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John Brown Smith
John Brown Smith (30 October 1837–?) was an American doctor, author, mutualist anarchist theorist, tax resister, and developer of shorthand.
Smith was born in Canada and moved to Minnesota at age 17. In August 1862 he enlisted in a company of the 10th Minnesota and served through the American Civil War, being mustered out in July, 1865. After the war, he turned his attention to medicine. In 1867, he married Dr. Ellen H. Goodell.〔Nell, Edward D. ''History of the Minnesota Valley'' 1882, p. 771〕
==Tax Resistance==
In 1879–80, Smith spent nearly a year in jail for refusing to pay a $2 city poll tax in Belchertown, Massachusetts. The fact that his imprisonment cost the town far more than the town would have recovered from his tax had he paid it made the case a contentious one. Smith wrote of his civil disobedience:
I am not a citizen of the United States, and consequently am taxed without representation, which is quite contrary to the genius of republican institutions. I believe in self-government through love, as against the old forms of government by force, and as a natural consequence cannot pay this tax without violating my conscientious convictions. I trust that the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers still have left enough of respect for a man’s honest convictions to provide a means of escape, so that he may possess those natural rights which belong to every inhabitant of earth to enjoy, including the liberty to breathe pure air without being taxed for it, especially in a case like mine, where the Collector refused to take the only kind of property I had been engaged in producing while a resident of Belchertown — my text-book on my improved method of shorthand. If nature qualifies a man to produce books, where is the justice in refusing them when offered, and then depriving him of his personal liberty?〔“John Brown Smith′s Martyrdom” ''New York Times'' 8 December 1879〕
He was freed when a friend paid the tax and accumulated fines ($5.62) “with the proviso that the town shall not sue him for board at the jail.”〔“General Notes” ''New York Times'' 12 March 1880〕
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