The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-09-28

AZ We have shown yOu tho debt has
been reduced only s~4.O75,ssi In
twenty-sight years from taxation,
where Il should have been reduced In
obedience 10 tho constitution over
seven miiiions.
In the State Seminary fund the same
condition Of Affairs exists. According
TO the statement found on page 8 Of
Seibert's last report, there was only
S6if56 In this fund instead Of u 1885,
S35 ~ Mr.. Dockery states IL. The rect
i represented by = debi-ors defc-
icncy. !
New In regard to the Mount Of
money raised to maintain the schools
In 1871 aud 1899. The AMOUNT given
for 1871 10 approximately correct. M.
Dockery may have peculiar facilities
for obtaining facts ns to the amount
rsisedin 1899 but. I refer thu public 10
the official recosds. See page . OF Sci
bert's Auditors report. lie there
gives the total amount Foe 1867 and
1898 as 81, 1915, 1921 0 for two full years
rnd Ibis includes the amount received
irom the state. through taxation Of the
people TO pay interest on the certid-
Gates OF Indebtedness. which was form
erIy paid by the general government.
S372,i00- This subtracted from The
former figure would leave the annual
receipt from taxation at only $500, 7as
per year against more than twice rs
mucn raised In 1871. AIR. Seibcrt's re-
port Is open TO all men. Does any man
IN the -tate believe the revenues Tor
school purposes have Suddenly grown
from 1906 900 in 1898 to s7,y7s.0yi In
1899 GA more than s3,O0O,OO0 more
than the entire state revenue.
Again I reier yon to Mr. Seibert's
report I" the general assembly In
which 20" win find ON page ~ the
following ststsmeus;
-r.,e receipts into the general rev-
enve fund from Al ~onrcxs ~ere n
AS ,ab7, - - 1891 en6 p3jle.5rSreo} -
ieoak . total ~ 10teoC joo1l0
ish~ tu> yees&
0ne shlra ~ ~. "a, ~
u,s s,a&s Sesa>l .n&,a~vs lr&vtar u
: 1882 for at other rxpens~s Of ID
srafr government nni yet Mr. Decker,
~~x< sos 4" believe that moro fb~s ; W.
million sfoiIar- more money wxs raised
tor school purposes IN 1899 b all
the revenues for all purposes TOR the
preceding two wears
II will b. observed that according
to Mr.. Dockery's statement ms la the
amount raised in 1871 bv the I,epnb-i
licans for school purposes. 1t was more
than double the amount Seibert states
wat annually raised in 1897 aud 1895.
This vas done on u state valuation of
less than half OF what II Is to-day.
Now again as to the reduced rate Of
tax alton uf which Mr.. Dockery speaks
II his statement were true that rail-
roads were worth 800 600 a mile in
1868 AS he states when he says $50
miles were worth AZ millions the valu-
alton of property IN The state II hon
estly assessed. would have reached
the constitutional limit of nine hun
1red million dollars more Than 10
wears before the reduction b. speaks
OF took place.
Again | quote from Mr.. Dockery
and the figures are Seibeit's.
Eight years of republican rule
prior to democratic afcendency in
1873 cost the tax-payerssi64.40
more for printing the laws aud
journals than the cost for like
purpose under IS years of demo-
cratic rule.
During 1857 and 1868, the last
years OF Governor Fletcher's adj
ministration, the republican party
expendeds76, 1863. 80 more for print
ing, copying and distributing the
laws and journals than was ex-
pended during the last two years
of Gov. Stephens administration
for the same objects. That is to
say, the republicans expendedm more
than eight times as much money
for this purpose in 1867 and 1865
than the democrats did in 1889 and
1900. A like favorable exhibit is
disclosed by the official records in
favor OF democratic management
in the expenses OF the general as
sembly. During the eight years
of republican and liberal republi-
can rule prior to the administration
of Gov. Woodson, the pay and con-
tingent expenses OF the Legislature
amounted to si,5lf02i.4S, whilethe