The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-08
"iFIER THE ONE GALLUS FELLOW. =

People have been calling the Popu-
lists anarchists. and saying that all we
are after is the fellow with money. Now
that's not true, and the result of the
work of the State Equalization Board
here this week is proof of it. We've
been after the one gallus fellow, the fel-
low with a steer or a few acres of land
for more tax. and we've got it. We got
between one and two million dollars
And TO do it we III some eases raised the
valuation of his property 800, or even
1000, per cent. while in no case has
the fellow with the stocks and bonds
and railroads had his raised more than
10 per cent. This doesn't look like We
are anarchists, does ity'-Auditor Aver
in 1897.
When Auditor Aver was running fol
Office he and his party promised ths
man whom he then termed the .'pool
down-trodden farmer" but who became
the zone gallus felIow, aud the fellow
who plows an OK, after he got Office
that the taxes would be reduced. How
that promise was kept is shown by the
figures which follow. taken from the re
port Of the work Of the board of Equal
ization as published by the railroad com
mission for the year of 1897. page o13.
Take the increase on the following
items for instance, horses, mules, cattle,
hogs aud sheep The counties selected
are not those in which the increase was
greatest, but are a fair average.
Arson county, increase, on mules,
$500 or per cent.
Beaufort county, increase, on cattle
$19.SS1 or 40 per cent; on hogs, $S,J93
or 40 per cent; on sheep. S1.232 or 40
per cent. Total increase, $29,107.
Caharrus, increase, on horses $500
or 10 Per cent: mules. $9.03J or ID per
cent: cattle, S2,095 or 5 per cent.
Catawba, increase on mules. 5000
or II per cent; cattle. $4.797 or 10 per
cert. Total increase, $1,000
Chatham, increase. on cattle $16,169
or % per cent; hogs, $3,S77 or Is per
cent. Total, S20,647..
Columbus, increase, on cattle, SIT .056
or 80 per cent; hogs, $19,G63 or 80 per
cent Total, $50, 720.
Cumberland. increase, on cattle, Sf2.-
3l3 or 80 per cent; hogs, $7,061 or 80
per cent. Total, $19,S0S.
Franklin. No increase.
Hyde. increase, on horses, S7,0JS or
10 per cent: cattle, $1,000 or 30 per
cent; hogs, S3,111 or 30 per cent. Total
S24900.
Johnston, increase, on cattle $10,265
or - per cent; hogs, $1O,250 or 20 per
cent. Total, $4,000.
Onslow, increase, on cattle, S9517 or
p per cent; hogs, S6.737 or 30 per cent.
Pitt, increase, on horses, $10,6S0 or
10 per cent; mules, S6,59S or 10 per
cent; cattle, S10.450 or 20 per cent;
hogs. $9,466 or % per cent. Total,
$4,000.
Robson, increase. on cattle S10,904
or 20 per cent; hogs, $10697 or % per
cent
Sampson, increase, on cattle, $17,0S2
or so per cent; hogs, 81, al or 80 per
cent. Total, $4,000.
In Wilkes the valuation Of horses and
mules alone was increased $4,000 OF
40 per cent.
That the above counties are a fan
average as regards increase is shown by
the fact that the total increase on the
items mentioned for the whole State Coz
counties) is 81 1897 or an average Of
$11 1852 to the county. The increase Of
valuation on all these items for tht
whole State is per cent.
This was going after the Zone gallus
fellow with vengeance. liz there was
any increase on other forms of propert!
no record of it appears. The only item
whose valuation was increased besides
those mentioned was bicycles, and tn,
amount of increase on them was only
$500 for the whole State. Thus wheI
the board went to sum up its work i
stood thus in the report:
Total valuation of property, 1924, 142,
594; increase, 81 ,359,777.
Any increase by the Board on stocks
bonds. notes or other forms of property
Not a cent II was the man who lia,
horses cattle. sheep, hogs, mules, VIII
paid the piper.