Daily Republican., 1886-01-22
Pslitleal Inequality.

The manner In which New Castle
Comfy taxes 60 to the support OF ,hools
In x snt and Sussex Counties IL fully
illustrated in the State Treasurer re-
port. or the appropriations made by
the State Tor the support OF public
schools. New Castle County with q
population OF IS. 900 gets an appropria-
tion Of $28, 2S4 90. Kent County with
popu aion Of "a 600, gets an appro-
prlstion q go, 1851 So. Sussex County
with q population Of 81, 00e, gets an APP
preparation Of ga 800 "a. In other
words New Castle County gets 80 cents
Per head OF her population, Kent 60
and Sussex 20 cents.
Sussex seems TO be the best taken
care OF, and New Castle rs usual has to
fall to the rear. This dsproportion is
made the more glazing when we con-
slider that two-thirds OF the taxes that
90 to mako up this State school fluid
comes from New Castle County. The
figures the State Treasurer gives OF
taxes from the different counties for the
school fund are these New Castle
County, $i2, 6O7. O8; Kent County, 81
S33.4; Sussex County, o. 4O5 80.
Another way Of looking at this in.
equality to show the extent OF it Is
this: New Castle County pays TO the
State for the support Of public schools,
&2,57.Os and draws back SIS, 284 GO,
or ia, 222 80 less than she paid In. Kent
County pays to the State for the same
purpose e S33 "a and draws from the
State $40, S5l.36, or t13,0l7 AZ more
than she paid In. Sussex County pays
TO the State for the same purpose, Sc,
4O5 80 and draws from the State ga
bOO.4 or SIS, 095.O4 m Ore than she paid
10.
Another odious, but true compari sor
We venture TO make here though Il
gives the matter little Of po!itica
turn, but after all politics is at tn,
bottom OF the whole of 1t. New Casti,
County with population OF So 900
has but ten represen tatives in thu
Legislature. Kent and Sussex Couu.
ties com tined, with q population OF II,
600, have twenty represen tatives in tn,
Legislature.
New Castle County Is the cocoanut
but Kent and Sussex crack 1t aud ge
che milk. Disinterested persons lock
ing at these inequalities with Astonish
ment will no doubt ask why they ar
tolerated.
The plain answer is that they ar
tolerated to keep Delaware under tn
leading stringa OF Democracy. Th
Democratic party has been In power il
the State oyer thirty years, durinI
which time the ineq have grow
MP and that party instead OF providin
relief has fostered and nurtured th
growing evil until it reaches the pro
portioDs that to-day 1t presents TO u.
The facts We have presented are plain
simple and true, without exaggeratiou
coioting or prejudice. II they Ar
doub ed let those who doubt perus
the state TTeasurer's report, and ex
anime the tables Of population Of tn
Counties. II will be seen that Will
k-nt County, with population Of "a,
OOO, eisots ton members OF the Legisla
tnre, New Castle County, with . popu
iation OF 80, 900, also only elects ten. ]
requires no sire ;ch of the intellect
oomp pare The difference between "a, 90
and 50 900, which leaves 81 900 person
- No" Ooctio NOunby VINO nave q
voice In the Legislature, nothing VIVA
ever to do with the law aking powt
OF the Safe, no option as TO the Law
which govern them.
But in the face OF all this what d
we see? The Democracy of New Ca
tie County rallyiDg its forces for a col
hnuanse Of the disfrau chisemsnt ,
neirly two-thirds of the people Of Il
county. L. is expected that everybl I'd
who ever voted q Democratic tick
viii respond to the call and vote agai
in favor Of their own distran Chi sem on
While the single voter In Kent Count
steps mp to the polls and puts his ball,
in the. box, he has o right to fe
proud when he thinks that up here /
New Castle County 1t takes Ave vot
to offset two IN Kent. Is 1t not tin
the people would look at these ineq ual
ties AID ask how long they are to col
tinue?