| Show TEN MILLIONS UNTAXED A CHARGE CHA ROE has been filed against james M ashley president of the toledo ann arbor and michigan railroad that over of the bonds and stocks of the road have not been returned on the tax list since 1888 here Is an example of one millionaire who it appears has defrauded the public of ohio regularly for nearly ten years of a sum equal to the honest taxes of about five thousand of the small farmers of that state every iota of which they have been compelled to pay or have their property sold under the hammer this sort of robbery of the weak by the strong has been going on for a long time with no systematic effort being made to correct the abuse without going into its merits we venture the prediction that if the outrage is endured much longer ODger there will bean be an upheaval in public opinion that will cost the men with the millions more by a considerable sum than their dishonest withholdings withhold ings will amount to the protest that is now being made against political corruption will not bear comparison with it taxes come nearer home than politics to the man that labors tog ten pours hours a day for fop a meager living |
