Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-10-09
THOUGHTS, SELECT AND ORIGISAL.

anu my -oAN N
The Bourbons enter upon their
third fiscal year as our rulers to-
DAY. Where is the accounts oil
their stewardship Why is it that
we have not yet the auditors re-
port for the first year Why
ono more of the brother-in'law
business" cries the bourbon Look
around you and see the brother-ln-
law, the cousin.in-law, the father-in-
law and the mother.in.law with a
court house crowded with COM
missioners in chancery-all kin-ln'
law.
The scalping of schOol'warrants,
which SO ruinously Slapped the pay
of teachers all through the past
school-year, was due to fresh
diversion of school.money, exceed
ing three hundred thousand dol
lars, turned into the treasury and
kept there to make a show Tor
Bourbonism, at the expense OF the
schools and teachers!
Remember, that by its excessive
assessment of our property, real
and personal, Bourbonism has in
creased our taxes annually over
S23L955.
This is an average increase OF
taxes yearly for every county in
the state of two thousand three
hundred and twenty dollars
Can you endorse that, in the
midst of these hard times
Massey, giving an account of his
politicoreligious labors IN the
Southwest, says: ave spoken
about twenty-five times, preached
eight times"
Curious to say, Murrell, the
Western HighwaymaD, once gave
little account Of one of his expe-
ditions. Said he:
81 have robbed twelve men,
killed one, run off two negroes, aud
preached several times with great
acceptance to the people"
Here we are at the end of the
fiscal year 1SS5-wbich expired on
the 3Oth of September and yet
the facts and figures of the Bour-
bon administration of our affairs
even for last year withheld. What
is to be thought of this conceal
ment, of public matters ? What
other inference can be drawn than
that the Bourbons are afraid to let
the people know the true condition
Of our finances
The coupons are rushing into the
Treasury and attacking it fOriously
on all sides, through Bourbon mis-
legislation; aud in his effort to
postpone the payment Of a laige
sum on verified coupons until after
the election, the present Bourbon
auditor lost over $1,000 to the
State that lie should and could
have saved -.
The exact figures given OF the
excessive Bourbon assessments are
as follows:
On real estate S36, lOJ, ~ 62
On personal property ...-..- 2i'os1''oo w
Total increase. 81, 9Ss, ,l3 GO |
The yearly increase Of taxes
thereby ..--..---...t<0i,So0 ~
Yes: thus our taxes for the
whole State are raised two hun
dred and thirty one thousand and
nine hundred and 6fty-hve dollars
and fifty cents
Elect Wise, Wood and Blair,
with Republican Legislature, and |
save yourselves from this extortion.
An observing old gentleman
from Pennsylvania, now tarrying
in our midst, remarked to us yes
terday that Virginia Democracy |
was entirely different from that of
bis State that a Pennsylvania
Democrat would be ashamed Of his
Virginia brothers Democracy
Right be was; and for the good
name of their State, Pennsylvania
Democrats should be thankful that
Bourbons do not compose the mass
of their party. Democracy is en-
durable, but what Virginia needs
to get rid Of is bourbonism.
The criminal charges on the
State Treasury annually amount
to from s15O,OOO to $4,000. The
Bourbon Usurpers projected a
measure to put these expenses on
The counties and cities, and thereby
increase our taxes in this way at
least $3.50, 900 a year! They have
not abandoned the project, and
viii surely pass a bill to carry it
into effect, If they control the next
Legislature. The Bourbon Usurp-
,rs will thus have over $4,000 of
State revenue released from crimi-
nal charges to be put to their pur.
poses, and the taxes On the people
will be increased to . ike amount
in tue local levies. This, added to '
The increased taxation already q
brought on US by the excessive
resssessments of real and personal i
! roperty, will make, by these two d
'evices only, our increased taxes Il
early amount to over three hun t
red and eighty-two thousand dol t
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