The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-30
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and the needless mgr expenditures IN
municipal, state, Int federal govern
ments. The rigid economy and high
sense of responsibility of the fathers
prior to the war have taken wings.
The public expenses are like the hotel
charges. Before the great war the
finest hotels in the great cities charged
81 a day. The war got the prices up
and they nave never come down. The
charges are from So to perhaps $40 a
day. The expenditures of governments
of all kinds have increased at a much
more rapid rate than the population
has increased. The war sent up the
cost of government, and for thirty-odd
years it has rapidly multiplied
and against all reason, all justice, all
necessity. While the population of our
country has increased p times, the
public expenditures of the federal gov
eminent have increased about seven
times, and with a steady upward ten
dency. The republicans are mainly
responsible for the robbery and OPP
preston of the people. 1t is very
strange that the taxpayers give so lit
tie attention to expenditures OF Off
Gals and the great sums taken from
them each year unnecessarily, unwise-
ly unjustly and even unconstitution-
ally.
Let us come to North Carolina. The
public expenses of the ~penitentiary, in
which so many of RusselIs "savages"
are entertained at the public expense,
have been higher latterly, under the
Russell misrule than under the demo-
Gratis. The statement is this as pub
lished in the Raleigh News-Observer
of last Saturday:
UNDER DEMOCRATS.
Wages and Salaries ......... $48, 7O4.5S
Mileage and per diem....... 2,435.69
lOIdl. ....... |oI,I10'"'
UNDER FUSION.
Wages and salaries. ........ $57,619.95
Mileage and per diem ...... 3,165.OO
TOtal ............ ........ $6O, 7S4.95
Difference in favor of democrats in
two items of expense $9,644.6S or 1872
bales of cotton at Mckinley gold
standard prices.
This reveals to the public why the
fellows in charge did not wish to show
the books and let the tax payers and
honest people know what was going
on under the ruinious rule Of rabid
Russell and his gang.
The expenditures in the legislature
show how black radicalism burden and
rob the patient, oppressed toilers and
taxpayers. Remember that the pOpu-
list taxpayer or the republican tax
payer, of what ever race or color, must
bear his part of the unnecessary, raw
enous increase. Here are the figures:
The following figures will show the
cost between the state administration
under democratic rule and the extrava-
gance that prevails when the republi-
cans are in control.
COST OF LEGISLATURE.
1891 Democratic rule........ S63 ,O1S.O1
1898 Democratic rule........ 65,976.7S
Two dem legislatures .......$l2S ,994.19
1895 Fusion rule. 72,226.74
1897 Fusion rule. ........... ~, 76O.75
Two Fusion legislatures. .$153,0 27.4S
The two session of the fusion legis-
lature cost $4,O32.7O more than the
two preceding democratic sessions.
AS with the penitentiary and the leg
islative branch of the state government
so with other departments, there is
needless increase of expenditures and
a consequent addition to the tax-pay-
er's burdens. The more money squan-
dered and wrested from the submits
.sive taxpayer, the less money he has
for himself and family, the fewer lux
uries or n~ecessaries of life, and the
less for indulgence in pleasure, holt
days, jaunts, etc.
COST OF STATE GOVERNMENT.
1891 Democratic rule. S1,179, 794.SS
1898 Democratic rule. 1919 ,64S.1
Two years dem rule...... S2,499, 444.9S
1895 Fusion rule........ s1,349,3 1856
1897 Fusion rule........ 1864, O4S.29
Two wears Fusion rule..a S2~,713,3S3.94
The two years of republican rule
cost the tax payers s213, 1886 more
than the last two years of democratic
rule.
Taxpayers ought to look at these
figures for they mean much to him.
In ten years, if by the curse of heaven
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