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t - fp "HERE SHALL THE PRESS. THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN. 70LUMN XXII. MOCKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9', 1921. NUMBER ;r. UT AN END TO REVALUATION. Jr. Bailey Urges That People Write Representatives Demanding Action. W. Bailey, in News and Observer. I In a protest against the Revalua tion act and program I published fn your columns the following lan guage, by way of conclusion: "We are living in a time .when the powers that be are ambitious to realize great incomes for the State, the counties," the cities and the towns. We have developed, even m North Carolina, a .type of citi zens who measures his usefulness or greatness, by the appropriations he can get from the Legislature or the ambitious institutions ; that ) he can set up at the expense of the taxpayers. The growing extrava gance of the people is interpreted as justifying extravagance on the part of our governing bodies. The war necessities of the United States are argued in behalf of peace ex travagances by the State. Our youth are taught to be ashamed that the cost of Government is low-. er in North Carolina than in otlier States, and that it will be a, proud day when North Carolina stands 'high in the list of States expend- ing'large sums per capita. New I institutions, new calls for appropri ations, are presented every, year; I and the old ones call, for bond is- sues or increased appropriations ev I ery time the Legislature meets. I But little is said of, the object of I taxation--the welfare of the peo J pie. And less is said of the obli f gations to reduce rather than to in .jcrea?e.the burdeni: oLJtaaJtioij. Nothing is said of budgets to show what money is - actually needed. Our "statesmen" teemto measure their greatness by the bigness of the appropriations they vote for rather than the care with which they discharge their trusts as cus i todians of the taxes of the people. The Legislatures search the state over year after year not in quest of economics, but in quest of, new re venues. Every two years the cry is "more, more"; and expenditures have increased under the responses to this cry, at an increditable rate. Ai d w have at length reached the time when the tax rate fixed by the Constitution having been ex hausted, we must vastly increase the valuations in order to maintain the pace. We will stand still in 4920, only in order to get the Re valuation Act on foot -but watch us after that! We have forgotten that amongst our blessings of a State, the blessing of low raxes is one of the greatest; that among the chief ornaments of a commonwealth is the jewel of economy; that a mong the foremost, virtues of gov ernment is to govern only as far as shall be necessary arid just. . ; ; . 1 'Thiswriter is in favor of any reasonable expenditures or -appropriations for our institutions, edu cational, charitable or social that may be put forward in the interest of the welfare of the people and the maintenance" ami progress cf our civilization. He recognizes th necessity f or larger revenues f c r the free schools, but this necessity by no means justifies the tremen dous outlay of the Revaluationists. He has no sympathy with demand upon the TfasurV;?aLring, in per QSlb'tionor . pridpxgloxy, fHbelieves that ttnoat pro gress and prosperity of our people will;f urnish j resources of taxation abundantly sufficient to supply all thej'lemands of the State and our minor growing bodies. He sees in the recent measures to enlarge the V taxing power a studied design to open up vast reservoirs of revenue," and to administer upon - the same without necessity and without jus tice. He deplores the fact that the impression has been,studiausly cre: ated', that the Revaluation Act-was only an equalization act and not a taxation act. ,He believes that if changed at all, the Constitution should be changed with the view to further limiting rather than increas ing the taxing power. He is not opposed to equalization; but in his opinion the Revaluation "Act and the Income Tax amendment will not only not tend to equalize the burden of taxation, but that their effect will be to throw thac burden in unjust and intolerable measure uon the landowners, especially the farmers whom, if we are sen sible to our own interests , we will encourage and favor in every law ful way; for the-, after all, are the bone and sinew of the 'Common wealth. If out of balance now, under Revaluation the burden will be not less but much more out of balance. Believing these things, I have written this paper in the hope that it will arouse thonsands of our citi zens to call a halt to those who, without sanction of the people, without petition from the people, and without notice to the people, are attempting to institute under cover of "equalization" and in the name of "honesty'-' a -program of larger taxing powers, larger taxes, larger appropriations, and in all probability, an endless extrava gance." Day by day the foregoing warn ing has been justified by actual events. : At this writing measures are be fore the General Assembly calling for seventy, millions for State bonds, and I estimate, thirty millions of local bonds;""1;-'u:'"?5r On every hand now it is conced ed that the revaluation business was a great and costly blunder and injustice. But the bills to relieve against it are for some reason held up. No public heaiing on the sub ject has been granted. The situa tion looks dark, but it is not dark. I am as confident now as I ever was that the people of North Caro lina will put an end to this busi ness. They could not foresee what I predicted, they thought I went beyond the mark. , Now that they do see, I ask. them to appeal direct to their representatives. Private and personal interests are ah work in Raleigh in behalf of the pro gram of extravagance. But letters from the people to thair represen tatives will turn the tide against these interests. . I call upon those who stand against this program to write without delay. Sidna Allen Says He is Now Out ' of Debt.' : By making cedar chests in re creation hours af the penitentiary in Richmond, Va., Sidna Allen, ser ving a 30-years sentence for taking -part with the Allen band in . shoot ing the court,at Hillsvilie, Carroll county, Va , eight' years ago, has made sufficient money to pay off every owned by him. A wagon - manufacturing com pany in ; Winston-Salem offered to release him froni a debt as a Christ inas gift to his family, but the offer was declined, and the! debt paid in full , along with interest. Allen wrote that this was the last dollar that he owed in the world, and that nothing'could satisfy him so much as the knowledge that it had been paid. W. - f j : f Kaiser Gets His. It is said that the former German Kaiser emplayes - more, than sixty servants and is regualary supplied with huge sums of money from the fatherland. Of course it is a com mendable end aevor to raise money in the United States to feed the des titute population of Europe, but zast would be added to the campaign for funds if a little different treat ment were accorded the man respon sible for their deplorable condition. The South Buys Too Much. A visitor in Carthage recently was D. D. Kelly, a farmer who liv es several miles out to the east of town, and who his lived on the farm where he was born for 72 years, notes the Moore County News. Mr. Kelly says that h'e was a man grown before he hardly knew what it was to bring meat to the county in his 3'oung days. He is not much con cerned "about too many acres of to bacco and cotton provided the farm er will do just one thing, . and that is to have enough of other crops to keep him going before he turns to his cotton or tobacco crop. "My father," said Mr. Kelly, "used to tell his neighbors that it did not make any difference how much money they got for cotton, even if it was twenty cent, they could never make money if they had to give it to the North and West for thingt to live on, . and that is j ust as true now as it was then. The South makes lots of money but the North and West gets too much of it away from us to have much profit out of it. Lee count7 used to be a good wheat county when I was a young fellow but is making so much tobacco and cotton now that it has no wheat and you cannot eat tobac co or cotton. Mr. Kelly was in on the tobacco association meeting a ' couple of weeks ago, but he ; thinks that the tobacco men will have to lay cheif stress on making their supplies at home if they want to be successful. "Then it will not make any differ ence how many acres they plant in money crops, for the man who has living right on his farm does not suffer any when the time comes to answer -the dinner call." 'Extravagantes Joannis." Charlotte Observer:, Gossip is a humming bird with eagle wings and a voice like a Irog horn. It can be heard from Dan to Beersheba, and, has caused more trouble than all the ticks, flees, mos quitos, coyotes, grasshoppers, chinch, bugs, rattlesnakes, sharks, cyclones, earthquakes, blizzards, smallpox, yellow fever, gout and indigestion than all the United Stat es has known or will knew when the universe shuts up and begins the final invoice. In other words it has g )t war and hell both packed up in a corner and yelling for ice water. ' (To' Be Continued.) ' ." He Was a Man of Few Words Detroit vNews. ' When J. K. Paulding was secre tary of the navy he wrote to the postmaster of a small village in the South as follows: "Sir: This de partment wishes to know how far the Tombigbee river runs up. ' ' The answer came back : "It runs down . ' ' The postmaster general was infor med of the affair and failed to see the honor of it. He wrote a letter to the postmaster that said: "Sir Your appointment as postmaster is hereby revoked. You will turn over funds, et cetera pertaining to your office to your successor " In no wise put the postmaster once more tqok . up his pen. aryi the postmaster general received this: "The revenue for this offifce, for the quarter ending , September 30 has been 65 cents; its expenditures, same, period? for sandles and twine 85 cents.. Please instruct my suc cessor to adjust balance." : , 9. . ? :-" - !- - ' " A Change Coming.: t ? ' One thing seems to be admitted that most of our immigration evils could be overcome by proper entoi cement, of the law. And the people voted for the installation of a new lot of enforcers. . Rearing childred is pretty expen sive but not so" much so gg, rearing automobiles; p& , The Useful Almanac. Country Gentleman. , "Say, Lafe." called the gaunt Mis sourian to a passing acquaintance, "I wished, if you think of it when you're in town, you'd drop into the drug store and git mean omenick one of them green ones with the picture i the front part of a gent ripped up wards and across and standing in the middle of an interested circle of in sects and vermits and telling'em how it happened; we sorter think that one has the bt-st weather in it of any. and the children like to study that picture and try to figger out was about and bet on how the other gent must look Wife wants the omenick mostly to keep" track of what day it is. She has a habit of washing the children of Saturday night, all other things being equal, as the feller says, but you lately she's been interrupted by so nany things to take her attention camp meeting down in the holler, circus in town, a house burning up or a lynching now and agin, the sing ing congress, candidates spelling and one hooraw and another thataway that she's plump lost tally and hain't got no idy of when Suturday night comes. The Ingredients of Modern Block- ade Whiskey. Danbury Reporter. Somewhere in the' snadowy hills and hollows of Stakes county it is said there are men making mean lik ker. They say that the likkar which these men make is so mean that a drinkof it will induce you to hit your mother-in-law, and that a debauch from it is worse than the Spanish in fluenza. Some one who evidently es caped, has furnished the Reporter wih the fermula for the diabolical esSffcoction to wit-- - Sugar or molasses 20 pounds Stable manure 1 bushel Ivy root 10 feet Tobacco 5 hands Conceutrated lye 1 tin boxes The sugar or molasses is supposed to temper' down, but the compost makes you rise, the ivv root brings on the stagger: tobacco befuddles the brain, and ihe Ive furnishes the fire. Can you conceive of a rhore hellish brew? Can you imagine a digestion chat would withstand this corrosive? vVhat brain would not turn topsy- rirvy, what stomach would not have at the very thought of ii? - Yet there are plenty of fellows that will guzzle it, swill it. lie for it, steal for it, and almost die for it. After soaking it they walks like a sick roos ter and their breath smells like a :Kunk. They talk nonscense repeat ing over and under, and wink the watery eye at every fools, sentence. In other words, they become idiots while the brew burns and ivalids when it cools down. As Editor Mebane Sees It. To our mind the bad state of af fairs refurred to is never going to be cured by law alone. It is no great matter to pass a law but to get people to obey one is quite a different thing. You , can lead a horse to water but it is hard to make him drink. In order to get laws obeyed the people must be satisfied that they ought to be obeyed. The man who buys the liquor rmist be educated to see that .he should not drink it. When nobody wants to drink any whiskey the manufacture pt it will stop;' law. or no law. Re form the individual and the problem will be solved. Be&uford News. No Occasion to Worry. Some members of the State senate became alarmed a. few days ago when it was discovered that more real money was being paid the sen ate employes than the senators are getting. . That's nothing to howl a' out. Many a North Carolina lai d owner did not make as .much clear money off of his cot o 1 crop last year as, did the hoe hand that "sorter worked for him" as forty cents on hour. Monroe Enquirer. 1 Girls who are "just crazy aboi t ; dancing commonly lead their hus bands a merry dance later. - o dfsf Winston-Salem's Biggest and Busiest Department Store. Men V $1.00 Biue gnd Gray Cheviot (ZtZr Work Shirts DOC. Men's $1.50 Blue Denim QQ Overalls ,0C Men's 50c. Silk Lisle Socks in Black, White J and all Colors, 25c. or 5 Pair for P A $1.50 Blue Poka-Dot QQ,, Work Shirts . VOC. $4.50 Men's Dress Shirts, Assorted djl Oft , Patterns and all Sizes pl.i0 $6.75 Men's Velour Hats, Black, Brown, J0 QQ Green, Gray, Etc. Good Styles p0.i7O If You Buy It At "Efird's" You Buy It For Less. 'peaOuiga Tell no Tales "It's the live merchants who are spelling out the new lower r inn This applies to the grocery bus iness, the meat business the drug business, the shoe business, the dry goorls business, the lum ber business and every olher line as well as the lothing busi ness. The dead issues are holding on for dear life to the old prices. , Which are you going, to do bus iness with? The same f patriotic "luty that 1 . prompted the buying of your Liberty Bonds now caP is out for , you to pp.tronize the stores' that are working tooth and iiail Vt? keep everybody in this . Unite 4 States happy and satisfied with v the new lower . prices as they appear. "IT PAYSTOPAY CASH.!' Boyles Brothers Comp'y "SAVE THE DIFFERENCE." .. Trade St., Winston-Salem; N. C.
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