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Saturday, Jan. 10, 1920
Governor Bickett and other Dem
ocrats seem surprised at the hedg
ing reputed to Mr. Frank A. Linney,
chairman of the Republican state
committee, on the revaluation act at
the meeting in Greensboro this
week. It is evident that the Repub
licans will use the new tax law, they
think, in an effort to win votes. For
mer Senator Cutler has praised it as
a constructive scheme, we are told,,
and it is a matter cf record that
every Republican in the general as
sembly voted fci the measure. We
hope the Republicans will do ncth-
ing to injure tms measure and we
attribute tco much sense to them.
They might gain some votes, even
carry some close counties, but the re
valuation act is honest, is going
through and will be approved by the
people after they have given it a
trial. It ought not to be made a
partizan question. It was not so con
ceived. It should be given a fair
trial.
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Those who never had the good for
tune to know the Rev Robert Logan
and whenever a change is proposed in
the method of taxatic'n there is fear
that it conceal?; a scheme to make the
burden, heavier.
Everv citizen who is informed will
idmit thnt our rro?ent system is in
famous in its injustice and inenurd-if-y.
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t1ir tri-s-pc; on liia ":ro"r1 nnrpc" if 1t
Patton, whose funeral occurred atjnar, iiep himself..,. This mart, whoso
Morganton yesterday, have heard of holdings ae taxed at possibly 10
ACCEPTING THE LEAGUE
President Lowell's letter to Senator
Walsh urging acceptance of the peace
treaty with reservations was the re
sult of the apparent failure of the
'senate to do anything after, seven
rftonths of juggling with the happi
ness of the world. Dr. Lowell was an
advocate of ratification without res
ervations, a position the Record has
held, but the president of Harvard
sees no reason why a good thing
ehculd.be killed simply because lead
ers in Washington want to oppose
each other.
The country should be so insistent
on ratification cf the treaty ,with any
reservations that will not make it
impossible, that the "statesmen" A;in
Washington will not dare allow it
to become a political issue next fall
and cause it to await until after No
vember before its fate is known. Eu
ropean nations would accept reserva
tions that would not destroy the
treaty, and President Wilson can very
well alFord to accept them.
The important thing is to bring
peace to the f world to insure life to
the small nations ,r born cut of the
war and to ,:'.pTcycni,,,'onothcr great
conflict such as the world has just
passed through. The league of na
tions will be powerful from a moral
and economjcjsidc. That is its chief
strength and it should be put into
force.
HEFERKING THE TREATY
That President Wilson's logic is
Bound in asking that a great referen
dum be held on the peace treaty there
is no doubt. As chief executive he
submitted the treaty to the senate,
which cither should ratify or reject it.
Neither;; has been done. A minority
of Republicans and Democrats has
blocked',! its ratification. They haven't
the nerve to kill it outright; they
would (lestroy'it with burdensome
qualifications.
That being their .attitude, reasons
the president, why not put the whole
question before the American people
and let them pass upon it. Let them
say what our foreign policy is to be.
That certainly is democratic. That
is going direct to the people for au
thority. Incidentally that is the way great
questions arc decided in England, ex
cept that the government can order
a new election at any time, while here
wc can hold an election only every
two years.
Mr. Wilson's reasWlhg is sound en
ough, but we would be willing to con
cede much to have ' the treaty fight
ended and peace restored to the world.
his wonderful work in this section ef
the stats. That a man of his train
ing, after the hardships incident to
obtaining an education, should prefer
to return to his old heme and there
teach, instead of taking a comparati
vely easy chair at some college or
university proves that the Carolina
hills and their people made a stronger
appeal to him than the honors of clas
sic halls. And isn't the world rich
er because of such as he? Suppose
everybody thought only of self? Sup
pose there were no generous souls
to think of other people, to teach them
the ways of truth and progress? Mr.
Patten might have become a great
theologian or a great professor. But
he chose to use his knowledge where
it wcuM do th emost good. The
hundreds of men and women who have
come under his influence proclaim his
greatness. The state draws a lesson
from his life.
The Raleigh packing hcusc pi'o
jeet, boomed before the war, has
been abandoned because of the great
er increased cost of building and op
eration and ether changed conditions.
To make a packing house succeed
there must be one or two men who
are willing to put their money into
the tiling and sit up with it.
David Lawrence says the common
folks are looking towards Herbert
Hoover. That's right, David. He
appeals to them more than any of tha
politicians.
The coal strike and the steel strike
proved failures simply because the
quarrels of the men were not just.
IiETTER KE SURE
Statesville Landmark.
The Winston - Salem Journal re
marks that "what at one time seem
ed a rather serious movement to un
dermine the revaluation act and the
whole Hiax programme has about
played out," which statement the
Charlotte Observer applauds. Just
the same every friend of tax reform
every one who believes in honesty
and justice in taxation, in a system
by which every property-owner bears
his fair share of the burden should
be up and doing if he wants to be
sure of the success of the revalua
tion act. The great mass of the
people are honest and will do right if
they understand. But they are very
sensitive on the subject of taxation
ncv cent- of their Valued rroes to hi?
neighbor who own n : J few acres
which are taxed 50 to 75 per cent of
their value, and tells him that thn
revaluation act is a scheme to take
thc tax off the banks and money
lenders and the corporations and put
it on the farmer. Far too many
small landholders, who are pfciying
three and four .and five times as much
tax cn their land in proportion to
its value as the man who owns thous
ands of acres, will fall for this sort
of talk without taking time to think:
and the man who is really benefitted
bv the present system, because of
his influence and standing and Ids
large possessions his real estate is
taxed at only a small fraction of
its cash value, turns asiide ' : a?n"d
laughs at the man who is the .real
burden-bearer, as he realizes that he
has fooled him again.
"Whenever you hear an owner of
valuable real estate talking aga-inst,
the revaluation act. go to the office
of tbp register of deeds and find the
taxable value of his land for last
year; compare that with what ..the
property will bring, in the market1 End
note the difference: also note the
difference between the taxable, , val
ue of the large and valuable estate and
thevalue of the more modest holdings
in the same community. Information
thus gathered will bo something to
th'.nk about. 5
Ins. cad of taking it fc.-r granted
that opposition to the revaluation act
has failed every newspaper that fa
vors 'he act shoulii constantly discuss
and explain it, ana especially . take
n:te cf the misr(-,.epentat1.ons and
answer them. The people Avill do
right if they understand, but the
demagogues and the shirkers- can
mislead many by playing on . their
prejudices and fears if their false
reasoning is not exposed.
DR. E. E. ROGERS
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COMPANY, AT HCKORY, IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AT
THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, DECEMBER 31st, 1919.
Resources
Loans and Discounts 1 $ 39,873.83
Demand Loans 10,000.00
Overdrafts, unsecured 81.54
United States Bonds and Liberty Bonds 1 15,000.00
Banking Houses, $8,500.00; Furniture and Fixtures, $431.85 g,931.85
Cash in vault and net amounts due from Banks, Bankers and Trust
Companies 79,902.27
THE STEEL STRIKE
The steel strikers have given up
and the officials have ordered the
workers to return-t-fehir jobs. It
was an ill-advised affair all around
and did not have a ghost of a chance,
with public opinion solidly against
industrial unrest at this critical time,
and with the public believing that de
structive influences ' were back of
workers. William Z. Foster, form
er syndicalist, has resigned and his
place will be taken by an organizer
in the Pacific lumber industry.
Of course the fight wilkbe resum
ed and both sides will be prepared for
a scrap to the death unless common
sense finds a place in the scheme.
Employers and employes must seek
to work harmoniously together.
Both sides must dealf airly, for that
is the only way all dan profit.
Total - $153,789.-1J
Liabilities '
Capital Stock paid in $50,000.00
Undivided Profits, less current expenses and. taxes paid 1,227.G1
Dividends unpaid 2,000.00
Deposits subject to check 80,061.85
Cashier's Checks outstanding 14,500.0
Total -$153,789.49
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CATAWBA, January 9, 1920.
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that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
E. N. CARR, Treasurer.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this. 9th day of January, 1920.
L. H. WARLICK, Notary Public.
My Commission Expires June 10th, 1921.
Correct Attest: ,
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