Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-03

Making in the aggregate S06o,6S9 81
That they were unwilling that they
should be printed and scattered abroad
among the tax payers of the State. Do
the Senator's fear the people? or is it Dem
ocratic to conceal from the people the aOoys
and means by which their earnings are
fraudulently used and squandered? have
been told by the Senator from Hamilton
Mr.. Matthews that an occasional Repub-
lican is mixed up in the contracts. So be
it: like poor Tray, he may possibly suffer
for his temerity! Is there no need of re-
form in these things? or is it better to let
things go on in this way? or, verify, is it
not better at once to arrest the frauds, and,
if possible, prevent them in the future?
DO we legislate for favored few who
are permitted to use the public money i'll
violation of all law and justice? or for the
whole people? Akin to this kind of De-
mocracy stand the Senator's vote in favor
of the present tariff ON sugar, thereby
compelling our citizens to pay 5 instead
of 8 cents per pound for that very valua-
BILE article. This seems to be the theory
of the Democratic party, which L am not
inconsistency. And again, the Senator
voted in favor of the priest, instead of the
members of the church, having the abso-
lutte ownership and control of church prop
erty, thereby making the priests the mil
lionaires, and the members the peNniless
serfs, of Gods free church on earth; which
things l advert to merely to illustrate how
mind otherwise independent has been
compelled by party necessity to sustain an
ecclesiastical supremacy over the elective
franchise for party purposes. Here then,
we have shown the imperative necessity oi
reform in every branch of the public inter
est, while under Democratic rule.
But glance at the retrenchment mo-
ment. 1t is shown from the Auditor re-
port and Governors message, that the gen.
eral expenses of the State Government are
$38O,655 II, in 1856, under Republican
rule less than in 1855 under Democratic
rule, to which, add Legislative expenses in
1856, there having been none in 1855
100000 and we have the sum OF $685.
655 II, or nearly half a million saved tc
the people in single year by the integrity
and economy of our public officers: u
which add the aforesaid sum of $500,
629 81 less $4,000 (as above paid and
we have S1,349, 285 62. Yes, Sir, in Q
single year, under Republican rule, We
have saved thirteen hundred and forty -nin'
thousand two hundred and eighty-fiv'
dollars and sixty-two cents retrcnchmen
and reform.
Is there any wonder that the people hav
been burdened down with taxation? The.
ever will be under such fagrant alsisrttLe
3 The annual interest upon the State deb
: Iof Sl4,998,247 Al is $829, ,26S 62.-
This amount we have more than saved i
t one year. We submit these facts to. tn
J. people, and await the. issue with an abidin
confidence that, our acts will be approved
C and that they viii readily perceive the ne
Q cessity Of so amending our Constitutior
], as to have annual sessions and single dii
!, tricts. We hope our Democratic biethre
g here and elsewhere, will exert their utmo
It efforts to accomplish these purposes
Surely theJ must command tho respe