Abilene Weekly Chronicle and the Dickinson County News from Abilene, Kansas • 4

ABILENE DEMOCRAT, will pay Governor Bailey and Attorney General Coleinuu to, th'mk 'on things." Will. White, i MRS. M. H. BISHOP, Proprietor.

D. R. NEVILLE, Associate Editor, TELLS THBTRUrrt. Subscription $1.00 Per Year. JCn ered at tbe puatortlce at Ablleue, nnnnd filassm-utl matter.

Tom McNeal, the editor of the Mail and Breeze, tbe official state paper, has taken -upttnV, sublet of legislative extravagance and -hands out a few facts concerning his repub TAX REFORM NEEDED. Iron Mountain Route KNOWN AS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST SYSTEM lican brothers which every reader of would rather be state printer than governor Baid a prominent sen ator at Topeka "during the last session of the legislature. Love' of money predominated his love of honor it would have remained unsaid. There never was and never will be a greater "make-money-easy" graft in Kansas than the state printership, but the honor of the position is very Senator W. Harris saved the U.

S. government $50,000,000 by persisting in his fight against the Pacific railroad in its attempt to repudiate its indebtedness to the government. He was offered a life long position at a Fabulous salary to drop fight, but honor and duty with him were far beyond trie considera tion of personal interest. He is poor in this world's goods, but rich in the esteem of the COWNlCTlNC 'HI COUHFBOM CfKTfBJ kjl Iltf AND Bill, FARMS OF I7IJJUV HI. THf RWAO WHEAT AND CORN A hIC J.

riELOS AND THRIVING TOWNS OF THE FERTILE ftllfCR VALLCVJ UKPV1CK 1 4ND TRADE CtrtTfSS OF NEtvAASMViL. the Democrat shbuld ponder over. EditorcNeal is one of i he brainiest men in the state, has been a member of the state legislature himself, in years gone.by, and knows what he is talking about. Here is what be says in last week's isBiie of the Mail and Breeze: "Whoever may be right about this tax levy, the fact Btill remains that the last 'legislature was extravagant. TKf turn pKTimuouc mo wowiitiw gtwk i riA SttNflY AND THf rAWOUi HUM PISTMOJ OF 1.

Lira A W. ntAWKuiWAi nm.nmtm mtmmb na, ir( ff The legislative expenses could- There is no question before the people of Kansas which needs veuti- Jation more than that of taxation. Tbe tax laws of the mate have not been lived up to. It has been customary for -township and city as- sessors to meet as a board, of equaliza lion in their respective counties and determine upon basis of valuation on which to make each year's assessment. Instead of complying with 1 tbe law and listing property at its full value, they have adhered to custom and assessed upon a one-third or two-fifths basis.

The plan makes the gross valuation appear less, but tbe tax per cent, is larger "and many instances are known where eastern captial has been witheld because the basis of valuation was not under-Stood and the tax rate seemed frightfully exorbitant. Real estate has been taxed upon a more equitable basis than any other olass of property because of the general knowledge of of real estate values and the fact that bouses and lands are in the open and cannot be secreted from assessors The owners of farms and city homes lANUAWfAHOUS NOTJPWNCSOr AK Afl THf MAUOTIt MIUM FRArfHf AND un fct wooMAHoi ofthe INlflAni TEE2UTCKZ THE WnOH AM (RAIN FltL05 THE CTTlf TE 1 RANGES AND WINTER RUORT5 Off AAV9 HISTORICAL AND JCCNIC AND NEW MEXICO. AM FORMA WITH ITS CANMECTIMS A fhB My A yn IK FOFULARWINTDIROUnTO AKICVNAl ANtV CALIFORNIA. tmumm uuuumwn mmid ii TAiikiceiirs NLBU3 in.MMUl (OMAHT, AUnTJ 0 11 I IvWNjLnLl tfa.MWlllClltltUltl. have been cut down $40,000: everything that needed lo be done' about the legislature woukl bave been as well or better done than it was.

Neither can the bhme for this reckless extrafeance, be charged lip entirely to one house or the other. We spent about as much time in the senate as in the house and we want to say that in our opinion, in the matter of reckless extravagance one body does not hold the edge over the other. 1 There were just as many useless employes, proportionately, in the senate as in the bouse outside of the bill for superflous em JT Here is a storv which Bill Morgan sent home to tbe Hutchinson News from a summer resort up in Canada- "While in a boat on Lake Erie the lake was rough and many people were sick. A pale looking Sweede was standing by the rail and as the vessel rolled in the waves be was depositing in the lake the last of his breakfast the steward came and said sympathetically: 'Your stomach is a little weak today. I don't said the Sweede 'I trow about as far then are pretty sure to pay their full Do you fully appreciate the advan share of taxes.

The capitalist can tages offered the poor man by your er he ought to be put on a salary of Uncle Samuetf Only eleven years store away his wealth and to all outward appearance become a poor man once a year. Tbe merchant often not to exceed $2,500 per year; tbe ago Charles Parker, of Ableine, was janitor of the court house Home Visitors Excursions state ought td own its own plant and save during each biennial period $100,000 to the taxpayers of the state. carries the largest stock in his line until the assessor is around, whenne there. Now he is rich and travels about the country in his own Pull suddenly becomes the smallest factor TO- man car and owns an opera house of his own. He made his fortune man in the business enterprises of his town, and the treasurers books in ev ployes, there were other nseless and extravagant expenditure which originated in tbe house the senate had it in its power to stop (he same, and if it don't do it then it must shoulder half the blame.

No newspaper man, unless he happened to be a member of ope body or the other, ought to feelcalled updn to defend either body and not then unless he helped by his vote to make the extravagant appropriations. What needs to be done is to tell the truth without regard to consequences, no matter who is "fit: The newspaperman who only tells the truth about the fellows who to the faction which he doesn 't to only does half bis duty. If he ufacturing merry-go-roundB and now employs scores of men. In what INDIANA AND OHIO VIA If all the useless grafts and extravagances bad been lopped off that might nave been lopped off tbe saving would bave amounted to at least a quarter of a million for the biennial period, but it does not necessarily follow that tbe total appropriations would have been less. If the fry county in the state will shew comparatively poor men paying higher taxes than men who are known other country would such a change be nossible in so short a time? Lindsburg News.

to be rich. Fortunately for Kansas all wealthy Sania men are not dishonest and there are savings had been made that ought to THAT LEGISLATURE, those who pay their full proportion "There is reason to believe that of taxes, but the general truth of the have been made it is possible that the administration of our state charitable institutions would have been remodeled, efficient nurses paid re money was used there and that certain leaders, men of both sides, took above statement is apparent to anyone who has given the tax question monev. What this state needs so Tickets on sale Sept. 15 and Oct. 6.

return limit 30 days. Rate one and one-third fare for the round trip to'Sandusky, Columbus, Wilmington, Cincinnati and Lou a passing thought. When the as cesser bimself dodges the state laws regulating the plan of assessment, SL0 however, it is not strange that the assessed dodg the assessor. But tells the truth about the opposite faction and lies about the faction he belongs to, then the lie and the tenth balance, and he has really added not-thing to the sum total of useful information. Tell the truth and be fair and charitable.

As a certain member of the senate said last winter, the members of the legislature individually were generally pretty, fair men, but cbllective'iy they constituted a body that seemed to be fearfully and wonderfully made. The' legislature was extravagant where it ought to have been saving, and yet failed in certain case to spectable wages, been put in chirge of the unfortunate insane aad the stories 6F ineompeteuce and brutality that'eome from those institutions would cease. If a sensible' and jast tax law had been passed the burden of taxation would have been to a great extent equalized and made easier to carry. As it is now, the honest, man pave his taxes and the rich liar PleaHe note particularly what Bro McNeal has to say about tbe state printing. For years the state printership has been conceded to be tbe largest plum in the orchard, and mie bad it is just naturally hurting for it, is some man to come along who is not afraib to raise hell.

Hell is under cover here it is in both camps. A governor or an attorney general who would start an inquiry into bood-ling would make himself so everlastingly popular with the people that all the politicians with dirty fingers could not harm a hair of his head. There were no thousand dollar bills used in the late legislature. But there were a lot of little pickpockets who would sell their honor for any isville Ky and intermediate points hi Indiana and Ohio'. For full particulars address F.

S. SALLS, Agent Santa Ffe. there is the custom it has bean fol lowed for years, and will be until a penalty is attached to the law for the punishment of those who violate Jt. One county cannot be assessed on a full valuation basis while other counties are assessed on the customary basks, so the custom must be simultaneously abolished all over the etate to do justice to all. 1 1 Mi I I I II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 legislative, bod another hau thing from a good cigar to $500 mak appropriations that ought kD0WU it l0 be nolhirie more or less who practiced systematic holdup and We have just made and stored in-our ware house A negro has never been known to tame an elphant or any wild animal.

dinky little sandbag games, to the iveDeen mane. UaQ ft giferantic 8teaI) but winke(1 The appropriations for legislati- BQOwinfflT nassed it bv. State disgrace of the state and the annoy i ownership of a suitable printing expenses amount to T1 legislature could have been run for plant with a capable salaried man at ance of honest men with honest business before the legislature. It won't hurt the Republican party to un oo.uw, ana noi a uoor or commute it3 beatl woul(1 mean savilltf of room neeu 10 nave Deen negiecie' every year to earth them. That kind of talk is while the ventilation of respective halls would have been better looked A first-class 'battleship costs as much as all the ninety-four buildings of Havard University.

It is now rumored that old Geroni-mo will enter the ministry and hit Oom Satan's trail with an Apabce Methodist war-whoop that will put additional wrinkles in the arch fiend's horns. Elgin (Okla.) Engle. foolish. Are the postal scandals hurting Roosevelt? But say, good people, do you remember what the after than it Xvas. Iudeed, the air 400O Sacks 'CROWN PAPENT" and "SILVER: LE flour for our liome trade.

It, is manufactured from 62 lb- 1901 wheat exclusively. Ask your grocer for Crown Patent and you will get old wheat flour. would have been became it would not have become contaminated scandals of the Populist barty did to Leedy hnd Lewelling when they the taxpayers of the state. Tbe country members of the two houses have said from time to time that they did not know anything about the printing business, and left it all to the fellows who did. the fact that the country peoole car-', ry most of the burden of taxation and therefore pay for the extrava-! gance of their representatives, it is by the breaths of the 150 useless em tried to cover the rottenness up? It ployes who stood about in the lobbies.

The legislature increased the apiro priatioiis for thu governor's office by 10,000 as compared with the ex penses of the governor', office under Stanley, The $16,000 was a useless i Security Milling Co. high time these representatives were I getting posted on a institution a source of which has so long been Correct Clothes for to the state. robbery and a disgrace The Abilene Steam Laundry is the place to have first class work dona. H' I' They have modern machinery and W. L.

Cooley, 1 wr pavio apij We are now prepared to show you a Brand New' Stoc of the Handsomest Suits and Overcoats for Men and Young Men ever shown in this city. Special showing of SUITS OVtRCCATS modern methods. They are pleasant and accommodating, and orders are filled promptly. Don't forget the place. Telephone 17.

World's Pair, S. Louis, I0o4. Of course you are going to visit the Fair. You wnnt to see what it will look like. We have a beautifu' birSl's eye view (IfcxMfi inches) which will be sent on receipt of 10 cent, t-ilver or stamps.

Address, George Mort-m, G. P. Box Oil, St. Louis, Mo. expenditure.

Stanley's office had sufficient force to do tho work without a uy of tbe employes being overcome by nervous prostration. Governor Stanley himself was not so crowded that he could not spend half bis time galivanting about over the state, addressing Sunday xchool pic-nit-, old set tiers' reunions, conventions, etc in the interests of bis senatorial candidacy. The legielature blowed in of the people's monev to pay lawyers to fight a water uit with lYdorado. In our opinion, that was $5, IKK) thrown away so far as benefiting anyb'Kly except tbe lawyers employed are mc-erned. Additional appropriations were made for nearly every department of thentate government, but the services rendered will be no more efK-cint than the service rendered in tn'i same departments before.

Io spite of the fact tht every legislator understood that the taxpayer $7.00 TO $15.00. Is now better prepared than ever to furnish you anything in his line. Fine Watch repairing a specialty arid everything he does and sells, he is in a position to guarantee to give satisfaction. Let us fit you to Specks. We have the best line in the city.

We repair and straighten frames, replace lost or broken lenzes and make first-class repairs at reasonable prices. Come and see me, we will save you money. COOLEY, and OPTICIAN, Leader of low prices- Abilene, Kansas. Old Settlers Re-unlon at Enterprise, The Dickinson County Old Settlers fifth annual re-union will be hell at Lincoln Park, Enterprise, Remember we have not an old garment to show you. Everything New.

Hats in all the latest shapes and colors. poooMca, 1H: PEOPLES' CLOTHIERS. a of the state have ben year after vear'nikinL' a to the tate Print Kansas, on Thursday, Oct. 15th VMS ln t.lwii.n to (tm hviiaI pnmnfirp. er irorn i j.iii and I fioted wttini? nracticallv no service of anv and addrews by speakrrs.

The management rms in contemplation a baby fdtow, particu lars of hich will be announced later. value from the state printer in return, the graft was pcrmited to continue. If the elate in to have a state print- (L.