The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-06-25

mailed later than Monday morn
ing.
Well, the June weddings are pretty
and DOWN comes the supplying of the
nigh over with. After all this lovin
"vittles."
The advocates Of the new county at
Woodruff have so far made no reply
to Col Moores article except person al
abuse Of him. Although the colonel
was a little too vitriolic, his arguments
cannot be refuted and they are hav-
ing telling effect. All Of those
bridges and those hilly roads will be
expensive to keep up and the Wood
ruff people know it.
The South Carolina congressman
might as well turn over their patron
age" to Sen. Tillman and Sen. Smith
as it seems rs If the latter are having
the final decision on the appoint
it was said that the congressman
would have the right to name the
postmasters in their respective dis
'triCts during the Wilson administra-
tion, but it seems as if they are to
have this power just so long as the
nominees are persona grata to the
town senator's
EQUALIZATION OF TAXES.
In another part of this paper will
be found Comparison of Tax Values
over the State" taken from The Green
wood Index to whom it was sent by
Auditor Garfield, of that county, the
table having been prepared from
office by NJ. c. Bowles, OF Coronaco.
The table was accompanied by let
ter from Mr.. Canfeld as follows:
Il am handing you herewith the ad-
dress of each County Auditor in the
State. If you will publish the alb
stract made up by Mr.. NJ G.. Bowles
tmember OF the State Board) and send
Il marked copy to each of these Off
GERS that they may see the gross in
equaliticS Of assessments, | feel sure
we can use our influence with the va
rfous board of assessors and the gen
eral public, and in that way bring
about more general equality in the
assessment OF property.
real estate, l hope to see some inter
est taken in cQualizing values Of real
and personal property. My expert
snce as Auditor and a study Of this
abstract convinces me that real es-
tate is entirely too low or personal
property too high. From study Of
this abstract. ! estimate the average
assessment OF real estate throughout
the State as about Is per cent of its
market value and personal property
as at least 40 per cent of its value
the personal property being assessed
as VIII be 8een nearly three times
as high as the real property
Now, in addition to the fact that this
is a violation of the law, there are
Two reasons why it Is wrong: 1st.
Real estate is permanent property and
constantly enhancing in value, while
personal property is perishable prop
erty constantly decreasing in value.
End. The bulk of real estate is owned
by wealthy individuals and corpora
dfons, while the bulk of personal prop
eTty is owned by the poorer class of
people.
Yours very truly,
a. W. Garfield.
Greenwood, June 16, 1913.
This matter of the inequalities of
assessments is one that should be Civ
on serious consideration. 1t will be
remembered that during the county
campaign last summer one OF the can
didates for the legislature. Mr.. w. r.
Richey, urged as one of his platforms
that something should be done to
bring about an equality In the assess
ments between certain parts of the
state. He stated, and the table bears
him ont, that in some of the eastern