Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-10-12

West Virginia in the year
1SS6-11, 05O,264
190O-1S,736,911 -
19O5-31.323.O2s
1909-41 ,693,756
The population of the State in the
year
1900-95S. 500
1910 100000 approximately
The length of school term in the
year
lS96-5.55 monthly average
1SOS-6.75 months average
Amount of money expended for publ
1S96-S1 .79S.6O4
19O9-$3, 9S7. 667OO
Amount OF the distributable school
tund in the year
1Se6-$3SO,995.OO
19O9-s6O6,s57.OO
The bank deposits in the year
1S96-State Banks, 60-Deposits
$10,6O9, SS1.OO
1s09-State Banks, 117-Deposits
S54, 472.0S3.0O
(National Bank Deposits not avail
a5le).
Number of school houses in the
state Ia the year
1Sg6-5.f75
1909-6.SSS
The taxable wealth of the State in
year
1865 215,669,932.
l30S-$1 .o63,274.S51.OO
The value OF the Public School Dron-
erty of the State in
1S96-sS,227141
SS.15O.7O6
The New Tax Laws.
tNote-ln consideration of this mat
ter it should always be remembered
that 1904 was the last year under
the old tax laws, and that 1906 was
the hrst year under the new laws:
I9V5 was transition year. part of
the ola laws and part of the new laws
only operating in that year,
portion Of the platform OF the
democratic party of the Eighth
senatorial District of West Virginia
Tor this year, reads as follows:
We charge that the Dawson Tax
Laws have tended to retard the de-
velopment of the state; that they are
unnecessary. and were enacted bv
few political bosses in this state as
an excuse and opportunity to build
up political machine through the
creation of useless and unnecessary
oihces for their henchmen to fill"
Ihis language is a fair sample of
the average platform of the Democra-
tic party wherever they have as
SemDled in convention. In 1904. and
in each succeeding campaign. this
same charge. in effect, has been made
The people OF the State have not for
gotten the abuse and the villainous
attacks which were .heaped upon the
Republican party and its candidate
for Governor in 1904, because of the
proposed changes in the tax laws:
neither have they forgotten the
splendid results that have come to
the people of the State as a result
of these laws. The above plank i'm
inc Democratic platform of the
Eighth Senatorial District is the one
upon which Ex-Governor MacCorkle
is running for the State Senate. Ex-
Governor MacCorkle is an acknow-
lodged leader of his party. He was
the last Democratic Governor of the
STATE. il is to his administration
that the Democrats point with pride.
ana with which administration that
they make all comparisons. Inas-
much as the Ex-Governor is running
Tor Office upon a platform which de-
clared that the Dawson Tax Laws
are unnecessary" then it follows
That the Governor would repeal them.
for what is not necessary ought not
to be the law; and, moreover. be-
cause he declares that these laws
have retarded the development of the
State. Therefore, the Governor
would go back to the state of aairs
that obtained when he was Governor
and to the law as it then existed. a
condition criticised by Governors
Jacob, Mathews and Jackson. good
Democrats. Under Governor Mac
Corkle, the Pullman Company and
other car lines paid no taxes at all
ana the telephone, telegraph and ex-
press companies paid only ridicuI-
ously low amount. The Governor re-
terred in his first message to the
Legislature to the fact that the Pull
man Company paid no taxes. He is
now attorney for this company and
for certain telephone and railroad
companies. In declaring that the
Dawson Tax Laws ARE unnecessary"
and therefore ought to be wiped out.
does he speak as a citizen or as an
attorney?
What Would MacCorkIc DO?
" Governor MaCCorkle is elected
to the state Senate will he move to
repeal these laws? IF not what
changes will he move to make i'm
thcd2 VIII he favor the reduction
of taxes ON the Pullman Company.
the telegraph and telephone com
panies, the express companies the
pipe lines, the gas and oil companies
the steam railroads. the street and
electric railroads? VIII he move to
put back the State tax rate to from
y cents under Glasscock to- So
cents under him? VIII he move to
reduce the saloon license from $1,000.
as now, to- about $500 or $500 when
ne was Governor? Will he wipe out
the inheritance taxi VIII hc