The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-01-21
SATURDAY, JANUARY 81, 1898:
CHURCHILL HEARD FROM.
Saltwater, New, Jan. Is, 1892.

EDITOR DIsPATCu:
As the wisdom OF the State has con-
vened to make laws for their constitu-
ency, perhaps we might not be egotistic
in suggesting a few things that the peo-
pie OF the State certainly demand a
change in. "a prudent man lives with
in his income" likewise a State. Our
State is annually shrinking in popula-
ton and taxable property and if you
go over the State yon will find ranches
that formally gave employment to 20, 30
and 40 men, now hiring 4, 6 and 8,
and the farmer digs early and late, and
finds out at ~tax-paying time that his
taxes have increased, and his farm and
what he has around him to sell declines
in value, ave and except sheep, and they
are not in the hands of the farmers in
general.
We pay a Governor 50, 900 per year,
Lieutenant Governor 81, 200, when $4,000
to 1000 is ample. 1t costs about $24,-
900 a year to maintain the Supreme
Court when Utah along side of us gets
along without any. Compare her popu-
lation with ours, then think of her var
led interests, not mentioning its small
matter OF wealth. A very wise
statesman once said "The country is
governed too much" The Secretary of
States office salary is IS, 900, it should be
run for ~, 900, what the deputy now gets.
Controllers office costs So, 900 when $2,-
900 that is nov paid for a deputy is am
pie. The State Treasurer's office costs
. 1000. This is q responsible trust, say
lop off 81 900. The Attorney General
$1,000. Cut off at least 81, 900. Supt.
of Public instruction receives 81, 400
when $1,000 would certainly emnnerat
him. The balance of the otic, id
by the State to run the Printing o,-,s
", 900, Weather Service 5000, State Pris-
on $4,000, Orphans Home 81 900, Insane
Asylum $1,000, are perhaps nearer in
keeping with the revenue of the State
and its services. Then there is the Leg
i~slature with So. per day, and an army
OF attaches that they create. They man
age TO pass the Appropriation bills every
year. Now when you ask a politician
about curtailing the State expenses you
generally receive the very satisfactory
answer: ooh it costs them all their sal
aries, and they will circumscribe accord
ingly." ',How lopg, Oh Lord, How
long," are the people Of tins State going
to stand it? Let every taxpayer talk
through the medium of the press, who
are ever ready to champion the peoples
cause, exclaiming with one accord. Vox
populi Vox Del.
What a splendid opportunity this Leg
i~slature has to work for retrenchment
and reform. The Third House OF the
Republicans and Democrats are not Gin
it," Its a straight Silver party, and now
do your duty to your ove~rburdened taxed
constituents, and when you return re-
ceive that heavenly plaudit, "Well
done" and a gratifying conscience be-
sides. Only think of it over sixty thou
sand dollars paid to State officers alone.
People all cry out against the railroad
charge, being about 25 per cent Of the
volume Of everything shipped in and out
of the State-and when you apply to
them for redress; they say, "Well, what
are you going to do about it." But the
widom of the State get their power from
or by the cons, ent OF the governed.
j. W. FREEMAN.