The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-07-11

this paper which appears in the
Aberdeen Examiner" of July A
1919. under the above heading
While he signs in his OFFICIAL
capacity as President of the
Be lTd of the Supervisors of Mon
roe County, we fail TO find any
orde of said Board on its min
utes directing him to make de-
tense for them, and we conclude
that he is making this attempted
defense as CANDIDATE A. G..
Lowe for re election. OF course,
when he saw that the voters and
taxpayers were being undeCeived
as TO the false claim that the
State Tax Commission was re-
sponsible for increasing their
taxes and a failure TO Justly
equslize them as BETWEEN
INDIVIDUAL TAX PAYERS,
and were determined 10 place
the blame where it belongs" ION
the Board of Supervisors, and eS-
pecially on HIM, ii was TO be ex-
pected that CANDIDATELowe.
who has held this position for
about 10 years, should still try to
feed at the public crib" 4 more
years, by attempting 10 shift the
blame of his acts, and pose as a
friend of the voters by claiming
that he was trying 10 protect the
taxpayers against the unjust and
.exacting aggressions of this auto
cratic State Tax Commission" as
he terms it. 1T WAS EVER
THUS WITH THE POLITI-
CLAN,
If we felt that we had done
wrong or injury or injustice TO
the Board of Supervisors or 10
Mr.. Lowe, we would willingly
and gladly admit it. and make the
proper amends, but. being con-
vinced, after a careful Considera-
tiOn of the matter, that the very
reverse is true, and that he and
the Board have done wrong
and injury TO the tax payers OF our
county by their failure 10 do their
duty under the law, as well as an
Injustice to the State Tax Com
mission by attempting 10 shift the
blame to them. we felt. and we
still feel, il our duty both as cit
izen and as Editor of public or
gan, to frankly state our belief,
even at the risk of inCurrlng the
displeasure of the members of
the Board, most of whom are our
friends.
1t is significant, not TO say
characteristic, that Mr.. Lowe at
temptS TO divert the minds of the
tax payers from the REAL issue
in trying TO show inconsistency
upon our part by quoting in part
from editorials written nearly two
years apart, and making COM
parsons. The tax payers are
not interested SO much in this
question as they are in the queS-
tiOn as TO who is to blame for
raising their taxes and the in
equality which undoubtedly ex-
lists in the valuations of their
property. However, in passing
through this attempted camou-
flage TO the real point at issue,
let il be admitted, as we do frank
ly admit, that. at the TIME WE
WROTE THE EDITORIAL
OF AUG. IL, 1917. to which Mr..
Lowe refers, ii was our opinion
that the State Tax Commission
law AS 1T STOOD AT THAT
TINE would not operate justly.
still as Mr.. Lowe well knows
lalthOugh he fails to mention
this. SINCE THAT TIME, the
Legislature of 1918 passed sew
eral material amendments to that
law as ii existed at the TIME
THAT EDITORIAL WAS
WRITTEN, which amendments
vastly improved the law. and
made it more just to individual
taxpayers. all of which can be
seen by any one who will read
the Laws of Mississippi of 1918.
As this is sufficient and COM
plete answer TO any charge of in
consistency between an editorial
written on Aug. ~, 1917. about
the OLD law as itexisted THEN.
and editorials written in May and
T..ao 1910 offor tho TonsoIofs,ra