The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-10-02
state xpendtsmrss.


II 10 strange that democratic editors and
speakers have the brazen eSron.ery to in
suit their readers and hearers with their STE
rsotyped stuff about State expenditures
The people know that it requires more to
meet the expenses Of Iowa at the present
time than il did ten years ago. There is no
man 20 great . fool ~ to expect to pro-
vide government for six hundred thousand
people for the same sum that it required for
two hundred thousand. The people know
that it requires more to administer the sf-
fairs Of one hundred counties than it did
those Of fifty counties. Our voters oil have
sufficient intelligence to perceive that FIVE
District Judges, with salaries of $1,000 each
per annum, will not require as large an APP
propriation from the State Treasury ~ four
teen District Judges at $l4o0 each per an
mum. Even tho penitentiary conviots Of
Iowa can calculate that il costs more to put
in repair the penltentiary building and keep
near hundred conyicss safely there, than
it did to let the penitentiary 60 to rack and
Let ito ten or twelve prisoners wander about
the country where it suited their inclinations.
We presume that there are even people in
the mad house who can apprehend that it
wonid cost the State Treasury less to suffer
the insane people Of Iowa to rave in the
county jAils, uncarcd for, than it would to
build State Asylum for them.
The people Of Iowa are sufficiently intelli-
Ssnt to know not only that il ought to 70.
quire more money to carry on the affairs Of
the State now than it did some years ago
but also 70 appreciate the propriety Of tn,
expenditures made; and knowing, ~ the,
do or may, that the assessed value OF tn,
taxable property Of the State has risen from
$oS, 200, 900 in 1851, TO $2lo, oO0, 900 in 1857
they rejoice 10 know that the people Of til
State can meet the necessary expenditures q
this time at lower taxation than was re
CURED few years age.
These general charges Of extravaganza
repeated 80 often and arrayed and contrasts
in 20 many varied shapes, prove nothing .
all. Lot them point out the specific sppro
priations that we're unnecessary or sxtrava
CANT.
They do point to the Lunatic Asylum
We have shown that all parties looked upo
that as necessary, and that leading demo
Gratis in both houses were its warmest advo
cates, and that the appropriations for it
construction were almost unanimously sus
tanned.
The salaries are too high, they say. Th
salaries are lower, however, than they al
in many Of the States, and are low enoug
for good times, and / oil events leadin
democrats, with Trimble ut their head, vote
in favor Of much higher salaries.
The expenses Of printing are enormous
say the democracy. We'll, there has been
good deal Of printing required during Il
last three or four years, and il has amounts
to large cum Of money. Let it be remen
bered, however, that the prices Of printir
we're reduced BY the Republicans, three
four years ago, near Fifty per cent. n
rates, We believe, are ~ a general thin
about a. low - it viii 40 10 put them.
Nov II there has been any extravagant
unnecessary appropriation of money, We a
ready TO condemn il, II the democracy vi
point il out, but no honest man or hone
people will denounce and condemn BY Who'll
sale. for no other reason than that the Sta
Expenditures arc larger nov than they We
few years since.