The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-16
IiIIman and Taxes.

The Daily News. in its issue of the 18th,
calls upon Mr. Tilman to come down to de-
tails. It wonld have him to state what Of
fees he would abolish, what salaries he
would reduce and Just where the work of
reform is to begin The News goes or to
say that if Mr.. Ti!lman knows bow to save
100000 how to abolish useless offices and
relnce salaries. let him tell il, let linn show
up or shnt up on that matter
We have no idea that Ir Tillman is no-
ing to shnt up, hut we know that he has
shown mp the ring ana oliaarchy that has
oppressed the people and brought them
well nigh to the verge Of bankruptcy.
Mr.. Tillman rests his case upon the solid
foundation Of facts and fignrcs, and he has
established beyond the domain of contro-
yersy that We are an ovcrtaxed people. 1t
would puzzle and perplex the most econo-
mical brain TO tell Just exactly where the
work of reform should begin. In govern
ment like ours where thousands of d3llars
are annually swallowed up in the vortex of
waste and extravaganza, where there are so
many useless offices. it is difficult to say inst
where the largest leak is. What offices
should be abolished, what salaries should
be reduced. what expenses Shonld be Topped
of, are questions that cannot be answered
in Il moment. 1t takes time and reelection,
and an examination into all expenditures of
the State before the remedy can be applied
So we think the News. makes most unrea-
sonable and unjust demand upon Mr.. Till
man, and one that could not be complied
With
In 1856 the Daily News was rs earnest and
rs zealons an advocate of retrenchment in
tie State government rs Mr. Tillman is to-
day. 1t Was i swifter witness against the
ring and ollGarchy than Nh. rillman HIM
self In It's editorial OF Oct 2Sth, 1856. en-
titled "Some Figures of Taxation" it says:
There is no use for Col. John P. Rich
ardson to 90 '.round the State to show that
we are iishtly-taxed people. The facts
and figures show that we are more heavily
taxed than We We're in Radical times, when
taxation was said 10 amount to coniiscation.
Here the News bears terrible testimony to
waste and extravaganza, if not corruption,
IN the State government Things are no
better to-day than they were then, but, on
the contrary, they are worse. If the News
can sustain the charges it brought against
the State government in 1886, we think it is
time 1t should spike its guns and cease to
call upon Mr. Tillman to coma down to de-
tails and particulars. The News goes on to
say in this same editorial, ave have tried
to answer the challenge of Small Taxpayer
Now we will make another assertion and see
II he will challenge it. Here it is. The ex-
penses OF our State government can be cut
down to Sl50,000 below what they were last
year, and State taxes can be reduced mill
and a fourth on the present assessment,
without injury to the public interest"
- Now, according to the testimony of the
News, we are paying to-day sl50,000 more
than We ought to pay, and yet the News
calls on Mr.. Tillman to demonstrate how
Sl00,00O can be saved.
We fear the News has placed itself in m
and embarrassing position. If it
is right to-day, it was wrong in 1886; if it
was right in 1886, it is wrong to-day. We do
not see how it can take Mr. Tillman to task,
when, according to its own testimony, the
State government is more rotten and corrupt
than Mr.. Tillman represents 1t to be-
GreenriVe Enterprise and Nountaiaea'.