The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-05
NEWSPAPER REPORTS
denounced as Malicious
{! and Wilfully False.
FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE
Wakes Lower Than Ever Before
Economy In All Things.

McGREGoR, Oct. Ex-Governor
Hogg spoke at MoGregor today, at
the r. quest of the management OF
the State Orange Fair.
After discussing the general con-
dition of the state, its past, present
and future, and the farming inter
ests in relation to commerce, Mr..
Hogg said:
The unscrupulous, loud mouthed
calamity shrieking enemies of Texas
and OF the Democratic state admin.
istration, are proclaimipg in
whining voice and flaming head
lines that the state is bar krupt, and
extravaganza is the cause. The
declar alton iii both respects is abso-
lutely false; and those who make
, II do SO knowingly and wilfully.
While standing here before the
thoughtful, intelligent representa-
tives of the wealth producing classes
Of Texas, l am ready to answer any
question touching public or pri'
vate affairs with which | have ever
b been connected. AS no questions
are q ked, then l will proceed
i voluntarily to show you, gentle
d nlsn, VINO are not loaded down with
i, malice and falsehoods about the
y state administration, that in all re-
u spects your state government is In
L good condition.
It is we'll known to every sensible
man that with each recurring year,
as the state expands and grows and
her resources are developed, public
expen. es increase. In proportion to
y the expenses of the government,
revenue must be raised by taxation
to meet Il EN-. Extravaganza in the
administration of public affairs is
y generally demonstrated by the rate
of taxation levied on the people.
: This being the test, l am prepared
to show you that the present
| administration has conducted the
affairs of government more economi-
" cally han any one preceding it. Al
the frs. session CT the Legislature
under my administration the tax
E rate was reduced for the fist year
from 20 cents to lG3 cents; and fol-
n the next and ensuing years, FROM
16X cents to 10 cents Oh every
hundred dollars worth of taxable
property. So that the highest ratt
~ Of taxation established during my
X administration for general revenue
n purposes has been 1853 cents; and thu
"a regular rate now and since then il
D., existence under which the govern
\, ment has been maintained has beer
N and is s cents on each one hundred
!, dollars worth of property. So, i
man renders thousand dollars
worth of property for taxation, hi
! only Jays for general revenue
purposes $3.50 year to the stat,
government. If he renders only
hundred dollars worth of property
: he can pay his ad valorum tax TO
u general purposes with Is cents, tn
+; amount necessary to buy drink o
whisky. This is the lowest rate o
! taxation regularly maintained b,
the state government since the war
Il Indeed it is the lowest rate of a.
'fvalorum tax collected for genera
revenue purposes in any state in tn
South.
With all this, my flannel moutl
critics, staggering around unde
ri the weight of second idea, loade'
- with malice, declare that the Dem
ocratic administration is extrava
= CANT, and that Texas is bankrupt
sri The people of the state who hav
property pay twelve and hal
cents on each one hundred dollar
Valuation thereof for public schoo
purposes. The whole of thi
b amount they receive back again i
support of the expenses to naintai
hepublic free schools fca the edu
\ cation of their children. Man
thousands of men in this state VIII
-. have children in school do not pa
- : cent of taxes to support the stat