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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
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Editor Of The Virginian:
Sir-Those articles Taxation in Nir-
ginia" by Edgar Sydenstrieler are very valuable
1T this time. when the people. need information
to show what direction to take in tax reform
You have printed five articles so far. and they
throw much light TO show why we have a TAX
law today that levies nearly all the expense or
government on industry Capital and labor).
The general property tax we now have is
400 years old, and it at best only a com
promise landed proprietor act 50 1t is about
time that we made new law to suit our modern
Christian democracy, which we are now rebuild
opposed TO the old tax law that was built on
chattel slavery.
Mr. Sydenstricker shows how the taxing power
of the community in colonial Virginia was used
go crush out all initiative and enterprise IN
business and industry by the class of men who
had absolute control of the government
This class Of landed proprietors not only con-
trolled most of the desirable land in the hahlt-
able part of Virginia, but { hyaleso mfWyp
the labor, and they made the laws just to suit
their own class of land owners, as distinguished
from the working farmer, who was called a bad
neighbor" CD.
In spite this bad tax law that puts pen
atty on industry and enterprise, Virginia mas
made much progress.
Don't tax capital! We want to attract more
Of it, Don't tax the products Of labor! we
want to reduce the cost Of living and keep our
boys and girls in Virginia.
Tax the ground values community values)
that are making certain spectators rich, whiIe
cur school teachers are underpald and our mud
roads run through depopulated country districts.
. EDMOND FONTAINE
Charlottesville.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

mower could discover. pursue and find the
guilty tribe or men over hundreds of miles of
snow and desolation? The last news received
direct from one Of those said TO have been siam
was post card which arrived recently at Ottawa
dated In June. 1912. A primitive expedition
would be on its way, by water and march, more
than year before 1t would even find track or
trace of those II sought
Certainly the Eskimo In their own country
may do IA seems good to them and feel secure
from the white mans vengeance. They alone
Of all the races of all the world are behind bar
riers impregnable and have the power to isolate
themselves If they choose
CHANGING at the fascinating subject we ars
led to wonder why the Eskimo remain In the
Arctic now that they know Of the fair, broad
warm and teeming world outside Few Of them
have had the curiosity to come out even when
their visitors were ready to bring them. They
arc a migratory people. They know now OF
what is beyond their own borders. They know
that by steady travel southwark they could ar
rive at the genial air, the flowers and fields
verdure, comfort and wonders of civilization,
Yet they elect to remain among their own ice and
limitless snow fields OF silence and barren bleak
ness. to live their own lives Of wandering and
always doubtful fighting against the fereest
and widest forces of nature; and, on the whole,
they seem to be contented people and rather
happier than we arc here. Having no homes,
no God nothing of what we regard the beau
tiful, nothing of what think Of as life, they
are satisfied and peaceful among themselves. 1t
is the white man who is restless and who leaves
behind him friends, law, comfort safety and
CARES death and suffering that he may see and
know what Is beyond and what is beyond the be-
vond vet further, and who never will be still
will not consent to stop anywhere his footsteps
his hunger for achievement his greed or his
thought and quests.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
YOUNG WHITE MAN
KILLED IN WRECK

ROANOKE, VA, Sept. 12-Mason
Morrison, eighteen years old whose
home is in Lohefta. w Va, was Instant
~ killed and his companion, Thomas
Douglas, twenty-one years old, whose
home Is In Richwoods, w. Va, was
seriously injured yesterday afternoon,
about 8 o'clock. when the first section
of southbound freight train No. 81 was
wrecked at Hatch Branch, three miles
south of Buchanan. on the Shenan-
doah Valley division of the Norfolk and
Western, deraiiing six cars of an elev-
en-car train.
The accident is thought to have been
caused by a broken flange. Morrison
and Douglas are both white men and
were trespassing, having gotten on at
Buchanan. Morrisons body was
placed with an undertaken at Buchan-
an and Douglas brought to Roanoke.
and taken to the Lewis Gale hospital
The track was blocked until o o'clock
last night and a train was sent out
from Roanoke, at 4:30, to transfer
passengers from passenger train No.
ID, which was behind the wreck and
due to arrive In Roanoke at Ans
O'Clock. A transfer OF passengers also
was made from train No. leaving
Roanoke at 635 to train No. Is for
points north.
Douglas is resting fairly well at the
hospital this afternoon, and his in
juries are not considered serious. The
Norfolk and Western could not give
any definite information as to what
disposition vail be or has been made OF
the body of Morrison. The two lads
were beating their way from
Buchanan to the Tennessee mountains
where they hopd to secure employ
ment In lumber camp, Morrison
was smothered under a mass of Stag
| loaded in the car on which they were
riding Douglas escape is considered
remarkable.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
BEHIND THE BARRIER.

Imagination is tempted TO weird wandering by
publication of the story that the Canadian mount
ed police working at the very fringe Of ciyiiza-
tloa to the FAR Moth have received notice that
two English explorers have been murdered by
Eskimos This is the first time, we believe, that
any Eskimo has manifested hostility against
any Of the occasional intruders who have ap.
peared in their vast, silent, white and frozen
domain from the outside world, which must seem
mysterious to them their land does to us.
II the Eskimo had been fierce and cruel and
jealous Of invasion, not exploring party that
has penetrated the region in which they roam
would have survived or returned. Behind the
ice barrier and long darkness crews Of ships and
members of expeditions might have been slain
Or left to starye and no word Of their fate ever
would have come back TO the sunshine and fer
ftiity they left behind them Every white man
who has gone into the Arctic has been at
the mercy Of the aborigines. dependent on them
for guidance food and shelter. Suppose even the
great British government undertook to demand
punishment for tie murder Of its two subjects
on whom would at require indemnity? What
force Of war could 1t send and where? What
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

preceding articles of the rates and varieties OF
license taxes in Virginia prior to the War Be-
tween the States, and with these statistics of
receipts before Us, 1t is now possible to give
review of their operation.
1t will be noted that there was steady. but
slow increase in revenue from licenses from
1874 until about 1885. Then began an accele-
rated increase until the outbreak of the war.
Relatively to receipts from all othef taxes IL
cense tax receipts showed a slight decline from
1894 until about 1916 and then began rapid
growth in the importance OF license receipts
until about 1895. Then followed another
slightly shaper decline for decade, then another
increase for about five years, and finally
gradual essening in relative Importance in spite
of greatly increased revenues from licenses until
the period ends with the beginning of the war.
In interpreting the outline it is to be noted
that license tax rates were practically UNCHANGED
until 1914 when they were trebled. Before
1914 only merchants and ord'naries were
taxed: In 1914 large number of new license
which to provide for the virginia's portion of
the 1912 debt, which the State government
had assumed
A large number of these new licenses
retained practically without noteworthy change
in rates until 1874 when some taxes. notably
those merchants were increased and reve-
nues showed large increase both actually and
relatively to other tax receipts
After the constitution of 1851 became effec-
tive, more licenses were levied and the principal
existing license taxes were raised. The revenue
from licenses increased with greater accerera-
ton than before, but it's percentage of all
revenue decreased. This was due to the fact
'all property and e, eatly increased the tax on
real properly. persona, property and on cor
poratio1s and othe'' sources
Thus the naturally steady growth of revenue
from licenses due to the growth In number and
size of businesses was little disturbed through
out the ante elium period; the changes in
latve Importance Of the license tax was due
to the growing importance Of other taxes "a
revenue producers. This seems to be fully
borne out in the political history of the period
IN far it affected the financial policy Of
the State to very slight extent and hardly al
all into the sectional warfare between the els
n"ntane and transmontane political and social
Industrial divisions. The explanation for this
is, o. course, apparent In the fact that the
towns--there cities-in ante bellurn
Virginia scattered and small and had
particular influence. In the East the trades
man and shopkeeper followed the lead of the
planters. In the West there were hardly any
towns at all, and the issue at all times was
between the small Western farmers and the
large Eastern plantation owners, When the
Western Nirginians came into power, +heIr share
of the burden Of revenue became relatively
smaller,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
Are There No More
Gentlemen?

During the campaing of 1912 Mr.. Wilson,
then governor of New Jersey had TO stand
in a crowded car on occasion on his way
home from New York. Mr.. Wilson did not
Ask or expect any special favors or privileges
on account of his prominence and was entirely
content to take his luck along with the other
men His experience did not rutfe his temper
or leave him with any sense of offended dignity,
as might have been the case with smaller or
more consequential man. What it did emphasize
was the lack of courtesy on the part of the
male passengers on that train. We commented
I on the incident at the time as painful illus
tration Of the decadence in national manners,
Of the change in the delicate and fine social
standards which prevailed thirty or forty years
ago and which governed the outward forms
of intercourse among gentlemen toward each
ether as we'll their bearing toward ladies.
In those old days the noblesse obllFe Of a knight
Nv code would have brought 70 his feet every
man in that car who had seat, with a pressing
request to Mr. Wilson to occupy IT, whether that
man was n political friend or foe And this be-
cause gentleman knew what was due to him
self as well as to others for talenl and great
ness was still very strong In the American breast
Nevertheless this but a detached occur
renee and might be explained not really as
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
CHRISTIAN MOTHER GUARDS
CE4ILD'S BODY FROM JEWISH
FATHER WHO is LOCKED UP

NEWARK, y. =, Sept. I2.-Severhi
hundred persons surrounded the
house at 725 Springfield avenue. the
front of which is in the town OF
Irvington, and is being guarded by
three Irvington policemen, while two
policemen Of the Newark force are
guarding the rear. which Is in this
city.
There has been trouble there for the
last twsnty-four hours, ana TWO wo-
men are inside with the body OF
child, which they are guarding. sew
eral times since yesterday morning the
father of the dead child. who IS the
husband OF one of the women, has
sought 10 obtain the body, and today
he started TO chop down the door 10
enter He was arrested and taken to
the rrvington police station. as that
door is IN Irvington. Had he started
to chop down the rear door ne would
probably have been locked up IN TINS
city. AS he Is a merchant of some
standing, bail will he probably given
for him. and the police are on guard
fearing that when he is released there
will be a new attack
Religious bitterness enters into the
fight and there is. In the crowd or
several hundred persons surround
and Christians, and feeling runs high
Denies Agreement.
The man in the case il Allan krfch-
man. Inside the house, whore the
body OF his seven-months- child
lies. are his wife and her mother,
Mary Walker. who are Christians.
Krichman and Miss walker married
four years ago. and he claims that
before they did she signed an agree
,nent under which any children she
bore were to be educated in the Jew
ish faith. and be buried under the
Jewish law. This Mrs. Krichman de-
MES.
The boy died on Tuesday. and at
once there was disagreement. Krfeh-
man sought TO bury the child at once
under the Hebrew law. but Mrs.
Krichman employed Joshua Brierley.
n Christian undertaken. and as she
and her mother had possession OF the
house and the body, 1t was prepared
for burial.
Yesterday. which was get for the
burial. found the father on hand with
william Goldsticker, a Jewish under
taker, armed with a permit TO bury
the chilli in a Hebrew cemetery, in
East Orange.
Mrs. Walker claimed to own the
house. and said that Krichman. not
having contributed to its upkeep. was
not entitled to enter. She kept him
out. and Chief of Police Green. OF
Trvington, sent couple OF men
around 20 preserve the peace.
The funeral was postponed, because
Mrs Krichman claimed that she fear
ed her husband and his friends would
snatch the body from her friends. II
IL was taken out of the house. Krich-
man and his friends kept guard un-
til 1t was too late to bury the child
last Syening.
Chops Down Door.
This morning Krichmana was on
hand early. and after vainiy seeking
admission, proceeded to chop down
the door, and for that was arrested
Health Officer Chickenger was noti-
fed, and went to the house to in
vestigate. fearing the corpse may be a
menace 20 health. He discovered that
just after he stepped into the house
he was without jurisdiction, because,
while the house projected over the
line into his town. 1t was mostly In
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

Newark, and the yard was almost
wholly n Newark. The Newark po-
lice were notified, and they took
charge 81 the back yard.
II is expected Health officer Chand-
Ter. of his city will meet Mr.. Chick
enger this afternoon late. and they
will gake joint action and see that
the body is buried. but where remains
to be settled.
Undertaken Goldsticker will bury
the child tomorrow afternoon. The
Newark hoard of health Will see that
the child is buried according to the
wishes OF the mother. and they hava
assured the undertaken that he will
be given protection In case OF trou-
BILE, while taking charge of the inter-
ment
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
Taxation in Virginia

ny EDGAR sYDENsTRICKER

License. tsS9-fS60 NI-The Operation of the TAX
In the accompanying table is shown the re-
ceipts from license from 1925 to 1856 so Tar
rs they specified in the official reports in the
State achives from which IL Is compiled. Prior
to $40 no records of receipts specified according
TO licenses available, far ! am able
to ascertain. After that date the years selected
are typical to show the operation of the new
tax laws enacted from one to three years i'm
mediately preceding The taxable is Interesting
in that it not only shows the extension Of the
license tax itself, but that it's chief revenue pro-
ducing licenses are clearly exhibited. 1t VIII
be seen of course. that the largest portion of
the revenue from licenses came from the tax on
merchants and auCtoneers and ordinarcs
To show the relative Importance Of the license
taxes means of producing revenue, the follow
ing table compiled from the official reports of
the State auditor and State treasurer for the
years designated Is pertinent.
fable Showing Receipts from Licenses and all
Other Taxes and Percentage of Licenses to the
Total Receipts, IT94-1S60:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
WINDING HIS BUSINESS.

The Norfolk VIrginian-Pflot says that stealing
a Newport News girl is only petit larceny You
are way off 1t IL perfectly grand larceny
Newport News Press.
But we dare YOU to say 1t is not moro per
fectly grand" to steal a Richmond girl,-Black-
stone Courier.
Wen lay bet that the dare will not be
taken Richmond Virgnian
Don't you fellows think that you had bet
ter mind your own business Newport News
Press.
The only bachelor member of The Vtrgfntan
staff tells us that he will and that he will begin
by not stealing a Newport News girl.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

significant It seemed to some persons. But
what sort of explanation to make of the
experience Of the presidents daughter. Miss
Eleanor, who on her journey Sunday night from
New York to Cornish, y. H.. forced to
occupy an upper berth in the Pullman sleeping
car because not man the train would give
up his lower berth to her? Several Of them were
appealed to by friends OF Miss Wilson and posi-
lively refused to exchange with her. Can II be
true her cousin, Mrs Howe, put It, that
there not gentleman that train with
lower berth at his disposa{?' Every lower
berth reserved by man would have been at
her disposal in the old days of social chivalry
and that because she was lady and not merely
out of Difference to the daughter of tie presi-
dent. Was this boorishness the result of New
Yorks selfish influence does 1t represent a
more widespread degeneracy? Would Mss VIZ
son have received such treatment in a train
starting from Baltimore or from Richmond. Va :?
We imagine not, because while the incom para BILE
bloom of an -anceint courtesy has suffered even
in this latitude, 1t has not entirely faded, and
we have not yet forgotten all manners
Heaven grant may. 1t is a great
thing to be up~to-date and to be a progressive
in all that makes for true progress But there
is one thing the American in all his
strivngs should never forget to be---and that
is to be that finest product of social civilization
"A gentleman. We do not feel so sorry for
Miss Wilson do for the men on that train
who refused to perform ordinary courtesy.
Let us nope that there was at least gentle
man among them. But If so, he must have been
II relic of the old regime and old and deaf
and blind that he did not understand what was
going on-Baltmore Sun.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
FARMERS INSTITUTE
AT FREDERICKSBURG

FREDERICKSBURG. VA. Sept. ia
A farmers institute will be held at the
fredericksburg Normal school on Sep
TENDER 10th under the direction OF r.
D. Sandy, of the farm demonstration
worl. in the State, and X. c. Moore.
who has charge Of the agricultural
department of the Normal school. The
Agricultural club will meet with the
institute.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

At Norfolk the board Of police commissioners
met to inquire into the Of policeman ac-
course of the investigation and discussion. two
OF the guardians of the guardians of the city
peace came to alteration and blows and solaced
their feelings and expended their excitement in
two fights, Now. will the police deal with the
commissioners?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

Youth cannot shelter the subordinate sex from
censure Newspapers published that at public
meeting at Spring Lake, N. j., mention OF the
name of President Wilson was Kissed by suffra-
gettes. Thereupon lady bearing the form
dabe name Of Nora Blatch de Forest announces
that the kissing was done by two small boys"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

Whether Petersburg adopts compulsory educa-
ton or decides to allow it's youth to continue
along the pathway of Ignorance, the Petersburg
Inder-Appeal can gain some consolation from
the fact that 1t has done its part we'll Maybe
we in Richmond will borrow him when we get
far enough along to have a campaign for com
pulsory education.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

1.-THE Republican minority" complained Sena-
tor Ashurst during the recent debate ON the
tariff, has filled the circumambient atmos-
phere with lugubrious jeremiads" After that
there was no more space to fill and the tariff
bill was passed
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

London court has decided that woman
cannot practice law in England. but no court
has been invented which can prevent woman
from breaking the law In England.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

upon that foundation? II other scientists had
not failed to accomplish what Edison has accom-
pished. would Edison be known to tame?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13

It Is remarked that President Wilson adheres
ia the Monroe Doctrine.--St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat,
The best way for President Wilson to earn
criticism from the worshipers of the Monroe
Doctrine is to adhere to 1t strictly.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13


adduo in tho o on the year
the nwi pf i very stable
porter
redde OF provision dea
m
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-13
faUfc ShOWIhE FscCtIptS IfOm IhCtnst~ anu dEI
Other Taxes and Percentage of Licenses TO the
Intal keCepts I1AA- 1890:


a--Based on assesseu taNes, hot HCTUaI Te7
ceIpts.
Having now in mind consideration in the
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-03-10
DORMINEY-M cINNIS

Surprising their many friends
in both Fitzgerald and Ocilla.
Miss Mittie Dorminey of this
place and Mr.. James McInnis of
the latter city were quitely united
in marriage Sunday afternoon at
the home of Rev. Thomas M.
Galloway. pastor t he Baptist
Church.
No announcement of the ap-
preaching nuptials was made, the
popular young couple had the
knot tied and then told about it,
leaving Immediately after the
ceremony for their future home
in Ocilla.
The bride is an attractive young
woman and is quite popular
drought south Georgia, being a
member of one of the oldest and
most prominent families in this
section. She is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Dorminey,
and a sister of Mrs. J. E. Turner
and Mrs. Alex Mcdonald.
The groom is engaged in the
jewelry business in Ocilla an is
a successful young business man.
He has many friends in this sec
ton who join the friends of the
popular bride in wishing them
long and happy married lives.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-03-10
Citation

GEORGIA BEN HILL COUNTY:
/ Court of Ordinary, Chambers,
March 5th 1918.
To julius M. Boyd; Mrs. J. w.
Boyd; Julius Edward Howell,
CIeon Howell; Jesse N. Hartley
and Annie L. Hartley, Trustees
for Lillian Lucille Howell:
j. E. Howell, as executor of the
last will and Testament of Mrs.
E. L. Howell, deceased, having
duly filed his petition praying for
an order for a diYision in kind of
the property of the estate of said
Mrs. E. L. Howell, deceased, you
are hereby cited to be and appear
at the Ordinary's Office of said
county on the 7th day of July 1913
and show cause, if any lyou can,
why the order prayed for IN said
petition should not be granted.
q. M. Wise, Ordinary.
30.2tmos-4mo.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-03-10
An Accident
Narrowly Avoided

What might have terminated
into another tradegy, was mar
rowly avoided by the bravery and
cbolness of Mrs. E. T. James, oc-
cupant of a buggy. AS she was
driving around the corner of the
First National Bank going east,
MIR. JIM. Russell of Mystic drove
his motor car around the same
corner going west and struck
Mrs. James, horse, knocking his
feet from under him. Mrs. James
held tight reins and the horse
regained his delibrillrn about the
time Mr.. Russell managed to stop
his machine. -'e,'
Greater care should be prac-
ticed by motorists in driving in
the business part of the city, espe-
cially when approaching intersec-
ton of streets or turning corners.
To be sorry after some one is
killed or manned is to late for the
| injured to enforce the law. it is
a simple matter of precaution to
see that the necessary caution is
exercised before a n accident
takes place.