The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-10
Hieh TSxaslThe sunny Side.

b AAAA 9unAI 0lW6.
We have heretofore dwelt chiefly
0pen the dark side Of the picture of high
taxes. Oar investigations have hereto.
fore been ocsa6ned to Whie eonnties.-
~ the c0anties of Ohio, 6cwevcr, are
NOS Wing. There Is a brightside to tA<
picture.
The county of Asklsad, since its or
~ganizatien, in 1916 has been in the
hands of the Democratic party. Al
though new county, Il has good and
substantial public buildings-a fine
Court House aud Jail5a valuble farm
and Inirmany for the poor, and is our
OF BERT. The people of that county
have no banks quartered upon theft
treasury, demanding a corps of police
S&cers to protect them against outside
thieves, and monopolizing the business
of the courts which are sustained by
taxes paid not by them, but by the
people.
The whole taxes levied in
In leS4. the levy smolnssd to-..-~.. s7,is5 OF Q
Amonnt redueedi in one year. under
Democratic administration OF the
State andioeal goycrnmsnts...-.S4qI,s ls 50
was on the levy foI State and com
va mon on t daD sory yd fP fsesi Purposes. @
There Is not a Wing Government in
che State, either county, city, or town
ship, that will compare with this.
The beneficial results, of the constitu-
tional system of taxation are also seen In
this county by the increased amount of
moneys and credits which has been
brought upon the tax duplicate the past
year, to the relief of the agricultural
and mechanical interests, which have
heretofore borne an undue proportion
of the burdens of taxation, there as else
where.
duplicate amounted ..-....eI us, As
In 1ss4it amounted to. ............. a,25Io2
S5I9,54I
The farmers of that young and thriyr
ing county will scarcely give their con-
sent to abandon a policy aud party
which affords such security to their
rights and practices such economy in
their expenditures.
Let the reader contrast the condition
of Ashland county under a Democratic
Administration, where the taxes have
been reduced in a single year upwards of
ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS,
with the Wing Government of Miami
county where the taxes have been izacred-
.sed TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND
DOLLARS during the same period /;
er the Wing county of Ross, where the
Sacgedse amounts to THIRTY-EIGHT
THOUSAND DOLLARS
We have clearly shown that there is,
in the Democratic Administration of the
State Government, and in the manage-
ment ofthe county government by the
Democratic officers of Ashland county,
SUNNY SIDE y to this question of
taxation. The Wing party of Ohis-A
regard the public treasury, when they
have had access 10 it, as legitimate spoils
"a party which, judged by the official
conduct of its leaders, regards the tax
paying people of the country as having
been born with packzsaddles upon their
backs, to be rode booted and spurred by
an a~rristocracy Of Wing bankers and
of6ce-boIders, can exhibit no such record.
The Democratic party, on the contrary,
hold their servants to whom, they en-
trust the power of leFing taxes and of
receiving and disbursing the public
money, to the same rules Of honesty and
responsibility thatare recognized among
men In their private transactions with
one another-that public servants should
be as scrupulons and cautious in their
management of the public funds and
their application to public uses, as they
are In the use and management, of indi-
Yidual property. And herein consists
the essential antagonistie ingredients of
the two parties.-St1teSmdn