Show TITHE A BEUC OF OTHER DAYS ent bat Is recognized as property properly by english law the recent revolt of farmers in southern england to resist the payment of tithes directs attention to this form of taxation which lins from time to time been the cause of considerable agitation in that coun try more than a year ago reports came cacie from a sussex town to the ef feet that angry farmers had at tacked a balluff who attempted to seize sheep belonging to L neighbor who had ad failed to meet inept ath alifi tithe pay an indents ants lue the lie church of liti gianti the present situation tion auctioneers vino t 0 have anve to sell the property of farmers who owe oie tithes fillies have met with ns as little success siu us its the abic tion cers in foreclosure sales bales in parts of our own midwest mid west tithe payments ani merits nrc are a relle of tin an dent clent days dais when persons were called upon to pay one tenth of the produce of nil all land and labor to the support of the church they were stabilized in england in 1025 1925 by tin an net act of fit parliament which alch laid down a fixed schedule of payments sleep since then however the prices of live stock ami nl agricultural produce have dropped by about 60 50 per cent the tithe probably originated in a tribute levied by n or ruler upon his subjects anti per halim the lie custom or of it a tenth of r the lie spoils of war to tin godi led ii 1 the religious extension of the tern term before the eighth century any ment of tithes wits enjoined by ev cr writers and church entin coun ells hut but the earliest carl lost authentic ex ample of 0 a law of the state encore ing payment ent Is probably pro bally that lit in th lit Capitula rles of charlemagne in angland the earliest of legal recognition of tithes tithe 4 Is iw be lieveld t to be it decree of a synod in the church received tithes in the middle ages but trouble aroff under the reign of henry vill when this monarch raided the mon asterios net ast crlos erlos he transferred their tithe privileges tri to tits his friends TIP tho tithe Is property and ia if the government abolished it or even ii intended fied it in principle it la Is ar ned it would thed have to reform nil property lows so si the fit tithe question Is one of purlin partin ments knott knottiest iest problems |