The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-02

| ton much larger sums than they had
listed during life. Such requests, when
the fact can be aScertained should have 3
tax placed upon said excess equal to the
collateral inheritance tax, or enough to
reimburse the State for at least ten years
of the tax which 1t has lost. think a
very rigid law should be passed requiring
evidences of debt of all kind that are sub
ject TO taxation to be listed with the
proper. officers, an" not only should the
courts be required not to give Judgment
when the property has not been properly
listed, but heavy penalty and fine
should be imposed whenever an attempt
TO defraad the State in this way is dis
covered Would it net be we'll to require
listing of all stock Incorporated com
panies and to pass q law invalidating the
act OK any corporation where it can be
shown that any Of the stock or securities
of.sSid company that are proper subjects
of taxation have not Teen lsteds Would
it not be we'll also, in order TO save an
noyance to our people, and chat we II ay
be able to keep proper restraint over
them. to require, when it is feasible. all
corporations doing business in this State
to obtain charters from the States
Lest there be those who think have
ove'draw n the picture of our difficulties,
and am inclined to be pessimistic, will
say that am not without an abiding
faith in the future. 1t needs but retro
spective glance for all to recognize the
wonderful rccuperative powers of our
grand old State. Think of her condition
after the last gun was fired at Apo
mattoN. Devasted in field and forest--a
half million OF slaves bewildered by their
sudden freedom-all our,hockss.and herds
swept away, noneyless and without
banks, and millions of debt. She was
never grander than when she barred her
bosom and babe her sons dig deep for the
hidden treasures, the value of which,
though thirty years have passed, cannot
be estimated; for as yet the search for
them is but in the dawn. Her primeval
forests, with its varied woods, invite the
axe of the capitalist. Her wonderful
water power, ready for the spindle of the
cotton and other factories, is eager for
utilization, while eager hands weary
from enforced idleness beckon anXiously
tor the holders of money co give them
employment. Cannot we devise means
by which they can n eet in mutual tene-
fit All these things demand our most
earnest attention.
A flood of memories should warm our
hearts and strengthen our hands in the
discharge of our duties. The memory of
those free and dauntless SPIRITS who came
forest hexed out n home for them selves,
besides bubbling..spi ings where the hand
of the unjust tax gatherer could not
reach them, where the soil was bountiful
and the "skies were ready to drop riches
upon them" is hallowed by us all. Such
memory comes to me now. and l ask
myself if we are their true descendaptsg
III we are guarding with Jealous eye.and
vestal care the fires of liberty so br.iyely
bequeathed to us? Oh, for "a reminding
of patriotic interest among our people!
When that is aroused nothing more is
needed to settle every question promptly
and Justly.
And it is coming. Seasons of patient
suffering do not always last Periods of
torpid acqu tescence have their reaction.
But let public opinion once be thoroughly
aroused and then
sits step is as the tired
OF a flood that leaves its bed'
But hav, detained you too long /
think am grateful man. The people
have been good, aud kind. and hospitaple
to me beyond my deserts My heart goes
out to each man, woman and child in the
commonwealth of Virginia. say God
bless them all. And my great desire ia
that under the blessings and guidance of
a gracious Providence I may be able to
accepysbly discharge the high and respon-
sible duties to which I have been called
by the suffrages Of n kind and generous
people.
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