The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-04-10

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So ihps snlna every helpless child 9Th
death. uood bys, ornmple.
WHERE TINS ia Nts ron TENAs COwE
rnOM.
IL has been recently twitisd 10 thIs rec
ton. on the occasion u the loss OF he d'm'
ocfsiio state oonvsLt on TO FoIt Worth.
that "ihs north rsIAs man invariably gets
lett" There Ia perhaps more truth. polit'
io,ly. than humor In the thrust We
demonstrated In a previous sriiels how II
wa, that this same noitn Texas rolled up
the democratic msJoriiies In the lsst stats
election, ana how It 10 IL counts much
more over ons-hslf OF the democratic
vote OF the slate. We now propose TO
how that We do more. aud thA. this section
alons pays considerably In excess OF the
ons-haif OF the ,axes. nd valorem aud poll,
that 10 into the treasury. This total an'
nua tax footed up for the let oil Ssptemosr
1888. some s2.0io 732G8. the ons-hs'f beine
tl,u%o ooo %. iSNtm-stHb, ~ W. s"o fs'-
vlous occasion. by congressional districts,
we find even counties alone In ths n,
or Dallas rnrrant district. paying sl9I,
O57 90. The OH, o. Grsyson.C,llin dis
trict. OF twelve counties. paid $i6s 5000.
That Is to say our immediate seven coun'
ties OF Dallas, Tanaor, Els. kaufman
HUI, johnson and Il ,squs, ON OF the LOO
counties in the eleven district br the LOS.
pay very nearly ITO OF 'heenCre STATE tay,
The 4 h, OF Faunlu-u loslns, disiictof
II counlies pyid si2l soo 90. or aoout LII
O. tho whcla tax. Ia the ii.h, or Psikr-
Paso, ds.rio' the 2s counties paid $751;
292 90, which, Considering tue newer nad
yeryrsoent setflemsnt o nearly I'll tis'
section, Is tpl .ndii showing. Tns 81,
or Van Y lGd,.Htu.-oa district, the u
couoties paid Sil9, 4950O. Thus We have
these dls,rleIs al)ae contributing ssii.'
0s6.00.
Tnrning now to the sec.ion further s,nth
and west, we had hsre tIat ihr lsL.'or Hal
rIs.Wallcr-Tyl-r District of ID coun
l.ss paid sI55.6lSOO, which Is SAL
1900 less ihan paid by the counties
of our Dsl as.rarfant dhtrict. In the 81,
or Houst0n- Henderson district, 0 couniie,
paid Ss7 $500 Inshe sth, or Guidalnse-
Colorado district, ID counties pail $l65.-
OPS 90, which Is about So, 1000 lsss than Gus
own coun'ies. In the TN, or Galveston Fro
district, ths q ooun:ies paid $272 5i3 w,
which. 10 the largest sum paid by any OF the
dis ric's, but whch, when deducling Calves
ton, we fad that the remaining 70 COUNTIES
paid Just about the same as our said Z
COUNTIES in the Dallas rarant district.
The 6. b epd 10.h disricls ere mixed os
to their locality assignments. Milan, Bell
Falls. Mel ennan, Limestone and Navarro,
10 the 9th district, being c!assed rather as
central counties. And ooin the 10Th dis.
tnct we have Lampasas. Coleman and San
Saba, Mason etc. being somewhat western
counties, all the counties. therefore
In thoss two remsining District
We vii! add together fer Their
taxes paid. and then hslye. This gives US
Sass, 10000 for She two division CT 500, :.
200. 90 for each. This amount added to tue
ist, 81. Tth and SLh districts below gives us
i010, 096.00 paid into the treasury. The
same amount added to our north Texas dis
tricts give 81 ,070, 24600. To this latter figure
must be added the taxes paid by the unor.
ganized counties of the northwestern sec.
ton Of the state, or sos $4,000. or total 10
our credit Of 81, 1853 638.00, which is drawn
from Ms OF the sum Total $2.048. 732. 90, ss
aforesaid, or $25s, $4,000 to our credit spid
over the touthern, western, southeastern
and southwestern sections OF Texas.
Thus we see whence it Is the bulk ofthe
taxes are drawn. Again, when we con-
slider that not many years ago 1t was the
older or more southerly sections
that were burdened with the assessments
and drafts and had much more to pay, the
great help which all this rapidly filling up
section has latterly been and must con-
tinue to be, to all the state looms up con-
spicuously and ought to be correspond.
ingly appreciated. Last year Galveston,
for instance, paid nearly $4,000 in taxes,
ad valorem and poll. On the LIST of Sep.
TENDER, 1880. nearly 100000 was her contri-
butory portion to the treasury. Harris
county was then assessed for $5i 600, against
her $4l,e00 last year. These are
the fact 10 end figures that speak trumpet
tongued as to the value Of this same I'll North
Texas which invariably gets Left" as We
are flsuntingIy informed. Is 1t not about
time, II the assertion be indeed true, that
tue current OF affairs should turn, and a
fair distribution OF tavors be conceded aud
extendedP