The Green Forest tribune., 1901-02-23
LEGISLATURE DOINGS.
legr1ar Weekly Letter From Our Special Correspondent.

# Our Special Correspondent.
 # We must ask 8 little indulgence
 from you this week, and beg the Privilege of.sreplying through the &olumns of THE TRIBUNE to two
 < Remarkable articles which have Appeared recently in the Little Rock Democrat with Hon. Geo. R. Brown, Secretary of the Little Rock board of trade as their par ent. The articles referred to are Supposed to go. to show that your Correspondent ssfalsified" in giv- Ing Pulaski a roast because of 8ts evasion of taxation. Either Article reminds us of the plea of a 1pettifogger, with bad case, Working for contingent fee.
 \ The figures proving our case
 Were taken from the report of the auditor, and we still maintain that they are correct in every detail. His intimation that our expose 8of Pulaski county's record as tax ldodgers was in the interest of HSunnyside plantation, or any Sother plantation, is rediculously land malicously bordering on 9falsehood. Let us ask Mr. Brown Through the columns of THE TRIB- | lUNE if the Little Rock clergyman Ewho 8 short time ago preached a sermon with Pulaski county tax |dodging as a text was also trying to sell Sunnyside plantation to the (state? Was the legislature two years ago, after having it's atten- ftion called to the damnable rec- |cord of the wealthy taxdodgers of Pulaski county, also interested in |the Sunnyside plantation? Was the committee of Little Rock citizens who investigated the matter about q year ago working some scheme favorable to Sunny Dside? Finally Bro. Brown, were sthe suits instituted in this county
 For the purpose of compelling
 the taxdodging scoundrels of Little Rock to disgorge-were
 S.Sfse suits brought in the inter- i,syl@ykf Sunnyside plantation; or yzgSAfe they brought in the interest Thonesty and good government, S2With the idea of making the awealthy of Little Rock bear their .just proportion of the burdens of Estate and municipal government? q MT. Brown states in the Demo- Scrat of February 9th, that the Treason that the assessed valuation
 pf Pulaski county under the head Abf "property as banker, broker,
 fand stock jobber, appears as
 S1O,03O, is because the assessor f placed the figures in the next acolumn" under the head of 'all sother property" Bosh! Ifsuch Swas the case why did the assess For return S10,030? The idea
 4hat ten thousand dollars would Sbe returned under the proper
 head, as is provided by law, 8and the rest under an improper shead and contrary to law! Bro. Brown surely gambles on an ig- snorant set of readers for the great Little Rock daily which published sthe article. But for the sake of argument we will say that Browns statement is true (which is not the case) and that the mill lion assessed under both heads are property as banker, broker
 and stockjobber. Where is the rest of the six million dollars in stocks owned in Little Rock as- |sessed? Under what head shall l we find it, MT. Brown? Possibly under the head of mules and ass- les. It has as much right to ap- bear in that column as under the shead of all other property.
 We have in mind one corpora Stion in this city, and the institu- stion is a commercial credit to the Esouth, that is incorporated for
 S50,O00. It's stock is quoted ev-
 ery day in the Democrat as being worth S1.66, an actual taxable
 value of &83, ,000. The property
 was listed last year for taxation at S1O,500. The. board of equ;4l-
 ization, seeing the utter absurdity.
 of the thing raised them-how
 much? $4 800, or to S15, ,000.
 Think of it; S83, ,000 actual value
 and paying taxes on S15, 1000.