Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27

| ResolUed, That this Farmers Institute
endorse the present movement to have the
4 p'is1uers' board at New Castle Jail reduced
from 80 10 40 cents per day.
| Thomas Dilworth-This seems to me
very arbitrary way OF doing business. II
may be possible that 20 cents day il
enough. IL strikes me we want to find
| out first what can be done and then we
will 10 prepared to vote on 1t.
John q. Higgins--I have been very
much graiitisd by Mr.. Fialey's remarks.
Matters of taxation should not be rushe
into as a horse PUSHES into battle. There
! ia no reason why we should not kesp this
/ thing mp mud Inform ourselves to deal in
teliigentiy with these matters. We don't
| want our men 70 go down to the Ieeis-
latars aud make themselves ridiculous.
| We have conducted th,s farmers crusade
| with good spirit, with Intelligence and
l think we have gotten upon the track OF
our abuses, and | tdink il we will be
honest TO ourselves, we will put this
| thing OF evil taxation into cole; x
necessary we will dig it up md xiii! it.
In order to do that we should not bnux
anything political into this farmers in
stitute. What have we TO do2 We have
got to see that onr respective parties shall
nominate msnof intelligence and courage
who will go 10 the Legislature or levy
court and carry out our ideas / would
press upon every man here to see that no
man is nominated who ia not tit for his
position. If any aueh man goes upon
my ticket, | shall not vote for him. l
have, myself, arrived at tho position and
conclusion where 1t is my fellow citizens,
my fellow farmers, before my party.
Chairman Blaek-What disposition will
you make of the resolution before the
meeting2
Mr.. Murphy offered that resolution
at the suggestion of somebody else, bat I
am prepared to vote for it, and am very
glad to know that former levy court
msn seconded it; no doubt because he Is
aware that the prisoners can be boarded
for much less than 80 cents per day. It
has been Published in thu newspapers
that in Chester county they only pay 81
cents per day for boarding prisoners; and
am very well sltisfi ID that prisoners
can be boarded at a profit at 20 cents per
day.
George D. Medill--I was reading about
this matter in the EvERY EVENING the
other day, andsI Just sat down and made
a calculation, and found that it doesn't
cost me anything like 80 cents per day
each to feed my family, and think We
live fully Us we'll as the inmates of New
Castle Jail.
Thomas Dilworth moved the reference
of the matter to a committee, to ascertain
the cost of feeding prisoners aud report
TO the next meeting Of the inetitute. He
suggested If pr:soners conld be kept for
eight cents psr day II wonid be wrong to
no laA
not seconded.
George ID. Medill-This il simply q
petition to the levy court, expressing the
views of this Farmers Iastitute upon the
eubjeo.. 1t will ba the petition Of the
Farmers Institute If we pass it.
Cries of 'qnestion, "question."
This chair put the resolution and il was
carried without dissenting vote, mir.
Diiworth Remaining: ~ wont press it
| (th reference 10 committee) any fur
ther,n
| On motion of Mr.. HoBsinRer, the
thanks Of the meeting were rendered Mr..
Finley for his able address, and Chair
man Black personally thanked Mr.. Fulton
for his message from the Kent county
farmers.
The meeting then adjourned. As the
tive Douglass Mccoy said that he Thought
the resolution should have been made
more sweeping; that 20 cents was too
high and he would have favored putting
the rate down to not more than 10 cents
at the outside.
Mr.. Medill declared, with emphasis,
| that he could not begin to AFFORD to pay
30 cents per head for keeping his family;
that mis- total expenses for feeding aud
clothing them and keeping mp ali his
household outlays would not nearly
reach that sum.
| One OF those present related that he
met sheriff Allen tew days ago ant had
| been solicited by thu. gentleman to ap-
I pend ais signature TO q declaration that
the Recommendation Of tue grand Jury
regarding the pressing Importance OF re-
I ducing the cost Of feeding prisoners was
not meant to apply to the past year; a
declaration wh,cu he positively and per-
emptorily refused to sign.