New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-06
addition of these four heads:
Gives only ....................... S59. 696, IA

Gives only $50 696,N
ard as the total debt amounts to 500, -49, 09-,
there remains a balance of over 5000, 600 unac-
counted for. As the Government has constantly
refused all information which might clear up the
origin of this balance there is nothing left but the
supp0sition that these seven millions have either
also been bestowed upon the clergy or that the ma
tpre of the expenditure was such, that even this
Government dare not confess 1t.
Passing to an analysis of the yearly budgets, we
find under almost every head new accumulation
Of abuses and imbecilties. The revenue in 1857
amounted to S6S 800 eco, the expenses to SO,
100000
The revenue consists Of The tax on real estate,
which amounts in some localities, for instance Bo-
logna, To from forty TO s'rty per cent OF the income
of the land owners; of export and import duties;
the proceeds of the lottery; the receipts from the
salt and tobacco mOnOpOhes, the administration OF
which consumes 46 per cent of their prohts the
excise on -four and other commodities, which is an
unmitigated affection for the poor, and sundry
minor items some of which play very curious
figure in column of revenue, their proceeds be-
ing, according to the official documents, far ex-
ceeded by their expense-fOr instance, the domains
administered by the Government. yield S33, 500.
and cost $l24, 600 a year; and an alum mlne which
yields SIP 600, is worked at an expense OF S23,OOO
annually; the salaries of its employees, Sl3,OOO,
alone consuming more than lis whole income. And,
aside from the fact that over OOuOUO worth OF
real estate, which is entailed IN mOrtmaln by rei
eious institutions, does not contribute anything in
the shape of registry taxes on account OF ITS ma
henability, Government robs itself aud the mass of
the unpriyileged, by either entering the property
of the clergy and nobility at shameiully low est
mate on the assessment rolls or by exemptng 1t
from taxation altogether. In 1884, the exempt
estates amounted to $lS,OO0O0O.
The expense column is of course led by the item
clergy" One might think It natural that IN
| 1 l. a N. |, 4 T. ,.t =.
created for the exclusive benefit of the clergy IN
which the clergy own one hundred millions worth
of real estate and in which all the most lucrative
government Offices are in the hands OF It's members
-(the Secretary of State ard five other principal
officers in his department, ~ in thai Of the Interior
| 80 in that of Justice, Judges III the Court OF
| Cessation, II in the Civil II III the Criminal SUI
perior Court, not TO say anything Of the interior
| officers, are clergymen) 1.-THE expenses OF public
worship would be borne by the clergy. But not
only these expenses, but even those of converts
and religious orders, which III no other country are
supported by the State, are here standing charge
! on the public, and prominent among these bene-
iciarics are the Jesuts. The Chapter Of ST. Pietro
one OI III largest landowners in aud around Rome
receives $4,000 year from the public treasury;
! the Bishop OF Maelica draws, beside his salary,
| $1,000 Il year extra as indemnity for Claim which
| he held against some other ecclesiastical ndlvid-
| usls aud which happens not {" be cOllectable.
Another religious institution, called III Sdnto Spir-
ito To which Plus VII. made present of estates
which Yield clear income of $50, O00 has lately
| been endowed with another tract of land, which
was originally allotted TO the sinking fund of the
state debt, and which has lately been rented at
| 81, eco wear. Then there Is an item of over
$500. 600 year fer pensions in the comforting of
which personal favor and services rendered 10 the
Church and to Catholicism at large are VIGOROUSLY
of more weight than those rendered TO the State.
/ And, because there can never BE- too much of ii
good thing. the taxpayers must aid in the erection
| of new churches and converts in a country which
/ abouuds with old ones. The basca In Osts alone
has cost the people 81 the Roman States s. lUO 900
within the last few years.
Next To the clergy come the "beggars pure
and simple. Leo XII established in l-27 a COIN
I mission for he announcement (the official docI-
ments bear the words, fer the abolition of, but
as the facts stand this must be- misprint Of beg
gors. This object is reached 10y Il commission,
I which spends SOB is7 year in aims, and the
r, suits show with more than any other de-
I partuent Of public administration can boast OF.
Beegsry is the only branch of industry, which, to
Judge 10y the constant Increase OF rs followers, is
really prosperous. The statistical returns Of the
I Papal States do not inform us how many persons
are engaged in this line of business but every
eler in agree that their number is legion, and that
tb,vpursue il day and night with indetatigable per-
| severance. The bcggars in the Papal States are
divided into four classes: L. The mendcant frars,
Who have their begging privilege immediately from
Cod o Those who are privileged 10 beg by Cow
eminent in the shape of regular beggars license.
! 2 Those privileged by nature-crlpp.cS, disabled
persons. 4. Beegars 1T large, who do not ac-
knowledge. but eucroach upon the monopoly OF The