Milford chronicle., 1920-01-09

THE EVERY EVENING has been skating on thin ice
in political matters for long time and at last has fallen
into open water and only founder deeper man
fully out confess ignorance parzanshp.
For years Every Evening of Wilmington has printed
laudatory editorials and items which from the
pens of parsans Dover audng the Democratic county
administration county especially harpng upon
the collection of taxes well the wise inancierng
of the Levy Court From time to time have exposed
these efforts political propaganda behalf of the Kent
county Democratic county and the Democratic
papers Dover, well the Every Evening have at
tempted to sweep aside these statements eminatng
Republican with intent to belittle the Dem
party and the administration of county affairs in
county. We will just here restate the salient part
the facts of the situation follows The Levy Court
of Kent county has borrowed more than one hundred
thousand dollars within the four for the purpose
building good roads-but the roads have been
built and the money has been used to build court
house instead This clear misuse of the county money
the people intended it to be used There has been
cash balance in the Kent county reasuryousde of the
money borrowed-and- the taxes collected used to
pay expenses while the tax rate held down
political purposes. These facts which the record
will show truef the records have been kept fairly
and believe that they have not been
kept.
The Every Evening has forgotten much or has a con-
venent memory in regard to political matters affecting
county praises the report of the prompt collection
the county by the collectors of that county and
believe that this effort the part of the
Democratic administration in Kent county multi
tude of sins-BUT IT OVERLOOKS THE FACT THAT
THIS SYSTEM OF TAX COLLECTION FOR KENT
COUNTY WAS WIPED OUT AND A TAX RECEIVER
SYSTEM WAS CREATED, which is to go into effect in
January 1921 the election This job creates
well saared office instead of the small jobs 1t will
be a saving of the peoples money well as prompt
getting the in This alone brands the much
auded system county collection in Kent county
not effective economical. Notwithstanding this fact
as can by the enacted by the last legis
ature Every Evening clngs its defense of those
attempting camoufage the administration in
power in Kent county, and says
"As change in the tax collection system why should
such thing be thought of when the taxes being
collected the dollar year after year? And why
delegate duty so well and satisfactorily performed to
another agencypossbly anagency provided by the old
gang sought savagely rip" the county admin
istration into their ineffective hands?"
Under rule the bonded debt Of Kent county
gone up from about hundred thousand dollars to
two hundred and eightyfve thousand dollars Why this
increase there has been wise administration of county
busnessq county levyng and collecting
sufficient money to pay its operating expenses
years, but borrowed the strength of promising
build good roads the people want hut using the
money build court house and pay its operating
penses Patching roads and paying petty officers. It's
lovely system petty officials but expensive for
the people Just here it will we'll to friends in
Wilmington that and Sussex counties capable of
taking care Of their affairs in either politics
gon county needs assessment law so badly that
even the children understand the unfair conditions which
exist Part county paying double the amount of
taxes on the of land that others paying
to the county something that needs ripping
from bottom to top seven-tenths of the people admit
it to be a fact.