Year: 1872

especially publief They REQUIRE very care
ful police supervision. They Obstruct and
are very destructive of paving, and earn
their revenues upon the public streets.
They need numberings for various public
reasons and purposes, as well as for indica-
tions of having paid license. Now we have
held, and still think, the constitution has
not legislated on city taxation; but grant
ing 1t has, what is there in its terms to
make man entitled TO run hundred dfaYs
for one licenses Is it because his trade, Oc-
cupation or calling is taxed, and he can
have but Onel That is a mistake; for
man may keep and manage a mill and a
grocery, and ought to be made to pay fer
both. And he can manage half dozen
groceries, or cigar stores, or eOtfeehouses,
by employing man to attend to each; and
as little right has he if he employs man
to run each dray or hackney coach, or hires
each to a separate person, to mOnOpolize
the business under one license as to run
several drinking houses. His furnish
ing the dray to each man is akin
to furnishing the place and liquors TO each
bar tender. If he only owns the drays as
capital and hires them out without an in
terest in the receipts, then each driver be-
comes a proprietor for the purpose, or at
least becomes the proprietor of the busl-
ness, and so each business or dray is taxed,
and ought to be, whatever form it's tenure
may take. Nobody can escape taxation by
style of tenure. What nonsense an income
tax on drays would he. It would be inef,
fectIve and impossible. But the State Of
Louisiana has not forseited its right or that
of its municipalities to tax cabs, hackney
coaches, timber wheels, and other vehicles
which make money on the public thorough
fares and all society would cry out against
the mOnopOlist who would assume to crush
the humble private owner or blrer OF a
dray, by evading license on the plea of one
calling. Favor such doctrine, and the
mOnOpOlist will put out as many hands as
Briareus, crushing the poor man, who can
not do business so cheap, because paying as
much license as he who would fraudulently
crowd several into one.


For taxation a man has as many callings
as he takes shape through the business he
does it may be represented by stores, IL
quOr shops, mills, drays, cabs. Every store,
every dray represents business, and the
attempt to associate two or thousand un-
der one license is an inequality not to be
cOuntenaneed by law. The monopOlist
would claim all the privileges of govern
ment, requiring many times the protection,
giving many times the trouble and expense
in the way of lighting, police, paving, etc,
paid by government, and receiving in dis
proportion the reciprocal advantages of the
government, but claiming to be let on with
the same contribution, as the man who has
but one business, one calling. shown by its
representative, one humble shop or dray. A
dray is, to all intents and purposes, one To-
cation of business, movable, it is true, but
located and associated with the dTay at all
times, denoted by its number, wherever it
moves upon the public streets; it is the rep
resenfative of the business as much as
shop it requires the accompaniment of a
man, for no one can manage or drive two,
and whether he be real or quasi owner,
agent, emplOye, hirer or letter, he and the
dray represent business sole and distinct,
let the genuine tenor be disguised as it
may.