The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-10-24
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required. by the corporation Of the city
Of Philadelphia.
There is not another city In the
United States that can make more
splendid showing Of financial condl-
tlon than can the city Of Philadelphia,
and this financial condition has not
only been maintained for many years,
but has continued to show marked i'm
provement to the present time. Thus,
IN 1886, there was an apparent excess
Of expenditures, over receipts. arising
from various reasons, several pertain
ing to the state revenues and to delay
in certain state payments. but, Of
course. met and not affecting the solv-
sncy of the city, but nevertheless in
yolving an actual deficit Of $780,
1882. In 1896 there was similar
deficit OF $1.45s, ,569.03: in 1897 there
was similar deficit Of $S2S, ,325.61. and
In 1898 a deficit Of $440,2S2.2O.
On the other hand, in 1899, the first
year of the present city administra-
tion. there was actually an excess Of
receipts over expenditures, or sur
plus Of 1867 ,416, and in the year 1900,
the second year, an excess Of receipts
and surplus Of $64,6S6. In the third
and present year the controller esti-
mates a surplus Of $1O6,207.7O.
Besides this steady Improvement In
tho roIotiop hofwaap racofptu opd dia.
bursements, we have another remarka-
BILE fact in relation between the munic-
ipal debt authorized and the municipal
debt Cancelled under the last three ad-
ministrations. In the Stuart admins
tration the debt authorized was ST.
100000, and the debt maturing and
Cancelled was s17,142,14O. In the War
wick administration the debt authoriz-
cd was $1S,556,OO0, and the debt can
celed $14, 4,619, 1926, while under the pres
ent administration the debt authorized
Is 10000 900, and the debt Cancelled
$12, ,194,5 $50. This exhibit Of debt au-
thorized and debt Cancelled for the last
ten years Is most satisfactory in that
the city has not been greatly increas-
ing its debt, but it is most remarkable
in view Of the many charges recklessly
made that in the last three years tho
debt Cancelled has actually been in ex {.
cess of the debt authorized.
Even with costly filtration plant
under construction, we have an actual
decrease in the funded debt after q
lapse Of 21 years and months, Of
$2,162, ,444.59.
The city Of Philadelphia can bear
comparison with any other city in the
United States or anywhere else.
We have more miles Of improved
pavements than any other city In the
world Any citizen in the transaction
of his daily affairs can look about and
see that our streets are kept clean and
well paved. doubt If there is large
community in the present or in the
past anywhere in which there is q
higher moral tone among the people
and in which there are fewer forms
Of vice and haunts OF dissipation or
evil, or wherein they are more quickly
suppressed than in this community.
There is certainly no community in all
history where there Is greater in
dividual prosperity Of the average man
than is found here. 1t has always been
our boast that our city Is the city Of
homes, and we still maintain our repu-
tation in this respect. In the enumera-
tion OF dwelling houses compiled from
the assessors books for the year 1900
we find that the total number Of dwell
ings in this city is 262,775. We also
find that the number Of assessed taxa
bles for the approaching election is
237 ,625. Making due allowance for
the increase in the number of houses
since the last enumeration and CLASH
fication was compiled, bringing 1t down
to recent date Of the assessors list Of
taxables, we have every reason to be-
lieve and to declare that the separate
dwelling houses in the city OF Phila-
delphia was very nearly equal in num-
ber to the number of male individuals.
: We can, therefore, conclude that every
voter in Philadelphia lives in his own
separate dwelling or under conditions
approximating thereto, showing there
by a condition Of well being not even
approached by any other large city.
The people in Philadelphia will come
to realize, If they do not now realize,
the true condition of affairs. They can
not long be deceived, and they are not
now deceived to any extent by the
gross partisan Misrepresentation Of
municipal affairs. What abuse may
! prevail should be opened to the most
searching light and can be corrected
by an intelligent people without be-
smirching with ignominy and shame
| the fair name Of a great and prosperous
community.
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