The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-08-05
THE TAX PAYERS LEAGUE

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parently onerous TO the people OF
Mississippi, five or six hundred
tax payers met at the county
court house Monday and entered
heartily into the discussion. Capt.
Geo. G. Paine presided as chair
man, and In a straightforward
and earnest talk made plain the
tax situation.
| Speeches were made by Hons
w. c. Sykes. State senator; w
B. Watkins and Jesse Nj. Cole
man, representatives from this
county. Each of the above gen
tlemen gave an account of his
stewardship and made evident
that neither of them was respon.
sible for the existing high cost oil
state and county government
| Numerous citizens also made
talks, among them Hon. @. M,
Holmes, Messrs. G. w. Wood. E.
B. Heller and Joe Bowling.
A committee was appointed by
the Tax payers League after il
had perfected organization to
draft resolutions, which after be-
ing read. were unanimously
adopted. Following are the res
olutiOns
Fhe taxpayers of Monroe county
in mass meeting have. owing TO the
oppressive taxes imposed upon the
state and county by the Legislature
and by the county authorities of
1920. reached the conclusion that
they must either abandon their
homes and move to some other
state or retain their homes and
force the tax OppressOrs to leave
the state, therefore. be- it
Resolved. l, That the taxpayers
of Monroe county will not aban-
don their homes and native state,
but will try and force the tax eabal
in the state to leave the state or
desist from their oppressive taxes,
by, first. organizing themselves into
county taxpayers league, to be
differed by a president and vice
president and secretary In each su-
pervisors district in the county;
and, second, by obligating each
and every member of the league
not to vote for any candidate for
office, either county or state, who
will not agree in writing to vote:
(a) to repeal the county salary law
for county officers; (b) to vote to
reduce ali and each appropriation
made by the last legislature; (c) to
vote to reduce the salaries of all ex-
ecutive judicial and other state of
icers at least one-third of the sal
airy they are now receiving, and
I'D to vote to abolish all ornamental
and useless offices state and county,
which are too numerous to men
ton, and (e) to either abolish the
tax commission, or to SO change its
power as to depriving it of its au-
tocrstic and despotic perogatives.
Resolved. 3, That we earnestly
appeal to all the taxpayers of the
state to form similar leagues in
each county to the league formed
in old Monroe, because we are con-
WINGED that if the taxpayers do not
have earnest and complete cooper
alton in their efforts to stop the in
crease of taxation We will soon be-
come a bankrupt class. We insist
that each county in the state or
ganize Immediately and begin the
work of guarding and protecting
our homes from the rapacity of the
horde of tax oppressors who now
dominate the state. The taxpayers
are numerous and brave enough to
carry the reforms herein expressed
of similar reforms as outlined in
these resolutions. so let's all get
together and work for our common
good.
The following were appointed
chairmen of their respective super
visors district to organize the tax
payers of same and report to the
central organization at time to be
announced later;
Thos. Caldwell. lat district.
Frank Durrett. End district.
G. ". Rye. 3rd district.
B. N. Edens, 4th district.
w. L. c. Bailey and s. w. Word.
5th district