The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-25
FIGURE FOR YOURSELF.

I've are not handicapped Nth :
record Of extravaganza or an ulseemty greed
for SpOilS. "-CECIL DEMOCRAT.
In our issue of the 18th instant We pre-
scented the taxpayers of the county with
a tabulated statement, showing the an
nual amounts assessed upon them for a
series of years, beginning for the year
1861 and ending with the present year of
1879, wherein we plainly and fairly con-
trasted, by figures taken accurately from
the records Of the County Commission
ers' office, the Republican and Demo-
cratic management of the county finances
during those years. From this compare
tive statement we argued then, and we re-
peat now, that no impartial man can draw
any other conclusion than that the Demo-
cratic party has uselessly and recklessly
squandered the moneys of the people.
That their advent to power in 1867 was
marked by significant and material in
crease in the amounts levied upon the
taxpayers, and which has not been since
reduced in any manner commensurate
with the general depreciation of values,
the result of the exigencies of "hard
times In confirmation of these con-
illusions, we now ask the taxpayers Of
the county to take the annual levies in
the years named, and using the data re-
speeding them, and the aggregate annual
expenditures furnished in our article of
| the 18th instant, to strike the common
acerage Of any giren number Of gears, and
see for themselves, by this fairest method
of computation Of relative expenditures,
whether our conclusions were correct OF
not. If any taxpayer will take the trou-
bic to use his pencil and papera moment,
he cannot fail to deduce the following
results, showing what the exact per centun,
Of increase has been under Democratic
financial management:
Average annual amount of county
| levies, exclusive of school tax
| lcvieS, 1S6l-67, seven years. SAG, l9I 90
Average annual amount of county
| levieS, exclusive of school tax
levies, 1869, twelve years. $40, S95. 00
Increase Of So 1-o per cent. under Demo-
cratic reform.
| Average annual amount Of school
tax levicS 1S61-66 six years Ono
school taxes were levied in 1860 81 ,S4S. 0C
Average annual amount of school
tax levies 1S6S-79, twelve years S24, 1S0. &C
Iacrea.e orer Republican administration
Of 100 1-2 per cent.
Average annual levy for sherifTs
account 1S6l-67, seven years. 81, &C
Average annual levy for the same
1869, twelve years. s., $40. II
Increase III 1-e per cent. under Demo-
cratic management.
Average annual levy for roads and
Average annual levy for the same
purposes 1869, twelve years, S27 ,063 .0C
Increase 50 per cent Under Democratic
administration.
Average annual levy for expenses
of circuit court 1S6l-6I, seven
years Observation-Disclosures. ....... SS,O63. OF
Average annual levy for the same
expenses 1869, twelve years. Sll, ia. OF
Increase 4j per cent. under Democratic
management.
Average annual levy for pay of
county commissioners 1S6l-67,
| seven years. Observation-Disclosures. 81 ,OO0. Ot
Average of same 1859, twelve
years. Observation-Disclosures. Sl,'ohot
Increase 20 per cent. Under Democratic
naturalization.
In the light OF these figures tho tax
payers of Cecil may we'll question the
propriety Of continuing longer in power
the party to which. since 1867, under its
loud promises of reform and retrench-
ment then made, has been entrusted
the (mis) management of county finances.
Democratic deputy editors may, by tedi-
GUS and pointless displays of figures, en-
deavor to scribblc away the force of these
conclusions, but they are fairly deduct
Bile. Figures at least do not lie, and the
! truth they establish comes home with
telling force to every taxpayer Of Cecil
county.