The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04
HOW MONEY HAS PILED UP
 IN THE STATE TREASURY
Remarkable Achievements of Business Adminis,
 trationof w. D. Jelks.

before in the history or the 5tate. There is now in the Treasury the sum Of si,4l5,iso1l. Never before since Alabama became State has there been 50 much money in the Treasury.
 The enormous deposits the deposits which breaks all records, has been piled up by the Jelks administration in the teeth of the fact that in 1901 the con stitutional Convention reduced the tax rate from 7s cents to 65 cents on the hundred dollars. Figures garnered from the ledgers and the balances of the State at this time. therefore, make remarkable showing.
 They present the administration or William D. Jeks, his five years of the administration in the affairs of the State. In a splendid light, So accustom- cd have the people of Alabama. become to the ease and smoothness of the workings of it's governmental affairs, so Accustomed have newspaper read CTS become to seeing now and then printed paragraph that tells of the rrosperity and welfare of his State government, that they fail to grasp the excellent achievements of the admins tration, which has wrought the pres- ent fund.
 some three years ago William D. Jeiks was inaugurated as Governor of Alabama, the people of the State hav- ing endorsed his close and energetic administration of the affairs of State. when by process of law he succeeded William J. Sanford. Standing on the portico of the Capitol. the Governor took occasion to say that the day, his 4Ssn aI daxy hald h al f1f1f ness of his ambition. He took occa- sion to say that he looked forward to no other day of political triumph. and that he had no political plans or hopes that went beyond that day.
 It was pledge, rarely given in such definite, distinct way. that the office of Governor would be administered solely and singiy for the welfare of the people and of the State. It was a pledge that meant that the new Governor would bend his every effort to meet in it's fullest the confidence that the people had bestowed upon him and that such efgor4s would be made towards the welfare of the State and not towards building up any political machine for the bringing of further political pre- { 3erment to himself or his friends.
 The record IS written now. In lit- tie less than a year ago the greatest business administration the State has ever known will draw to a close. The figures which have been gathered and are here printed reflect In a way the wonderful achievements of an admin isfra4ion of thoroughness of energy Of ability and one guided only by the purpose to look to the welfare of the State of Alabama.
 Five years the Jeiks administration has been in charge. To show effective ly what has been accomplished it Is necessary to compare the results of those five years with what was acc compiished in the preceding five years.
 It seems incredible that in the past five years more than $2.000,O00 more was expended for public education than was expended in the previous five years. That Itself is an astonishing showing. No less astonishing are the figures which show the old soldiers, their widows and orphans received nearly three times as much as they got in the preceding period of five years.
 But the climax of the achievements was in the management of the Convict Department. Governor Jelks as is well known, abolished the old lease system by which the lessees made for tunes at the expense of the State and established the new method of hiring convicts which has done such remaFka- ble things for the State Treasury. It was then a new and untried experi- ment and nerve and courage was re- uuired to carry it into erect.
 Comparing the returns from the Con- vict Department for the five years of the JeIks administration with the five years preceding 1t is seen that nine times as much money has been turned in in the last five years In the last i've years nine times as much money has been paid to the Treasury from the Convict Department as was paid fn the first five years.
 It is a wonderful showing.
 For the fiscal year ending September goth, 1905. the State of Alabama paid out to
 Oid Confederate soldiers.
 their widows and orphans.s 4l2'S65.7 75 Public schools. .... l,l2S,FSl,6 Quarantine protection 12,2O2.OS in addition to the regular disburse- ments necessary to the administration of a State governpent--tne total dis bdisements for the year ending Sep tember 30th. 1905. including those above set forth. being s3,13O.es2.21: and on the same date, September 30th, 1S05, the Treasury showed balance of $1,415,- 130.11.
 The generation and development of the extraordinary financial successes of the State of Alabama during the past five years, from 1901 to 1906, may, in part, be attributed to the jealous eff forts of the administration to instHl strict business principles into the man agement of all the departments of the State Government.
 For the fiscal year ending September 30th, 1905. the following departments showed not profits as enumerated be- low:
 Department of Agriculture
 and Industries ...........$ 12.665 .24 Insurance Department ..... 94,356 .44 Convict Department ....... 293,291 .56
 A comparison of the five years, from 1901 to 1906. with the five years just preceding, from a financial and business standpoint. of the condition of the State of Alabama, affords means of approx imating an exact estimate of the mate rial development of the State during the Jelks administration.
 For the years from s96 to 1900 in- elusive the following amounts were expended for Public School purposes
 1896 =. ... $6O6,434.69
 1897 ... ... ... 63a 259-ll .
 1S9S ''' ''..' ItS'ooz'9u
 1899 o@ i'f4@'9S
 1900 ... ... %. ..,-. S2O512.l
 Total ..SS'4So'loS,55
 For the years from 1901 to 1905 in elusive, the Jelks administration, the following amounts were expended for Public School purposes:
 1901 ... .-. ... .Sl'Voo't Io'oV
 1902 .. ... COG. 1,093,2S5.21
 1903 ... ...... Q. 1,071,13O-4I
 f904 . ... .... I,OIS,903.4S