The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-08-24
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A writer in the Carrolton Companion, pre-
sents several reasons for the cause Of the
present high taxes, which are worthy Of
consideration. He Is an able man, and per-
fectly familiar with the financial affairs OF
the State. We recommend the communi-
cation to the careful perusal OF our readers.
II was directed to the editor of the Fusion
organ at Carrolton, but we presume he will
not attempt full reply very soon. 1t
would lead to comparison Of the fnan-
cial management of State affairs under whig
and democratic rule, and when this is done,
and the whole mutter set forth in its true
light democrats have nothing to fear:
AS you have claimed, as Wing, to be
the uniform advocate Of "internal improve
ment," State economy and political honesty,
permit me to inquire what party was it that
entailed on the Taxpayers Of Ohio an ex-
pense bordering on three millions of dollars
to erect State house, when the old one
might have sufficed an economical and plain
people for twenty years to come!
Was it the Democrats that, with view
to the basis of the present Banking system
Of Ohio, saddled on the people some half a
million of dollars by the sacrifice of State
stocks to the Wall street brokers Of New
York!
Was it the Locofocos that. without law
or warrant, but with the treachery of faith
less stewards, lent one hundred thousand
dollars of the peoples money, entrusted to
their safe keeping, to the Columbus Insur-
ance Company, which went by the board,
and the money lost to the people!
What party was it that put their corrupt
hand into the peoples public offers, without
legal authority, and distracted therefrom tlUo
hundred thousand dcllarS, and lent it to the
Pittsburg and Cleveland Railroad Company!
Who was it that handed over to the Dem
ocratic party in 1851, depleted treasury,
with the request of Mr.. Auditor Woods to a
Democratic Legislature to make provision
for supplying a deficit of over two hundred
thousand dollars, which the financial ingenu-
ity Of the preceding Wing Administration
| had occasioned! ....E E.....
Dastly, what party was it that exempted
the banks of Ohio from paying their proper
ton of the public burdens, and put the same
on the shoulders of the people in the shape
of taxes, to the melodious tune of three hun.
dred thousand dollars! ... .......
When these queries are answered by the
writer of"Progressve Democracy" the peo.
pie may then have some small indication Of
the cause of high taxes. ..... .., pig.
will reollect when the Wing managers
were running riot with the public money
embarking in the most visionary and un.
called-for projects, and | then predicted
what time has fully realized, that dance
who might, the people would have at no very
distant day "to pay the piper" ....
If the editors of the Free Press claim to
be the special patrons of " internal improve.
ments," (among which we are willing to
class the eighty rag factories of Ohio) what
then ! Is it to be understood that although
the improvements are made, in the shape OF
canals and turnpikes, that the moneys ad.
vanced to these facilities are not to be re-
paid to the lenders And as Wing policy
has mortgaged every farm in the State to
secure payment to New York and European
capitalists, how is the money to be raised
except by taxation! Surely, reckless as we
know the Whig croakers to be, they would
scarcely advocate system of reputation.
Yet such must inevitably result from the
doctrine avowed by Wing editors But Ohio
will not repudiate-she will WILLINGLY,
:, NOBLY and FULLY discharge all her just
liabilities, as a matter in which her honor
and her honesty are concerned but would
not much blame her good citizens if they
grumbled a leet'e at paying takes for the
bankers, and supplying the liabilities incur
red by Wing politicians, from which the
honest farmer and the mechanic never reap
ed any advantage.
All the people want is truth, and truth is
light. Place facts before them-nothing
extenuate and nought set down in malice.
If paltroonly editors and lying demagogues
would, in place of mystifying facts, be frank
and honest in their intercourse with their
readers and patrons, and try to enlghten in.
stead of debasing the public mind, corrupt
presses as well as corrupt politicians would
be at discount But darkness is the ele-
ment of such nuisances-light would ami
hilate them. a..
Finally, Mr.. Editor, when the managers oil
the Wing organ shall have answered the few
simple and plain inquiries propounded in this
communication, | will, perhaps, explain 10
them what Progressive Democracy" has
done. .. A TAX PAYER.
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