Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-09-21
AuAbOut Taxes,

justly, raised ana spent lot gooo purposes,
and administered econmically. The people
of this State are beginning to awake to the
facts, that the taxes arc not levied justly,
are not raised and spent for good purposes,
and are not administered economically.
.Tr. $1O,OOO,OOO! n
: Our taxes have risen for the whole State
nearly or quite to the enormous sum Of
$lO,o00,oOO; or abou! S. to every man,
woman and child in the State, and $25 to
every voter. 1t needs no argument to con-
vince any man that such vast sum ought
not to be taken from the pockets of the
people There is a terrible waste some
where. The whole system is wrong. In
the first place the last Democratic Legisla-
ture taxed US three times as much for
State purposes as there was any need of
In the second place every official that han
dies the tax money takes his TOLL, in the
third place the fees of county officers al
lowed by careless and corrupt commission
ers, are consuming US body and SOUL We
must have a new system.
The State debt must be putin a process
of gradual and easy liquidation. All Off
GERS must be paid fair and fixed salaries,
instead of tolls and fees. To effect this,
the present race of blood-suekers must be
choked Of, and we must elect Legislature
pledged to REFORM.
$4,000.
Our county taxes amounted to this great
sum last year, and every taxpayer feels a
twinge in his breeches pocket when he re-
members how much of this sum be paid
Hardly has his purse recovered from the
collapse caused by the payment of last
years taxes, before he is called upon to pay
those of the present year.
$4,000.
The taxes of this county this year, accor-
ding 10 the Treasurer's statement, amount
to $55,OoO, being about $22 for every vOt-
er in the county. Do you ask what IS to
be done with all this money! The State
takes $4,000; county expenses are put
down at $4,000. The other half goes to
roads. bridges, poor-house, schools, DC. Sc
far as these latter objects are concerned we
have not word to say, except that the
money for nearly all of them should be
collected and paid in the township or dis
trict where it is wanted. What folly is i
to collect taxes for local purposes, such a:
schools and school-houses, and suffer the
money TO be tolIed by three or four county
and State officers before it is applied 10 the
purpose for which il is raised? Thi:
whole system must be changed, and nc
money paid into the county treasury ex
cept such as belongs strictly to county and
State purposes. 1t can be collected anc
paid out much more economically withou
going out of the township. The present
system builds up clique in each county
seat, who are always conHiving new
schemes to rob the public
But we said the State takes $4,000 anC
the county $40, 900. Each of these sum,
are double what they ought to be. Tn,
State wants 100000, or more. yearly
large part of which is made necessary b.
increased salaries to Judges and other off
GERS, given by Democratic legislatures; anc
still more is required to make up The los
of revenue from the Public Works unde
the management OF Democratic Commis
sioners. This revenue has sunk frou
100000, to nothing. As to county ex
penses, look at one item,
$2,O39,44.
This was the amount allowed the Audi
tor last year by the Commissioners. Doer
any need to be told that the same worE
can be done, and well done, for mucE
smaller sum? We do not know but th
allowance is according to law, but if it is
let US have change in laws that rob th,
people, to enrich oficeholders.
Taxed on Our Debts.
AS if to try what human nature can en-
dure, we are taxed by Democratic nabobs
at Columbus, on our deb!s! Yes, poo
sinners that We are, we ought to pay take
on what we owe. Let US be thankful tha
we are not taxed on what we may ow,
hereafter The farmers barely escaped be
ing taxed on their growing crops by the
last legislature.
Is there any Remedy!
i None whatever if we keep Democracy
in power. The men who now are on tn,
the State and County Democratic ticket
will sustain and perpetuate all these abus
es and intolerabIe evils, if we elect them