Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-02-16
NAMES,
NAMES.

There are seyera points in this head
ing to which would cali the attention
of those poor unwary democrats, Co,
however. as a warring, for those whose
ewes are closed do no! heed warning.
and those whose eyes are open do not
need lO, if space will permit, bat for
fear 1t should not, shall first dissect
The tail OF the remarkable animal.
Oh! We gods, how grand o. how
patriotic CD to place ones signatures
under the last, aud at the same time,
most wonderful, most superlatiyely
grand sentence of that wonderful. mirac-
ulous paper! The brain HAT conceived
il IS fit TO elucidate the principles OF the
exact sciences to the confusion OF a
Newton or a Todhunter, or to instruct
an infant school in the elementary prin-
ciples of arithmetic. l will repeat the
sentence. Please examine il critically.
1--WE further express our entire APP
prevail of the rate Of interest. fixed by
this bill three per cent? as the lint OF
ability to pay without an increase OF
taxation. "
Now | want to ask every democrat
OF Shenandoah county, what the APP
prevail Of the people can signify or sc-
complsh in this matter. If three per
cent interest is all that can be paid
from our present revenues, it is a
matter Of mathematical ascertainmenl;
the result can only be arrived at by
addition aud subtraction, the approval
or dis pprovAl Of the p.op'e, Of the re-
suit arrived a., can effect nothing; the
approval Of the people Off mltter Of
fact IN not strengthen il, iii it is fact.
If il is true, that but three per cent in-
terest can be paid without m iucrease
of taxation it is fact, no! arrived at by
the caprces Of the people, but BY figures
which do not lie,a and their (the peoples
approval cannot strengthen the fact, as
fact. b at on the other hand, il upon
an accurate calculation it is asccriained
that The present. revenues will pay
more than three per cent upon the debt
as sot forth by the RIddlebergcr Bill,
whether IL be four, five or six per cent,
then what eject can, the approval OF
the people, by their signatures, Of a
paper stating that three per cent is all
it will pay, have upon the fact, which il
to the contrary. and the result Of
mathematical Calculation: Cn the APP
prevail Of the people alter metheml-
teal certaintys
Upon calculation Of the amount OF
our present revenues Appropriated by
allowing for average reduction on ac-
count OF recent reassessment of Real
Estate, as we'll as can be ascertained
from present returns, (yh ich by the
say is not near 80 much as the Reduc..
tionis.s endeavored 10 mn Ike 1t THEY
needed the approval ofihe people to
make their calculations. facts1), and
allowing s9OC, 5000, (amount claimed
by the Readjuslers) AS expenses of
government, which, as here stated,
does rot include costs OF collec ion and
$500, 900 for The free schools. would
leave in reuud numbers for payment OF
interest 81, 100 600; This sun attord-
ing to their calculations will pay or Is
equal to s5S9,955, amount of interest
under the heidelberg r Bal, and al
that is needed, in spite Of ma thematics,
to make it fact, is the approval of the
people by their signatures. Suppose
upon calculation you lind 75plus75 equas
$50, suppose th.n l make the assertion