The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1907-09-25


Since l have been auditor the
schools of the commonwealth have
been paid s1,7S1,67S more than they
received during the four years Of Re-
publican rule We have paid in ap-
preparations $1,959,612 more than the
Republicans did; for criminal prose
cutions $99,567 more than they; for
idiots $S5,225 more, and to the jury
fund $92,118 in excess of the amount
paid by the Republicans. These five
items alone making total of $4,O1S,-
POI or $590,905 more than the excess
of our collections, showing that in this
advanced age of growth and develop
ment, with increased obligations that
naturally force themselves upon a
state proud and prosperous like ours,
the actual cost of running the govern
ment under the present administra-
ton has been less than it was under
the Bradley administration eight years
ago.
When / turn over to my successor
the Office OF auditor, a financial condi-
ton of the state will be shown of
which any state in this Union would
be pleased to boast. On the first OF
January next, after having completed
the capitol and paid for it. and met
every obligation of the state, you will
have in your treasury the neat and
comfortable sum of s1,250,000.
Will Recommend Reduction of Tax
Rate.
After four years experience as the
head of the financial department Of
the state, confidentially assert that
the tax rate of so cents, though not
itself excessive, can and ought to be
reduced, and if elected governor / will
in my message to the legislature rec
ommend that it be reduced to 40 cents,
the lowest tax rate ever experienced
since the adoption of the present con-
stitution.
What has the new and selfish man.
agement of the Democratic party done
for the people of Kentucky" asks DR..
Wilson. l will tell you. 1t has re-
lieved them of a bonded Indebtedness
of $1,000,000, which was inherited
from a Republican administration; it
has reduced the tax rate; it has en-
larged and improved the penal and
charitable institutions; increased the
school term from five to six months;
it has increased the per capita to $40
this year, which will provide school
fund of $2,60O,000 the largest amount
and greatest per capita that has been
paid by any administration since Ken
lucky, was admitted into the Union
as a free and independent state. 1t
is the largest amount provided for
the support of the common schools by
any state III the Union save and ex-
cept New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania and California. 1t has appro-
priated $1,250,000 for new state cap
itol, whose majestic gray walls and
towering dome may now be seen ris-
ing in tempted grandeur from an ele-
walton overlooking the graceful wind
ings of the classic Kentucky river
and the quaint old capital city, where
its sun-kissed dome VIII top a monu-
ment to the greatness of our state.
Eight hundred thousand dollars Of
this amount has already been paid,
and every remaining dollar will be
paid without one cent increase of the
tax rate or the creation of a debt to
be met in the future. No other state
in this Union has ever erected cap
itol out of the current funds Of the
state without increasing the tax rate
If at ALL
1t has established two normal
schools with an annual appropriation
of $4,000 to each. 1t has appropri-
ated $4,000 annually to the state col
lege. 1t has appropriated annually
$4,000 to the Children's Home Socie
ty, society whose splendid and ben
county in this commonwealth-a soci-
ETY. that takes from the alleys and
streets of your cities and from the by
ways of the country, the waits who
are left without parents and without
protection, and places them in con-
genial homes with wholesome sur
roundings, where they can grow up
into useful and honorable manhood,
instead of being permitted to drift
with the. fiotsam upon the great and
uncertain sea of life. to destiny per-
haps dishonorable if not TO felon's
doom.
1t has provided home at a cost
of $195,000 for the Confederate sol
diers who have been overtaken by
sickness or MISFORTUNE home where
the hero of the ''lost cause who had
the courage and the manhood to take
up arms in defense of the principles
he conceived to be right may spend
his remaining days in peace, quiet