The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-04
sNEeziNe8 AGAIN. N.


When the Wheeling Register takes
snnff you, can always count on the
smaller papers around to begin snees:
Ing Yesterday the Register contained
m editorial saying that the 1ntelligen-
Ger wouldn't publish lists Of tax ia.
tles this year like itJdid last and this
morning tie Falrmont Times tool; up
The Registers cue and reproduced the
Registers thought, substituting the
name Of aIr. Geo. NJ. Jacobs for the
Wheeling trust paper as the Reg.
ister likes to style the Intellgencer.
Below Is the Registers editorial Is
reproduced In the Times and which
we expected TO see after reading the
Register yesterday:
About this time last year, II will be
remembered that George NJ. Jacobs,
our estimable clerk Of the County
Court was sending out d number OF
postal cards to the voters Of Marion
county telling them how their taxes
had been reduced underathe opera.
lions Of the new tai, laws To be fair
to him however II must be said that
they were not sent out by him in his
oficiai capacityl as clerk Of the County
conrt They we're signed George NJ.
Jacobs, chairman Of the Republican
County Executive Committee. This
might appear to be a distinction with.
out difference, but It is not. There
8 q whole lot OF difference between
the two characters. George N. jacobs
as an Individual isn't a bad kind Of a
fellow, and as an Individual or rs
county clerk you can rely upon any
statement he makes to you as being
about the facts. But George NJ. Jacobs
as chairman 81 the Republican coun.
" Commit well, that is quite an
Y her story. But even here, It is fair
to him to say that he did not prepare
theee postal cards himself. They
were prepared by some clerks the
committee Ind employed and many of
taem 8erG so far: at variance with the
truth that we have wondered that
George sI Jacobs, even as chairman Of
The Republican County Committee.
permitted his eiectrotype signature
10 be attached to them. But how far
they were wrong didn't appear until
alter The election; because our read.
ers will remember that the books were
mot open until after the election, SO
{ Democrats didn't have access to them
To- prove the falsitya OF these cards.
But mat ;iasn,t made any difference
because The people found out anyway
when they went to pay their taxes.
But nov we are in a year when there
Isn't any election. The new tax laws
are still on trial. George NJ. jacobs
as Chairman. hasn't sent out any pos.
tails 10 tell the taxpayers how much
their taxes have been reduced, and
seeing II Is not an election year the
books are open IN the clerks Office and
anybody can tell whether they are
laying more or less taxes than they
paid in 1906. Now}w ask as a favor
viii sour readers please examine these
hooks for themselves and tell us the
exact truth are you paying more or
Y less taxes than You paid Sing19O5 2 II
you are paying more the system Is
wrong some where; ~ q majority Of
Syon are paying less, then maybe 1t
has Some redeeming qualities which
We have mot credited to It ia the pasr.
Compare yonrl tax receipts for 1905
aad tie books for this year and give
except the school leyles have been
wrong SO far. we VIII cheerfully &c.
snoNledge 1t. II We have been right
9e want to know IT. IS
The publishing OF the tax lists was
ouch a body blow to the deceptive
Democratic leaders that they nearly
fainted when y struck them. They re
member II, WILDLY and we do not blame
hem They Just can't help 1t. The
cards sent out with the! name Of Mr..
lJacobs on them were copies from the
records and absolutely correct unless
: IN rare cases sofs clerical error There
is no occasion Tor sending out such
cards or publishing such lists this
year. The people are not called on to
vote on the question this year, but If
II was necessary the same beautiful
story Of sfeduction among the masses
could be Reproduced Isr$ the Register.
and the Times and the people know
tiiatl ltions have not changed this
year from last and all OF the leyies
have been held down as low as last
hela down as low as last year. 4 The
State levy u considerably lower than
last u ear;
MT Why does the Times refsrsst to |
AIae5 as The year or comp arison In 5the
~ law propositicn2s Doesn q thsI
Times lnow that Tie new tas laws