The Hayti herald., 1922-01-06
Continued from last week.)

This is the third of this series of editorials our first
and second we fired mostly into the dark We that
our system OF taxation was wrong We knew that the
burden heavier than people could We knew
that the fault somewhere We knew that the of
taxation wasn't just merely happen so. And thought
we knew from whence the fountain head of taxation
ills sprang. Now comes developments that strengthen
these convictions. Gradually the door the darkened
situation is creeping aar The light revelation pene-
tratng the mystery. But not done We have a
few more Goals to heep the cosedshelled back of
this errapn alias Board of Equazaton before he opens
up with hosed head and tail and prances down the pike
with all four feet doing the jazz the tune of Ragtme
is the Time for Me- Already see slight opening of
the she'll few Goals and the real fun will begin
The fireworks will open. The circus will start. One
ticket will entte all the shows-the side shows
monkey shows clown acts skirt Dances hoop jumps the
rhnoceros, the kangaroo and the laughing ackass More
fun than Bamum ever thought Of Get tickets Price
OF The Herald one year, dollar Worth the dollar.
Have the correct change. Avoid the rush. Don't crowd
Professor turn the music loose!
We have approximated the oppression Pemiscot
county at several and while the have been
staggering beyond belief find our estimates in each in
stance have been too low. This in keeping with
purpose We knew the situation bad and for that
reason had desire to in exaggeraton And so
in this serial prefer be the lesser not the
larger side of the figures
In previous nstament of this serial stated that
Federal taxation might be than State and
y taxation; that might be million dollars, maybe
In its issue of December 20, in editorial The Globe De-
mocrat publishes statement of the Federal taxation for
Missouri According to these figures in 1920 Missouri
contributed to the United States Treasury the
of $l26 1873 6O66O. This is average of about $37
for each and child in the State, perhaps S14O
more for each family If Pemscot county has 900
people, which it has estimate and each
of them paying $37 co. the amount of Federal
ton Pemiscot county paid in 1920 1925 000O0 but
$4,000 less than one Million which guess. But
that isn't all. There other axes-the egg tax, the
automobile tax the dog tax, the this that and the
other, easily sufficient to take this $75,000 So
able to hand the proof that blind tax, the tax
in the articles purchase considerably than
State and county tax Then going to have the
"bonus' tax and other taXestaxes yet thought Of
Most of such taxes beyond control. They fix
ed by and conditions that hard for to regulate
Maybe will regulate them extent at the next
election but the way have hung together in such mat
ters in the past hopeful for that We have got
to vote this that the other party ticket regardless of
consequences. That is mainly why we bear the burdens
of taxation that do today.
Our county taxation, however, remedy. This
taxation should be- fixed by Board of Equalization,
but the trouble having caused by having been
"iXed by "board of unequazaton The proof of this
coming to light and day. There was
before heard of such unequazaon of property val
uatons in this countyb in the country and the towns
Some farms valued at low $2500 acre on one
side of the road while better land the other side is
valued at $4,000 town home one side OF
the street valued at 81 0O0 while the next house. worth
is valued at 100000. So it goes all over the
county Such system of appraisemen is the worst
sort of discrimination 1t isn't just, fair, nor right
to let Jones off with the payment of 5000 to his tax
es while Smith forced pay $4,000 for property of the
less value But that what is being done IN pro-
portion to the taxes paid Property now daily
comparing their tax bills proving the inequality OF their
1t appears from these facts that the board
of equalization only that it had no system and
merely guessed off the Valuations with the high guessing
predomnatng At least the books present the most
amazing piece of haphazard taxation imposed upon
the people of Pemscot county Some may get off lightly
very very few but the majority the large major
ty, far beyond all reason. And the worst fea
of it all is that considerable property increased
than doubled in valuation, without notice be-
ing given by publication required by law The first
knowledge such persons had of their property being in
creased in value when the tax collector presented his
bill They We're, by this act deprived of their "day in
urt Of sucht is