Middletown transcript., 1919-02-15
KILL THE BILL

KILL THE BILL
seXY7E are informed that the House
T" Committee that has had under
consideration. Representative Brooks
bill providing for the repeal of the law
creating the new Board of County As
SCISSORS for New Castle county and the
destruction of an honest assessment for
this county, has decided to report the
repeater ION its merits"
''In short, this dastardly piece Of pro-
posed legislation, which is menace to
every honest property owner and tax
payer in New Castle county, including,
Wilmington, and beacon of promise
to every dishonest property owner and
taxpayer who thinks he will have pull
with the restored old assessment ma
chinery, is to be tossed out on the floor
of the House to be dealt with by the
Representatives as they see fit.
1.-THE committeeman seemingly are
afraid to come to grips with the disap-
pointed office-seekers and the assess
ment crooks who are behind the re-
pealer.
''They are unloading upon the men,
bers of the House the performance of
public duty of the first magnitude
which they should not hesitate to per-
form themselves, regardless of the
wishes of disappointed office-seekers
and the assessment crooks who would
like to have the repeater pass.
"Well, if the committeeman dodge
their duty to the honest property own
ere ard the honest taxpayers in New
Castle county, the members of the
House as whole should not hesitate in
the performance of that duty.
''They should stand as man in oppo.
sition to the bill and waste little valu-
able legislative time in killing it beyond
recall.
1T Is damnable in it's conception and
doubly damnable in its purposes, which
are twofold a....
lone is to give public pap to certain
hungry politicians who never are salts.
fled except when feeding at the public
trough-men who think the taxpaying
public Owls them a good and an easy
living.
'"The other is to destroy the fair and
honest equalization principle in its appli-
cation to the assessment Of property in
New Castle county and restore the old
assessment system under which proper
ty owners who could manipulate the as
sessment machinery escaped the paying
of their fair share of county taxes,
while property owners who rad neither
the power nor the desire to manipulate
that machinery were compelled to pay
not only their own fair share of taxes
but also had unloaded upon them those
portions of the financial burdens of
county government which had been
lodged by the crooked friends of crook
ed assessors.
The honest property owners in Viii
mington and in rural New Castle county
want no such restoration.
.They want an honest and an equal
lied assessment that is fair to every
property owner and taxpayer in the
county, be that property owner and tax
payer b, poor man or rich man or one
moderately well-to-do.
1T was an insult to Representative
Brooks to place such crooked bill in
his hands for introduction.
cit was an insult to the Legislature
for the disappointed office-seekers and
the assessment crooks who are consort-
ing with them to make formal and seri-
GUS proposal Of such repeal.
''It would be an insult to and crime
against the people of Delaware for a
legislative committee to report such
crooked bill favorably.
1T would be equally an insult to and
a crime against the people of Delaware
for the House to rail to make summary
disposal of this bill of assessment
crooks by assessment crooks and for as
sessment crooks and aimed to destroy
the cardinal principles of true assess
ment and taxation.
IF, as is asserted, there is not
enough red blood ard backbone in the
House committee to scotch this snake