The north Mississippi herald., 1921-01-14
EXAMPLE NO. 3

After losing what he deposited in
the bank as "nest egg" to buy a
little home with, also in the course of
a few years his loaned capital having
vanished into the Golfers of the tax
collectors, Jones decides to buy a
little home. Then this is what hap
pens to Jones:
He scours the entire County for
miles about, he visits every real es-
tate agencies in his mad search for a
Cheap" piece of property place
where he and his loved ones could
'raise" their living and keep the wolf
i from the door.
Jones finally finds little old
place where the hills are so steep that
lit looks like everything was standing
on edge. He pays $4,000 cash and
gets 40 acres of land (?) embellished
with a shack for house to live in and
an old log barn for his trusty Beck. :"
How Jones heart swelled with
pride when he embraced Mary, his
wife, and exclaimed, "At last, dear
heart, we have home we can call all
our own"
But no! Jones just had a night
mare, hallucination. that was all
how soon and sadly he was unde-
ceived
i The Legislature TAX Commission
ers) met at jackson and without con-
sulting Jones, arbitrarily fixed the
value and tax rate on Jones' little old
bunch of hills. That august and
wise body, the Board of Supervisors
of Yalobusha County, then took oc-
casion to add more to Jones' burden
and by the time the two got through
picking the bird the only thing left
was the tail bone, and that was badly
mussed up.
Jones worked hard all year and
rode old "Beck" to town (he didn't
drive because the roads were impas-
sible) and walked up to the tax col
lector's desk and planked down $45.-
90 in cool cash (having sold his only
milch COW that day so as to raise the
money! the amount the great State
of Mississippi and Yalobusha County
had charged against him for the priv
ilege of being an honest, hardworking
'aw-abiding citizen of the aforesaid
state and county.
Notwithstanding the fact that Jones
only paid $500.00 for his little bunch
of hills, and from a productive stand
point the place was not worth $250.0C
the wise heads had an assessed valu
alton of a cool 100000 taxed a
gainst him.
While standing in his little shack
reflecting over the loss of his only
mich COW, the main producer of fooc
for his babies, the idea occurred tc
him that he wasn't given square dea
and that he was being "frisked" fol-
the benefit of others.
Thus he soliloquized: Here worl
hard every day in the year from early
: morn until late at night and jus
/, , barely have enough to exc out an ex
; istence for myself and family. an
unable to expand my little farming
operations for lack of funds.
either walk or ride old "Beck" be
cause l can't afford an automobile
However, if had one, wouldn't b.
much better off because we haven
a mile of decent roads in the entir,
Beat. / deny myself and family il
many instances the very necessitie
of life on account of my impoverish
ed condition. l am taxed both comm,
and going-for this, that and mos
every conceivable thing. / am taxe'
to pay a fellow to tell me how t
"expand" when l can't even expan'
the old piece of cord used as a bel
to hold up my pants. ! am taxed T.
pay lady to tell me how to rails
babies and what care is necessary t.
keep their little buttocks from chat
ing, while can't even provide neces
sary food for the ones already have
These so called "County Agents
draw salaries from $24O0.00 up Il
$SOO0.00 per year-which mysel
and other poor devils like me mus
pay. walk--still THEY whizz b.
!, me In q fine automobile which SOM
/ Of my hAsdsarnsd mcnsy helped 4