The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-19
DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCES
THE NEED IN NORTH CARO-! INA
Running State of Thirty Million Acres On Prodrc-
ton of Eight Million Eight Hundred Thousend Acres
Of Necessity Means a Tight Squeeze

Carolina Is going to be Il great deal
bigger than it is before the end
comes. The only place on earth where
the taxes do not increase ali the time
is the cemetery. and if any Of yOu
think North Carolina has the makinGs
for grave yard YOU have t. guess
again.
There is not a single item calling
for public money today but what is
| going to call for more with possibly
| some minor exceptions, and while
am in a confidential mood I am going
TO add that we are all going TO clamor
| for more taxes. We are only begin
ming to build good school houses and
gooG roads, and good hospitals. and
to take care OF ali public matters. We
have thought that the State is limited
in its ability to provide for the things
it would like to have but tha is q mis-
take. The State is not limited in its
ability to pay, but in the development
| of those resources that in time to
come viii pay liberally.
III our present situation the ques-
ton of taxation is q mighty pressing
one. But when the nve undeveloped
acres of Cumberland county are join
ling with the one developed acre to
help pay the public expenses we will
see where the trouble has been. We
jare running a State of $1,000, 900
acres on the production Of S,s0o,000
acres, and as long as We try to do
that it will be a tight squeeze.
North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Let US do little COMPARISON. Penn
! sylvania is a State SOmewha less ip
size than North Carolina. With two
: and a half million acres less than
North Carolina Pennsylvania has
three and a half times as many people
on her smaller area as North Caro-
) lima hac North 90 ,oJ
undeveloped resources as Pennsyl-
: vania, but Pennsylvania has develop
7 ed more. Pennsylvania bigger pop
!. ulation has carried the State ahead
: faster. Therefore Pennsylvania has g
much bigger tax income. Pennsyl
vania pays to the counties for tht
t support of the public schools ovel
E seven million dollars a year, and the
counties and towns add a lot more tt
e that Pennsylvania pays another mil
: lion year for the support of the nor
f NAL schools and other speciai schools
y of that character. Pennsylvania give
Z the health department over q million
S a year. Pennsylvania gives the hoSpi
d tails three millions a year, and to tn
5. insane hospitals over million. Tn
d prisons get a million. The homes ant
e institutions get over million. Pub
y lie printing gets close to half a mil
e lion. The State militia runs close t
G Lnree quarters OF Million.
s. Pennsylvania would feel poor if
e had to pull through on less thai
e thirty million dollars year in taxes
and Pennsylvania is not quite so bi
g a State as North Carolina.
Is But Pennsylvania has more people
r. and the people are developing the re
e sources Of the State, and the re
'e sources pay the taxes and never thin
a about it. The care of land that raise
is tobacco worth q hundred dollars wi
Dt pay a dollar taxes more cheerful
n and more profitably to it's owner tina
80 the acre that raises nothing and pay
Of three cents an acre. for the one make
~ the money to pay it's bigger tax Will
at the other digs up the tax from tn
re pocket of the owner and the paymer
lie Of the small sum is dead loss.
lie Because Pennsylvania has owe
lie eight million people utilizing her re
IN courses that State has finer home
lie finer schools, finer churches. fine
IN roads, finer public buildings, bigge
o. libraries, and everything on a NOR
Or expensive and convenient scale.
u Pennsylvania does not have thing
is more expensive and convenient bt
n cause it is a Weather State, but b.
in cause it has more people developin
the natural resources of the State.
1850, when Pennsylvania had tF
40 same population that North Caroli1
IS. has now Pennsylvania collected tax.
n to amount to four and a half millio
It's dollars. The State had more resourc.
il then than now, for in that time 81
st has exhausted a great many thing
re but she had nothing like the incon
10 because she had not the peoplep
it utilize the natural resources. Ar
q that is exactly the situation wit
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