The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-04-03
WHERE rns TAXES ron TEXAS COME
FROM.

PROM.
IL has been recently twlt,ed 10 thls 500
ton, IN the occasion OF the loss OF the d'm'
ocra o state convent 90 10 Fort Worth
thai "the north reras man Invariably gts
leit." There 1, perhaps more truth, polu-
icl ~, than humor In the thrust, We
demonstrated In y previous sriicl' hoF u
was that thl. Same north Texas roNed up
tha democratic msjoriliss In tho last t'ats
eleohon, ant how It Ia II counts mueh
moro over onf-half Of the democratic
vote O, tho state. We now propose %
shog tina. wedo more, ani tha. this s'cloY
alona psys considerably IN excess OF 'hs
o ie.h,lf u the tHxes, al valorern and pull'
chat 60 into the treasury. This total an
na.l tax footed up Tor the L., OF September,
1898, some 5000 T32d8, tse one'half being
81 O23 s68 81. Estimating, as on the pre-
yiou, occasion, by congressional dislrce'
va dad even COUNTIES aloue IN the ON,
or D,llAf- rarraut district, paying slsI,
0j7 20 The oh, o. Gfsyson.U''lin dis
int, OF twelve counties, paid sos 00lVO
That /, 10 say our immediate seven coun.
tisi Of Dslles. Tarrsut, Ellis, kauima'
Hul, Johnson and Basque, out OF tho 100
countis, ia the eleven districts, or the los
pay very nearly lilo OF the entire sssts tax.
Ta,4h, or Fannin.H lpk,ns, district OF
II counties. paid 1921. 7050O, or ABOUT ll7
OF no whole tax. In the 18th, or Parker
l. Pa-o, distrc, the % counties psid $751;
292 %, which, considering the newer npd
vary recent settlement o. ncsr,y al tasi
section isa splsudid showing. TIA, III,
or Won Zlndi-Harrsoa district, the y
equities paid tll9,i2500. Thua We have
these o districts alone Contributing SSH
ClG go
Turalag now to the %. o'ion iuTther s'plh
aud west. we God here that the lst, or Hars
ris.waller-Tylsr district OF 10 coun'
ties paid sl55.6ls co. which is s4i,-
1890 less than paid by the Z counueA
OF our Dalas- Tarrant district. la tho I'd,
or Houston Henderson district, o counties
PAL sS7 $500 In the 9Th, or Guadalupe
COLORADO distrct. 10 counties paid Sl05.-
21S 90. which Il about 1000 less than our
own counties. In the TIN, or Calves ton Fro
district, the q counties paid S212 5l3 W,
which. Is the largest sum paid by any OF the
dis rios. but when. when deducting Calves
ton, we I'D that the remaining 70 counties
paid Just about the same as our said
counties in the Dallas Tsrrant district.
The OH ard l0sn districts are mixed as
TO their locality assignments. Milan, Bell
Falls, McLlennsn, Limestone and Navarro,
!. "a. hat gl. a
central counties. And so II the 10th dia.
trict W. have Lam pssas, Coleman and San
Ssbs. Mason etc. being somewhat western
counties, all the counties, therefore,
In those two remaining district
we will add together FOR sheir
taxes paid, and then hslve. This gives us
SASS, 10000 Tor the two division or 1919, :
900. 90 for each. This amount added 10 the
LIST, %, eth and Sth districts below gives us
500, O9600 paid into the treasury. The
same amount added TO our north Texas Dis
trIots give 81 go, 246.O0 To this latter figure
must be added the taxes paid By the unof-
esuized counties OF the northwestern sec
zion OF the state, or sos $4,000, or total to
oar credit OF 81, IeS e36.00, which Ia drawn
from us Of tho sum total So, O46 1890, as
aforesaid, or s25s, $4,000 to our credit paid
over the touthern, western, southeastern
and southwestern Sections OF Texas.
Thus We see whence it is the bulk OF the
tsxes are drawn. Again, when we con
slider that not many years 8so 1t was thu
older or more southerly section'
that we're burdened with the assessments
aud drafts and had much more to pay, the
great help which oil this rapidly filling up
section has latterly been and must con-
tinue to be, TO all the state looms up con-
spicaously and ought to BIO correspond
ingly appreciated. Last year Galveston
for instance, paid nearly $4,000 in taxes
sd valorem and poll. On the 1st OF Sep
TENDER, 1880, nearly $4,000 was her contri
butory portion TO the treasury. Harril
county was then assessed Tor SOL coo, against
her 81, 900 last year. These are
the facts end figures that speak trumpet
tongued rs to the value Of this same "NoItf
Texas which invariably gets left" as W.
.are fauntingiy informed. Is II not about
time, II the assertion be indeed true, tina
the current of affairs should ,rrn, and I
fair distribution Of fsvors BIO conceded ant
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