Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-06
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.



with additional homes and augmenting
employment for labor.
The tax to be passed upon, if levied, will
be but mere trife compared to the un-
questioned profit that will result from the
investment to every resident and every tax
payer.
The people who have most at stake, and
will have most to pay, are, as rule, in
favor of the proposition. This is the plan !:
To use a sum not in excess of five cents on
each one hundred dollars of assessed val
ues, to be discussed under the supervision
of the Board of Trustees, for the purpose,
primarily, of establishing permanent ex-
hibition in this city of the products of
Central and northern California.
Such an exhibition, visited daily by
travellers and incoming homeseekers, will
be proof of all the claims made in the i'm
migration literature printed and sent east
ward for circulation. The product of a
section in a given period, represents the
climate of that region. 1t is climate the
homeseeker first asks about, and products
will prove the truth of the response given
him.
The exhibition will also became bureau
of information concerning lands suitable
for colony purposes, or for individual pur-
chase, with the location plated the prices
stated, the lines of transportation indi-
Gated, the character of the soil shown the
water privileges, etc. Each week some
thousands of strangers pass through the
city. All stop here some little time, only
the few remain for some days. We have
nothing now for missionary labor with
them, but words. 1t is proposed to add OBJ
ject lessons, and thus increase the number
who will pause to see.
AS an investment it is, judging by the re-
markable experience of the people of
southern California, wise one. 1t is GER
tainly worth every cent that is called for.
For it will be addressed to the class We
most need to occupy vacant lands. 1t will
be addressed especially to those having
means, and desiring to occupy and till the
soil.
The people arriving by the excursion
trains-and which are now settled and regu-
lar events, and will continue to be-are not
seeking labor. On the contrary, they are
wholly investors, a large part quite wealthy
men and women. Their settlement in this
vicinity will increase the demand for labor,
and more Immediately benefcially affect
laborers and skilled mechanics than any
other class.
The taking up of vacant lands, the build
ing of homes, the cultivation OF small
farms, vineyards and orchards, will in
crease the opportunities for the laboring
people They now complain of lack Of
demand for labor The way to augment
it is to increase the class who must employ
labor and consume the products of labor.
careful examination of the city assess
ment roll discloses the fact that over one
half of the assessments are of amounts less
than 81 ,9O0 and on each of which the
maximum tax will be but 80 cents, and the
greater part under that figure.
Not to exceed one in eight of the assess
ments are for amounts of $1,000 and over.
So, then, while the great majority will pay
less than 90 cents each, at least seven
eighths of all will be taxed less than 81.
Absurd as it may seem, yet it is true that
some people speak of the proposed levy as
per cent; that is to say, 5 cents on the
dollar, or about 5000 gross. The truth
is, as any one can see who cares to read the
order of the Trustees, that it is for 5 cents
at IN w oh0ut * 6lOl
1t is understood that the error referred to
is being secretly and diligently encouraged
by parties representing nonresident
property holders, who, with few excep-
tions, invariably seek to avoid all contribu-
ton to local needs and benefits. The only
way to reach that class-who own more
than one-third of all the property-is by
the method to be voted upon to-day. These
absentee landlords, who carry away the
rentals of property, pay for local needs
only lust what they are compelled to, and
least of all others give employment to
labor, and spend least of their gains
here-why should they escape duty
doing? Why should they be exempt from
the burden that is borne by residents, when
the result to be attained is to benefit them
equally with others?
To the reference to nonresident property
owners there is one notable exception
The Central Pacific Railroad Company has
uniformly, as a taxpayer-and the largest
favored all use of the funds that will
enhance the prosperity of the city and its
vicinity. Its interest is found in building
up the city and the country; but no more
so in proportion to the tax paid than is the
interest of every taxpayer in the city. Aug
mented population will increase the bust
ness of the railroad company, and justify
lis policy in building feeders to its main
lines, and this will augment the laborer.
necessary TO operate the system of rail.
roads and manufacture supplies in the
shops in this city, and corresponding in
crease in the sum of the payroll that is
regularly disbursed in Sacramento.
Another fact to be kept in mind is this
that the Trustees are not to pay the amount
to be set aside to any person or association
in lump sum, or any part of it, except as
in their Judgments discreet, and then only
for expenses approved by the Trustees, as
are other city disbursements.
VorE To-Day FoR THE TAN, 1B," AM
DO NOT NEGLECT To VoTE.
DIED IN New YoRK.-Most every one il
the city remembers L. Alexander, whC
some years ago conducted the Tiyoi, II
Turner Hall He failed in business ane
left the State in company with another
mans wife, deserving his own wife an6
family. Word has been received here iron
New York that he died of asthma in one
of the hospitals of that city few days ago
Police CouRT.-In the Police Court Sat
urday Jerry Haley, arrested for having
been drunk, forfeited his ...,Wm
Collins, charged with burglary, in entering
Charles Johnson's room at the old VIM
Tell House, was held to answer before tn
Superior Court in 81 900 bail WIN. Me
Coole was given twenty-four hours IN th'
cooler for having been drunk.