The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-12-27
Il SUtUR LADY
DIDN'T like JURY DUTY
From Fridays Daily

From Fridays Daily.
Mrs. Geneva Selig, nee Hender.
! son, of Eldorado, Kansas, formerly
i a public school teacher at LIE Sueur
writes entertainingly to lie Sueur
friends OF her experience lately as
member Of the first all-women
jury, to try district court case in
Kansas. The case had been pre-.
piously tried by a jury of men, who
had disagreed seven to five. The
lady jury agreed in two hours, bring
ing a verdict for the plaintiff for
$1,000, on a land sale contract.
The Kansas City Star, in report.
| ing the case states that Mrs. Geneva
Sefig, a bride and social leader of
Eldorado, was one of the two Jur.
ors who left the jury box when a
photographer tried to get picture
of the jury and that Mrs. Selig men,
| toned as an objection to her serving
on the jury that she was expecting
company in the afternoon, and that
the judge overcame that objection
! by diSmiSSing court at 8 D. IN.
Experience Published Broadcast.
Mrs. Selig says: 81 wonder if you
fpeople have heard of my latest ex-
| perience. 1t has been published
broadcast In this part of the coun-
try and even appeared in the New
York papers, SO ] thought it had
gone everywhere. Isn't that some
notoriety for insignificant "me" TO
q 7 NC intn
ON the first Womens jury to sit in
a District court in Kansas. Most
people would feel honored to say
that, but ] don't at all. can't see
it as most people do. First because
IL am not an. advocate of Women
suffrage. l may be old-fashioned, but
I believe if women care to vote they
ought to be allowed to. / consider
myself as smart as any ordinary
man and think women capable of
voting as intelligently as men, but
personally don't care to vote at all.
u think woman's place is in her
home and / don't care to go out of
it to attend to mems business.
Frightened When Sheriff Came.
But when the sheriff came for me
to serve OIL jury (since woman's
suffrage has carried in KanSas) ]
was too frightened and too ignorant
OF such things to get out Of it. So,
much. against my will, | had to
serve, and my experience Though
learned great deal which is good
to know has made me more opposed
to woman's rights. as they are call
ed. than ever. The nuisance of being
h.>n low hnfn
and the day after Thanksgiving and
no meals prepared and my broom
and dust pan Just standing where
had to drop them the morning
was sent for in such a hurry, etc,
was just too provoking for any use.
After ] found was in for it. serv-
ed to. the best Of my ability and
when the first ballot of the jury was
nine and three in favor of the plain.
tiff Tiny side) got busy and by
my arguments and speeches, con-
verted two out OF three and the
other came over to our side herself"
Madison, Wis, December 20
Considering the lack of precedents
and the complexity of the subject
covered, the income tax act as a
whole has proved an effective work
ing measure. No radical changes in
the general scope of the law seem
necessary.
This is the summing up of the
first years operation of the income
tax law in Wisconsin by the state
tax commission in it's annual report
just issued.
arf h. hot hn fnl
income tax assessed in the state
amounts to $3,501, 161.46, of which
1898. 454.44 is assessed against cor
porations and $1,10S,707.02 against
firms and individuals. The average
rate Of taxation for firms and indi-
viduals is 1876 per cent, and for corr
porations 5.4 per cent.
After deducting all the personal
property offsets the commission ap.
proximates that the net yield Of the
income tax will be about $2.2O0,000.
or this amount the state will re-
ceive 100000, the counties $40
900. and the towns, cities and viii
lagos s1,54O,000.
THE result of the first assessment
makes it clear that the income tax
is primarily an urban tax" says the
report More than 40 per cent of
the entire tax is assessed in Mil
,waukee city alone, and more than
so per cent in the counties contain.
ing cities Of the second, third and
fourth classes"
After making deductions for the
personally Offset, according to the
corporations will pay
something over &C per cent, farmers
less than one-third Of i per cent,
manufacturers-not classed as COR
porations nearly IL per cent, and
professional classes nearly 8 per
cent.
The tax commission defends the
so-called inquisitorial features of the
WISCONSIN income tax law, and says
they are "the honest mans protec-
ton against the tax dodger." The
report adds that the old personal
property tax would have been much
moro inquisitorial than the income
tax had it been enforced. The blank
forms for the coming year. it Isl
predicted. will be simplified, the oath
will be replaced by a simple declara-