The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11


An examination of the above record
shows that after the year 1866, Ill winch
wear the Republicans lost the control oil
the county, there was very marked an
NAL rise in the amount of taxes levied
Tn the first year, when the Democratic
machinery had got fairly at work, IN loo''
and the school law had been brought to
a dead halt by the Democratic legisla-
ture, in the contest waSed by INC
friends of popular education, there was
an increase of two thousand dollars Ill
the levy. notwithstanding the fact that III
the previous year, 1866, the sum levied
included SIG, 302 % for public schools.
The Taxpayers of the county, however,
in the teeth of the Democratic professions
of economy and low taxation, had only
to wait another year, to learn what tleSe
professions amounted to. In that year
the annual levy bounded up to nearly
500 600. or nearly 1000 more than
the hiqhcst amount reached by the ke-
publicans in any one year. Nor must IL
be forgotten that i'll this very year, 1868,
with so noticeable an increase III the
amount levied, the assessable basis was
increased by the new assessment from
eight millions to fourteen millions OF dol
lars Now. it is very evident that under
the new assessment reaching an increase
of nearly 60 per cent taxable basis, had
1 there been an economical administration
0 of county affairs, the rate of taxation
I could have been, i'll that and every sue
: ceeding year, very materially reduced
= A comparison between any two years
6 respectively, under Republican and Dem
II ocratic rule, will show this. Take the
> wears 1868 and 1873, for instance. In the
e latter wear, under Democratic rule, The
If annual rate per 500 was % cents. II
is 1868. under Republican rule, the rate wa
IL CT cents per s 400, on the old bass. lnde
&c the assessment of 1868, the Republican
% rate would have been only 81 cents pc
or 800 but it was increased forty cents
~ the simple reason being, that til
to amount levied in 1878, under the Demo
Gratis. had in the six years that they ha
been in power, increased from si9, oo2.e
:" TO the enormous figure $103, S34.72, Gu
minatinc, in the year 1874, i'll the unre
n senablc amount of $l12, 1876.
NC While an examination of tho aboN
VI record shows that since the year lS6
VII the amount annually levied by the Der
VII ocrats is double what it was under II
Republicans, the school tax also, ait
III its Democratic doctorinS began to sw'
' ", in equally massive proportions. In T.
an wears preceding 1866, the school t
pie averages something over 81 800 per a
IN mum. For the last eight years t
vi sum collected for schools amounts
civ &f99. 2SS. al, to say nothing of an acc
mulated debt of $40, 900, now carried
ont the county, Oh which per cent intcr'
act is annually paid. We claim that the
hat penditure of this enormous amou
of within the time named, is not appart
to in the improved character of our cour
g To schools. at least to a degree commens
ref ate with such figures, Indeed are
in schools realty any better than former
heir and are they open for any longer perlo
who Yet for double the sum annually expe'
,sty ed they should be far in advance OF W
re- they are, and should not be compelled
the close for a portion Of the year.
,oe But the force of this comparative ST.
~ meni does not stop with the above c1l