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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-14
TAX AMENDMENT
Power to Classify Property the
Only Remedy Found.
RESULTS OF SEVERAL ATTEMPTS

Present ohio System Full Of Imprac.
liabilities Is the Verdict Of Every
Person and Commission That Has
Investigated the Subject With
View to Remedying Existing Evils.
The uniform rule Of taxation re-
quired by the state constitution adopt.
ed in 1851 never has been and never
can be enforced according to it's letter.
This fact has been recognized by
every person who has intelligently
studied the subject with an unpreju-
diced mind. More than this, II has
forced acknowledgement from many
honest but preiudiced minds by the
force OF its truth
Every person, organization and Off
cial tax commission set to the task OF
studying Ohio's system of state and
local taxation, with the view of expos
Ing its evils and discovering remedies
for such evils, has reached an identi-
cal conclusion. The evils are the re-
suit Of attempts to enforce an lmprac.
ticable rule. The remedy Is to classify
property for taxation so that subjects
In each class can be dealt with justly.
TAXATION AMENDMENTS PROvID.
ING FOR CLASSIFICATION.
Submitted in 1SS9)
"The General Assembly shall pro-
vide for the raising of revenue for the
support of the state and local govern.
ments but taxes shall be uniform on
the same class of subjects"
RESULT OF THE ELECTION.
Vote against the amendment -. 273.26s
Vote for the amendment ........ 245,i ,i3S
Majority against amendment. 1880
| Total vote cast at the election. 775.721
Necessary to adopt amendment. 3s7,S6t
Vote for the amendment ....... PAS, ,I3S
Constitutional majority against
amendment ........,.......... 142,i23
TAXATION AMENDMENT MAKING
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-14
Constitutional majority against
the amendment ...,,...... 1880
ANOTHER CLASSIFICATION
AMENDMENT

ANOI1tEh CIyhSSlFlCAl
AMENDMENT.
After the third failure In 1898, the
year in which the tax commission APP
pointed by Governor William McKin-
ley made its report, no further effort
was made to amend the constitution
for ten years.
In 1902 the Ohio State Board of
Commerce took up the work and sue
ceeded in inducing the General AS
sembly TO submit an amendment that
was voted on in 1903. This proposed
amendment provided for classification
as follows:
"The General Assembly shall pro-
vide for the raising of revenue for all
state and local purposes in such man.
ner as It shall deem proper. The sub
jects of taxation for state and local
purposes shall be classified, and the
taxation shall be uniform on all sub.
jects of the same class, and shall be
just to the subject taxed
RESULT OF THE ELECTION.
Vote for the amendment ....... 326.622
Vote against the amendment. 49,. 1868
Majority for the amendment. $685. ,059
Total vote cast at election, ..... 81, ,203
Necessary TO adopt amendment, 43s, ,602
Vote for the amendment. ...... S26,622
Constitutional majority against
the amendment ,......,..,.,, III, $50
LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE.
These four attempts to amend the
constitution on the subject Of taxation
supply data showing the action of
electors as follows:
1889.
Total vate cast ..,.,,,..,........ 775,72l
Total vote on amendment. .,.. 51S, ,T05
Electors neglecting 20 vote on
amendm4nt ....., ......,... 57,0l5
Constitutional majority against
amendment .......,. ......... l42,423
1891.
Total vote cast ,...,.,..,......,. S03,32S
Total vote on amendment, .... 36S, ,191
Electors neglecting to vote on
amendment ..,,., ,,,,..... 435,
Constitutional majority against
amendment ,...,.,". .,,... ss.4s7
Majority votes In favor of
amendment .,,,.,,. ,.....,,, 23S,lGi
1893.
Total vote east..,,....,,....,,n sS5,eot
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-14

LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE.
These four attempts to amend the
on the subject Of taxation
supply data showing the action of
electors as follows:
1890
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-14

WAN'TED-An experienced bookkeep-
cr one who understands shorthand
preferred. State salary. Address
Short Hand care Of Mirror.
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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-14
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AMENDMENT MAKING
CLASSIFICATION.

CLASSIFICATION.
Submitted in 1917
Laws may he passed which shall
tax by uniform rule all moneys, cred
It's. investments in bonds, stocks, joint
stock companies, or otherwise; and all
real and personal property according
to the true value thereof in money. In
addition thereto, laws may be passed
taxing rights, privileges, franchises,
and such other subject matters as the
Legislature may direct"
This was plainly an attempt to class.
ify rights. privileges, franchises and
other subject matters"
RESULT OF THE ELECTION.
Vote for the amendment ANN. III
Vote against the amendment. 65.0ii
Majority In favor OF amendment 2ss, ,163
Total vote cast at election. S03, ,32S
Necessary to adopt amendment. 4O1 .66i
Vote for the amendment. 500, III
Constitutional majority against
amendment ......,. .....,... 9S,f7
SECOND TRIAL 1898.
In 1893 the amendme' that had
been voted on in 1891 was again sub
mitted to the people without change.
RESULT OF THE ELECTION.
Vote for the amendment ...... S22, ,422
Vote against the amendment. S2,2Sl
Majority In favor OF amendment 240,1i1
Total vote cast Mt election ...... s35. .604
Necessary to adopt amendment. 417,S02
Vote for the amendment ....... 322.422
Constitutional majority against
the amendment ........... $3.50
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Tight Squeeze.

Henry Splitter and wife captured the
lightning rod agents horses on the pub
lie highway and traded them back for a
big round dollar. Then the agents hied
vice, came back and demanded their coin.
They got e., but complain that II was
pinched all out OF shape.-iloney Grove
(Ark) Times.
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WOULD YCULIKE TO MOVE

can consider ambitious men for positions In
every section ~ the country. We have to day.
executive, ofnce, sales and technical men. Sal.
ary, S60OS0,oo0. Write stating experience and
salary expected.
HAPGooDS ONC.), Brain Brokers
S53 xmsa Rks. cessud o.. u ii2s Psk Bsg, fl,bug Ps
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
a RARy CONTEST.

Some mothers and nurses carry the
tiny baby, when taking it for an out
ing, in a quaint willow basket that
suggests the papoose sling. only in
stead of having the infant strapped
to the mother it lies fiat in a downy
nest. The basket is quite small, not
more than twenty-four inches in
length, and just wide enough to ac-
commodate the baby wrapped up in
her outdoor apparel. The shape of
the basket is the same as that Of
the tiny willow cribs so much in use.
There is this difference, however,
the carrying or portable crib is pro-
vided with long handle which can
pc swung over the arm.
| For a veranda airing an arrange
llent CT this kind will be found use
Il, for the baby can be moved from
le spot to another without having
If position interfered with and she
q be carried up or down stairs
vile still enjoying her s!umber.
he inside of the basket may be
lid with silk and lace, though a
serate soft comfortable, which can
be,ired and changed as often as
like Is better. Two or three soft
daily covered pillows will make
the I'd like a fairy couch, and baby
can ,joy many. happy hours in this
littleillow nest-New York Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04

his parents to send him to school.
Compulsory attendance laws are aim
ed at the selfish and indifferent par
ent, not at the child. OF what ad-
vantage are good teachers, long
school terms, and fine school houses
unless the children attend the schools?
In a recent election to increase the
local school tax in district in North
Carolina, where they have recently
enacted a kind of local option COM
pulsory law, a certain taxpayer made
this declaration: eff you vote to
compel the children of this district
to go TO school, increase my tax as
you please; if you are not going to
put the children into the schools I am
opposed to any further tax" That
mans argument has no answer.
Some opponent to compulsory
law says, "You have not enough
school houses and teachers to take
care of the thousands of children not
in school," That argument is worth
less unless we are willing to admit
that the white people of the State are
actually unable to take care Of their
children. Let some outside philan-
thropist offer to aid South Carolina
in matters educational, then You get
an answer to that question. Will the
school houses ever be built or the
teachers employed until there is
need for them? Would it be wise for
a farmer. to let $500 crop waste in
the fields, rather than build 800
house in which to store it9
The last argument Of tile oppon
ents to compulsory attendance it
that it cannot be enforced without
truant officers, and that trlant Of
fcers must be paid. Certainly. The
present child labor law if this State
is a dead letter, because no provis-
ion is made for its enforcement. And
the police of Charleston, Columbia,
and other places have to be paid,
but it pays to pay them. We are
perfectly willing to pay an officer Of
the law to arrest little negro boys in
10-cent crap game. but it is too
much to pay an officer of the law 10
see that lazy, selfish father sends lis
child to school. We are paying to-
day in actual money every year five
times as much in tribute to the in
dustrial supremacy of New England
and other sections, as it would cost
us to put every white child in The
State in school for six months in the
year. What economists we are. And
what philosophers we try to be.
WILLIAM H. HAND.
University of South Carolina.
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POOR ATTENDANC,Ej,Az-E7j'V5,el,n IAN I,

POOR ATTENDING Even with
insufficient funds, poor school houses,
short school terms, and incompetent
teachers, the people may still show
commendable educational purpose
by sending every child to school ev-
cry day the schools are in session.
Much good may be got out of a very
inferior school, if the children at
tend it regularly and with the pur-
posee of Citing the most possible out
of it. How are the white children Of
South Carolina attending the schools?
In 1907 the white enrolment in the
public schools Of the State was Ia IA,
66S, while. the average attendance
was only 1O3,3O4. The federal cen
sus taken seven years lefore (1900)
gives South Carolina 1l7,972 white
children between the ages OF 5 and 20
years, while our legal school age is
between 6 and 81 years. 1t is safe
to assert that barely sy per cent
of the white children of ihe State
are enrolled in any kind f school,
and not over forty per cent are in
average attendance. In; 19Q0, thirty
six per cent of the white children
between the ages Of 10 and ia years
were not enrolled in any school, pub
lie or private. In the same year
Massachusetts, had only six per cent
of her white children of the CORE
ponding ages out of school, Connecti-
cut had seven per cent and Michigan
eight per cent.
In 1900 South Carolina had 54.l7
native white illiteratesI over 10 years
of age, only 1872 fewer white illirer-
ates than the State, had in 1870, thir-
ty years previous. Atthe same date
Connecticut. with neatly twice the
white population Of Suth Carolina,
had but 1853 white Aiterates over
10 years of age. Agan, South Car
olina had 1868 natiH white Hitter
ates Of the voting ages Rhode Island,
with four-fiths the population of
South Carolina, had ust $50. We
had 1889 native wlite illiterates
between the ages of Il and 10 years;
Michigan, with twice our population
had 1,14l; Connecticut had 160, ana
Rhode Island 100. J it reasonable
10 hopc for the Souh Carolina Of
tomorrow, with her lad of helpless
illitorates, to cope SUCCESSFULLY with
those States and sectins which have
freed themselves frod the bondage
Of ignorance? The lay is forever
gone from South Caolina when
few highly trained Hn of leisure
could direct and contol the destinies
of the people. Thj responsibility
has been shifted 70 he shoulders of
the masses, and nowye are forced 10
consider the training Of the masses.
Only Yesterday Hor O. B. Martin
gave this out: "Seeral educational
leaders in New Engind frankly told
us that thew are spading their mon
ey and building uptheir schools in
order to retain and aaintain their in
dustrial supremacy They realized
that we have advantages and great
resources in the Soth but they pro-
pose to keep tf~ cad, if possible,
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,

-srael Ludlow. of New York Cisv,
Aeclr"ad spherical balloon racing an
profitable
The Duke of the Abruzzi, who is to
we'd Katherine Elkins, sailed from
Havre for America.
Mr. Yuan Shih Kai appealed for
square deal" for China in discuss
ing an Americana Chinese alliance.
Captain Pritchard, of the Maure-
taria, will succeed Watt. of the Lusi-
tania, Is commodore Of the Cunard
iieet.
The will of Bishop Potter. which
divided his estate among his five
children. was filed for probate in New
York City.
President Castro of Venezuela
threatened that, in the event of a
revolution. those captured would be
shot as traitors.
president Eliot, of Harvard, spoke
% hp a6vornn<in tho WOLF
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.v..s-anrr- uauguters fTparents them
selves ignorant and nable to sappre-
ciate or to understsd what ed,lca-
tion means to their hildren and 10
the State; some are |he children of
fathers and mothers, Feedy and sell
fish who are more ian willing 10
make wage-earners ansbread-winners
out of heiryoung untaght offspring; !;
a few are the childrenpf palents op-
posed to education, beause tfey have
known some educated scounGel; a
very few are the childpn of 5'arents
who actually need the pbor O their
children to eke out a:lliving and
many are the children f fathes en-
crossed in material affairs and moth
ers recreant to duty. Many ofEhese
children are at work on the farms, in
stores and shops at few cents alay.
and in the cotton mills making pod
wages for children, wh lie. hundcds
of others are roaming ths streets nd
country lanes-the training grouds
for idlers, vagrants and enemies!o
law, order and decency
Two of the worst enemies to chill.
hood and youth are overwork al.
idleness. Close confinement at mar m
ual labor is dulling, sitting. and dies
tructive to childhood; ialeness i
poisonous and ruinous to youth. AT
tendance upon school may ibe used a
a corrective for both evils. TIL
State, in order to protect at leas
one class of children against over
work, has passed a childlabor Law
Barring some notable exceptions, th
abortiveness of that law is4a commo
Jest. To Illustrate: In 1905. one o
our city school superintenaents los
more than twenty pupils from or
school room within two months. /
company with ore Of the cotton mi
superintendents of that town Ia ma
in favor of schcols). the school sur
erintcndent went from house to4hous
in the mill village enquiring for thes
missing children. In one afternoo
he located twelve Of them, every on
of them unlawfully engaged at wor
in the mill, though only three Q
their names appeared on the pay rol
Now, the child Of the lazy, greed,
selfish parent is at work. and not j
school. The child Of the ignorar
and Indifferent parent is neither 9
work nor in school; he is idling. Bot
children need to be educated; I'll
State needs both of them; and tf
State has already decreed that II
taxpayers shall establish and mail
tain schools for both. There remair
but one logical thing to do-compl
tic parents of both TO send the
children to school. There is but Ii
tIr lnoie in compelling people to pr
taxes to support the schoclc. then no
mitting the parents Of 'he ch'ldre
who most need the cehar's dnl'h1
a.clr 10 krrp thor f"o,'a fho henoh
Of tie schools, TIE noorrr ~" "'"
the moro is the need 'cr "ompell'r
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
Millinery Concern Fined.

Columbia, Special.-James Henry
Rice, Jr., secretary of the Audubon
Society of South Carolina, obtained,
through Magistrate James H. Fowles,
warrants against two Columbia dry
goods and millinery concerns. charg-
ing violation of the laws for the pro-
lection of non-game birds. The war
rants name the James L. Tapp Com
pany and Mr.. w. H. Monckton, Jr.,
manager of the Globe Dry Goods Com
pany. The defendants pleaded guilty
and were fined 81 each.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
THE GAME LAWS NOW IN
FORCE.
Interesting Summary Prepared b
Secretary Jas. E. Rice, Jr. ,


Secretary Jas. 81. Rice, Jr.
From The Columbia State.
The Audubon Society is in receipt
of requests daily for copies of 10
game laws. These cannot be supplied
since the issue has been exhausted
giving conclusive evidence of the in
terest felt in tie subject all over
South Carolina. The society has re-
quested that extra copies be returned.
Requests have come also from other
States. To make the principal points
clear the following is summary OF
the more important laws as prepared
by Secretary Jas. Henry Rice, Jr.
Game Birds.
The statute of 1905, passed two
years before the Audubon society
was chartered, defines what are game
birds and what are not. The game
birds are: Swans, wild geese, brant,
wild ducks, rails (marsh hens), coots,
gallinules, surf birds, snipe, wood
cock, quail, (partridge), rice bird,
black bird, dove, sand-pipers, upland
plover. curlew, wild turkey and pa
irire chicken.
1t is not known to the society why
prairie (pinnated grouse) hens were
put on THIS list, nor why Mongolian,
or ring-necked pheasants and ruffed
grouse were left off. There are no
prairie chickens in South Carolina
whereas there are both Monlgolian
| pheasants and ruffed grouse, but
such is the law.
The above birds may be shot in
the seasons permitted by law, or
taken in those seasons by any method
which the law allows.
Nongame Birds.
All birds not on this list are nom
game birds within the meaning Of the
law, and may not be killed at any
time; nor may their nests or eggs be
destroyed. 1t is a misdemeanor to
have in possession any part of q non
game bird, such as feathers, body or
, skin: and it is equally against the
law whether such bird was killed
within OF without tic State.
The State Owns the Birds.
In the preamble to this act it is
stated: "That all wild birds. whether
resident OF migratory, in this State,
shall be, and are hereby, declared to
be the property of the State" That
is the law of South Carolina.
Birds That Are Exempted.
The act further recites that the
English sparrow, cooper's hawk (the
chicken or hen hawk, the sharp
Skinned hawk (known locally as the
"Blue Darter'O, the great horned
owl and all other birds which are by
nature destructive Of other birds, are
not included among the birds pro-
tected by this act, nor are the nests
or eggs of these birds protected.
A person is allowed to kill crows
on his premises if they are destroy
inc crops, but he is not allowed to
sell them or their feathers.
No non-game bird may be shipped
out of the State nor may the eggs or
feathers of uch-bira-hA-sli'>---1
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04

-ope=ated bv J. P. Sale G. Co. The
fire vas discovered in the redrving
machinery. and in short time WAS
beyond control. About 300 negro en-
ploves were at work in the building,
and so rapidly did the fire gain head
wav that several came near losing
their lives in getting out In the
building were about 100000 pounds
of leaf tobacco. TIE loss is estimat-
ed at 100000 mostly covered by in
surancc.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
spartanburg Lawyers in Personal En-
counter.

Spartanburg, Special. : Ex-Gov.
John Gary Evans and his former law
partner, S. G. Finley, engaged in a
personal encounter here in the law Of
fee of Nichols & Nichols. Several
blows were exchanged but they were
separated before either was injured.
Messrs. Evans and Finley were asso-
ciated in the practice of law at the
Spartanburg bar for several years. A
few months ago they dissolved the
partnership and there was disag-
reement as to settlement.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
Salnda Bank Prosperous.

Saluda, Special.-At the recent an.
nual meeting of the stockholders OF
the Bank of Saluda the reports of the
president and cashier showed the bank
had had a prosperous and successful
wear. 1t was evident from the presi-
dents report that very conservative
policy had been pursued and this was
especially endorsed by the stockhold-'
ers. The regular dividend Of 9 per
cent. was paid and the sum of $4,000
carried to the surplus account.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
Vance Milan Fired Upon.

Clinton. Spccial.-Vance MiIam,
son of Mr.. Marshall Milan, mer-
chant of Clinton. was fired upon five
times with Winchester rife in the
hands of man named Sullivan, an
employe of the Lydia cotton mill.
Thore was some misunderstanding be-
tween them in business transaction
on Wednesday. Milan went to Ly-
dia mill again on Thursday. The
trouble again came up. Several shots
went through his overcoat, which he
carried on his arm. One shot cut the
skin on his hip.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
Unior County Votes Prohibition.

Union, Specialization county
again voted for prohibition by about
three hundred majority out of fifteen
hundred votes cast. During the past
three years of prohibition the ar
rests for drunkenness have decreased
80 per cent and property valuations
in the county are said to have in
creased two million dollars.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-11-04
SOUJTEICAROE INA NEWS ITEMS
News of Interest Cleaned From All Sections of the State and
Arranged Fer Busy Readers

under the laws of almost every civil
lized country in the world. There are
15O,O00,OO0 birds used up in the
plume trade of Europe every year,
these birds being imported from Asia,
Africa and Polynesia. Many species
have become extinct through this
savage slaughter.
The Open Season for Game.
According to the act of 1906 the
season for shooting partridges, wilG.
turkey, woodcock, Mongolian or other
pleasants is made from November 15
to March 1, with the exception of
the following counties.
Beaufort, Hampton, Dorchester,
Colleton, Charleston, Barnwell, Berk-
ley, Aiken, Oconee, Fairfield, Saluda,
Georgetown and Clarendon.
These counties have from Novem-
Der / to April l. Lexington was
formerly among the excepted coun-
ties, but has Been taken off and the
season there is from November Is TO
March l.
The deer season is from September
l to January l, but the law applies
only to Georgetown county. The rest
are from August l to February l.
Game Birds Not to be Sold.
!. The act of 1906 makes it a misde-
maanor to sell, or offer or expose for
sale, 10 pothunt, net, or trap, or by
freight to pursue with intent to
catch, kill or injur eany of the game
birds named in that section. The
handling, possession or ownership of
these birds is prima facie evidence
that they are being offered for sale.
The Law of the Land.
These are the laws of the State of
South Carolina, made by the lawful
representatives of the people and ere
binding on every citizen whether he
thinks they are wise or unwise. The
first consideration is that they are
the laws of the land. Any person
has the constitutional right to make
representation to the Legislature to
have any law changed. but while it
is on the books he is bound to obey
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battleship Idaho, vice Captain S. w.
B. Diehl, relieved on account of i'll
health.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, the nov
elist's fourth son. lectures OCCASION
ally On his fathers life in Australia.
which is now his home D'Orsay and
Tennyson were his godfathers when
he was christened.
Vladimar PoulseD. the Danish in
ventor, who is only thirty-eight years
Dld, is the son of Judge in the High
Criminal Court of Copenhagen. He
has succeeded in making wireless tel
ephone connection between Lingby
and Weisensee, a distance of ESQ
miles!