West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-09-28

| N"S NVui'S W uSCluc tnat the Mont
gomery bill is unconstitutional, 50
they can pocket the ESQ, 600 instead
OF 1t going into the State Treasury
to help defray the expenses of the
State government and help tighten
our taxes.
My farmer brethren, il is this
highway robbery in grating that
has caused me to withdraw my sup
port from the ring and the machine.
find that the very men whom
have been voting against are the
honest tax reformers and the men
who are the friend of the farmers.
This being true, appeal to my
farmer brethren to stand by the
men, who by their deeds, have
proven to be our friends. On the
tax question they have been weighed
in the balance and not found want.
ing.
| want to tell you, my dear breth.
ren, that this is a serious question,
and one which you are vitality inter.
ested in. Go to Kingwood, as
have done, and see the army of
honest farmers who are there pro-
testing with the County Commits
sioners against the injustice of the
assessment and appealing to the
Commissioners to right the wrong.
DO you suppose that the farmers
would leave their farms in this busy
season, and at great expense to
them, go TO Kingwood, il deep down
ia their hearts they did not know
that the Dawson tax laws was a
monstrous outrage upon the farm.
ers ? And TO think that we have
been so cruelty deceived by the very
men who professed to be our friends
and whom we have been voting for
and keeping in public Office for yearsl
want to call Republicans" at
tention TO one thing, which in all
his rawlings he has not denied, and
that is that the railroads OF West
Virginia will pay $4,000 LESS
taxes into the State Treasury than
they did last year. want to ask
him IL the railroads Cf West Vir-
ginia was not assessed by the Board
OF Public Works, of which Gov.
Dawson is the head, and upon that
assessment the railroads save $40
soo1 want TO ask him If ii is not
a fact that the railroads will be as
sessed under the Dawson law as they
were under the old law, namely, by
the Board Of Public Works ? I
want him to say whether the rail-
roads were assessed at "fair cash
value" as the law provides for un-
der the old, and which "Republi-
can" evidently has no kno Wedge.
The Journal and Republican"
insist that the tax question should
be a party issue. Senator Elkins
said 1t should not be made a party
issue. Now see by an interview
in the Wheeling Intelligencer that
Gov. w. NJ. O. Dawson goes on
record as saying that the tax ques.
iion should not be a party question.
Strange how Elkins and Dawson
have been connected to non parti-
sanship on the tax issue. / suppose
they have found out that they can't
make us old Republican farmers
vote the straight Republican ticket
on that issue any longer. The truth
is that the farmers Of Preston have
gotten their eye teeth cut on this
tax reform business, and they find
that the brand OF tax reform that
Gov. Dawson and the Journal have
been preaching to us is the kind
that will empty our pocket books il
we keep on voting for il. Oh, no,
Republican" your cry of '1iar,"
"hypocrite" and damned fool" is
not going to whip US old Republi.
can farmers back in the traces TO
vote the ticket straight.
When THE ARGUS told us that the
question of tax reform was not a DO
litical and party Issue, the Journal
and Republican" called it all kinds
Of names. But THE ARGUS stood
its ground and contended that its
cause would be vindicated when the
people would see how they would be
assessed under the Dawson tax laws.
VIII anyone, outside Of the Journal
and Republican" claim that The
ARGUS has not been yindicated ?
Don't Elkins and Dawson now say
that we must not make the tax ques
tion party issue ? OF course they
do. How are the Journal and ere
publican" gong to explain and an
swer this
No, my farmer brethren, THE
ARGUS has told us the truth about
the Dawson tax laws ali along. Mr..
Brown is now publishing the assess
ment in his paper as fast as he can,
so the people all over Preston can
see the difference between the old
and the new assessment. This will
cost Mr.. Brown considerable money,
but he is determined that the peo-
pic in Preston, who own property,