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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
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BREVARD, TRANSYl.VANIA COUNTY. N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 20. 190;{.
VOL. VIII-NO. 2(5
*>«nns Rock Lodge No. 26?j'pQxes and Who Should Pay Them.
A. F. Jh -A. M.
Meets Friday on or before the full
[iioon in each inontli. at - i>- m. \ isit-
Masons are ot>rdially invited to
meet with us. , ,
sptly Wm. MaxWKLL, S#c I/.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
HOUKS;
Daily—7 a. m. ti> H* )).
Sunday—tc» ‘M* a. m.. 4 to •* p. ni.
Central Ortice-('ooper iJloek.
Professional Cards.
W. A. GASH,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId’g, Brevard, N. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
I looms 1 and '1. I’iokelsimei- liuildinjr-
W. W. ZACHARY,
ATTO R N E Y-A T-L A W
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, H. C.
D. L. ENGLISH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
\ . s. t'ourt ])ractice a s]»eeiulty.
Offices in Cooper Building, Brevard, N. C.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
1in all the oourl-.
Rooms 9 and 10 McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
Incomes and Franchises, Money and not Men, Should Bear the
Burden ot Government.
OoGtcr Denial Surgery.
Rooms 1 and 2 Cooper BId'g, Brevard, N. C.
Miscellaneous.
T. L. SNELSON,
Blacksmith and Horse-shoer.
Shop in Rear of Orr’s Livery Stable.
( and Wa^on Unildiny.
Wiirclwriylit \\’(>rk a specialty.
C. C. KILFATRJCK,
GONTRAGTGR AHG BUILDER.
Room 13, McMinn Blosb. Brevard, N. C.
u'iven on all kiiuU ol \v(»rl'
HI iiu‘ Imihlin^- liii<-.
T. L. CLARKE,
Architect snd Gontrsctor,
i’lati> and sptviliratioiis on all kiik-
.if huiUlini!’ work.
T. B. CR.APV.Y,
Contractor for All Kiiids of Brick V/irk.
C<‘in>-nt Work. I Ma>:.Tiii!j. I'cl'.'-it-
dasli and Itouyli a Sufc ally.
BREVARD. N.C.
J. O. DERMID,
Watflu-s and .le\vt*li-y I'u; >ale. Fin»‘
Wati'ii and (Mode : i [)a rin^:'. .Ml
\\',,, k uuarantced. ''' st yM ain st.
A. C. NORTON,
Practical Boot and Shoemaker
llaruess W ork a .''])ft'i.iity
West Main Street near Caldwell.
When you want, your
llVJpUli UU
riyht take tin in t<»
JOS. F. BOREN
• ' tislactioB Guaranteed. Calvert, B. C.
It i.s a safe proposition tliat ev
ery iiiiin, woiiian and (‘hild iti this
corntry is be!ielitted by taxation
tor the su})})ort of a government,
and that the extent of tliese ben
etits depend largely on the
the amount and kind of ])ro))erty
of which thepei’son is possessed.
The man who has nothing excei)t
his head on which to pay tax re
ceives less benefit from govern
ment than any other class, while
the millionaire who has money
invested in various securities
must depend entirely on a stable
government (for the support of
which taxes are levied) to make
the collecti«)n of his income pos
sible. The poll tax is the hardest
of all taxes to collect because the
[)ayer must (‘arn the means to
l>ay with in addition to a living;
the wealthy man pays his tax
out of funds which a stable gov
ernment })ermits him to collect
from others. In the first case
the tax is abui’don wliich is hai'tl
to bear: in tiie second it does not
cut off a singli^ luxui'y. There is
a manifest injustice iiero which
it is the duty of our legi.^lators to
remetly.
Under the lu'ading ‘The aboli-
:ion of dii'ect taxes” th(‘ Atlanta
Constitution makt's the following
editorial riMnai'ks;
“One of the inevitable reforms
of the future will be the abolition
of direct taxes upon the [)ro[X‘r-
liesof the p.eoi)l<j of th(‘ several
states as they arrive at fully set
tled industrial conditions. Ncnv
V(n-k has alrc-ady come to the
place w h(‘ri! only the constitu-
lional limit of lo mills is levied
for the interest and sinking fund
ch:;rn(3S on its canal bonds. A
•oil.'-; it utional ameiidment will b(>
idoptod in 11,10") permitting even
tlio5>o charges t(jbe [)aid fi'oiii the
ii'eneral fund aiul thereaftei’ there
v\'ill be no direct tax levies in that
state. Ohio is novv* virtually in
the same condition, tinding its
revenue.>s almost entirely in fi'an
chi^e. licence anil other forms oi
indirect taxation.
‘’How is it done? l*y carofully
'ist.ing the values of all [>rivileg(‘.->
of tlu! ])eople that are used for
U’ain. assessing tliem accoi-ding
io their al>ility to dividv* ])ro1its
wjth the state, and thus iiiak'ing
incomes—dollars and franchises;
—and n(;t the laboring, saving.
wealth-i)roducing people, pay tiie
state's necessary ex[)t'ns('s.
“Under this system the man
who has worl'ied half a lifetime to
ac<[uirea sr>,000 farm is not called
upon to pay more taxes than a
huvyer with a s 10,000 income, or
the owner of a building th<u re '
turns a yearly rental thi’ee times
lai‘g(,‘r in money tlian tlie farmei'‘s
crop. The mechanic who buys
a sl’OO lot and builds an ><.sOO ■
home for his family, under the I
( !d system, paid taxes on a valu-1
ationofhis ])ro))erty efpial to 7.') 1
per centum, at the least, of its|
estimated completed woi-th to}
nim as a home. Just above him
a millionaire with a home costing
00,000 would probably pay on a
valuation of it not greater than
si").000 or SilO.OOO at the most,
all this K'ind of injustice is done
away with by tin* New York and
Ohio systems. And it ought to
be done away with wherever and
to that degree })ossible."
New Jersey, with its trust-cre
ating laws, does not levy a cent
! of state tax—its revenue from the
trusts it creates being sutticient
to meet all its expenses (such at
j least are newspaper l eports)—
i while other states whicli have to
j
I feed and foster its creations get
little or no revenue from them,
j Th(* incomes and franchises in
I North Carolina which are ]>aid
' and supported either directly or
indire(;tl3’ by the people, if taxed
according to their dividend-})ay-
I inc capacity, wou.'d pay all state
expenses, educate its children
and leave a sur))lus in the treas-
i
ury. It is t iie duly of our legis
lators to tak'(' this burden from
I the backs of producers and }>ut
I it on thos<3 wIk) coidd cai’j’y it
I without an effoi t: lay th(.‘ sup-
I port of ]U)vernm»mt on money in
st(‘ad of on m<'n.
i Basting the Trusts.
How the [X'ople are biMU'tited
by iioosevelt's t riisl bust ing ef
forts is sliown by our Wasiiing-
ton correspondent this week.
We (] uoti*;*
Some very shrev^’d. if unscru})
ulous. nev;s[>aper work is beiiii;
done by the press agents who arc*
booming l^resident lioosevelt for
tile 11*04 r(*{)ublicaii nomination.
They ai-(} jiortraying him as a
liejivyWeight ti'’i't ligiitei’ wiio i."
smashing tin* ti'usi.> right and
left. Tln'y tell the ]»eoi»l<’ tliat
Wall Str('(*t is de;id against l^>os(‘
velt, and is hatcliingall kinds ol
sch(>mes to prc'vent his iiomina
t ion. They are even inventing in
genious stories about tiie post
ofiice frauds, scandals and cor-
rui)tions. whicli th(.‘y hope will
not only diviM-t well-deserved
blame for tlii.s slate of affairs
from tin* Pi‘e.'sid(‘nt. wliohas per
mitted it to go on for two years,
bat will try to mak(! poiilical cap
ital out of it for him. Th'*v m>w
say that soni(‘ of tin,' i)rincipal
ra.x'als of tlu' many who were
[)iun{l('i-ing the poslothce W(‘re
i'onspii'ing to prevent tlie l^resi-
deiit's nomination next year.
In these simple and al)surd
ways they <‘Xpect to beguile the
voting po[)ulalion of tlu; counti'y.
and according U) their own as
surances. they are succeeding.
Lei us see what kind (jf tights
the Pj-esident has been making
against the ci'iminal trusts of the
country and in the interest of the
*'l)lain people,*' about which his
touters are so loudly [)]*ating at
[)i'es(int. The President's repu
tation as a trust smasher rests
largely on two court decisions ob
tained last year. The Beef Trust
was enjoined by the courts and
the Northei'n Securities Co., a
railroad combination, was de
dared illegal in the United States
Circut Court. In neither case
can any benefit to the “plain peo
ple’’ be detected, even by the aid
of the most powerful microscope.
Both of these trusts are continu
ing to fix prices and rates that
the people must ])ay, and it may
be said riglit here, that no decis
ion under the Sherman law has
resulted in permanent benefit to
the peoj)le. The net result has
been that the trusts havechanged
their form but not their sub
stance. No court decision has
permanently lowered prices or
rates, or taken the hands of the
trusts out of the pockets of the
l»eoi>le. Nor is it probable that
court decisions will ever remedy’
the evils of trusts while we liave
liigh tariffss and other s})ecial
privileges which give monopo
lies powers and encourage com
binations and trusts. We must
somehow overcome these mon-
opoly pi’ivileges before we can
hope to g(^t rid of the evils of the
trusts. But the President has
set his face against any change in
tlu* triist-fatt(‘ning tariff. He
even stopped off, on his recent
stumping tour, to help strangle
tlie [)otn- little “Iowa idt‘a" which
feeljly declared that tariffs which
shelter trusts sliould come off.
If })eople call tin's sti'enuous
trust busting, th(‘y are easily
sat isfied.
Ask your
grocer for
It is good.
B Iff! I
Broker
Hendersonviile, N. 0.
Tiie ])(*oi)le r)f up|ier Soutli
Carolina should be thankful that
the Toxaway Company have
i)uilt tile dams that make some c-f
the various lak( s in the Sappliire
Count ry.
During the recent heavy rains
it was nolict'd that those streams
which flowed from out the said
lak(‘s did no damage, whih? those
that ilowetl in the old fasliioned i
svay washed away every bridge ■
:ipontlu*in. It thei’efore seems |
IS if tlie lakes retain the surplus i
\vaters of larn’e rains and act as i\ ,
I
reservoir. Tiie Federal (^ovevn- '
ineiit has discovered fact
and intend to buih.l u rge retain
ing dam^' on the he:waters of
all the large streams if possible.
It is to be hoped, herefore.
tliat the (‘rstwhih^ reports of the
danger of th(‘ dams b.’rsting.
IS long as they stand fresh
ets, will do but little damage on
any stream issuing from the
laktNs.
Some da3' ihe [>eo[»l<* will come
to realize that “practical }»>litics"
in any ilepartnienl of tlie govern
ment is a gen lie way of r(,*fer ring
t!) ])olitical dishonesty. Tiie
olUcial who schools himself to do
ing dishonest tilings for the b(Mi-
efit of tilt? i>arty is ’out paving the
wav to doing dishones^t things
for himself. j
It is announced that “The j
l^resident will go to the bottom j
of the Postofiice scandal." If |
Mr. Roosevelt is not careful he j
will not get back again in time j
for election dav.
Watch
Jr
Silver Vi/are. V/aiches and CuOks Per Sale
Eyeglasses and Specfaeies
'.yes <_‘xainii)ed tVee and leiiso-' i'''t
jl
THE S f G N OF
GOOD TAILORING
Worst of all
Can anythinj^ be worse tliiui to feel thati-very
;iiiuutc ^vUl ]jo your Sijcii was tlie experi-
ein e oi’ Mrs. S. H. Now.^oii, liecatur, Ala. “For
three years" she writes, “1 t'lulun-d insullera-
b!e pain from indi^^e'tion, stomaeli and bowtl
trouble. Death seenied iiit-vitablc when I was
iiidui eil to try l-'lfctric Hitters and tlu' result vas
miraculous. i impioved at once and now I'm
•‘omplctcly reeovertd.'’ For Liver, Kiduey.
Scouiach and Bowi l troubles Klectric i;itters is
the only medicine. Only .joe. It's guaranteed
by Z. W. Xiehols, lJru;.:^:st. *
Here is the great Oak-
Easel now on display at
our store. It contains the
line of beautiful new spring
tailoring samples sent i;s by
STRAUSS BR0S.,Cliicag9
Good Tailors for 2b Years
The Oak-Easel is the
connecting link between the
tailor and the faultlessly lln-
ished garments which give
you so much pleasure to
wear, h’s really a lesson
in good clothes buying t o
see this great collection
of tailoring novelties.
Prices low and sek.tisfuc>
tion aLbsoluteiy g\ja.r-
cnteed. Cak.ll soon.
J. R. LEDBETTER
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