The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-09-02

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santa "a. X. A.. sept s.-Her bert
]. Harerman. former governor OF
New Mexico. rcnd a paper before the
New Mexico Taxpayers' association
yesterday. which vas a scarrhinn.
keen and rflticnl non-pnrtinin anal
xeIn 81 the status az The state and the
counties making up the state. Mr..
HnRurman declared that New Mexico
should wake up 70 4 realization Of
the fact that the state 4 a poor COM
rnonwcaith. onc 81 ne poorest In the
union. that latent resources are not
available for taxation; that New Mex
icc has been ~oNtfaVaEant IN expcndi-
lures and that Il IL hlsh time 10 call
a halt Briefly and ppintedly. Mr..
Hagcrman reviewed the aitualicn a.
II appeared to him from statir,ics and
from positive facts, since he change
frpm territorial 90 state government.
down 10 the present time. specisl
stress was laid on the tax problems
whicht confront the people o. Ncw
Mexico. Il - up e. the people. nj.
HaEcrmnn said. 10 devise ways and
means for placing the state and a
ties on a firm financial basis. dirtrib-
utinE the burden Of taxation evenly.
n making Il as liant n possible ny
economy and efficiency.
Former Governor Haserman spoke
as follows:
Genflcmen.--f cannot but feel that
this meeting II one % the most i'm
portrait v e held IN New Mexico. You
we're asked to assemble here to effect
~ organisation Cor the purpose Of
bringing about efficiency and economy
IN the m~anaEersrnt of the public AZ
fairs ~ New Mexico. u Is Indeed
hish time that the cltlzcns and tax
payers OF this state should get TO-
Ecther IN a serious effort 10 effect
such results. Il Is. too, . mort oppor-
tune time 70 start such an organise
lion, Ter he whole nation Is aroused.
a. never before In its history. over
the appalling growth OF public ex-
penditurc. national. state. county and
municipal We = in the midst OF
an era Of extrnvaeance unparalleled In
any other epoch IN history. Thought
ful men throughout the land have for
some time realized the trend Of "a
Affairs In this respect. and have been
az work devisinE means to bring this
Geplcrabie condition 10 the realization
~ the Decple and methods to rem
cdy the sneflriency now "a generally
prevalent 81 the administrator 81 our
publl1 finances We in New Mexico
are not much worse on in this respect
than the citixenr ~ many other states.
ExtraFasance II rampant everywhere
and meetings with a similar object 10
This one. HAYS .lPeep or are being hold
In other states. We are fortunate,
therefore. a. this time. IN having
much 10 draw upon In the experience
81 others. We have. In fact. a stu
peadOus opportunity for good. mi I
I'm sure that the %opportunlty will be
seized and made much of.
How few OF our people actually rca-
Ike what n h extern Of It's public
financial transactions and the cost Of
government In this land Of freedomi
The figures are enormous. They
have been actually compiled for the
year 1919 and are fairly unbelievable
IN their magnitude. Tho aggregate
% receipts and cash balances OF the
rational government, states, counties
a-d Incorporated places with n popu-
laiioE OF 1850 or over FOR the year
1913 was fS.07e, 9f4,f32. OF this sum
s3.Ss1, 50i.f54 was the share OF the
national government; sff3,S23.55
that Of the states: Si,06i.6ia.2f7 OF
the counties; and t~2,4gS.G0o. 1871 OF
the cities and towns. These sums
represent the actual balance sheets
for the year. Tho actual revenue re-
ceipts for the same year which IN
clnde taxes, ~iicensea. Interest. etc,
were f2,799.t22.f0g; non-revenue re-
celpts. mainly from the ISSUE Of new
debt ~obllgations which must ulti-
mntely be paid by the taxpayers
were s2.SiI.950. ss6 more. To Offset
thesc enormous receipts the expendi-
lures were az Follows;
Government cost payments. includ-