The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-10-19
Concluded from page one.
OWN EXTRAYAGANCES.

fVWN EAIMAvAuAIyCE0.
s31 900. Nor is that the worst of
it. By those who made up the es-
Inmates for this appropriation, and
it is presumed that the head of each
department estimated the amount
he wanted for his department, $50, :
700 was asked for each year, that
is $50, 900 for 1909 and 1000 for
1910. Back in 1905 only $40, 241
was appropriated for clerks yet FIVE
years later we find the administra-
tion asking for 1000. 1t is pos
sible that the salaries of clerks
amounted only to ST. 900 as set out
in the letter sent out from Repub-
lican headquarters, for the year
1909 but it cannot be too strongly
emphasized that this was not only
far in excess of the amount expend-
ed in 1905 but that had those in
charge Of the departments had their
way about it they would have used
$4,000. With these figures the
challenge of the Governor and the
challenge of the State Republican
committee is answered. These fg-
ures PROVE EXTRAVAGANCE.
They are of record. To verify them
the reader has only to refer to pages
8, 4 and 5 of Appendix C.. of the
bound volume of the Journal of the
House of delegates. If this amount
for clerk hire is NOT extravaganza
what is it The government could
be more economically administered
if some of the small army of clerks
were Topped off the pay-rols.
The State Tax Commissioner is
authority for the fact that while
the valuation on which taxes are
collected has increased more than
three times, yet the rate has
not been decreased three times,
and he acknowledges that more
taxes are being collected and
that more money is needed but says
the average paid is lower under tax
reform. That is question that
each taxpayer can answer for him
self.
The Democrats in the last leg
islature voted against an increase in
the salary of the Attorney General.
Actions speak louder than words and
the minority have shown where they
would have refused to permit in
crease in expenses.
! The Democratic party given an
opportunity would repeal the pres
eat game law or at least the obnox-
i,us features of it, it is believed, if
given an opportunity, accepting the
| challenge of the Governor to say
what the opposition would repeal
and they would not tax resident of
the state to hunt, tax while en-
riching the state By at least $50,
900, the amount estimated by the
Game Warden, puts tax on the
poor man.
Actions speak louder than words,
for the Democrats in the last legis-
lature voted against an increase in
the taxes on inheritanceS, distribu-
tive shares and legacies.
Actions speak louder than words
for the Democrats voted against a
blu providing for the payment of
4 FIVE per cent of all taxes collected
through the Auditors office, from
property assessed by the Board of
Public works for county, district,
school district and municipal pur-
/ poses into the state fund to be used
for state purposes. In other words
the bill proposed to take away from
the county the money it now re-
ceives from public service corpor-
atoms, That was an administration
tax measure, destined to fatten the
State Treasury.
1t isn't what the opposition would
do; it is what they have done.
In Directing to the schedules of
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