Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-30
THE STATE PRESS.

Mr. O'Brien of Jefferson is a wide awake legislator. lie knows the wants of the people, and his every movement in the legislature is toward the enactment of good asures.-Mountain Home.
 We had the pleasure lew days ago of reading letter ilom Col. W. Spaight of Galveston, Tex, 10 his liinsmen Lere, A.
 w. 5. and ]. Cam Anderson. Colonel Spaight is, at the request Of the Texas Con-
 fedefates, writing history of the resi-
 ment he o nmaaded in the Confederate army. .-Eutaw Mirror.
 Linn estone furnishes another good public servant for sister state. Col. Thomas Il.
 Malone, who was born aud reared near
 Athens, has just been appointed chancellor
 to fill out the unex pired tern Of Chancellor
 Alien, who was recently killed In Nash
 vile. We congratulate him on his appoint ment.-Athens Courier.
 A party using seven covered wagons,
 with a considerable number of led horses
 and mules, passed through town last week from Missouri to Florida. We learned that
 another train of sixteen Is behind, but may
 stop in this state. The forerunner of a colony of single taXers are now in Baldwin
 county locating lands. .---Entaw Mirror.
 MT. Smith, from New Jersey, who was here about month ago looking for a loca- ton for colony of his friends, Is again in
 our county. He says so far he likes this
 section better than any he has seen. That
 
 to see to be convinced that this is the gar den spot of all Alabama. Ad- vocate.
 The Birmingham AGE-HERALD has come out in favor of a constitutional convention. | We are glad 10 receive this addition 10 the | cause we have been advocating for several weeks, and trust that 1t will continue in | the good work until our lawmakers realize | that the time has come to give the people l of Alabama an opportunity to vote on the | question .-Talladega Mountain Home. Adjutant- General Jones has sent his re- | port to the printers. If the general assem- | ply acts upon the recommendations therein | contained favorably there will be gen. eral shaking up of the state militia. He | proposes Fourth regiment and for the | state troops to be divided according to | imaginary latitudinal lines. There are l thirty five applications to form new com- | panes in the state and only twelve would | be needed if the regiment was formed. The argument is that this would cost the state | very little, as the transportation would be less in cases where the regiments have to semble.-Troy Messenger.
 A more perfect system for assessing the taxes will render the proposed increase un' necessary. This seems to be the prevail | ing sentiment of both the newspapers and | people. The poor man pays the taxes not | only in Alabama, but in every other state, and this should not be the case. Many | rich men having their tens or hundreds of 1 thousands of dollars in the banks on the l 1st day of December go to the banks and l purchase Alabama non taxable bonds with all their surplus cash. Then they go to | the assessor and give in their houses and | other real estate at a price probably less | than half it's value. A few days afterward l they recouvert their bonds into cash and go | on speculating or loaning their money at | or l F per cent per month.--Greenville Ad- vocale.
 Here in Limestone county thousands of | dollars worth of property is given in far l below its real value, and thousands of dol l lars are never given in at all that should l be. This is wrong. Last summer the l board of equalization met, and while go- | ing over the list of property returned found
 mules that were worth Sl00 and S125 listed | at S25 and less. They were powerless un- l der their construction of the law to raise
 this valuation, and so it stood. This works
 a hardship on the poorer real estate owner. | There should be some law by which per- | sonal property should be made to bear its l proportionate share of the burden Of taxa
 ton. If A or B gives in his realty at a l lower rate than it is worth he is made to
 come to time then it is but just that if and D give in their personal property at a
 rate far below its value there should be
 some way by which the property should be | made 10 pay it's value .-Athens Courier.