The herald., 1893-05-07

Ing SZUl tOr serving of uOblceb Wnen
one would suffice. You say,
in caviling manner. 1T is true have
an uncollected claim of 500 for serving
notices on property that has escaped
taxation" The taxes are unpaid be-
cause YOU will not permit it to be paid.
II a case of this kind enables you to make
capital according to your idea Of morality,
what could be said of the numberless
claims that have never seen the light of
day gone into the courts and the public
knows nothing about? Ii you have al
ready received $4938.11 for serving no.
tices; how much will you have recsived
when you enforce your claim against
those that have as yet not paid and
which you carry on your books as claims
"uncollected ?"
Seeing that you have it in your power
to victimize our people in this manner
and realizing that you do not hesitate to
do it, was it not our duty to assist our
members to do something that would re-
lieve our people OF these uncomfortable
claims And when our members were do
ing all in their power to obtain relief we
found yourself with the attorney-general
and the comptroller endeavoring to
thwart them, do you not realize that
it then became our duty to publish the
facts about you? 1t WAS with this pur-
pose in view that caused US to do what
we did. The association will not fool
any one.
You say have received for serving
notices upon delinquent taxpayers, in
cluding many of the eelf-styled reform
ers, the sum of $49S3 IL for serving no.
tices alone, and how have you served
these notices? have on my table land
| guess l am one of the reformers to
whom you refer) one of your notices sent
me through the mail for taxes for 1887,
| in which you notify me that you will
apply for deed unless | pay you $65 25
before February is, 1898. II you, and
you had "14 clerks" had cared fig
whether those you served with notices
had paid their taxes or not, you could
easily have found out.
AS to yourself, you were too busy with
| duties which required your attendance
| at Sacramento, and it is probable your
clerks were not directed to do it. AT
any rate, it was not done; but the no.
tices, for which you claim So each, were
punctually mailed, whether the victim
had paid his taxes or not.
Why did you serve me with notice
that you would apply for deed tor my
property, when the record in the tax col
lector's Office showed / had paid my
taxes in full, and all you had to do was
to look at the books and see it2
I want to ask you why you serve no
tice on people who have paid their taxes
in full and the records show it? ls 1t
for the purpose Of making your SO fee
out of them? 1 do. not think you will
fool the public by abusing the Nom
Partisan Reform association for pro-
testing against this order of things, or
blind their ewes to the real condition OF
affairs. The people who have paid their
taxes ought to obtain protection
at your hands, being an agent of the
state for the collection of taxes, instead
of having the life scared out of them by
serving on them, as agent OF the state,
notices that they were in danger of hav-
ing deed of their property made to the
state. OF course, you may say it is not
for the purpose OF getting the So fol
serving notice. but II YOU would deliber.
sttffy tff 6sose;1g 70 ons ,5peSeIaP pleSe DI Prep
tices enough to run your claim for
serving notices alone up to s201, and try
to 30 force this uncomfortable claim,
when one notice of SO would suffice, you
must certainly excuse the general pub
lie for believing anything almost about
you. You deliberately send notices to
people who by the records before you
have paid the takes which you ask them
to pay a second time, not forgetting to
remind them as you did me, Including
So for thie notice"
Acknowledgement Hart starts in with
the proposition and advises the board OF
San Diego that the So for notice must be
paid, Notwithstanding it ia a double as
easement and the person served has paid
mis- taxes in full, and the notice should
not have been served at all, as we have
proven by the letter which was pub
lished in the report.
Wnen you attempt to thwart the in
terests of the people, using the money
obtained of the people therefor, that
your own private ends may be subserved,
and that your opportunity to continue 80
doing may not be disturbed, don't blame
such OF our people as deem it their duty
to pay their respects to you and present
you to the world in the true light.
In trying TO take the sting out OF the
large amount oil money collected and to
be exacted from the public under these
contracts for a Turkish system OF tax
farming, you make a statement that you
reserve but 800 per month for yourself.
You admit your receipts to be already
over $4,000. How this is divided is i'm
material to the people. The fact remains
that the system is essentially vicious.
n. I. HAZARD.
Free Until June 1st.