The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-01-05
farmers union hot
after TAX-D0DGERS.
AFLAGRANT EVIL EITTINGLY DE-
NOUNCED AND THE REM
EDY PROPOSED.

a 1ra1ClnS the StdCe llloiley, "uoe 10
lghe man doing who is false-swearing
Aout the amount of tax ne is due
g State?
Y Te often become awe-strlcken
corporation or foreign graft,
t have to be lambasted into pay
any attention to our big army of
u ome-made grafters -,tax-dodge
Eat our own door.
If it is a fragrant violation of law for
the genial whiskey drummer and dis
pensary men to fail to turn in just
revenue and profits to the State,is it
not also a crime of the same class for
our genial friends in other occupa-
tons to fail to turn in to the State
every dollar of taxes he is due the
State according to law?
We farmers are prone to point to
corporations and the business world
as the great harbingers of grafters,
but the plain truth is no man or class
of men can point the finger of scorn
at any other class and say thief!
CRATER!
The farmer has the same kind OF
human nature in his makeup that
everybody else has. All the farmer
has to do to rid himself Of this con-
ceit, let him take a peep at a few
pages of his county Auditors book
and blush with shame at the black
sheep there are within his own flock.
Why, bless you, not long since a
farmer was looking over his county
Auditors books after another mat
tter and uncovered the tax returns
NJ another farmer who is worth
Enore than one hundred thousand
sollars, who returned his property at
- 3kss than five thousand dollars!
This well-to-do farmer pays less
an one hundred dollars tax, while
iaother farmer near by. who does
Anot own one-fourth as much proper
JSty, pays two hundred and twenty
dollars tax. And, worse STILL this
wS1to-do tax-dodging farmers son
is on the county Board of Equaliza-
tion, while yet another son is the
county Clerk. Now, this may not be
Rtconspiracy,to to have one son holding
down the county Board of Equaliza-
tion and another holding down the
lid of the books that contain records
of the securities of his father, but
at the same time we are forced to
say that if this ugly state of affairs
is not conspiracy, that it is at least
an ALFRED convenient accident or
coincident to protect taX-dodgerS.
IAN INToLERABLE OUTRAGE.
Many of us know of cases where
some unfortunate who owns nothing
taxable save his head and heels
(poll and road) has been chased for
miles over the country and finally
run down and in for from So to S12
costs and the employer is compelled
to put up the cash for his unfortun-
ate laborer or tenant, or his man
goes to the chaingang, while another
well-to-do tax-dodger is just as law
fully due the State anywhere from
$50 to S1OO, but is allowed to for
swear and go free. Another case is
the 'home-builder" (the slogan for
the safety of the State and nation)
who pays one-third on his purchase
for home and borrows the balance
and after years Of toiling under the
burden of high interest, taxes and
family expenses is closed out at last
to satisfy the money-lender's claim,
which is lawful, but the holder of
these iron-clad securities had not
paid a dollar taxes on these notes
and mortgages during the whole
time this homie builder" was striv-
ing to pay both interest and taxes.
Ask this money-lender why he
does not pay the taxes on his secur-
tiles and he will have the gall to say
a whole heap about double-taXing to