Show the tithe that binds coming away from a debate on taxed I 1 help feeling that the scholarly as it had appeared at points and ringing with altruism at others had offered a political potion only slightly aa flavored with any essence of economics how willing Is congress to depart from rom the post past if such a departure affects political futures pondering this I 1 came upon a dispatch in the london daily herald from rom romney marsh kent it recounted how in the lamp lit sitting silling room of 01 a six century old tarm farm a 72 year old farmer archibald edwin waddell complained to a reporter that he be was about to be thrown into bankruptcy because he refused to pay 75 pounds and 3 shillings some in tithes 11 1 shall probably die muttering 11 waddell said against this wicked antisocial anti social custom for previous refusals to pay tithes there had been four our seizures from his farm aenk bullocks sheep pigs farm implement furniture his clothing anahis and hi cart horse my tather father the old man concluded who farmed for 70 years kent paid pounds in tithes and two iv 0 of my brothers were forced to emigrate I 1 am against a rope that has tightened around my neck and around the necks neck of so BO many others who love the soil few people realize that thac tithing payment of one tenth of the i product of the he land a custom c us tam comes down from feudal days when it was collected by the parish pariah priests and later the church of En england glandIs Is so 60 modern and that its effect will be ett felt until the year originally the tithe was paid in produce but in 1836 1816 it became a fixed rent still paid to the church in 1825 1925 the law was wa changed to make the tithe payable into what was tailed called queen annes anne bounty k a fund used for or church pur pui poses pose in 1133 1930 tithing itself was abolished but the law provided that over a period of CO 60 years a sum should be paid yearly until the amount considered the tithe redemption und fund to be the capital capita ol of the tithe on a given piece of property had been reached that is what farmer waddell objects to but heu hell pay or get out and he will never live it to see the day when he have to suj support nort the church against his will romania chose to change its royal purple to pure red when it bounced king michael but how nice nobody can tell him he cant have the woman I 1 love ali 0 A dentist now reports that he has successfully transplanted wisdom teeth in cavities left by missing radars but did he transplant the m |