order 10 be nominated on hrst ballot!
This is an old question with US. But as
each convention. or Congress, o. Legisla-
ture. or electing body decides all such
questions for itself, nobody can lay down
.be law - IN answering the interrogatory
of "P.n We have no hesitation in giving
our own opinion. as in similar cases we
have often done before. Suppose there
were 100 voters IN the convention, and
each voted for two men. then 200 votes
would be cast. The rule ordinarily
adopted-a wrong rule. We think-would
allow each candidate receiving more than
50 votes to be elected; and yet the votes
might be cast as follows:
The first 90 for Brown and Smith.
The next 20 for Brown and Jones Brown
elected).
The next &c for Smith and Jones Zones
and Smith elected).
Only IS votes out OF 300 have been cast,
and yet three candidates arc elected.
There must DO something wrong in a
rule which works in that way. and 50 we
conclude that IN the case supposed by
"P." the number Of votes required to
elect ought to be more than majority of
so, or 26.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-02
The Lac j. w. Rand oiph.

To the Eiitor of he D,Spatch;
1t requires but little observation to learn
that kaure endows some OF her children
WITH peculiar attractions. Good manners
Is one OF these. Cultivation may produce
"A good imitation. but il will only be an
imitation. Good manners generally means
good man. The writer had tue pleasure
OF boarding twenty years ago at the \alen-
tine House, IN this city, with Mr. Ran
dolph and his kind-hearted wife, and was
charmed By MIR. Randolph's exquisite
courtesy. Even then he concluded ii ever
II was his fortune TO survivs him he would
endeayor 10 perform the melancholy duty
now lamely attempted TO hold up Mr.. Ran
dolph 10 the young men of this city rs a
beautiful example of the perfect gentle
man. OF the thousand and ten thousand
men whom he has known IN the past fifty
years. the writer does not remember one
who excelled him in eentlemaniy courtesy.
III he did you favor. as he often did the
writer. II was done with the utmost cheer
fitness. What piece oi good fortune it
was TO he in any way associated with such
a lovabie character. dis presence was q
benediction. and the writer will never for
get the spayity Of manner. and gentle. easy
grace. OF his gifted. but now departed
friend ANXIOUS.
Richmond, March 30. 1898.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-02
Secretary Southern Historical s.
The south Pole.

To NJ Editor Of he Dis2G'ch;
Why IS it that mo-e exploring parties
start ont tor the North Pole than for the
South Pole?
The earlier Arctic voyages were made IN
the hope Of discovering q northwest pas
sage 10 the Pacific Since then Arctic ex-
plora;iou has been largely for the purpose
OF studying the winds. currents, meteoro-
logical conditions, fauna and flora. geogra-
ply. etc.. OF the circle. 1t has, however,
long been recognized that very little, if
any. benefit to commerce or science could
he expected from attempts 10 explore the
ANTARCTIC continent or group Of islands.
The area of land around the South Pole Is.
comparatively speaking. very meagro, and
the belief is that even with It's penetration
practicable it would yield nothing that
could add materially to the information of
The world