From the Norfolk (Va.) Virginian, 1/8/1897, p. 1, c. 5
IT’S TYRANNY
Miss E. L. Van Lew has written her annual letter to the City Treasurer. It is as follows: “Demand having been made upon me for the State taxes for the year of 1896 I the usual form prescribed by law – and all woman having been excluded from either assessing the taxes or making the laws under which the assessments were ordered, I enter my solemn protest against taxation without representation.”
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- Published: 22 October 2017