The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-09-17

OF paying them as they should have done
Here they saved S4s6,42 and doomed the
State to pay at least fifty times that much in
interest. In the next place they exempted the
banks from paying at least $4,000 justly due
from them.
Here is even larger Saving than the Jour
nal claimed, but not cent Of it saved" in the
expenses of the State government Did they
save anything in the general revenue fund? Let
us see.
1855 General revenue fund $516,526
| 1856 " $40 (i6g
| Difference in favor of 1855 = $304 143
But this is not ALL The Republican Leg. d.
Te transferred S5O0,000 from the sinking
fun 4 to the general revenue fund, making their
total fund for the expenses Of the State govern
ment ELe enormous sum of $l,32O,679, a b,ye'
amount ~ one half than any administration eger
before p,orEdet tor the payment Of its expenses
This the JoE24'al dare not deny.
Yet in the dce Of all these facts the Journal
undertakes to m axe the people believe that the
the administration. X True it does not say so,
but it tries to leave tAat impression. The edi-
tor evidently knows thing about the subject,
or his object was to array his figures so as to
make his readers believe thNSt which is grossly
untrue.
For the good of its party the Jo,uWaI had
better not again venture off Of iES lavorite hob
by, the negro question. AMI especially it had
better not provoke comparison bEtween the
present administration and its predece SsorS; for
every man who can perform simple subtraction
can prove, beyond all doubt, that the present
a lministration provided itself with more than
twice as much money for the payment of its
expenses as any that ever preceded it in thu
history of our State.
So much for the State taxes, and now for the
local taxes
The first session Of the Republican Legisla-
turc passed an act limiting the levy for town.
ship purposes to half MILL sum not more
than half large enough to dcfIay the expenses
of any township. 1t was here that the great
saving vas made. The Legislature as we have
shown above, provided more money by one half
for the expenses of the State government than
was ever provi'ed before, and then limited the
townshis to sum scarcely half sufficient for
their necessary expenses.
Now behold the miserable trickery resorted
to by the Legislature to secure their success at
the following election. They passed this law
limiting the township levies last year, SO that
they could claim that they had reduced the tax
es. But unless the townships were permitted
to levy more tax9S many Of them must soon
become bankrupt. Thsreupon this set Of dem
agogues permitted the townships to levy any
amount they chose Tor debt. This is the way
in which they intended to mike capital Of it
amp claim it as retrenchment and reform.
Last year the townships were limited and the
Republicans claim that they Ie'sened the taxes
AMI this year the people will have to pay their
township expenses Of this year and the debt o
last year; 63 mt until after the election.
What sense was there in saying to the town
t'iip oinSSio, yOu oi I'll oHty icNy olc ntH mil
this year, but next year you may nuke it all up
by leyying tax for debt" 1t does not less yr
the taxes one cent an it does not in the end
limit the township leves one cent. 1t did linn
it them last year and never was meant to las
longer than after the election this fall.
Such piece of trlckery was never before at.
TEN pted to be practiced by Legislature or
their constituents. 1t was intended to be i'm
posed upon the people as retrenchment and tn,
article in the State Journal referred to above il
the signal for raising the cry.
And now comes an extract which for cool i'm
pudence stands without a parallel. Speakin,
Of the Democrats the JomnM says:
"Thcy have been trusted and have miserabl,
fniled to redeem their promises All their tall
of retrenchment and reform has been to deceiv
the voters that they might root in oflice.''
The impudence Of this extract is perfect
sublime. Every man in Ohio, who has not ha
his ears stuffed with wool for the last two years
knows that the quotation applies exclusivel
and forcibly to the Republicans Humbugs
too mild name for these impositions; they ar
: Jjra'ats, manufactured by the Legislature, an
: peddled out by the Journal.