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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt:...apparently clash with those of the country; what suits one does not suit the other; the majority controls, and the minority suffers from the imposition of a method not suited to its needs. As long as the present system obtains, this can net be avoided. ThJ legislature can not adopt one method for one county or class of counties and another method for another county or class of counties. The legislature must of necessity adopt some method which, while quite satisfactory to one or more, is rarely so to all counties If, however, we separate the sources from which the State draws its support, and leave to the counties and municipalities the management and control of their own methods of taxation, we substitute f«r the rigid system, prescribed by the state, and to which the county must adjust itself, a flexible system which will adjust itself to the needs of the county. You establish a species o) home rule in this most important branch of government activity, ana we may be quite certain that each community will sooner or later find tne method best suited to its needs; and when it does that, it may not owiafr a method by which all kinds of property will be taxed with perfect equality and uniformity, but it will come much nearer to it than we ao nuw and each locality will in addition be able to so direct the incidence of taxation as to promote the purposes if desires to promote, and to hinder th,activities it desires to hinder. Adopt this method, and every year, when the proper authorities meet to impose taxes, the taxpayers will attend ir person because the seat of governmenl is at home, ideas will be advanced and debated, and the freedom of debate will result in progress and improvement in method and system. All this can be accomplished by having the consti...