The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-06-27
Raise in Taxes.

~ Inc IdA payers VI OUiOu SOuAtys
l take this method to notify you
that there will be an effort at the
July term CT the Obion County
Court to raise your taxes AGAIN.
l understand that this will be done
by few designing politicians, Of
flee holders, and office seekers.
Their scheme is to raise the taxes on
all the property in Obion County,
and especially the land to build a
road in one neghborhood. This
ne;g hborhood through which the
contemplated road is to run does not
consist of more than five per cent
OF the tax payers fer thirty-three per
cent of the public road in the coun-
ty. Now, should you think it right
for the county court to vote a tax
upon all the people in Obion County
for the benefit of five per cent of
the people, you instruct your magis-
trates accordingly, but l know and
you know that no such taxation
without representation direct from
the taxpayers themselves is right.
So it behooves you between now and
the first Monday in July to see your
magistrates in the district where
you live and tell them what you
want and whether you want to be
"held up" and taxed to death" by
this bunch of politicians. / further
advise you if you don't want your
taxes almost double for all the tax
payers in Obion County to be at the
county court the first Monday and
stay until this matter is settled and
see that you get square and Just
deal. (Woodrow Wilson carries all
such matters direct to the people
where it belongs.) / am further in
formed that the fellows behind this
scheme have frmoed a syndicate and
are buying cheap land along the
route of this proposed read, and are
expecting the tax payers of the
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double and thribble the price they
have paid for it, You know the
federal government has had to raise
our taxes very considerably (Which
is right) to pay the expense of
whipping the Hun, and if you don't
know it, when all the laws go into
effect that were passed by the last
General Assembly they will be
put tax of $500 for you to drive
your wagon on the public road. |
$1.00 for you to drive your horse
and buggy on it, the very thing the
road was made for. They doubled
your automobile tax. They actual
ly put a privilege tax Of $1,000 a
year to swap horses. They've fur
Their put tax of 800 for a coun-
try boy to shoot a rabbi; they also
put tax of $100 for q widow or |
crippled girl to fish with pin hook |
baited with a red worm with a |
piece of wheel band for a line and |
a rusty nail for sinker. Now, Mr.. |
this looks a little funny,
but its the truth, and if you sit still
and raise no protest, its only a few
short years until you will have to
pay special tax to milk your own
cows, eat at your own table, or
sleen in yollr owr bod
Allow me to call your attention
to the fact that this same General
Assembly that put all these new tax
es did repeal the fee bill that was
saving the tax payers thousands
of dollars a year They also rein
stated and attempted to galvanize
into responsibility Judge Jesse Ed
of Memphis, who was
confessed pcrjurer, bride taker, and
defacer of public records of his own
court. In other words, they fixed
him so he can hold office again, and
you know it cost the tax payers OF
Tennessee $150,000 to get this
judge out Of office couple of years
ago.
s. B. Bratton,
Member of Co. Court.