The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-10-09
VOTE FOR DEXTER c, BL00MERl
State Expenditures.

1t is strange that the democratic editors
and speakers have. the brazen effrontery to
insult their readers and hearers with their
stereotyped stuff about State expenditures.
The people know that it requires more to
meet the expenses of Iowa at the present
time than it did ten years ago. There is no
man so great fool rs to expect to provide
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 af-
fairs Of one hundred counties than it did
those Of fifty counties. Our voters all have
sufficient Intelligence to perceive that FIVE
District Judges, with salaries Of $1,000 each
per annum, will not require as large an ap-
preparation from the State Treasury as four
teen District Judges at $l40O each per an
mum. Even the penitentiary convcts of
Iowa can calculate that it costs more to put,
in repair the pen,tentiary building and keep
near hundred convcts safely there, than
it did to let the penitentiary 60 to rack and
let its ten or twelve prisoners wander about
the country where it suited their inclnations.
We presume that there are even people in
the mad-house who can apprehend that it
would cost the State Treasury less to suffer
the insane people of Iowa to rave IN the
county jails, uncared for, than it would to
build State Asylum for them.
The people Of Iowa are sufficiently intelli-
gent to know not only that it ought to re-
quire more money to carry on the affairs of
the State now than it did some years ago, but
also to appreciate the propriety of the ex-
penditures made and knowing rs they do or
may, that the assessed value of the taxable
property of the State has risen from $685.
100000 in 1851, to $2l0,OOO,OOO in 1851,
they rejoice to know that the people of the
State can meet the necessary expenditures ut
this time at lower taxation than was re-
quired few years ago.
These general charges Of extravaganza.
repeated so often and nrrayed and contrasted
IN so many varied shapes, prove nothing at
all. Let them point out the specific appro-
priations that were unnecessary or extrava-
CANT.
They do point to the Lunatic Asylum
We have shown that all parties looked upon
that as necessary, and that leading demo-
Gratis in both houses were its warmest ndvo-
Gates, and that the appropriations for its
construction were almost unanimously sus-
tanned.
The salaries are too high, they say. The
salaries are lower, however, than they are
in many of the States, and are low enough
for good times, and at all events leading de-
mocrats, with Trimble at their head, voted
in favor Of much higher salaries. @'..
The expenses Of printing are enormous,
say the democracy. Well, there has been u
good deal Of printing! required during the
last three OF four years, and it has amounted
to large sum Of money. Let it be remem-
bered, however, that the prices of printing
were reduced by the Republicans, three or
four years ago, near Fifty per cent. The
rates, We belieae, are as q general thing
about as low rs it will do to put :them.
Now if there has been any extravagant or
unnecessary appropriation Of money, We are
ready to condemn it, If the democracy will
point it out, but no honest man or honest
people will denounce and condemn BY whole
sale, for no other reason than that the State
expenditures are larger now than they were
. few years SINCE Gate tity. -. =