The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02

eminent, under Democratic rule, were
as follows:
1872 .................. 81 ,ooI ,935sdU
1893 ....,.............. 1,3l9, CASIO
1894 l,l9o,6202o
Total for three years. ;. .$3,5to,zul95
Under Republican fusion rule as fol-
lows:
1896 81 ,;349, $50. "a
lSJ6 1,216, 5662I
1877 ], 364, O5S.I3
Total for three years -. So, 959, $40. -
o. an excess of 1856, 1929 over
Democratic rule.
WANTED TO KEEP OFFICERS IN
TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE.
In 1896 the ropulist voters were still
determined to stick to their original idea
of economy in public expenditures, and
in the platform we find this plank:
I'm order to keep our public serv-
ants in thorough touch and sympathy
with the oppressed masses, and To
check to some extent the scramble for
office, we demand reduction of
salaries until such time as through
OF property and products will justify
the present rates.
What have the public officers done
looking to keeping themselves lin
thorough touch and sympathy with the
oppressed massesT' / may mention first
that 3,647 new offices have
been created, including the new
magistrates created by the Legislature of
1895. How much they have cost the peo-
pie, outside of the additional 1886, 7S4. DC
paid out of the Treasury, can be ascer-
tanned only by u thorough scrutiny OF
the expenditures of az lie counties, CT
ties. towns and townships in the State.
The office-holding editor OF the Pro
sgressive Farmer, who has sought in
every way. since he got office, to
destroy all Populists who adhere to the
original principles of that party. held
views in keeping with the Popufist plat
form when, on October 23rd, 1894, he
wrote:
"yaming your ,and this year in
proportion for taxes as in 1873, your
burden is almost tenf0ld heavier than
in 1878. Still you are TOLD BY
THOSE IN OFFICE DRAWING
BIG SALARIES AND ANXIOUS
TO KEEP THEM BIG THAT
YOUR TAXES ARE LIGHTER.
How much longer are you going to
endure it!'
The Fusion government has spent
fi15 600 more per year since that date,
and vet those in office drawing big
salaries and anxious to keep them big
denounce all who call attention to ''the
waste Of the neOple's money" anu are
daily scheming TO increase the present
heavy burdens imposed on the people.
FUSIOSISTS CLAMORING FOR
BIGGER SALARIES.
State Auditor. Aver, whose salary. IL
we, count ii i'm cotton. would he Il third
of bale OF cotton day, tn.nsas that
the present salaries are zoo. low and in
an interview last year said that the State
pursued a niggardly policy in
the payment of its officials. He de-
,clared that the salaries were not high
enough. 1.-The Governor is paid hut
$4,000 year" he said. while a railroad
company pays it's State counsel 5000 a
year He continued:
why cannot and why do not they
1.-THE people, have the courage and
sense to make such regulations as
will enable the State to offer and
pay as much for intellect and brain
in the service of the State and peo-
pie as corporations pay for intellect
and brain in their service"
And he was one of the men demanding
reduction Of salaries of public officials
to keep them in thorough touch and
sympathy with the oppressed masses"'
INCREASING TAX ON FARMERS
OF nnlx fha Gfnf A..Is al
for a higher salary, thus proving the
insincerity of all his professions for re-
trenchment but he was the leader of the
movement that increased the assessment
on ever horse. mule. COW, and other
property belonging to the farmers OF the
State. After there had been an increase
in the taxation of railroads. some of the
railroads complained that it was excess
sive. Did the State Auditor combat the
proposition and prove that it was n just
Increase? No. he sought to reconcile the
railroads by showing that the Board Of
Equalization had Disseminated in their
favor. Hear him:
People have been calling the Populists
anarchists. and saying that all we are
after is the fellow with money. Now
that's not true, and the re suit o. the work
Of the State Equalization Board here
this week is proof of it. We've been af-
ter the one-gallus fellow. the fellow with
a steer or few acres OF land. for more
tax. and We've got it. We got between
one and two million dollars. And to do it
we in some cases raised the valuation Of
his property 500. or even 1000, per cent.
while in no case has the fellow with the
stocks and ponds and railroads had his
raised more than 10 per cent. This
doesn't look like we are anarchists, does
it?''
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
FARMERS.
If this is the truth. it onght forever
10 damn Il Board that. with the low