Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-09
TO TAX PAYERS.
Support the Republican Coun-
ty Ticket on Business
Principles.

Principles.
1 The people OF Morrison county
sustain county government, And
pay it's expenses by taxation. The
men who control county affairs have
great power, and there is no Law
preventing them from causing the
expenses to he much larger than the
receipts. The law does prevent the
county from levying more than s
mills taxes for county revenue pur-
poses. and as no higher levy is al
lowed in any county OF the state 1t
is plain that that IL considered
enough to pay the revenue expenses
Of the county. In fact nearly all
counties in the state are run from
the money obtained from a smaller
levy than mills.
Under Democratic rule in Morrison
the limit in mills was always levied,
and for years the expenses exceeded
the receipts. In 1893, the year pre-
viuus to the last county campaign,
the excess of expenses over receipts
was more than $4,000. Against this
the taxpayers generally protested.
and the Republican candidates and
their supporters in 1894 derlurcd that
such results were possible only
through extravaganza, carelessness
ana bad management. The Repub-
leans declared that the county could
be run, and all the public needs prop
crly supplied, ON the money from a.
mill tax. They declared that in
stead of running the county in debt,
the debt could be reduced ON the
same tax levy that had been made
in the past.
The election of 1894 resulted in
placing the affairs OF the county in
the control of Republicans on Jan. |.
lS95. The Republican claims were
therefore put to the test, and every
voter ami taxpayer has Il right to
know the results.
The county revenue re-
ceipts for the year ending
Dec. 81. 1895. outside the
receipts from the sale Of
the funding bonds, were.... $50 ,5l2.31
The total revenue ex-
penses for that year, out
side the interest paid on
the immense floating debt
that as funded that year.
according to the same re-
port, were. e........................... 1852 %
The ordinary revenue re-
ceipts for that yenr thus
exceeded the running ex-
penses OF the county by.... 1.753. .03
The Republicans had threfore doDov
what they said they could do, and
what they claimed should be done.
No one will claim but the Republi-
can admins strat tiOn has been rs eff
cient and satisfactory as the DEM
ocrat tic administration was In all
matters. Now the question goes to
every taxpayer in the county as to
whether he will endorse the excellent
management Of the Republican
party, or replace In power the DEM
ocrats who made such different
record.
Running the county is business
matter, and not above the consider
tion Of the taxpayers. The farmers
of no township organization or
school district would hesitate for ali
instant in their choice between a set
of men who would run their town
or schools so as to keep within the
income, aud q set OF men who would
run their town or schools no better,
but with the same tax levy pile up
year after year a large floating debt.
BY endorsing the Republican ad-
ministration the voters will encOur-
age economy and good management; M
by selecting the Democratic officials
the Taxpayers will encourage ex-
travagence and bad management.
Judging from the past a vote for
Democratic officials is n vote in
favor OF another large floating debt,
and necessarily more funding bonds,
with no benefit whatever TO the
taxpayers.
A vote for the Republican county
ticket is q vote for policy CT county
management that will decrease the
county debt, and give the taxpayers
the best county management they
have ever enjoyed.
Meeting at Swan River.
A meeting in the interests OF sound
money will be held in the town hall
in the town of Swan River next
Tuesday evening, Oct. IL. M. NJ.
Williams will address those present.