Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-04

William Warner-he can not go as the
governor OF the state.
TAXATION REDUCED.
When the republican party surrender
ed the government of the state in Jan
ua-y, 1871, the rate of taxation then be.
ing levied for all state purposes amount
ed to so cents on the 500 valuation. In
rate of taxation has been since reduce
from time 60 time until the amour
now being levied for all state purposes
| to only as cents on the 800 valuation.
II you viii examine your tax receipts
this fall you will see that the entire
sum paid by you to the state
will be only % cents on the 500. Now,
what disposition is made OF that tax
after it is collected? First 10 cents OF
the Is cents il set apart and paid into the
sinking fund. That fund is provided
for the purpose of paying the interest
on the state debt as it natures, and
also to raise a fund to take up and retire
bonds from year to year. Secondly, 5
cents of the IS cents tax is set apart
and paid into the public school fund OF
the state wherewith to increase and
amplify the means for educating our
children. That leaves only 10 cents out
of the IS cents levied, and that is paid
into the revenue fund of the state.
Now, out of that small tax of 10 cents
on the 800 valuation, equivalent to 81
on the $1,000, the entire current ex-
penses of the state government are met
and promptly paid.
WHAT IS MEANT.
What do I mean by that? 1 mean
that we pay
1. The salaries of all the executive
officers of the state.
2. The salaries of all the circuit.
criminal, appeal and supreme cot.
judges in the state.
8. All the expenses OF the general
assembly.
4. All the incidental expenses of all
the departments at jefferson City, such
as clerk hire, stationery, etc.
S. All printing expenses incurred by
the state for publishing statutes, court
reports or for any other purpose.
8. All appropriations made for the
support of the university, three normal
schools and the Lincoln institute
Z. All appropriations made for the
support of the blind asylum, the deaf
and dumb asylum, the reform school
for boys, the Industrial home for girls
and for lunatic asylums.
6. All appropriations made for the
support of the state penitentiary.
9. ALI appropriations made to pay
criminal costs, rewards offered for Grim
inals who have escaped and fled, and
all other expenses incident to enforcing
the criminal laws of the state.
10. All expenses incurred in levying
and collecting the state revenue.
II. All appropriations made for erect.
ing or repairing the public buildings OF
the state. In short, every expense and
current demand brought against the
treasury is met by that tax.
FINE SHOWING.
Is not this really magnificent re-
cord the democratic party has made?
During these 20 years 1,0oO,0 900 people
have been added to our population
our educational and eleemOsynary in
situations have quadrupled in number,
and the number of attendants and in
mates at these institutions have in
creased in an equal ratio, the number
of inmates Of the penitentiarry is double
much larger number of people have
been prosecuted in the courts. During
these 20 years we have erected the
supreme court and library building; we
have added two large wings to the
capitol, making it a commodious and
imposing structure; we have largely in
creased the capacity of the peniten-
tiary; we have rebuilt the deaf and
dunn asylum. destroyed by fire. on a
have erected the lunatic asylum at st.
Joseph, and, after it's destruction by
fire, have rebuilt and equipped we
have erected and furnished the lunatic
asylum at Nevada, which is one of the
largest and most complete institutions
of it's class in the world; we have
erected and furnished the reform school
for boys at Boonville; we have erected
and furnished the industrial home for
ir1c Of ho
furnished and equipped three splendid
normal school buildings at Kirksville,
Warrensburg and Cape Girardeau we
have erected, furnished and equipped
the school of mines and metallurgy at
Rolla, conceded to be perhaps the finest |
institution of its kind in the west; we
have erected, furnished and equipped
university, and now that that great
building has fallen before the flames |
we are lifting it up again on a larger |
and grander scale than before. |
During these twenty years we have |
also built up public school fund, both !
state and county, which stands without |
a rival in all the states OF the Union.
with the single exception of Texas, and |
the school fund of Texas exceeds ours |
lie lands in that state belong to the |
state under the terms of the treaty by |
which it was admitted into the Union,
and large part of the proceeds of the |
sale of those lands under local laws are |
paid into the school fund. The public |
lands in Missouri belonged to the United |
States, and the proceeds Of their dispo-
sition were for the most part paid into |
the federal treasury. Our public school |
from voluntary contributions made in
the form of taxation by generous, en-
lightened and patriotic people.
During these twenty years we have
also met and promptly paid the inter-
est on our public debt as it matured,
and have paid off and retired two
thirds of the principal, and have nearly
doubled the value Of our securities in
the markets of the world. All these
things and many more we have sue
achieved and are now achiev-
ing, not by increasing the burden of
taxation, but by constantly reducing
it, until to-day the tax-rate levied upon
the property in the state is only one
half what it was when the people,
patient and long suffering, rose in their
wrath twenty years ago and dashed the
plunderers from their places of power.
Mr.. Chairman, I have examined a
1ata. showing the aggregate per capita
ak paid in a large number of the more
important states stretching from
Maine to Colorado. The amount paid
n these states varies from 1884 per
.apita in Massachusetts,, which is the
highest, to $4.74 in Missouri, which is
he lowest. Next to Missouri is
Minnesota, with a per capita tax Of
,5.47. These are some of the benefi-
ent results brought to the people of
his state as the rich fruit of democratic
,olicy and administration-cha