The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-10-08

Total unexpended balance
December 31,1913 .... 2,S50,O0(
Total amount expended to
December 81, 1913 .... $1s, ,174,00(
A classification of the appropria'
tions made to show those made from
funds raised by direct taxation ana
those made from special funds anc
from funds raised by special taxation
is as follows:
From funds raised by direct taxa
ton:
For the purpose Of paying
outstanding territorial
warrants ........,.,...- Sl,foVVVV
For maintenance OF state
government and institu-
tons ..........''.'.' I"loo'VVo
Total ................ s1S,56o,OoO
Amount reverting to state
unexpended ......... 81, zSoVVV
Unexpended balance, De-
cember 81, 1913 ........ 1,965,OOO
Total expenditure ...... S15,S57, 600
Less amount of territorial
warrants ............ $4,000
Total expenditure for gov
ernment since statehood .$14482.00O
From funds raised by special tax and
from trust funds Estate educational
and public buildings):
Total appropriations ....... $5,500'0o0
Total reverting to state un-
expended ............. foo,Voo
Unexpended balance Decem-
Der 81, 1913 ............... SS6,OOO
Total expenditure .. S3,S2S,OO0
We have appropriated since state
hood for all purposes from all funds IS
the sum of $24,000.00. We have ex-
pended $19,174,000.00 of which amount
sS75, 10000 was moneys which we used
in paying off old territorial indebted
ness. OF this amount expended ST.
62,23255 was revenue raised by in
come from section 13 and new college
lands, which never did and never VIII
cost the people of the state Of Okla
homa one cent. $2,565,767.45 was from
money raised by loans against public
building lands, these two amounts to-
falling s3,S2S,O00. o. Deducting the
So, ,S2S, 10000 from s19,174, 100000, the
amount expended since statehood,
leaves a balance of s15,357 10000. De-
ducting SS75,000.00, the amount used
from S15,357, 10000 shows that the
amount actually expended was $14,-
4S2, 10000.
In return for this we have main
tanned state government we have bor-
rowed and are paying back this ST.
s65, 1914 without a cent cost to the
taxpayers, but in the end the taxpay-
ers will own, and have as an esset, |
all the buildings, equipment and lands
that we have purchased for them out
Of this money for our state institu-
tons.
In addition to operating state gov
on the actual expenditures of
s14, ,4S2, 10000 of the taxpayers money |
he records show that during that time
-aken from an inventory, which Is re-
1uired to be filed on the first day of
every July with the state board of
public affairs that the state owns in
he way of equipment, lands and
buildings at our state institutions and
n our state department property
which shows a valuation of $9,079,-
1920.
The records also show, that in addi- |
ion to accumulating at least 100000
worth of state property since state
rood, democratic state government
las turned back TO the people through
Ter common school fund over $4,000
10000 of money that has not cost them
Is taxpayers, one cent.
Now, in comparison with that let Us
ZEE what Kansas has done. Governor
Hodges answered my inquiry by send
ng q report of the state auditor for
he years 1905 to 1912 inclusive. and
N examination of that report shows
hat during these eight years. the
anne number as against which I am
sing as a comparison of our own
tate, that Kansas appropriated for
tate purposes 9,S36.700-that she
ctually expended s27,395, ,005.50 for
tate government. AS was the case
n Oklahoma a certain amount OF this
money has reverted to the state treas
ry, or is yet unexpended. and that the
ctual expenditure during this period
Or state government was S27, $685.
O5.5O.
Now remember these standpat
epublicans state that we have been
in state government, and
ct we find that we have appropriated
,r all state purposes the sum of s24.-
Do. 10000: republican Kansas has ap- ,
ropriated $4,000. 10000. where demo-
ratio Oklahoma has actually spent
l9 ,000, 10000; republican Kansas has
pent s27 ,OOO 10000.
Kansas during all this time had been .
state for sixty years. her institu- !
ons and her departments should have {
cen so equipped as to have been I
Derated upon the most economical |
rms, while our institutions and our I
apartments were in their infancy, and '
nder conditions which made Il neces- {
Try TO operate them even though we {
Id 20 do It for a while at a maximum I
,st. and with all these handicapsl Q
smocracy has run democratic gov a
nment and democratic Oklahoma Z
ght million dollars cheaper in the I
st eight years than has republican {
m run republican government in re- I.
iblican Kansas during the same
ght years.
But says some OF nv friends: Why d
q my state taxes lower IN Kansas Il
an IN Oklahoma7- This may be
ne. Oklahoma demo,a acy wants 10 n
e Its citizens prosper and wants 10 s
I've its assessed valuation increased {,
e she cannot be responsible for the n
ct that We have not the assessed val q
Ition that Kansas has. We find in Il
ansas that total assessed valuationI q
nearly three times that OF OkahO- Z,
a. 30 nc doubt the state tax IN Kan. a.