Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-06-17

women ana an equai numDef OF
children, who can find no profit
able employment on the farm or
in our workshops. This labor is
lost to the State, and this class of
persons is a burden to the commu-
mites in which they reside. Take
what they now cost from the prof
its of productive industry, and
add to it the profits which they
would make the State by labor
ing in woolen mills, and the a.
mount would not fall short OF $50
for each person, or s., 900, 600 an
+nually.
"Now, let US sum up the actual
constructive loss to the State from
this negative protection to dogs
and pdsitive discouragehent to
sheep raising:
Loss on feeding dogs. ........ 81, 100000
Sheep killed by dogs annually. $4,000
EaL sheep that would be raised. 1880, ,434
Profits Of wool factories. ........ 6OO,OU0
Losses on labor. 100000
Aggregate. te................ $500. .434
"This large sum would build a
nice little white church in every
civil district from Carter TO Shell
by. 1t would build a neat and
comfortable school house in every
scheol district In the State, and
pay first class teacher to educate
every child in the State. 1t
would pay your entire debt in
three years, valid and invalid, and
start you on a new career OF pres
perity and power.
I'VE deny ourselves these splen.
did things, for the luxury of keep
ing whelps. But one says they
keep of varmints and protect our
stock. But really they protect
ore sheep and devour three. We
must do y bout mutton chops. AMI
our Chi dren must shiver with
culd, that negroes and other irre-
spo: sible persons may possess
gangs of ferocious ours, ever r'a-
dy to lacerate the flesh of other
animals? The blood flows so
freely and the torture seems SO
excruciatiug that the heart of hu
manity is made glad. If lie bites
a human being, his merits stand
higher. He is then dignitied into
n real watchdog, when the own
er has not q shilling to watch. If
hydrophobis occasionally follows,
with loss of human life, the mat
ter is small, and is to great ex-
tent compensated by an agreeable
excitement when the cry of mad
dog flies from house to house, and
from village to village"
We have now, according to MIR.
KilIebrew, $50, 900 dogs. We prob
ally have at least that number,
one hundred and fifty thousand OF
which arc worse than useless. A
tax will clear the State OF them,
and leave no more than one hun
dred thousand. The food OF ev-
ery dog is worth ten dollars. What
he eats, it fed to a hog, will make
two hundred pounds of pork worth
| ten dollars. In this one item we
save S1,5OO,OOO. Then we tax
the rem.ining dogs one dollar each,
and
The revenue from dogs is. .....S 100000
Suppose the loss OF sheep killed
only half, and it would GER
tainly be much less; then we
save. oO:O"V
If we estimate our loss ore halt,
raised we have q saving Of. 1,69O,217
tories 3OO,OCs
One half the loss ON labor, and
wv we save ................ 100000
The actual saving is......... $4,62O,211
This would soon pay Us out OF
debt, and is twice our taxes for
the present year. Give us this
dog tax law, and the local option,
and we can save enough in three
years to pay all our debts, and af-
ter that we can send greeting to
every valley and plain in the
CAaAo thn hinhlu cultivated