The Green Forest tribune., 1901-02-09


 counties pay as follows:
 Craighead. on 9O,96O Greene. on 42,OO0 Lawrence. ..on 40,O00 Phillips. s............ .on 106, ,50O Benton. .On 59,714 Carroll. ..On A ,OSO Columbia .......... .on 1880 Jefferson. .......... ..on 206, ,710 Pope. ................ .on A, $40
 And so on.
 In Moneys and Credits Con- verted into Bonds or Other Se- curities," the assessor was able to find that Pulaski pays taxes on the magnificent sum of S25, 715; Faulkner pays on S89, 153 and Calhoun oll S75, ,22O.
 On page 216, under the head of Material and Manufactured Articles" we learn that Pulaski pays taxes on S20,875. Benton county pays on S36,64O, Calhoun on S35, 1878, Greene on S29, 700, Jefferson on S44, ,570, Lafayette on S77, ,0O0, Ouachita on S2O4, 186, Miller on S1O9, 1884, and a dozen other counties of the state have a higher valuation under this head than has Pulaski.
 On the same page of the re- pOrt. under the head of tsMoneys- Credits and Balances on Book Accounts" we learn that Pulaski county pays on S120,72 Ouach- ita on S168,678, Madison on S125, ,943, Logan on S133, ,935, Jefferson on S153, ,45O, Independ- ence on S361, ,270, Drew on S241 ,505, and there are others, but these will do.
 And how gently Pulaski deals with the dear railroads. On page s37 we are confronted with the fact that they can find but S1, TAO in railroad personal property. Arkansas county finds S38, ,660 in railroad property (personaD, Benton S103, ,821, Clark S638, : STA, Craighead S176,OOO, Crit tenden over a million, Cross half million, Independence, S211, ,271. But it is useless to enumerate. Every county appearing in the table referred to, with the solitary exception of Scott county, shows a larger valuation than Pulaski. Even the county of Fulton, with but eighteen miles of road, comes up with a valuation of $40, 71O, which is twenty five times that of Pulaski, and Crawford beats it five hundred dollars to one.
 Under the head of "Goods and Merchandise" on page 235, Pu- laski pays on S515, $50. There is over $2,O00,O0O invested in goods and merchandise carried in stock in the Main street stores between Markham and Fifth streets.
 As to the individual sinner, the banks of Little Rock are proba- bly, the worst. Seven of the leading institutions of the city have combined paid-up capital of $715, ,0O0 and a surplus of S237 ,OO0 making a total (outside of such items as furniture and fixtures'') of taxable personal property of S952,0oO They pay taxes, according to the tax books of the county, on S377, ,115. How are you going to correct the evil? Possibly we can not, but the legislature can do this: It can say to Pulaski county, "Thus far, but no farther They will be called upon to build a new deaf- mute institute. Build it in some county that pays it's taxes. In- stead of enlarging the insane asylum, build asylum No. 2 in some of the counties that pay their taxes. If reform school is to be built, why not give the out side counties that pay their taxes a chance? Locate one of these institutions at Jonesboro, Walnut Ridge or Batesville; another at Texarkana, Pine Bluff or Hot Springs; the third at Morrillton, Russellville, Van Buren, Fort Smith, or Green Forest. There is no reason on earth for crowd- ing the state institutions into Little Rock. In fact they are