The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-06

which were passed by the present Leg islature, is being circulated and large ly signed in Bullock County. The pe- tftfon specifies the laws which are de- clared to be handicaps upon the growth of the State, and is directed to Sem ,ator H. P. Merritt and Representa- tives N. B. Powell and S. P. Rainer, asking them to try to secure the re- peal of the laws in question by every honorable means
 The petition has been in circulation several days in Bullock County and u has been largely signed by the tax pay CTS and merchants of the county It specifically attacks the license tax on dealers in cigar and tobacco the aew tax on insurance companies whlcn me petition declares is only an additionai burden on the policy holders, the laN Commission law, defined as covert at tack on local self-government ana an unnecessary expense on the tax pay CTS. and the act of placing the heaVy tax on foreign companies iehulne money in Alabama, as serious hah- dicap to the prosperity or the 9'a.e The petition incidentally deplores tue creation of new offices "lth idt se
 aries incident thereto.
 In fuIl the petition which has caused to much interest in the neighborlhS county Is as follows: -
 ."ro the Honorable H. P. Merritt, sen
 ator from the Twenty-hfth Senato-
 rial District of Alabama. Horora-
 bIes N. B. Powell and s. r. Ram
 CT members of the Leglsie-''i0
 from Bullock County:
 "Jn view of the fact that the cor dition of the public treasury Of the ctate of Alabama. and the general pros neritv along all industrial lines m II e State for the past ten years oethoH- strate conclusively that 1t is unneces. sary. in order to carry on an nohv and economical administration oi tno ooyarnment of this State, 10 furthe increase taxtion, we. the ci'Hens
 Bullock County. Alabama beg to i,r ,.o moralize you. and through you IceisIature of Alabama, to alter. ansn'i =, rcnoaI all such Jaws as nave a tendency either to increase the nurorn of taxation upon the people or the c+ote or to retard in any respect ' onward march of that materlai pioS
 ority which under the benencle"e bIessjnes of the Almighty have so telu- ten, ed to promote the welfare ana naIp ,1 ness of all the people or the ota..' tn we narticularly call your at'e 1aris- .L hitherto untried species or ieEis- lation enacted at the present
 of the Lerislature. to wi'.
 "T7irst-The license tax upon deaie' , ,r ciears and tobacco, which we pe- l;eve to be so framed as to pc put da, unon the smaller merchants wno cell these articles of merchahd'se 1ittle profit. in order to satisfy the oe- mands of the public.
 "Second-Believing that the expenses of the added taxation upon the ins"r- oroa oomnanies is an indirect tax upon the reople themselves. and not upon inc foreign companies, we earnestly onpose any taxation or system or laws which will have a tendency to increase the nremiums paid by the policy hold- CTS of Alabama.
 "Third-Believing in the fundament- al Democratic principle of local sei government; believing that the present officials in charge of the adminlstra- a. .ion of the tax affairs of the State, and of the several counties therein. are the most capable of administerins the fax laws of the State; believing Tn the further Democratic principle that rev enue should be raised solely for the purposes of an honest and econoinl- cal administration of the affairs or the eoverument; doubling the feasibility or the n1ans embodied in the law creating the State Tax Commission and fearfui of the administration of such law in a practical way, we are unalteraoly op- posed to said act and believe that the expense of the machinery of the same is an added and an unnecessary pur- den to the people of the several coun- ties; and that thes same should be le- pealed.
 "Fourth--with full knowledge of the fact that heHmoney of National banks of State banks and of private lndl- viduals is rarely available for long term loans on farming lands and city real estate. and fully cognizant or nu- merous instances where foreign money