Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-18
CHARLES |. BRANAN
OUTLINES A PLAN
BY Which the Taxes Of the
Individual Can Be
Reduced.

When | was member Of the Lesis-
iature in 1894 and 1895 | MAS ON the FL
nance Committee OF the House and kept
down the appropris tions so a. to make
4 state tax rate OF $3.50 Oh the thou
sand dollars. This rate was lower than
for many years previous 20 that date
and the Fulton County rate was about
$500 on tho thousand, making total
FOR State and County of seven dollars
nn the $1,000, while the State rate for
1913 was FIVE dollars on the thousand,
snd the. Fulton County rate was
eight dollars and fifty cents on the
thousand. hut the average assess
ment has been more than dou-
bled since 1895 II cost the taxpayer
GA an average OF thirty dollars on the
thousand TO live in he own home. when
collars on bis home, given in for one
thousand dollars
A. =. stewart and the tax receiver
collect the same rate Of commission
under the Fee system as the tax
collector and taN receiver did forty years
sgo when Atlanta was a village. where
SIS they get their same rate OF commits
sion on assessed value Of Sl22O00 900
for 1918. The total assessment was less
than $50 00O 600 IN 1895.
The taxpayers went 10 the ballot box
IN 1910 and voted for the salary sNs-
tenn almost unanimously, thereby MAX
ing an effort through the ballot box to
save over one hundred thousand each
year, thereby cutting down the county
lax rate twenty per cent or more THE
Grand jury was forced to make estl-
mate as TO the amount 80 be saved 10y
ITO salary system. for a. =. stewart
stated To- a committee from the Grand
Jury. "it was none Of their business
what he made from the Zee system. 10
THAT was In 1925, and A. = stewart has
heen the leader IN keeping the salary
system from passing the Legislature
ever since, which has cost the taxpayer
almost million and half dollars.
otherwise II \. 4. stewart & Co sup
posed 10 be tine servants Of the pepnle -
had been clever enough to have allow 60
the salary bill" 10 become law when
{ FIRST Introduced " IN the Legislature.
tho million and hair dollar courthouse
could have been butt free OF cost TO
he taxpayers. When s. per cent or
tine voters esst their vote for the sal
AIRY system. % was the voice Of tho
70 dsiers Of this government OF Fulton
county But when \ =. Stewart & co,
vent into Tie courts TO heht ne viii q
inc masters. he theu So himself up as
dictator The outcome As We are
psNing the highest tax rate that has
ever been paid boy the taxpayers Of Hui.
ION County on account ~ \. y Stewart
hshuns tnls salary system from its
Inception In 1905
The courthouse alone cost the taxpsy-
ers over S"A. 600 iu fees for collecting the
special tax hy a. v. stewart ana the
giving iu the same 20 the tax receiver
under the fee system whereas under
she SALARY system 81 would have not
cost the taNpay crs a penny 70 collect
the million and quarter dollars Gu
build the courthouse
4 y. Stewart and hIs deputies know
hat / haze the kiuaiiest feeling toward
\. r. stewart personally. but he has
dshed the rights OF the freemeu OF Ful.
ton IA public official, and DO not
think any man who Win Investigate the
facts viii vote FOR a r Stewsrt whom
by doing SO ne SAYS A. r Stewart shall
be our king
Now. MIR Taxpayer. ~ am nominal
I'd on May 8. I'm have easy sailing ir
passing The "saiary system" bill. which
i nov pending in The Legislature. which
will come up thie summer Tor passage
and doing away With minor defects in
the original bill. and when hat bill is
put into OpeTatiOn Nou vii not 0nd an
officer in Fulton County who vii have
the nerve TO fight 10 los the courts he
cause, FIRST the bin is perfect AS 90
SIS constitutionality second by my nom.
nation YOU viii have said Tho people
shall rule and tho outcome win be that
your taxes will be so low that you'll ask
me, Haven't YOU made mistake as
20 the amount
CHARLES J. BRANAN.
Candidate for Fulton County Tax Col
lector, tAdvt)