Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-02
Stare Merchants Declare
Governor WaSted 10000
In Collection Of 7a&eJ

you keep that man in your employ,
when you found out what he had
done, or would you promote him to a
more responsible position which re-
properly to the duties Of the new
position?
1--WE know what your answer
would be, Mr.. Editor, and the peo-
pie of Georgia are going to answer
that question with reference to Gov
ernor Dorsey just as you would an
swer it with reference to your bust
ness.
Cost State 100000
"But we insist that Governor
Dorsey has cost the state of Geor-
gia $4,000 to collect $55 700 net
due the state.
"Think it over and we believe you
will agree with US that we are cor
rect.
"The special collectors collected In
round numbers and again to use
governor no naiS >, 0orsey,s Figures, $4,000.
collectors, special and county, for
collecting it. That leaves the state
only $105,oOO. It developed that
there was $4,000 Gin round num-
6ers) which was collected illegally
This $4,000 Will be paid back to the
merchants from whom it was wrong
fully collected. But from this $50
COG there has already been paid the
collectors 80 per cent or SIS, 900,
but which it Will pay back. The col,
!ectors are entitled to their fees and
commission as the governor apreed
TO pay 1t to them and they did the
), THE state can pay back now only
got 80 per cent.
$50, what viii happen is that next
summer there Will be bills Introduced
in the legislature to repay these ner-
chants this Illegally collected money
this balance that Will be due them.
This will take 81 5000 from the state.
which deducted from the amount the
state received, net, leaves $55 900
only which the state really received
net from this great and glorious work
OF .. Governor Dorsey.
$4,000 to the collectors and will
have. to pay back the $4,000 COM
mission on the illegal part, so the
governor has cost the state $50, to
collect $4,000, the state actually re-
ceives net.
Figured Another way
SIN other words, in order for the
the state SEC, 600 to get It. Some
business administration
"But figure it another way. Gov
ernor Dorsey collected $150,000 gross
occupational taxes. He paid his col
lectors $4,000, which leaves $105,000.
But $4,000 in round numbers, was
illegally collected and must be paid
back. Deduct this $4,000 and their
is left only $4,000 the state re-
ceives net.
IF this is not correct, point out
mon-we beg pardon, we mean Holo-
monde it. STANDARDIZATION us
again please, we mean Holomon's--
imagination is too great and runs
away with the facts. And then, Mr..
Editor, Solomon-we can't help it
two and admit he was onefourth
wrong as he did about those 100
unanimous friends of the governor
advising him to run.
"But you may say the state won't
pay back but 10 per cent of these
illegal taxes because the state only
actually received that much as the
collectors had to have theirs Why,
Of course, the state will pay them
back.
eff Governor Dorsey, personally.
had employed a lawyer Or collector
to collect debts due him and his col
lectors had collected an amount
ernor personally. would he not pay
back to that man the full amount
thus illegally collected? OF course
the governor would as an honest
man. And would the governor be
less honest as governor than he
would be personally? We think not.
Nor can the state afford to be dis
honest.
"The governor has talked at
length in his tax dodger-defaulte
speeches about collecting these
taxes on invisible property. One
would think that the merchants of
the state Concealed and hid their
collectors would not know that the
merchants were selling goods upon
which they owed an ocupatiQnal tax.
why, Mr.. Editor, whoever saw
a merchant who failed to display his
merchandise as publicly as possible
We want our goods displayed. We
do display them and always have,
you know that. and yet you spread
broadcast in your paper the govern
or's insinuations and slurs upon the
merchants Of Georgia. Do you think
the friends of the merchants of
Georgia are going to stand for such
attacks on them? Don't. you know
are not dishonest. and that the mer-
chants do not hide their goods, no,
not even the tobacco, to keep them
from the eye of the collector? In
visible property, indeed!
Impartial" Action
1--WE recall that in some Of the
speeches of the governor he stated
that in collecting these occupational
taxes, and even the illegal tobacco
tax, he was trying to act "impar-
tally" Did he really?
"Why did not the collectors col
Iect any Of the tobacco tax in Coy
ernor Dorsey's own home city-At-
1anta? or in any of the other cities
of the state2 Was the governor i'm
PARTIAL when he did NOT have his
collectors collect the tobacco tax
from his own home merchants in
Atlanta?
"Why did the governor send his
collectors out to the country towns
only?
"Didn't he know that where .