The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-12
SEQ N. JACOBS President
y tc. DUG n y. WI. Editor
ssTlll Stun BLING

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SILL ST MRLING.
Although the critic OF tax re:
form rs gradually subsltllng and Its
! beneiicent Influences are now even
recognizetis BY some Of the Democrat:
II papers still there remain few un.
regenernted Democratic editors and
executors who ARE given credit for
good sound sense on most all other
4 subj hi that continue to preach their
infidelity to- the new system and in
Their blindness caused BY staring con
tinnously ut the bright reflections
( that have validated from the true and
siactual,s assessments throughout the
stale which have penetrated even
through the cracks of the humblest
Ipg cabin on the mountain side, they
afe one by one falling intothe pit dug
by their unrighteous criticism and
being swallowed up by their own IN
founded arguments, In the beginning
the Republ lean party was branded as
the bosom frlend of the trusts
and corporations and that the
new thy system was nothing
. more than d system Of tax con
fiscation and that the farmer would
even have 4 10 pay AN llnmerciful tax
on his chickens in addition to an as,
sessnlents on the true and actual value
Of hts farm That argument looked
good until II was demonstrated by
..he tax tickets to be only a distorted
theory then that line OF argument was
dropped and now the plea is contlnn.
ally going rp behalf of5thet corpora
lions which are said to be sorely tax
ridden
Tifs5was the subject Of a resolution
that the inlomitable Geo. Byrnc, OF
charle lesion cunnlngly aimed to have
enphasized at the meeting Of the
Suite Board FofS Trade and which has
later been the excuse Of holding up
the meeting to: the public through the
DemocE ratio press as a political meet.
ms Notwithstanding the fact that the
members Of the Democratic party, It's
Leaders. have had the honor to get two
20 the three presidents OF the board
and Mr. Byrnes himself is n conspicu.
Gus member having at the meeting a.
lkins ySrende one OF the principal
reports Of the meeting, as chairman
Of The committee on manufactures,
and the rapidS growth of these indus.
triessSof the State Us. was SO graphi-
caify pictured by ar. Byrne himself
stansl as u monument. to the political
policy of the State; administration ,ln.
der which these advances have been
so rapid The assessment OF the Coal
and Coke railroad, as well as the
=. and p sand more recently the Stand.
ard Oil Company have been held up
Fs.f sas fitiable examples of grewsomc
bntcherles OF the corporate bodies by
the tax system and to give force to
sthefrS argcment 1t was pointed out
that these assessments were being UP.
held by par isan7 counts. The r. and
% assessments by which the company
felt saggrie eyed were appeslcl to the
court presided oyer by Judge Z. Boyd
ullners Of the "a Jefferson. Berkeley.
Morgan circuit whose Democracy is
above question, and swhosa4lcgai juts,
nent As entitled to the>highest respect,
and he not only confirms the assess.
ment sof the B. and. o ! at $4,000, 900,
ass affixed by the Board Of Public
Works but goes the board one better
and says that 1t erred in. not. making
the assessment s1O9.0OOOO0 according
tol The fignres furnished by the com.
II s8ss !is,;
The same i.unfalrness OF the criti.
cisns Sof the assessment Of the Coal
and an Coke Aroad$ is now more apparent
X since Sine the company has only recently
increased its capital stock to SEQ.
900. Y sg5; K X.