Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-29

the sale of the old Jail property.
Here the Tribune man gets away
with little item of $4,000 in his
favor. That is nearly one-half the
sum proposed for the county govern
ment by the last Democratic office
holders. In the expenditures shown
above there is tendency to
count chickens twice. 1t counts $l0,-
900 put aside for grading, and then
gives the funds in the treasury where
it is put aside. Then on the jail
only sac, 900 has been paid out. AS
to the "road machinery" that is just
the weak point in all Republican adj
ministrations. The machinery
costs more than the results of such
machinery" What the people
want is roads, and they care little
about the machinery" that makes
them. The machinery may be fine.
The Republican county government
may do with it as the Republican
city government does-!end it to a
cable road and get it broken, so that
the people may pay for its repair.
That is just what happened in the
city the other day.
1t will appear above that for the
$4,000 received, the county gov
ernment has $12S,00 worth of prop.
erty or improvements. They are
now 1884, 900 behind the total tax
levy of the Democratic government.
Besides this, there is OF the cash in
the treasury $32, 2,s43.54, general
school funds received from the State.
Then there was paid into the school
fund in sale OF special bonds or for
the sale of the San Pascual school
property at Pasadena s64, ,9O2 .S9, or a
total OF $97, ,s36.43. This added to the
1914 900 above approximates round
million handled in the county in a
year. There is here also nearly
100000 to deduct from the cash on
hand. Now of the payments
made for the new jail $4,000 was
paid out since the 1st of October.
Deduct that and other payments
made and the cash yesterday evening
in the treasury was only s2O1 ,30S.77-
little matter OF $4,000 missing, a
bagatelle when it is the peoples mere
money, handled by the Republican
government. Now take away the
$97, ,S36.43 school funds and there is
really but $103,472.34 out of the
enormous sums paid into the hands
of the treasurer, to be paid out on the
warrants OF the Republican county
government. There are two more
months to go, and that amount will
hardly tide them over until the next
levy is available.
Ii the Tribune will now show us
what there is in property or improve
ments for all that money, and, fail
ing that, tell us where it all went to,
an anxious army OF taxpayers will be
greatly obliged. And we do not
charge that il was stolen. That Jour-
nal says:
This is where the peoples money
has gone-gone in a business-like
way for the improvement of the
condition OF the county; gone to
wipe out as soon as possible the burn
ing disgrace OF a county of $4,000 in
habitants without a single public
building or Improvement of any
kind; gone to help make the county
inviting to the thousands who are
seeking our county as place of win
ter resort or permanent residence.
Where is the disgrace of bad
roads, OF unbridged rivers-with
the paltry exceptions noted above
of $12, ,000-of the old court house,
or anything wiped out. There is, in
deed, the court house site, the new
Jail, the bit OF road machinery and a
paltry repair on the hospital. But
that is all. Why the excessive levy
of nearly million, and what is there
to show for it. If that is "grasping
the situation with intelligence" and
progressive, business-like ideas" :"
the gods defend us from them and
their advocates.