The daily gazette., 1874-10-23
Economy an GOrernn n,ent.

LNONO"U th 1OtCfHENfHt.
In all this Union over there are not
three counties governed with more ccon-
omy than New Castle, Kent and Sussex,
in Delaware.
In New Castle county, with a TAX of
from Al to SO cents on the 500, the Dem
ocrats have reduced the debt from SGi,-
GOO in 1859 TO $4,000 in 1874; and had it
not been for the disastrous food which
last year destroyed nearly all the bridges
in the lower section Of the county, our
debt would have been about S15, 600, and
might have been all paid of next year
with balance in our treasury Provided
the Levy Court had not been seduced
into building the Washington street
county building for the courts. Happi-
ly the Democrats avoided both of these
extravagant outlays.
The debt of Kent county is mere
bagatelle, caused by the erection Of n
new and splendid county building for
its courts at cost Of $4,000 which
will be paid for in a very few years with
out increasing the tax levy which Is now
only l5 cents on the Sl00
Sussex has, W. believe, cxtinguished
all her funded debt and has tax levy Of
only 35 or 40 cents on the SlU0.
The tax levy in all the adjoining coun-
ties in other States, We believe, exceed
that of Delaware. These small expendi-
lures are inst what the Republican par
ty does not like Our system does not
permit Of the employment Of useless
clerks and costly superintendents. The
Radicals want AN extravagant school
system under which superintendents in
each county will lie paid to CAD about
from place to place and make show Of
doing something which will amount to
nothing except the costs of their pay,
and an Increase of taxation double that
We now have. Another result probably
would be the forcing of teachers on
school districts that would be disagreed.
BILE to the people over whose children
they dominated.
Our State Government now is the
most economical of all the States; cost
SO little that prominent men in Other
States, when informed of it, have ex
pressed their utmost surprise. Yet W,
do not say that even more economy ma,
not be used.
During the past two years the Stat,
has been at an extraordinary expense il
the purchase OF the grounds and remod
cling the old State House at Dover. Not.
withstanding, with the light taxes impos.
cd, the Democrats have paid off seventy.
thousand dollars of debt, and reduced il
to about S750,000, and ut the rate it ha.
been paying will extlnguish the Who'll.
debt in about ten years. The State hai
wisely preserved her school fund at in
terest untouched, amounting to about a,
much as her present indebtedness, ant
SO it will continue to do unless the Radi
Gals should be allowed to get control O
the legislature. In that case our invest
ments would be absorbed at once. Ever,
dollar OF the money the white peopl
have accumulated to assist in educatinj
their children would be expended il
wild experiments to equalize the negr
with the whites, as has been the case il
all the Southern States; and no doub
the State would be plunged headlon;
into debts requiring the taxes to be dou
bic what they are. This has been tn,
case in Wilmington, Washington, Phila
delphia, and in nearly every other cit,
and county where the party of progress
has secured and kept the power Ion,
enough to show their hand.