Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1879 — A New Way to Pay Taxes. [ARTICLE]

A New Way to Pay Taxes.

A singular event occurred a few days ago in Sco land county, Missouri. In obedience to an order hrotaa the United States Court, the County Com fflissioners had levied a special tax to pay judgments against the county for interest on certain railroad bonds heretofore issued by it. Opposition to the payment of the bonds is very great, ‘and by common consent the people refused to pay the special tax, whereupon the collector levied upon and seized some sixty or eighty horse? and advertised them for sale at the county seat. The sale was to come off one day last week, but, although the town was ful of people, there were no bidders for the horses except the owners thereof, o‘ich man bidding for And buying in his own an iitials at five or ten cents a head.— The proceeds of the sale at this rate amounted to next o nothing—not enough to pay the collector’s fees—and so tee judgments remain unsatisfied. This line of act on was the re snlt of an agreement among the people that no person except the owner o' a horse should bid on him. With such a feeling as this, it is difficult to see how the United States Court can enforce payment of the judgments it has rendered.