The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1907-12-12
TALKS OF HINEMON'S SCHEME
Donaghey Shows Fallacy of
Tax-Exemption.
Proposition Would Free Negroes from Tax
alton and Destroy Schools-Little
Rock Notes

Little Rock, Dec. Especial
correspondence. = So interesting
was the recent published claim OF
George w. Donaghey, candidate
for governor that Attorney General
Kirby, also a candidate for these
honors had stolen or atte1r pied to
steal a part of the campaign thund-
er formulated by Mr.. Donaghey,
that friend to all the contestants
wrote to Mr.. Donaghey asking him
what he had to say concerning the
policy of Prot. J. H. Hinemon, a
third candidate. The reply was
received from Mr. Donaghey yester-
day, in which he gives Prof. Hine-
mon the following raking over the
Goals:
"Mr. Hinemon makes it a part
of his platform to advocate the eX-
emption of s. so of personal prop
erty from every personal tax payer
in the state. This would mean
that every citizen jvst having $3.50
worth of personal property would
pay no taxes at all and those hav-
ing over $3.50 would pay only on
the excess. If such a rule were in
force it would at once exempt
eight per cent of the negroes
from any taxation whatever. 1t
would cut out practically half the
terms of country schools. 1t would
raise the rate of taxation from what
it is at the present, it already be-
ing the highest of any southern
state, to nearly double. This
would prevent anyone coming into
the state, who is worth over $3.50
and would almost cause removal
of all the larger commercial insti-
tutions, because they could not
stand taxation of five or six per
cent, which this law would out of
necessity bring.
From what | have heard of Mr..
Hinemon S discussion on this line,
he proposes to increase the taxes
of the public service corporations
until the deficit caused by the de
crease of personal taxation is over
come. This sounds very well, If
we could do it just that way. Per
sonally | am in favor of increasing
the taxes of these corporations,
but every one knows it cannot ar
bitrarily be done to the extent
sought for by Mr.. Hinemon be
cause our supreme courts have
ruled that the rate of assessment
must be equally just both to per
sons and corporations. This rul-
ing will be found in the Fl. Smith
bridge case, where the courts held
that higher proportion of assess
ment on that bridge than the other
property in the county was illegal.
But, for the sake of argument, let
us admit that such arbitrary meas
ures could be taken, then Mr..
Hinemon must admit that such a
rule would impose on US the edu-
cation of the negro in his idleness
without him contributing any por-
ton of his earnings to the burden
of our taxes. Neither would this re-
lieve the schools of the rural dis
trict, as Mr.. Hinemon could not
change the railroads, so they would
run through all the interior school
districts of the state and thus give
those. schools sufficient funds to
have more than half term each
year.
The epidemic of the mumps
which has seriously interfered
with the classes at the state school
for the blind, is now almost a thing
of the past. No new cases have
been reported within the last few
days. At one time there were
s. cases of mumps in the school.
There have been sixty five cases
altogether.
DEMPSEY BOYS PARDONED