The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL TAX
The Steady Increase Is a Matter Worthy of
Serions Attention. Snrne Cnmnarisnna

The Steady Increase Is Matter Worthy of
Serious Attention. Sumo Comparisons.
! sam Jones, who is not only a very
wide-awake man but careful cleaner Of
facts, has been discussing the signs of
the times and the matter of taxes in the
various states of the west and of GeOr-
gla, and says:
II suppose we will survive the situa-
ton until the fall of the year, when tax
es become due. State taxes in Iowa are
thirty cents on tie hundred dollars. in
Mississippi twentY-eight cents on the
hundred dollars, in Georgia about seven
ty cents. L Georgia keeps multiplying
her taxes in the next five years as she
has in the past fellow will have to move
out Of.the state in self-defense.
Gov. Stevens of Missouri gave mil
lion dollars year to the public schools.
The poor little red hill state of Geor-
gia is playing to the tune of sixteen hun
dred thousand, nearly twice as mach
as the rich state of Missouri, with
its population about three times what
ours is AMI its wealth about ten times
greater. Ii miller has q wife and ten
children how can he grind wheat or
corn for just One-eighth toll? His fami-
ly is obliged to live. Georgia state and
county taxes are one dollar and ten cents
on the hundred. In Clarenda. Ia, the
other day, | asked a leading lawyer what
were the state, county and municipal
taxes. He SAID state, county, municipal
and all were fOrty-five cents on the hum
dred dollars. In Gainesville, Ca, a
town about the same size, it is one dollar
| and plOhtV cents l..
| pal tax and one dollar and ten cents state
| and county"
Brother Jones neglected to include in
his estimate of Georgia's school tax the
matter of S. per thousand added by the
last legislature to the free school budget
for 1897-98, which makes our state and
county taxes with no increase for our
county purpOses-a fact not yet deter
-nined) not lone dollar and ten cents per
hundred" but one dollar and forty cents
per hundred for state and county pur.
poses. Now, let persons who are so I'M
fortunate as to own a little city proper
ty add an additional municipal tax of
fifty cents per hundred to the double as.
sessed valuation Tor about one dollar on
the advalorem rate, which is the only le-
gal basis of taXation) for municipal pur-
poses and we have the state, county and
municipal tax rate of nearly $3.50 per
hundred-a figure little exceeded by the
''cussed' radical party during and
just subsequent to the reconstruction pc
Rod!
These are very discouraging figures to
mention in the face of desirable citizens
! whom we wish to settle in our state,
county and city. They are figures which,
if not speedily changed, will paralyze ev-
cry project of progress and depreciate
! every class of property holding till, as
Brother Jones says, "a fellow will have
to move out of Georgia in self-defense''
| in order not to be robbed for the benefit
of those who do little or nothing for
| themselves and still less for Others
cambridge Democrat.
Il crave but One Minute" said the
| public speaker in husky voice; and
! and then he took a dose of One Minute
| Cough Cure and proceeded with his ora
| tory. One Minute Cough Cure is une-
| qualed for throat and lung troubles.