The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-04-14
COMPARING THEM.
[From the Odessa Democrat.

from tne ouesbU DenOCTdt'
The Illinois state tax-rate last year
was AZ cents on the $lc0-and this has
been the ratetor many years past. IL
ought to have been ample for all pur-
poses. 1t il more than twice the rate
tor state purposes i'll Missouri cents
on the Sl0U--and the Illinois assess
memt ,S797 ,0OO, ,0U0, is considerably
than that OF Missouri-S7 IL, 900 OUO.
One-third of the Missouri rate, q 2-3
cents, goes to the school tund-and this
leaves only l3t cents for The support
OF the state government and OF all tire
public ln,titutions. The former lil;-
nois tax-rute, AZ cents Oh the SlOO,
was, therefore, more than three times
that OF Missouri, Is l-3 cenLs-and
this fact is sufficient to show that it
was high ~ il ought to be, TO say the
least. But the legislature thought the
people could stand All increase, and ii
raised The rate TO 50 cents. This makes
il nearly four times rs large AZ the Mis-
souri, rate Missouri Republican.
Here are two grea: states divided
ouly bv the Mississippi river. Illinois
is intensely republican, and Missouri IL
surely democratic. There IS no dispu-
ting these points.
Illinois is out of debt, and has Si2O.
OOU, annual income from the Illinois
Central railroad That state has eighty
two millions more taxable property
than Missouri, and has about oOO,OoO
more population TO govern than hii'-
sonri.
Her uufortunates, the insane, the
deaf, the dumb and the blind, are no
better provided TOR than are those OF
Missouri Missouri has, we believe, a
larger cash school fund than Illinois,
for the support of common schools and
vet with the advantage OF no public
debt to meet, that state levles MY
three cents on the hundred dollars,
! while Missouri Ievies only forty cents
| on the hundred dollars including inter
est on a bonded debt OF about ten
million dollars.
This teaches that the republican par
ty is the party of extravagance-aI
least in Illinois, and We know il is, III
80 far AS the national government l.
concerned.
This reminds us that Missouri elects
state officers in November. We SET
occasionally assertions III republican
papers that this or that republican cai
carry this state in the presidential con
test, that the republicans have light
ing chance" to carry their state ticket
and other similar nonsense Adnl
for arguments sake, that thev have
tair show to carry their state officers an'
republican legislature!
: They would have to be wOnderin
} Improvement over anything the part
gave the people when they did hav
control, or else the people would ru
the day they made the exchange iron
. democratic to republican regime
We do not care to go into statistic
3 at thie time to prove what Is here as
seried-though they are abundant
: We will mention two counties that ar
= intensely republican, and have been IL
l twenty wears, Or perhaps more, thi
exemplify the difference OF the rule
e the two parties in 50 tar as count
J.. government goes.
g We will first refer to Christian cnui
= ty, the kingdom of the Bald hnobber'
t The chief of the gang, Dave Walker
Z is an ardent republican, and we D'
Il lieye that most of his immediate Ia
d lowers who murdered Eden and Gree
o are of the same political faith. Sntii'
c il to say that Christian county
d thoroughly dominated by the &. o. p
II Then there is Putnam county, b"
} dering on the "I-o-wah" line as "
II Gen. John B. Clark used TO pronoun
n it.. That county is republican To Il
Is core, and If we are 10 believe the stat
pi ment Of the Jefferson City Tribune,
o warrants are scarcely worth the pap
=. they are printed on.
IL So we think there is not much ho
N for the republican party III MIs5"n'
at either in the national or state campaIS
III We want the republicans to nomii'a
nj n stale ticket however. IL is not an |
II terestin0 race without an opponent
lr even il you should he defeated.