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HOWARD F. JONES
BIONALL S. JONES
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That J ustice May Ever Have A
Champion; That Evil Shall Not
Flourish Unchallenged.
Entered at the poet office at Warronton.
North Carolina, under Act
of Congress of 1870.
The disciple is not above his
master, nor the servant above
his lord. It is enough for the
disciple that he be as his mas- I
ter, and the servant as his lord.
If they have called the master
of the house Beelzebub, how
much more shall they call
them of his household.?Mat- I
thew 10:24, 25.
I think that to have known
one good, old man?one man, I
who through the chances and I
mischances of a long life, has I
carried his heart in his hand,
like a palm branch, waving all I
discord into peace?helps our
faith in God, in ourselves, and j
in each other more than many
sermons;?G. W. Curtis.
Schools of the county are
working with real spirit inl
the live at home program I
this week. If the theory advanced
in the school room is
followed by the actual prac-l
tice of work on the farm, we
may look for a big improvement
in agricultural conditions.
They must go together.
CHANGE FORM OF TAXES
There is a general cry in
North Carolina and in the
East particularly that the I
State is exacting too much in
taxes on real estate. There
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seems to be a growing teeiing
in favor of a sales tax as
a form of relief.
Collected at its source and
placed upon luxuries or high
priced necessities, if we prefer,
a sales tax is the fairest
form of securing revenue to
operate the government. As
it is today land and personal
property that is visible bears
virtually all of the burden.
When it comes to the tax
books, intangibles are as
bashful as a gay gazelle attending
a convention of
wolves. They just don't attend,
that's all.
We must have the revenue
and the ideal manner in
which to raise it is naturally
a system which falls equally
upon all insofar as possible.
The user pays under a sales
tax. The present system has
burdened land too heavily,
and the legislature?though
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we do not see any necessity
whatever for a special session?should
give time,
study and deep investigation
to this paramount subject
when next the solons saunter
to Raleigh.
BAD BEDFELLOWS
Chicago is having a terrible
time these days.
Taxes for 1928, ordinarily
collectible in April, 1929,
have not yet been collected,
and probably will not be for
another six months.
Millions have been borrowed
in anticipation of
taxes. And the. end is not
yet.
The reasons for all this are
many and complicated, as is
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mvariaoiy true in a iinanciai
tangle. However, there is one
thing that is basic. The moment
politics begins keeping
company with administration,
trouble begins. It's a
bad combination.
Business can't be successfully
run on a political basis,
and the service a government
renders is business.
It doesn't make any difference
whether we're talking
about Raleigh, Charlotte,
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Chicago, or Paris,?the same
thing is true.
Politics and administration
have been bedfellows in
Chicago. They will have to
be separated before real
progress can be made.
MORE ABOUT LAWYERS
Editor, Warren Record, Sir:?
In the fifth paragraph of my article
in your paper last week: your
printer misquoted the price of my
bale of cotton. Please reproduce
that comparative statement as the
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error aesiroyeu to a iaigc cAtcnti
the sense of that statement.
(The paragraphg to which
Mr. Davis refers read as follows:
"If productive labor was
rewarded proportionately according
to outlay compared
with corporations, tobacco
would be bringing $7 per
pound, cotton $200" (edition
last week had it instead of
$2000) "per bale, peanuts $10
per bushels and millionaires
would be ploughing mules."?
Editors.)
When I was a boy I read a story
in a book, now discarded to the
junk heap, and I guess that was
done by the action of lawyers,
precious book that it was, which
told of two cats quarreling over the
division of some cheese, and a
monkey was called to make a fair
settlement of it. He proceeded to
do so by biting a little from the
larger of the two pieces, and of
course, being a smart monkey, bit
off too much. Then he bit the
other piece the same way and continued
the process until the cheese
was exhausted and the matter settled,
to the satisfaction of the
monkey.
The point in the case is so often
exemplified in litigation, the litigants
taking the place of the cats
and a lawyer that of the monkey,
and it represents to a perfect degree
the major political parties of
this nation ( Democratic and Republican)
as the two cats ever contending
for supremacy, snarling
and biting, scratching and fighting
as only cats and politicians can,
never surrendering, never satisfied,
consuming and squandering the
substance of the people regardless
cf distressing results?with lawyers
as the monkeys, egging them on,
operating under the increased stress
of political excitement to grip a
tighter hold, and increase their advantage
while none oppose.
Republicans nor Democrats nor
the people manages the affairs of
this government, but the lawyers
of both parties operating jointly.
A lawyer is loyal to his profession
nrst, ana a pouuciaiu as a necessary
sideline second for investment,
and they exact their toll from
whoever has the cheese.
As the big lawyer operates on
big opportunities in the nation,
lesser lawyers operate on lesser opportunities
in the State and our
people pay the toll, and all of it
is covered up or camouflaged in a
way in some form or other.
I will refer briefly to one example
in this State that is costing
the taxpayers enormous sums of
money every year. Our State lawmaker
lawyers made law forbidding j
State prisoners being employed in
making any commodity for sale by
the State, that is made or sold byj
free labor in the State, thereby
creating an acknowledged deficit of
nearly $200,000 and possibly more
for lack pf profitable employment
for prisoner::. They might if law
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allowed be employed in the making
of any of many hundreds of
articles, bought and used every day
by wage earners and farmers (poor
people who must sometime, somehow,
meet and bear the burden of
this deficit) and at a cost of half or
slightly more than the present
cost, and at a self-supporting basis
by the State prison, thus eliminating
the heavy yearly deficit, and
offsetting a lawmaker lawyer legalized
national robber tariff to a
great extent. But instead of making
some plow points that sold fifteen
years ago for 50 cents a dozen
and now $1.50 a dozen, or plow
bolts that sold then for ten cents
a aozen and now at 30 cents, and
so on through the list, the prison,
ers by the hundred are employed
producing all the cotton, corn, peas,
wheat, peanuts and potatoes, etc.
that they can in competition with
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the hard-pressed farmers of our
Sate, the most noble and honorable
of all occupations.
Now who gets the benefit from
it? Manufacturers and speculators,
and lawmaker lawyers did it,
most likely for rich fees or partnership
profits, and they call it
statecraft, but don't give or care a
durn if it does hurt the fellow
lower down.
Another thing that increases the
laboring man's burden unfairly is
the exemption of tax on out-ofstate
securities amounting to millions
of dollars, and it works this
way:
Mr. Bilson, general supply man
and speculator, accumulates many
thousands of dollars, taking a liberal
toll of all supplies coming to
l*iS patrons through him, and a
generous profit from their produce
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of loaning his money to his patron
at lawful interest or investing it in
the State so that its taxes would
reriu :e the burden of taxes of those
out of whose necessities it was extract
3d, it is sent over into another
State and invested in stocks, bonds
or securities of 6 per cent bearing
value or better. That may be good
business for Mr. Bilson but it treats
those out of whose misfortunes he
obtained it, with unfair and unjust
consideration. This is a typical
case of thousands of others who
own money for investment in our
Stat;}. They are not required by
law to list those foreign bonds and
secu rities for taxation, so they
esca pe that much of its burden,
mat ing ine rare niguer UJU lir.ucvi
property. They are sending the
moiey out of the State, making it
scarcer, harder to get, more in demand,
bonuses and services higher,
and harder to get with which to
pay when the time comes, and so
it goes on, bleeding those who are
leas t able to bear it, creating more
and more litigation, material for
lawyers to work upon. So I say
thai, these are the farmers burdens.
Short crops and low prices are contributory,
though low prices are
largely' regulated under the same
general scheme. Lawmaker lawyers
did that, not to help the man who
toiled and sweated and suffered and
earned it.
And there is some of the same
kind of business going on in our
county which I intend to write
abi ut later. And the cine of all
depends on proper legislation
which no thoughtful person can
hope to secure through lawyer-politicians.
3od help the country. Some
time it will find itself in the situation
the great city of Chicago now
is in. So much above its base with
no tangible support, it must fall.
And lawmaker lawyers did that
too.
What I have said is in the great
es>, good will to everybody and I
hope the laboring people will profit
by it.
J. S. DAVIS.
Cieek, N. C.
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