The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-02-25

The State School Money.
For the past 10 years the State Sem
ate chamber has been the scene of an
unremitting and bitter fight between
the henchmen of foreign speculative
pirates and the stalwart guardians OF
public school funds.
No more nefarious al Act was ever
introduced in the Halls Of State than
that which has for years been the eye
sore of every good citizen of Nevada.
and which, had it become a law. would
have robbed the School Fund OF Ne
vada Of a cold s25. 900 every year. to
the enrichment of a band of specula-
tors, who in the guise of gentlemen
and stock r~aisers, owning or %controll-
ing thousands of acres of State land.
over which roam their vast bands Of
sheep. have by fair g and foul at
tempted to have the annual tax on
such land reduced from six to four per
cent taxation. Their only defense for
this attempt to hold up the State has
been and is hat the State might as
well give them the land in question
at an annual rental of four per cent,
as to charge them six per cent and
loan the money thus acquired to the
Government for four per cent, adding
the covert threat that in the event
the State SO refused to do, they would
withdraw from these a s ira cts and
confine their operations to the spring
watered lands throughout the State.
The statement was made four years
ago in the State Senate that they, as
'citizens of Nevada" were entitled to
this reduction Of tax. but their claim
was ably refuted by the best friend that
the people of Lincoln County ever had
in the Senate. j. A. Denton, who almost
single-handed, fought a good and win
ming battle against n of the strongest
and most corrupt gang of ringsters that
ever lobbied in a State chamber. and
showed up the crookedness of the claim
by ample proof that the leasers of this
State land were 70 per cent foreigners
to the State, and spectators. whose
hands were attempting to throttle the
State to the tune of $25, 600 per annum,
monies which had been appropriated for
the best use a State can put money to,
/. O.. the education of the youth of the
Silver State.
Senator Denton won his fight against
this great monied combine and retained
for the State School Fund its just tribute
of tax. defying these land sharks to
make good their threat to turn back to
the State the land held by them at SO
reasonable a rate of taxation, and telling
them in no mistaken language that their
bluff was called. and that they had no
thought or intent of restoring to the
State lands which would be gladly
turned over to legitimate settlers.
There are now in this fund over one
million dollars, not one cent Of which
can be diverted to any purpose other
than that for which it is levied, and be-
comes a perpetual School Fund, the in
terest on which goes to support and in
crease the educational facilities of the
State.
This term the same iniquitous
will be forced upon the Senate
and Assembly. and, backed by limitless
capital. in the hands Of unscrupulous
political tricksters. the attempt will be
made to loot the Nevada School Fund
again. May our representatives in the
the Halls Of State prove worthy of the
trust reposed in them by the people Of
the State, and throttle this nefarious
design in its birth. proving to their
constituency their incorruptibility
integrity and worthiness Of the high
Office to which they have been chosen,
II they fail and this piratical bill il
passed, they will place upon the fail
escutcheon Of Nevada a blot as indeli
BILE as the imprint Of the hand of fate,
and prove their own unworthiness OF
the trust reposed in them by the great
voting citizenship Of this prosperous
State.-Caliente Express.
County Boards Of Health.
Assemblyman Patterson's bill to es'
tablish a Board of Health in each
county by adding the County Physi
clan to the Board Of Commissioners II
a sensible measure and perfectly practi'
cal in its workings. Each county could
then look after its own health affairs
Carson Appeal.
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