The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-08-02

ovoVo0 Oho hundred ana elghty
companies organized in other states
doing business In Illinois will be al
fected.r
Illinois will collect for "a years.
The revenue agent in Mississippi is
barred by limitations after six years
The revenue agents office in Mis-
sissippl has an honorable record of
10 years of usefulness and there has
never been a governor of the state
ir favor OF abolishing. Gripping or
changing the manner of compensate
ing the offiee Here is what some
former governors of the state have
said on the subject:
GOVERNORS SINCE 1885 EN-.
DORSs REVENUE OFFICE AS
NOW CONSTITUTED.
Governor Robert Lowry, in his
message to the Legislature of 1885,
said:
The value and necessity OF the
services of the state revenue AGENT
to the taxpayers Is shown by the
large aggregate Of the collections Cor
the last five and one-haIf years"
Governor John Marshall Stone, in
MS message to the Legislature OF
1896, said:
THE office Of the state revenue
agent is valuable auxiliary to the
proper collection OF revenues, and
should be continued with such fur.
ther amendments Of the law as in
the wisdom Of the Legislature may
De necessary to perfect its eff.
cheney"
Governor A. H. Longino in his mos
sage to the Legislature of 1902. used
the following words:
The success of the revenue agent
In collecting these, several sums Ia
sufficient proof of the wisdom OF
the Legislature in establishing the
office and clothing It with wise
laws"
During the McLaurin administra-
ton several members OF tho Legisla-
ture called on Governor McLaurin
with the suggestion that the state
revenue agent be put on a salary and
cited the fact that he had received
considerable fee in certain cases o
short while before that time.
Governor Mclaurin replied that
the litigation which has resulted in
putting 80 per cent Of the money re.
SWING the revenue agent ard his
force, together with his attorneys, 20
per cent had been long drawn ost,
and that the state was to be con.
graduated because of Revenue Agent
Writ Adams services; and the gov.
ernor expressed regret that, that part
OF the fee which would be the rev.
enue agents after dschargirg all the
n
would have to be used for expenses
In other cases which had been inves-
tigatsd at heavy expense by the rev.
enue agent in which no collections
were made.
Ro6ERTsON'S OPPONENT CON. |
QUOTING EXPENSIVE CAMPAIGN.
My opponent, through his high
priced campaign manager, has
charged that am assuming the role
of political dictator This is abso-
lutely untrue and they know that it
is untrue. The fact is that out of
the bitter conflict waged against the
state by the fire insurance trust and |
big tax dodgers. l have become con-
WINGED that there is involved great |
er and more menacing question This |
question is: shall Mississippi rule |
the foreign corporations which she
admits to do business within her
borders or shall she BE ruled by
them?" When this question is |
raised, |, OF course, would like to see
the people of the state aroused to a |
consciousness of the danger. MY |
fight has been for principles, not |
for men.
My opponent has mailed out thous-
ands Of pieces of literature and has
paid for hundreds of advertisements
in newspapers Undertaking to lead
the people to believe that the com.
missions of the revenue agents Of
flee run into many thousands of
dollars per year The fact is that
during my term of office the gross
have amounted to about
$4,000 per year. Three-fourths of
this amount has been expended each
year for stenographer hire, express
and telephone bills, additional lights,
deputy hire and expenses, attorney
fees, ETC., from Is to 20 regular dep
uties being employed and travelling
expenses being regularly paid by
each of them. From 100 to 500 law
suits are pending all of the time and
lawyer fees must be paid in all OF
these Out of the remaining one,
fourth, | must pay the expenses OF
lawsuits resulting in no collections
and the tremendous expense of meet,
ing in some measure the campaign
of abuse and vilification hurled at
me and this office by tax dodgers,
trusts, combines, defaulters and their
agents and sympahtizers. 1t viii
thus be seen that the compensation
pf the revenue agent is not great.
And further, 1t is the tax dodgers
and defaulters who pay it all, and
they are the ones doing the kicking
and demanding change.
THERE WON'T BE "ANY CORE"
IF MILLER ELECTED.
Arguing that the revenue agents
office is receiving more compensa.
ton than it has ever received, my
pretends to favor the pas.
sage Of Senate Bill No. 440, decis.
lively defeated by the last Legisla.
ture. His law would give him 20 per
cent on all collections by or at the
Instance of the revenue agents office
and out of this 20 per cent he would
expend whatever he saw fit for dep
uties, attorneys, office expenses, etc,
then pay to himself 100000 per
year, and if anything is left he will
pay that to the state. He knows
and everyone else knows that there
will be nothing left 1t will be like
The boy who asked another boy for
the core of the apple he was eatins
and the boy replied, There won't
be any core!"
Confidently believing that you, the
ne0nIa of Mississippi undarcfopd fho