Mrs. J.S. Weeden, of Viroqua, Wis., for the past six years, has refused
to pay her taxes, though the annual assessment is $75.
Mrs. Ellen Van Valkenburg, of Santa Cruz, Cal., who sued the County
Clerk for refusing to register her name, declares she will never pay
another dollar of tax until allowed to vote; and all over the country,
women property holders are waking up to the injustice of taxation
without representation, and ere long will refuse, _en masse_, to submit
to the imposition.
There is no she, or her, or hers, in the tax laws.
The statute of New York reads:
"Every person shall be assessed in the town or ward where _he_
resides when the assessment is made, for the lands owned by _him_,
&c." "Every collector shall call at least once on the person taxed,
or at _his_ usual place of residence, and shall demand payment of
the taxes charged on _him_. If any one shall refuse to pay the tax
imposed on _him_, the collector shall levy the same by distress and
sale of _his_ property."
The same is true of all the criminal laws:
"No person shall be compelled to be a witness against _himself_,
&c."
The same with the law of May 31st, 1870, the 19th section of which I am
charged with having violated; not only are all the pronouns in it
masculine, but everybody knows that that particular section was intended
expressly to hinder the rebels from voting.
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