The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-06

TONERS also put the Sheriff. mind entirely
at rest with regard to the financial needs of
the city and county governments. The
city government is in easy circumstances
financially and will have all the money she
may need for awhile, after the 1st Of May,
when the liquor licenses come due. The
county government would gain nothing by
| the immediate collection of the taxes, be-
cause it has already anticipated last years
taxes for county purposes as far as 1t Was
necessary 10 meet current expenses. The
school district fund is Flush" and will
meet all temporary wants. These facts are
all brought to the notice of the Sheriff by
the petitioners, and should he give them
due weight and take the hint, taxpayers
generally would doubtless rise as one man
and call him blessed.
The Argus intimates that THE BULLE-
TINS efforts to rid our local Republican
politics Of an ugly spot that was growing
larger and more offensive year after year,
virtually imply remuneration of its Demo
cratic character. Probably only the Argus
could have cleared tue distance between
the premises and the conclusion here pre-
sented. THE BULLETIN has simply VEN
tured to denounce irregularity and corrup.
ton in our local politics, and as this irregu-
lsrity and corruption were not in the Demo
cratic party, it fails to see the logic of the
Argus conclusion, that it thereby severed
its connection with the Democratic party,
or even gave the faintest intimation Of q
purpose to do 50. Some papers are "inde-
pendent until they are bribed to be 9TH
erwise. Others are "independendent' BE-
CAUSE they sre-fnd it profitable to be SO.
We do not mean TO say that the Argus be-
longs TO either of these classes but we must
admit that it taxes our confidence in its in
tegrity to the utmost, to see newspaper so
confoundedly independent" that it doesn't
dare to witch muscle in disapprobation
of suffocating stencil coming from foul
pool within three-quarters of an inch of its
nose. However, the Argus is welcome to
all the "ham" it may get because of It's de-
cidsd partiality for Hon. w. T. Scott and
his peculiar methods.
The voters of the city should inquire
particularly into the opinions Of the candi-
dates for aldermen a. the coming city cleo
ton upon the St. Louis & Cairo Railroad
embrog,io In the coming election as in
former city elections, the s.. Louis s. Cairo
Company has finger, trying to stir up an
anti-cty-Of.Cai sentiment among the
voters. This year the movement is slyer
than formerly. They have seen that when
the issue is fairly made and openly dis
cussed the people are overwhelming on
the side of the city council in its fight for
the city's interests as against those of the
railway company; and they have, if we are
not mistaken, conclul led to steal march,"
by running in their secret allies Upon some
issue that will de'ract the public's attention
from the real object. For the present this
is merely suspicion-a well-founded sus-
picioD, however, which we hope soon to
entirely disspate or to verify, The issue
which is to serve as cloak for these scape
goats is thigh taxes" but the cloak lisa
thin one and to the vision of those who
know, you know, it forms no obstruction at
all. That city taxes are little higher
than they have been is true; but no citizen
who knows the cause of it will see IN that
fact ground for complaint against the
administration. One cause was a manda-
mus issued by the U. s. Court, requiring
The levee of taxes to meet judgments rem
dered against the city several years ago.
and the other cause.-the principal cause
are the expense, incurred during the last
two years in the city's noble aud gloriously
successful battles against floods, which in
cluded heavy expenditures on the levee,
making that embankment one of the finest
in the country. 1t WAS because of these ju.
dicious and timely expenditures that, this
year, there was no need of voluntary
watchers on the levee--all who were called
upon to serve we're paid promptly when
their work was done, and the people in the
city passed their nights in security and
quiet Those Of our people who can fully
appreciate these great blessings will look
with contempt upon those who seek for
selfish purposes to make capital out of the
comparatively trifing expenditure Of mon
ey that brought about the greatly i'm
proved state of things. If the taxes were
higher because of inexcusable wastefulness
on the part of the city or county authori-
ties, or because of pilfering officials, there
would be some excuse for complaint, but
who dares to charge that this has been the
case herel-But the matter doesn't merit
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