Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1883-12-13
a LETTER FRo4 WILLI1M DEAN.
He Wants TO Know Why ST. Georges
Hundred is 80 DiIatory About Pay
Ing Taxes.

| Editor Gazette and Journal: The citizens
of New Castle county are required to raise,
according TO the tax col iectofs' duplicates,
something over 5000 900 by taxes. The
interest on that amount is about $l2, 600.
Now the question crises in my mind why
| it should not all be paid, say by the first
of June, then half the year has been
| passed. By this means at least $4,000
would be saved to the tax payers in in
terest. see by the published reports of
the county treasurer that not more than
about $500 have been paid in by the
collectors up to this time and now We are
in the last month of the year. paid in
county taxes. | either paid mine too
soon or else some others have not paid
soon enough
Now have entire confidence in the
ability OF our county treasurer to Keep
the accounts correctly, and in his care
fully keeping the oounty's money
| know early in the season he
was urging the collectors to get to
work and bring in the money. Yet / see
that up to this time, the first week in
December, St Georges hundred has not
paid in single cent of taxes. For what
reason are they allowed to thus delay the
payment Of at least some portion Of their
taxes have long known that this
hundred has been much favored by
the selection OF its citizens TO fill large
portion OF the countY's offices. They
may have superior ability among their
citizens for such places over any other
hundred, but when 1t comes to paying
off the just amount due to the
county for taxes, can rot
see why they should be allowed
to 60 into the last month OF the year with
out single cent having gone into the
county treasury. For what reason does
our county treasurer allow such an in
justice to bs praoticed upon other portions
of the county Is he afraid of the in
tiuence Of that hundred, that they may
oppose his reelection | have known
that the leaders of that hundred have
had great weight in manipulating who
should fill the various Offices of the
county; but that it could be carried to
such an extent as to cheat the county
treasurer out of the money justly due it
| had never dreamed until the present
state of the county treasurer's report was
published.
Why should be required to pay $500
in the beginning of July and lose the
interest of it for year Is it not adding |
SIS to my taxes If st. Georges hundred
is as long in paying up in fall alter it
begins to pay, "a time, whicn is yet un.
known), it ia more than probable It will
turn out that my taxes were paid full |
year before those of st. Georges hundred
am Democrat bnt if it requires that
$l8 shall be taken out of my pocket 10
put 1t to or to assist to make up 81 900 or
over in interest that will be lost
to the county by the tax payers
of st. Georges hundred not act
ing honestly toward the balance of the
county then that, ia, to say the least, not |
the kind of Democracy taught in the |
school in which | got my education as
Democrat, and the sooner the Democrats
of tho balance of the county find out the |
true intentions of the St. Georges Democ.
racy, the better ii will be for them,
financially at least. II St. Georges hun.
dred can, according to law, not be re-
quired to pay her taxes before certain |
day some time in the following year from
the time they were levied, why cannot |
all the hundreds do the samea II they
all did so, would not the wheels of the |
oouhby uhfc w UUulb W u ]
stopi
| know not who is the cause of thus |
detrauding the country treasury, but it
belongs TO the peopl. of st. Georges hun
dred. II they have paid it 10 tue collec
tor aud lie has n, I paid it into the county
ressury it 's JUS possible the collector
may have started little p,ivate bank
aud b. shaving the paper OF his needy |
constituents. do not say sucn is the
case yet it might urder such ciroum
stances bs done, and who would be- the
wiser is hard to tell, but who would be
the richer under the same circumstance
is an easy mstter to tell Ours is CLAIMED |
to be- government of the people, by the |
people and for the people, and not for the
collector of St Georges hundred or the |
people of St, Georges hundred, when il
has to be done to the disadvantage of all |
the people OF the balance of New Castle
county. WILLIAM DEAN.