The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-10-31

Nor can the county voter be fSsf
ferent to this issue In Cairo. Cairo
| is so large a part of the county, so
important factor in its makeup and
| in its veal or woe that harm to Cairo
must mean harm to the entire county.
In the matter of taxes alone this is
an important item. Although Cairo
pays perhaps IS per cent OF an sfle
taxes Of the county. still the people
of the county feel their tax burdens
as heavily as do the people OF Caro-.
The people of the county must pay
their share of the cost Of our county
government; they must pay their
snare of the prosecution of the hordes
of black criminals that crowd the
county jail at every term OF court.
They can not afford, even from pure
~ mercenary consideration, to lend
encouragement to this criminal ele-
me1t by helping to elect to office
the man whom that element recc>
nzes as it's friend and protector and
who proclains himself as such.
And there is another phase of tho
matter which the county voter nee6s
to take into account 1t stands
to reason that any decrease in
Cairo's tax.paying power must r
suit in a corresponding increase inI
the taxes that must be collected from
the people outside Of Cairo, for the
the people outside Of Cairo, from the
county government must be main
tanned But Cairo's tax-paying power
must decrease, II her property val
ues decrease; her property values
must decrease if her houses are va
cant. or If ner building operations
are curtailed; her houses must be-
come or remain vacant; her building|
operations must lag, and her business
and industrial activity must be cur
tailed if her population does not in
crease---the city must go forward orl
20 backward, for no city ever stands
still
And ii needs no argument for any
man of ordinary common sense to
convince him that this city can not
increase her population, can not at
tract new industrial and commercial
interests, if it shall go forth to thel
outside world that it is dominated
by the element which Sheriff Nellis
represents in his candidacy for
sheriff.
The people of Cairo. if left to them
selves, would have no fear OF the re-
suit. They know where they stand:
they know what they need and what
they want. When their ballots are
counted on Nov. they will be found
to have voted right--for the best in
terests of this city and of the county
IT win be found that. so far as fhev
are concerned, the vicious element
which Mr.. Nellis represents has no
power to harm them. They ask only
that their friends in the county stand
by them; that these trends recog-
nize the city's urgent need OF good
government, of restraining the law
less blacks within her borders. They
ask their brothers in the county not
10 use their votes against the c'tys
interests and thus force upon it law
less negro domination. They ask their
country friends to aid them in thei
strenuous efforts to boost Cairo; toI
place the city upon a higher plane
in the estimation Of the outside
world, IN order that the city may
prosper and grow, the better to bear
the burdens Of government and tol
lessen those of their county neigh
bors. And they feel that they have
right to ask this and that their ur
gent plea will not be rpthIessly SCI
aside for the sake of what party
bosses are pleased to call party
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