The weekly intelligencer., 1899-01-07

SUICIDE. IL WAS clcarly C@4c VI heaAt
failure. He was about forty-two years
Of age. and leaves wife and two small
daughters.
Communicate.
Editor InlalAsenosr.
In your paper Of one week ago you
had an article under The title "Will
This Catch Emp This was about q
proposed new law to destroy the
negOtiability Of notes, upset . law that
has been our statute law since the time
Of Queen Anne and is known as ''the
statute Of Anne" and that was law
merchant or custom-law for an an
known length Of time before that
unless each transfer ware noted on the
records here. The wsrst feature Of
such legislation II the perfect honesty
Of Intention in those who urge 1t. 1t
made mo think Of the time when our
papers were filed with pictures Of
negroes with bundle and stick and the
query In fact # net in words was:
"Wnl This Catch Emp" II we had
seen as clearly then as we do new We
would have let them all 90 and never
tired 10 ''catch EN-" We were work
ing wrong to them and III to ourselves.
Today your paper speaks Of our debt
Of s570, 900, 6 per cent county bonds,
which you think ought 10 be funded
into three or four per cents. being due
the frst day Of the next century. You
suggest that they would be good
home money investment. But, my dear
sir, who 10 there in this community
who can afford 10 pay taxes out Of q
three or four per cent Investment
Inviting owners OF homo capital to
invest In these bends and studying up
plans to "Cstch 'Bm" after they have
invested reminds me Of picture In an
old fashioned drawing book Of my
fathers that he used at West Point. An
old housewife IN the kitchen door yard
Is throwing food TO some fowls with
her left hand and in her right she holds
behind her back q stout stick with
which she will strike the ones that
come for food.
The laws Of this state might as we'll
read emo resident Of any county In this
state shall invest In the bonds Of the
county In which be llves:n or "no
la9Ge..ss aRy sSaHHB,J. In lsiisssts :all! "a /!
be held In the state bot shall be In all
cases negotiated and sold without the
state, and preferably In the East" Yet
there is no enc thing over which We
groan more than the heavy tribute Of
interest that we pay the East and
Europe. 10 the Eastern and European
clties the ownership Of these debts ID
not discovered, nor do the authorities
want to know, for they see that the
benefit to them from the in-pour oi
capital far more than makes up for the
loss OF the taxes.
Furthermore: Whoever will learn
the principles Of the science Of money
shall see that money Is not 9 proper
subject Of taxation, and for the same
reason contracts for the payment oI
money are net.
Q ] long ago saw this principle but 4
. is 30 radical g departure from the leg
islation by which our western solonl
; have allowed the naturally richest par
+ Of the country TO drop into serfdom tt
/ the naturally poorest part that l hest
, tsted 10 advance the idea. The germ
. Of the idea is found in the first moderr
} treatise on money-about 500 year
ago-in the land Of the worlds bes
fnancisrs, France. That old Frencl
bishop pointed out that the part Of
communitys stock Of silver and golt
that Is kept out or taken out Of uses To-
jewelry, plate. chem!c, ais, dentistry
mechanic and decorative art, etc., ant
put into the form In which, so long a
!, it keeps that form, II Is Of no use eI
cePt as the common medium o
exchange-it belongs to the commuhlt,
In way. And be uses this against th'
custom Of prices Of debasing the coin
age and thus robbing the community
But Ii Is equally the fact that II ls o,
more proper subject Of taTation thai
4 the city and county buildlngs. I'M,
7 people 10 destroyed for lack Of knowl
! edge" For nothing iu this world d
: We pay IS dearly as for lack Of knowl
s edge. The Pb0nlcians were probabl
Q the mOney-lenders Of the ancient worl'
!, and there are evidences that as thei
9 nationality was overwhelmed In Asia
9 Africa and Europe and they as indI
ylduals sank In the social scale an
. their religion was discredited, the busl
ness Of money-lending fell into dIi
credit. Beyond any dopbt The thre
. golden balls Of the pawnbroker is q
n ancient Phoniclan symbol, Wbsneve
we can rise TO o point where we CO
4 shake off prejudice and be guided
reason we will have taken the first ste
towards ending our self mad
e thralldom.
j. There Is South Carolina case 10 II
Q supreme court in which II was bel
that the same power that Issues II
bonds cannot tax them that such taxi
II ton would be breach Of the contral
!. TO pay fixed interest.
Il GEORGE Wilson.
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