The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-12-04
A Very Dangerous Law That
SO-Called TaX-Equali-
cation Measure.
FROM the Macon Telegraph we clip the
following:

"The law is probably the most important act of
the Legislature in generation. 1t fills crying
need and will be of incalculable use IF CAPABLE
MEN ARE PUT ON THE BOARD OF TAX
ASSESSORS. And this is question which is up
to the County Commissioners in the 146 Georgia
counties. These assessors must be freeholders
and shall not receive less than So day while
actually at work. This work will not last long.
There is no limit to the amount that may be maid.
It can be SIS or 81 day, if it will require that
much to get good men. With good and compe
tent men the board of assessors the law will
prove great blessing. If it is badly managed
it will prove distressing failure and camor for
it's repeal will come up from all over the State.
The possibilities for wonderful good in this
law great. The converse of that proposition is
lamentably dangerous The law will be a great
success or a great failure. 1t all depends the
kind and character OF selected for it's enforce
ment by the several Board of County Commits
sioners. Those selections, if not already made,
must be made sOon.'
All of the above is very true In addition
to what the Telegraph says, I beg leave to
submit
G.) The men who we're the most active
and persistent in the passage of the new law,
are those city politicians who represent the
Yankee corporations which now have us by
the throat.
The Speaker, Bully -for-Bill Burwell, is
the man who cast the deciding vote for the
new law, and he is the man who bitterly
opposed the Income-tax law which the people
have since ratified.
IF Bully -for-Bill Burwell, Of Hancock
county, could have had his way about it, the
poor down trodden millionaires of the Trusts
would never have been requested to pay
mite towards the maintenance of the Govern
ment under whose Claws those Trusts have
about hogged all the wealth.
Bully for Bill Burwell is also the states
man who helped to kill the bill in favor of
the workers in factories.
There are some impractical cranks and
busy bodies who believe that workday, Of
taoe1ve hoars is enough for men, women and
children who have to go the steady grind of
mill-work, breathing lint and bad atmos-
phere into their lungs all day long.
Bully for-Bill Burwen thought otherwise,
and he used all the power which his position
In the Legislature gave him to defeat that
humane law.
Bully for-Bi Burwe1l votes with and for
the dollars every time, putting higher value
upon filthy lucre than upon the health, the
morals and the lives of work-people.
Now, when a new law. like this so-called
equalization measure presents Bully for Bill
as it's radiant champion and savior, am not
prepared to believe that there is no colored
man in the underbrush.
| have been observant of Bullyfor Bill in
his goings in and his comings out, and-just
between us girls-I regard Bully as one of
the most obedient little tOots that ever took
orders from voracious and Unsuitable corpo-
ratlOns.
(2.) The speeches that were made to the
city magnates, both before the new law
passed and afterwards, expressed the belief
that the Equalization bill would make the
small country counties pay more taxes.
"The land is not doing it's share - said our
versatile compatriot, the Hon. j. Randolph
Anderson, of Savannah.