The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-10-31
SIX DoLLAnS
All tire Cash Of the K;,bourne-
Jacobs CO oapGny
When Tax Ueturns We're Made In
April, t0OO-An Example Of Demo-
cratic lax Dodging.

Six dollars--just S6-not a nickel
nor a dime nor any odd cents more,
but six dollars even was all the money
in the wide world that James Kill
boUrue's company had in its possess
sion, or coming to II. or available in
any way whatever, on The first Monday
in April, l90D. That mus be true, for
James Kilbou.ne swore to 1t in his
tax statement to the assessor at Co.
lumbus that year, and James Kilbourne
is probably the only honest man there
has ever been In Ohio, If one may be-
lieve the way the Democrats talk
about him for campaign purposes only.
He Is good business man, successful,
and in many ways admirable, and the
Republican campaign is making no
personal attack upon him, ana would
not do 1t.
But this taxation question is fully
Illuminated by that one paragraph of
his own writing and signing and
swearing to. And this taxation ques-
tion Is about all there Is to his partys
campaign in Ohio for 1901, except its
ueCldTdLlOH lOT lltt II VI thO
sake of the tax fad they are just beg
ging and moaning that the people Of
McKinley's state shall stand by Nc
Kinley's policies. For the sake of this
taxation performance. the Democracy
of Ohio are demanding that President
Roosevelt, as McKinley's successor.
shall be repudiated by the Republicans
and the people of McKinleys state,
and that the word shall go out
throughout all the land and to all the
ends of the earth, that Ohio, Of all
the states of the Union, first of all and
worst of all, has gone back upon the
party of William Mckinley, and that
this has been in behalf and for the
benefit of candidate for governor who
comes before the people upon the pro
position of reform In taxation, with q
company valued in the market at ST.
1926, 900, when he swears to 1t himself
that 1t has only Sc cash in hand.
Even this is not all, nor the worst
Of 1t. That self-same statement, sign
ed by that same James Kilbourne, and
sworn to by him, also takes the next
two items in the assessors tax return,
those of credits and bills receivable
and book accounts, and writes ciphers
against both Of them, saying by those
ciphers that his immense corporation
had not coming to 1t a single cent OF
credit from any source on the face
of the earth, not one dollar of bill
receivable from anybody, to whom II
had sold its goods, and had not a pen
ny of accounts receivable upon its
books; in fact. it had no need for books
with such a condition.
And this is the candidate, and this
return was made by the candidate
whose earliest and leading newspaper
advocate within his own party for his
nomination, thus defines the tax posi-
ton of his party in this campaign
THAT every species of property, rea'
and personal, tangible and intangible
shall be taxed as nearly as possible
according to it's true value in money
Does any man in Ohio imagine for one
minute thai the Kilbourne company
when 1t paid taxes in 1900 upon Sc In
cash, no credits, no accounts receiv'
able, no bills receivable, paid taxes &C
cording to "its true value in money
upon their cash assets? Did Mr.. Kill
bourne, himself, think it? II he knew
better, what right has he now to asl
the people to vote for him as a ta,
reformer?