The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-17
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rake-off in { a liquor q deal e y.
grating the States money, what Is Is
the man doing who is false-sWearing:
about the amo punt OF tax he sls dye 7. ,:
the State?
We often become aWe-strsllc y g; 1lslt Ken &C:
oYer3corporation sof foreign graft Dut ttt
have to be la1nbasted into paying
ssany attention TO orr big army Of Of.
/: homemade grsfter ters-tax-dod dgers--
lat our own door .3sfs5 SIS
If It ID "a fragrant vic lation OF law a..
/ for the genial ssWhisk drummer and 7 q
1 sd!spensarysmen5 to fail to turn in Just:
revenue ana profits to the state, IL It
& not also o. crime Of the same class
for: our genial friends i'm other oc-
/: :sc,.n,pationss to fail to turn in to the
state every d dollar Of taxes he is due
The State according to- law ?5$:;S. 5:ssA ,.5,
We farm are prone to point to
/ corporations ard the business world
y as the great harbingers OF grafters,.
but the plain truth is no man or class
,of3 men can point the finger Of scorn
4sat any other class and say theft,
CRATER! s Ss5; i.5i5 II
The farmer has the same Kind OF
human nature in. his makeup that
everybody else: has. All the farmer
has to do lto;rid himself of this con-: q:
1 cseit, let him take, 4 peep at "a few 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 g
farmer. was looking over his county
Auditors books after another matter
and uncovered the tax returns Of an
other farmer who is worth more than
sone hundred thousand dollars. who
returned his property at less than,
Eve thousand dollars! .g. E; 55i !:
This well-to-do} farmer pays less
than one hundred dollars tax while
n another farmer near by, who does
mot own one-fourth as much proper
!: -ty, pays two hundred and twenty dol
lars tax. And, worse still, this we'll
s to-io-tax-dodging farmers sonijis on
the County Board of. Equalization,
while yet another son is theTcounty
clerk. Now, this may not be a con-:
spiracy, to have one son holding
h down The County Board of Eoualiza-
Sltion and books that contain certain
records Of the securities of his faith
;er, but at the same time we are
/ forced to say that II this ugly state
] OF affairs is not conspiracy, that.it
Is at least an alfred convenient, acct
dent or coincident to protect tax
dodgers. z.A, = = - -.
ss 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
d down and In for from ss to- gs12scosts
and the employer is compelled to
Sput up the cash for his unfortunate
ssslaborer orstenant or his man goes to
The chafngang, while another we'll
s;to.do tax-d ger is just as lawfully:
due ttne State anywhere from $50 to;
$780,; but is allowed to forswear and
go free. Another case Is the home
builder (the slogan fol; the safety
1 or the State and nation) who pays
one third on his purchase for q home
lana &borrows the balance and after
years Of fatoiling, under the burden Of
high Interest, taxes and family ex-
penses Is closed out at last to satisfy
& the smoney-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 "home
{ pay tax; too, while the law says both
terest and taxes. $50, i.
Ask this money-lender why he does
,S not pay the taxes on his securities
( and he; will have the gall to say a
whole heap about double-taxing, to
compel the farmer to pay tax,on bor-
Ssrowed money and the money-lender
pay tax, too, which the law says both
shall pay tax. @..s d
am informed by reliable source
. that we have in our State a corpora
tion that has more than one and q
half millions cashiin It's business that
I Is paying tax on only ninety-ave
{ thousand, for the reason that one Of
Z the head aofacials cftthis corporation
is[ [on the Board Of Assessors and no
doubt thetState. hss all sizes of this
Z kind OF graft in ali its coun.ies.
{ Are the tax laws Of the State made
= for the plain, honest people to go by
3 and the unscrupulous cunning to
I evade? Why is it that the County
: Auditors do not go down into this
n thing and place ali the property on
Z the tax books, as the law requires
Z them to do?
There are few among them that
have the "sand" to go into the lair
: of the lions that guard the voters,
Z that drive the nails down In the shin
: giles that cover their heads! Do these
/ floundering officers Of the law think
more about their salaries than they
do about the good of the people or