The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-10-29

to pay the debt in $50, when it natures
under this act and subsequent laws passed
in 1872. 1874. 1876. 1873. The State has
actually borrowed s4.jl6. 80. the laws
authorizing the loans also laying taxes
to pay them i'll fifteen years. respectively.
OF the loan OF 1868, 50. 3aG. $50 was
borrowed, and it therefore falls due in
1883. There ought now, in 1881, to be
in the sinking fund sum approximate
ing to that amount. so that in 1888 the
sinking fund will be sufficient to pay the
debt Their falling due. The taxes actually
levied and appropriated to the sinking
fund by the constitution. and actually
paid into the treasury, amount to 81, 99J,-
2G9. In May last there We're in the sink
ing fund S20i, 15,: missing. 1.190, 40,
The people have borrowed the money
repay it at maturity by providing for the
sinking fund. They have striven to pau
By s"ring, and now, two years before the
debt is due. 81 100. 40 of their money is
gone-spent. The people have saved,
they have stinted, they have borne the
burden of taxation for thirteen years,
and now they find that all their eflorts
are vain, and that their sweat and labor
have vanished. one mHion seren lam
dred oud ninety Mousand d0Nars. rhich
oVght to be in tie $inhi0g ,tund, not Mere
Now do not mean to inSinuate that Mr..
Heating has taken any of this money. |
have no doubt that he has receipt and
Il voucher for every cent of it. as he saws.
do him the credit of believing that he
is good enough book keeper for that.
Put do say. and I do charge distinctly.
that every dollar of taxes levied by acts
of Assembly for the sinking fund, to pay
money borrowed by the State, is appro-
priated by the constitution to the sink
ing fund and dedicated to the payment
of the debt. That no Legislature. no
Governor. no comptroller has Il right to
touch a dollar of it, and that it is the
duty of the comptroller to keep the fund
sacred, and to refuse to permit either
Legislature or Governor to touch one
cent of it.
do say and do charge that one mill,
ion serCa hundred and ninety N0usand dol
lars have been paid by the people in taxes
to meet their debts, and that every dol
lar has been illegally and demonstrations
ally expended. The reason why the sink
ing fund was diverted and misappropri-
atcd was the bosses and the lobby re-
quired money. They required jobs to
produce them money. They had print
ing jobs, extra pay Jobs, and all sorts of
jobs But money cannot be raised with
out taxes. Taxes excite inquiry and at
tract attention. Raising taxes would at
once arouse the public. If the taxes
were applied 10 the sinking fund, to save
to pay, as required by the constitution.
there would only be money enough left
to provide for economical administration
of government.
Here was the dilemma. They dare not
raise the taxes. They wanted the money.
They took it from the sinking fund, and
hence the extravaganza and prohgacy of
engrossing committees and extra COM
pensation. Iou will ask me, What is
the remedy for all this? You surely do
not want to turn the State over to the
Republican party - and answer: seek
to save the State. \ few years more of
boss rule and the people will identify the
party with the managers and repndiate
both. | seek to save the party by iriv-
ing from control of it its sclf-imposed
masters. and restoring it to the control
of the people. Save the party-drive off
the bosses. Save the party and destroy
the machine.
We can do this by defeating nominees
put upon us as the creatures of the lobby:
by exposing to public view all illegal and
corrupt conduct in officials; by refusing
our votes both u ring men aud Re
publicans, and by steady determined
agitation of the objects we have in view.
Office is not necessary to accomplish these
purposes. We are better and stronger
without Offices. Delegations of power
from the people are necessary. and it is
imnlaterial whether such delegations be
given to us or others who will use them
for the public good. The Democratic
party. when aroused, will shake all these
managers from their places. and then
they will understand that the bosses
must GO