Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-14
The CITY Tax RNie.

With his characteristic ignorance If
municipal affairs or III the exercise Of
what the Examiner calls Il " facility for
lying" the Republican candidate for
mayIr is trying to make capital for him
self AN, his party out of thu fact that
the city tax is now nine mills. II he
knows anything he knows that instead
If Mayor MacGonigle being in any de
gree responsible for this ii is to him the
taxpayers owe it that this tax is not
twelve Or fifteen mills. BY a reckless and
extravagant street committee, against
whose Orerdcawing of their appropria-
ton Mayor Mact;OIigle again and again
protested, a lloating debt of S20,Wo WAS
incurred, which, by reason of the rapid
increase of the city debt under Stautfer,
had TO lie paid by special taxation.
Had the mayor not appealed to tie court
and obtained III injunction against this
street committee, the floating debt might
have been $4,000, and the tax much
higher than it is. Under Mayor Stauf-
fer's administration he never inter
posed any obstruction to such reck
lesSneSs or misgOvernment. He allowed
one committee after the other to exceed
it's appropriation, and was cheek by jOWl
with the ringSterS. who are now clam
Oring for his reelection. Every ye; L
there was deficiency ard floating debts
were piled on the bonded debt; until in
four years there had been an increase Of
two hundred thousand lollars-an aver
age burden of nearly seventeen mills to
every dollar OF the taxable property in
the city. lie left legacy of $1,000.
which Mayor Mact;onigle's alministra
tion had to pay, and although it has paid
this, and paid the so 900 f,ating deb:
incurred 10y an extravagant Repub
lican strea. committee, aud male many
very valuable permanent improvements,
at the close of it's four years, instead Of
having $685. 900 increase in til" bon,!r'l
debt and $50, 600 floating debt like Stauf,
fer's, there is 10 fioating debt at all, but
very large increase in the sinking fund.
The different modes of administration
show difference of favor Of MacGoni
gle's administration amounting to at
least s225 ,OOO-every man i'll town is
richer for it, taxes lower. rents lower and
real estate less burdened.
WHEN the accidental editor who
crawlel upon the tripod OF saturdays
Etanii,ei had been booted from that STA
ton, and some reason and decency were
Installed in his stead, the tone of the
paper changed with the change of eli-
tors. OF the INTELLIGENCER, which,
on Saturday, the Etan,iae.' said Was
guilty of 9 malicious and " shame
less'' libel, the ELamiher OF Monday
says - We do not think our contempo-
rary, the INTELLIaENCER, would will
jngly libel any one.' We are quite ready
to accept the more mature judgment of
our contemporary as its settled opinion
in this matter; as some of its other
readers are ready to agree with its Mon
day editor that - Annie Eva Fay is a
charlatan of the most pronounced type"
though the Saturday editor declared that
if one were to judge from innumerable
criticisms and the reported investiga-
tions of scientific men, Miss Fay must
be the most wonderful spiritualist of the
age.'' In fact if the Eramine, lives
long enough it will find out that - the
manner in which, accidental editors
like " "spirits''-'' manifest themselves
through so called mediums, are worse
than asses"
ALDERMEN BARR and Spurrier are
Stauffer's chief fuglemen. Last year
they drew from the county treasury for
dismissed cases-m0stly Of a trivial
character-nsarly fire thousand dollars.
II they could elect mayor and appoint
police force to suit them, they might
make ten thousand dollars a year. Their
methods have been repeatedly condemn
ed by courts and grand juries. But un-
Jar Sfauffer they wOu1d flourish ne meyer