Butts County GaArchives News.....BUTTS COURTHOUSE October 1, 1897
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Jackson Argus – Butts County October 1, 1897
Wants Bonds – A Correspondent Tells Why He Wants Bonds.

Editor Argus:  I see there is another election ordered on 25th of October to 
decide whether we shall pay for the court house by bonds or direct tax.  It is 
evident that we will have to build one as the old house is torn down and gone.  
Then the first consideration is the hard times caused by the very low price of 
cotton and rise in the price of other things that we have to use. Making money 
hard to get hold of to pay tax with just at this time.

Now, is it best to pay for the court house by bonds or direct tax?  Bonds seems 
to me to be the best way under the above circumstances for me to get through a 
strain at one time, because I can borrow the money at 5 per cent to pay it 
with, which is 5 per cent cheaper than I can borrow money at do my own 
business, and at the present price of cotton it just takes all I make to square 
me up for my necessary expenses and I have no money to spare with which to pay 
the amount I would have to pay by direct taxation.  To borrow it myself I have 
to pay 10 per cent, which will make it four or five dollars more and only one 
payment.  Now loan me the money at 5 per cent, and twenty years to pay it in 
and I can pull through very easy.  But suppose I have the money and it takes 
$50, can’t I loan that money at 10 per cent, and pay the debt and still have my 
$50?  Make the calculation for yourself and see.

Again, to force direct tax would impose a hardship on your neighbor.  This we 
should not do, but we should so act as to make it as easy on our neighbor as 
possible.

Money is scarce and times hard and it will be too much to let go out of our 
county at one time, but let us keep as much of it with us as we can as long as 
possible.

And again, for the next twenty years as the population increases the property 
will increase in both amount and in value and the means of gathering taxes will 
be much easier and work a much less hardship on the tax payers than it does now.

So I think we should get at this matter in most economical way possible and 
make it as light on every tax payer as we possibly can.  We out here at 
Towaliga are going to come up on 25th of October in front for bonds, and don’t 
you forget it!  The way to fatten a lean hog is to increase his feed, not 
lessen it.


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