Smyrna times., 1893-01-11

Legislature, present an interesting
study to the casual looker-on, who is
not in it.
What scramble the office-seekers
make. with their own efforts and the
efforts of their numerous friends How
much thought is given to the welfare
OF the state? How much to the
lOaVes and fishes, and how much even
to the crumbs that fall from the legis.
latiVe table? Let us wait and see. 1t
IS most too early at this writing to form
an opinion of the spirit and temper
and disposition of our lawmakers. We
trust, however, that they will take
counsel of wisdom and prudence, aud
do for the burdened taxpayer what
needs most to be done-give relief in
the lessening of tax burdens.
Every Evening.
When the Legislature of so small Il
state protracts its session into the mid
die of May, as did the General Assem-
bly, of 1891, our 10000 citizens are
naturally prone to wonder whether
their lawmakers would ever get
through had we the population and
territory of some of our big neighbOrs.
VI course the Legislature is not to
be wholly blamed for this, except upon
the consideration that it had it in its
power to apply the radical remedy of
uncompromisingly refusing to enter
tain any business that is not presented
within reasonable time, and giving the
eleventh applicants unmistakabiy
to understand that they must get in
earlier or they will fluid themsc Ives
left.
Daily Republican.
1t is peculiarly gratifying to find the
Governor taking such high ground in
favor OF calling constitutional con-
Vention, which is through the Pilling
amendment. If the present Legisla-
ture ratiies that plan of calling a con
Ventlon as recommended by the Cover.
nor, the state may have new consti-
tuition in operation in 1897
Milford Chronicle
1t is now the order of the day to cur
tail expenses, which 40 long as it does
not enrOach upon economy, is emf
ncntly proper. There are MANY
sources for reducing both county and
state expenditures, and one of the
largest and easiest to stop is in the
system of collecting taxes in Kent and
Sussex counties. 1t now costs Kent
county with nine collectors, close 20
nine thousand dollars to collect the
county, road, poor and school taxes.
when, under the same system that
New Castle county enjoys, the taxes
could be collected for less than three
thousand dollars per annum. In Kent
and Sussex counties the saving in tax
collecting alone would enable the tax
rate to be lowered % per cent. or, if
the present rate Zee maintained. tho
saving would pay off all the county
debts in four years.
Middletown Transcript
Ia the organization Ofthe new Legis-
lature there is seen the hand of the
Saulsburys. No one can ever deny it.
Whoever entertained the idea that
element had been rulad out of the
Democratic party had better dissipate
their minds of that delusion. for the
mantle of their illustrious ancestors
has fallen on worthy scion. Willard
salisbury. Jr., to whom the credit of
winning the fight in New Castle coun-
ty last fall, belongs, looms mp as the
leader of that fight in the county.
Being shrewd, able and popular, he is
well-titted to lead his party, and no
better evidence of his ability is wanted
than the masterstrOkes of his hand in
the Inauguration of both branches of
the Legislature.