If lie had examined the Census Report of 1880 before making this ststenment he would have found that there were in Kentucky in 1880 30.217 foreignborn white voters. exercising all the rights of nativeborn citizens. and there are perhaps as many more families and an equal nualber of children under twentyone years of age. making a total of at least 100.000 persons of foreign birth in Kentucky. In the district which I have the honor to represent there are four flourishing settlements or colonies of Swedes and Swiss. several hundred in population. and I do not kiow how many are in the districts represented by other Kentuckians. We have for a number of years had a bureau of immigration busily looking after immigrants. and a geological survey. both of which have don. much good service and been of vast benefit to our State. but the disl inguished gentleman seems to have overlooked them or failed. to appreciate them. l1 is statementTh at so extreme was the poverty of a majority of the people of about onehalf the counties of the State that they were unable to defray the expense of maintaining county governments. aid were therefore known as pauper counties. whose local expenditures had to be paid from the treasury of the Stateis as amusing as it is misleading and unfounded. Under our system in Kentucky there is a general State tax. Last year it limounted to 471 cents on each $100 worth of property. since reduced.
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