The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-01-14

amipe II & little and ss-e If il does
MT confirm every word in your
ditoriai. In he first piece il sd-
mi,s that the $500. 900 Of schno
and pension appropriations we're
| unpaid and were to remain unpaid
until af or Dec Lat, when this a CT
YEAR will be rio-ed This is exact-
~ whal Your ditor'al stated Nov
if ae add It j. $4De. 900 tn the s41o.
0oO horr"we.i last spring, W. nav.
$50 0D0 nf borrowed money and
I'm ia I'd appropriations and this let
| t lays the trra-urer mas less than
$4,000 with which tn pay it.
This shows there would be a deficit
of more than six hundred thousand
dollar in our ,rea-urv at this very
TIM or that We would have TO b.r-
row that much money if we We're
forced to pay back the money we
DO row. d and the approp ia, ions
are supposed TO forget the $500, 900
b0rro~-d last spring aud when they
complain of the increase in taxes
they are expected TO be satisfied
wi the explanation That this is an
edu ational adninistr ton, ami
then so far as the o, her $500, 900 for
pensions and schools are concerned
they can and have been showed into
the next fi-cal year with the hope
that the Increased taxes will provide
for them and if it does not the
deficit will not he known until after
the next election and then the
Democrats will be in four years
more and tn. people can help them
selves the best way they can. But
this is not all that can be learned
from Thu continental letter.
Treasur. Lacy says it takes about
S75. 900 a month for the asylums,
coll. ges and other State expenses.
here are only Welve months In
the year ard twelve times seventy
five Thousand is nine hundr d thOus-
and dollars. This is what, accord
ing to this letter, it takes to run
the State outside of the apprOpria-
tions for the schools and pensions.
These are 100000 more which
makes thirteen hundred thousand
do lars that it should cost to run
the State, including the school and
pension appropriations, exclusive
o the interest on our State debt.
But this report says it took $780,
6O4.31, a part of which was the
$4,000 we had borrowed, which
not heing legitimate State expenses
should be deducted, this would leave
1881, 6O4 81 that was spent for
the ordinary State expenses Deduct
from this the $1,3OO0,0O0 which
the confidential letter says it
takes to run the State and it leaves
in round number seven hundred
thousand dollars that has been
spent for the intert st on our State
debt and for some other purposes
Now what we're they? This is in
part my money. The sherIffs will
call on me for my part Of it and if
| do not pay it he will sell my
property for 1t, and what is true OF
me is true of every tax payer in
the State. My wif-'s sewing
machine. my only mich COW. my
horse or my wagon, or any piece of
my property may be taken to pay
my part Of this extra debt. This
being 80. I am "Agin" all these
confidential letters, and more
especially so as $4,000 of this
81, 100000 is still unpa d which
makes this 100000 100000 that
my property is bound for and bound
tighter than any mortgage Gould
bind it. In your editorial you
showed that the Republicans spent
in 1898, their last year, $685.
Gill which is in round nun bers
exactly what Mr.. Lacy says it
should take. but which paid the
!. interest on our State debt and every
appropriation. I have not forgotten
that we had an educational cam
paign last year, (19O2) and 1 expect
another next year (19O4) as both of
THESE are ele :tion years and this
educational campaign is a Demo-
cratic stalking horse. But we
didn't have one this year. Was
any of this money us-d for this pur-
pose last year and charged up in
this years account just as the pen.
sions and school appropriations of
this year will be charged up in the
next years? If it didn't go for this
it has gone for something else,
but no matter how it went it's gone,
and we, the tax PAYERS have
got to make it good, for these
are the days Of good State govern
ment, that's what the News and
Observer Calls it, and of course in
the eyes Of the orthodox Democrat
that makes it so, but according to
my way of thinking. when I think
about my taxes, 1t comes pretty
high. But we must pay and not
grunble, as we have to maintain
the present high standard of our
State credit, which has fallen from
over ct premium under the Repub-
licans to under the Democrats,
Notwithstanding the volume of mon