The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-30

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it Is not probable all the levy will be col
lected. And four.ffths of the criminals
prosecuted in Alexander county are either
residents in other counties of the state or
are nonresidents Of the state The injustice
to the tax payers of Alexander county
OF the operation Of the existing law
requiring the county annually to pay for
prosecuting hundreds of tramps and other
nonresident criminals is so manifest as to
require no further comment.
3, Even those who deny that Illinois
is in any sense sovereign state, will admit
that it is the state, and only the state, not
the county or any other jurisdiction, which
exercises the sovereign power to take away
the life, liberty and property Of criminals,
and it requires no subtlety Of reasoning to
dcvclope the conclusion that, as the state, and
rot the county, exercises these great powers,
the state, not the county should pay the OK
pcnsos attendant upon the enforcement of
such powers. The county is mere
geographical subdivision Of the state,
created for the sake of convenience in ad.
ministerng the laws Of the state
3 The ability Of The state OF Illinois to
assume and carry the buy,hen of paying
the cost in criminal cases without any in
crease in the tax.levy beyond that for the
present year, can easily be demonstrated,
but, even il an increase Of state taxation
should be necessary, the Justice OF the in
crease would be apparent. The state tax
levy for 1879, was only q cents on
the 800; and for the year 1880 it IS
80 cents on the 500. The causes
requiring the addition of0 cents to the
state taX-Ievy are temporary Within thirty
days from this date the entire state debt
will be paid Theappropriatious for build
ing additional wings 10 the various insane
asyums will probably not be required in
the future, The "IIlinols asylum for
feeble-minded children ought to be dona-
ted to the psendo-phiIanthropic specializing
lobbyists who secured its construction, or
else sold at public yenduc; and another
leak in the treasury thus stopped. The
expensive machinery for operating the
penetentiaries ought to be abolished, and
those prisons leased by the state. At any
rate, the state will have no more interest to
pay and no more insane asylum wings to
build, and great reduction Of expendi.
lures may be confidently anticipated And
there will be no excuse for the coming gem
eral assembly, if it does not bring the tax
levy for 1881 back to q cents on the 800
to cover ordinary expenditures and the
decent, economical, maintenance of the
public institutions and charities; whereby
then would be cents on the 500 to be
appropriated, if so much would be neces-
sary, to the payment of the costs in criminal
cases
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stotos Of fine T-,ion tbora aro Iovs ro,r;r;ro
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ro nail hr tbo s+o.o p,oh,,L,.
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