The Caucasian., 1895-12-05

companies doing business in Chicago /
should pay TO the city treasurer th. /
sum OF two dollars on the one hundred /
upon all premiums received. That in |
default Of this payment il should be |
unlawful for the foreign company To !
do business in the city"
The insurance companies refused TO
pay this tax and t,,ok the case to the
Supreme court OF the Inited STATES
That court, without hesitation, declar-
ed the act constitutional upon the au-
thority Of Pd0t -. I'irginiG, 3 I.'ailacs
HepOrtz, Pdge TGs.
See also case Of Ducat ~. Chicngo.
~ H,diiace a.. 81 Reports. pags }IG.
| The court said:
The power OF the State to dixerimt-
matt LetWfeu ker 0ra domcstic c0rpora-
tionx and thnyc of o'her .>tnies is ciearlg
estdLijshed."
Again the Stale OF Massachusetts,
imposed "a tax of two per cent. upon all
premiums received by an insurance
| company Incorporated under the laws
Of any one OF the United States other
| than Massachusetts,"
This statute was also contested by the
! Liverpool Insurance Company, char
| tered in England; but the statute was
| again sustained.
see Lircrpool I0s. %. cS. Na*znch"-
scitx, ~ II.ajloce, 5GG IS70). These cases
are approved in
Dogir *. cart. Ias. o., - /. $. r.
parts, pogr j.jJ (lSsG.)
They are based upon the leading
cases Of Bant ~. Earie, I3~Prferx Reps.
| 5Sj. Where it is said:
"Foreign corporations have no abso-
lutte right of recognition in other
States. The State may exclude them
entirely. 1t may restrict its business
to particular localities or exact secur-
ity for the performance of its con-
tracts. The whole matter rests in the
discretion OF the States
30 that we conclude that the State
of North Carolina may exclude any
IMPOSE TAX
pro-rata on its shares Of stock, or on its
gross receipts or pledge a specific tax
on its cars or tax it in any other way
it may choose. II is right, it is just
that these taxes should be imposed on
the property of these wealthy corpOr-
atiOns. They neither toll nor spin
About all the big officials do is to To-
cate in the county and Kill all the
, quails in reach and draw salaries from
|
pIOyees have scarcely enough paid
them to keep soul and body toget her
Look at the palatial private cars OF
these officials! 1t took a newspaper a
half a column to describe the magnifi.
cence and luxurious apartments OF
. Vice President Andrews car, in which
he ives in such gorgeous splendor, as ht
:, rolls along through the State. LiverieC
= servants await the tap of his electric
J bell aud while his table is loaded witt
= the most costly viands, tn. finest O
= liquors fill the side-bOard. Yet thi:
costly mansion, costing perhaps $40 OOO
. pays no tax, while the farmer pays ia,
= on his wagon, his dOg-cart and hi
cabin; nothing escapes. Let aspeciti
tax of $500 be placed on every one 0
- these cars. 1t would have been homes
:. and Christian and just if the none.
- put in these cars had been paid to tn
- poor creditors of the K. q u. r. r. Co
- instead Of being turned over to its sue
- cessor. 1t would be more consistent
e too, with Republican torm Of govern
- ment if these nabObs would not dis
= play their wealth before the eyes @
70 the suffering poor around the depOt
1t would be more consistent wit
~ =, Christianity if they would not spen
&c quite so much on their own bodies an
give little to the naked and hungr
>, people of the State during the frost
~ of the winter. Let them not indulg
80 in the idea that God is not listening
&c the long suffering cries of the poo
" VI and the cry of the "laborer for h
III II, wages" "Shall He who made the ey
=, " not see?" "Shall He who made the es
III ~ not hear?" "Shall not the Judge of a
~ ~ the earth do right?"
10 WHAT OTHER STATES HAvEDONE.
ak The State of South Carolina, in tt
ld exercise of its constitutional right
III as heretofore set forth, has by Coz
III stitutiOnal amendment absolute
~ forbidden any foreign railroad co
poration to do business in tn
;5. State and required every raj
r. road man doing business in It's Dor
of ers to take ont a charter from tn
ed State.
Our State might wisely follow tn
precedent so as to place all railrO
:. corporations foreign and domestic,
IN legal equality, and not subject o
=, q home companies to burthens Whi
ne these foreign invaders refuse to carl
g In order that our legislators m
10 carry out these just and reasonable I
lt forms | will endeavor, in some futu
ny communication, to draft and publ
lse acts to be introduced in the next leg
lature by them in order to effect Il
yer purpose, Of course subject to amer
ra- ment or Improvement such as tn
lei wisdom may suggest. l know that
lc- often happens that an honest a
'le, faithful legislator wishes to, acco
rst plish some beneficial legislation,
ec- has no one to draft an act for him.
l. hot h, l1S
ION drawn carefully and in such shape
gn to be sustained by the decisions of
en- courts, and that the legislature
seS warned of the effect of amendme
s., which the enemies of the people II
I. endeavor to place upon them.
hia. METHODS OF CORPORATIONS.
The corporations always have t
VI men in each house to do their di
rln work, and these members receive tf
ol instructions in secret at railroad he
ern quarters and after night. COrpO
acI tiOus are rich enough to employ
sr" best lawyers and they exact of t!
lor the best of work. These gentlemen
sen this work professionally and are
IRA responsible for the propriety of tt
'ry acts. Lawyers have even to defend
~ thieves and murderers; but this
olu not make the lawyers thieves and mi
any, erers. 1t is the hard lot of lawye
70 10 apologize for many crimes in the CO
i.tu . which he loaths in his private
iSh, and railroad attorneys are called u
anu to defend the misconduct of rail-
'lVh companies, which conduct they
ales spise as other men do. The laWye
roao not responsible. 1t is the salariet
; ac7 ficials whose greed for gain sears t
tne consciences and destroys their pt
ICE to discriminate between right
'aHit t wrong, and finally they have no
io' sciences, no humanity, no patriot
ac- 1t is self, and self alone, which
as trols their actions. 1t is these fel
ota.e "who are heaping up wrath agains
Try day of wrath" when their damns
tna' will Come suddenly upon them.
ciary zane Gods name and they utter G,
Opri- ,"nd and daan AGAINST those who