The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-10-22
THE STATE TAN RATE AND USE.
LESS OFFICES.

4LII UL 4AGA5R
IT. IT, speech III Westminster -
day night IT.. Weller said:
~ t. rate ia this State f.
years 90 49, 16 cents It II nov
ST. cents the amount appropriated
in 1910 Was $6,OOO,0O0- At the It.
session of Co., Legislature Az -
$4,000, 900, and the appropriations
Of that session were more than "a mil
lion ana a half dollars tn excess ot
to- revenues of IT, State
These $50 CO. figures of &C. Demo
crats themselves They ID
INIT they are responsible for this con
dition XII AFFAIRS Why did they rot
attempt to correct them before this
Why did not they attempt tO abolish
tn useless Offices before Co. Balti-
more I'm called the peoples atten-
ton t0 themF
Does Mr. Weller attribute the in-
crease in the t. rate tO the existence
of useless Offices Or e2travagant L.
islatlVe expenses, or tO the increase
III appropriations tor general pur-
pOses2 Surely ha knows better, and
if nOt ha ought t0 learn, III he expects
to be Governor
Tha useless OtHlceholdars do nOt get
"a penny out Of the C. rate, nOr dO
tn State-aided institutions 49, -
+L- rr------T M -nr,D-+.Es,rr raTI F-nnn
its proceeds AlI TIM funds that come
from the direct State t. are dedi-
Gated funds Seventeen cents Of the
3242 cent t. rate goes for schools
and the balance IL needed for pay
melt 0t interest OIL TIL State debt nd
tn provide sinking funds nd Co., like
Which of these expenses would Mr-
Weller hara thu State cut OH Would
he reduce the appropriations fOr pub
lic schools. Or would he have had The
lat Legislature refuse to authorize
tn $6,60l,l00 bond issue TO- the State
roads? That bond issue To secure the
money which W.T. Weller i spending
AhA - EIIA AE1A ~ 49, F4LA $50 JAAlP
in ILL., - rate Does he now con
denim a Democratic Legislature FOR
that
There IL great deal of injustice III
tn current Republican argument
about the waste md extravaganza"
UT the lat Legislature All ~ quite
rrr-- +h.- rhn Fnvfrrar-rrp 1870 Tr rn
means AZ careful OF expenditures
u iii should have been What Lee
islature - It il true that the Legis-
lature w. ine1cusablE eKtrava-
CANT il it, legislative expenses
and that most of The members
were grabbing for everything that
could be ct for themselves or
their friends-a lamentable situation
that II noticeable more or les fri
every legislative body. But in point
of fact IT, great preponderance UT
the appropriations w. FOR worthy
purposes ana could not justly be call
ed waste
The fault KIT tn Legislature was
mot that the appropriations were badr
but that id did not limit it, spending
to its available assets It w. Like "a
man vino spends SI5 for things that
he really needs, but Who r. only
$10 with which to paT to- bill- IT,
deed iii W. hardly as bad ~ that,
for LII spite Df warnings from Comp
trOller Harrington and TIL heads Of
TIN Finance and Ways ald Means
committees, members had - idea
that somehow the State would rid
the moneE to- what they considered
perfectly worthy objects, nd which
probably were The lack Of budget
and "A proper financial system w.,
perhaps more tO blame than tn Lee
islature-
WI have no desire to criticise GOV
ernor Goldsborough TOR not Yet0ing
the excess appropriations for as WI
-, tna fault - chiefly III the lack
of "a business system but certainly
he w. II better position to balance
revenue against proposed disburse-
menrs than the Legislature and ought
to bear ATT least part of the respon-
sibility. Nr Weller himself recOg-
Mics this when III says.
Blt even III tAe Legislature XII tht
State should be Democratic, w. viii
be in "A position TN do effective worA
fOr the reform of the States finances
The Legislature will nO
make appropriations ira excess of tht
States income and get away with At
iii N am in the Executive chair
Which would seem To imply tAat ht
thinks Governor GoldsbOrOugh Ough
not to have allowed it- From Balti
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