The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-08-31


The StdtssmGn says that The develope
ments already made in this campaign ar
sufficient to satisfy every observing man, tbu
the Republican party design, If they obtui
the legislative power in this State, not onl
to repeal the Semi.Annunl Tax and Sub
Treasury laws, passed BY the last legislature
but they will by law turn over the none
collected from the people 10 the shape o
taxes, to the Banks for them to loan out
make profit by and speculate upon. Chase
Dennison, Corwin, and in fact all the lead
ing stumpers of the party, have committed
themselves to the old policy, and the part,
fall into the scheme without hesitation
Giddings & Co. go in for it, in consideration
that the Republican stock jobbers will sus,
tain their ultra notions about negro equality
The Cincinnati Commercial has become
concerned lest this committal of the party
to the old plan of giSing the Bank specula.
tors the peoples money, may be its ruin, and
sounds the alarm, and declares that the ad-
vocacy of the system is "a blunder that ,oill
'mpsrH the Gscendency Of The party in the
State" But it is in vain for the Commercial
or any other power to attempt to check the
Republican stumpers. They are committed
to the old and rotten policy, of which the
Commercial says, "the day in tOhich political
and other SPECTATORS can be trusted to keep the
p"oI'c momeg in circulation has, IN Ohio.
gone By zoe trust .toreuer," as "there are no
legal safeguards tnvented-not even ALFRED
KELLY s patent, ander ,Ohich moneyedc corpora.
tons may be safely made depositories of Me
public funds" What the Commercial saws
is true enough, but it is not the safety of the
public money that the spectators in the
Republican party care for, but the use of hs
money for purposes Of speculation is ,oIat Nev
are after.
The evils of the system, Independent OF
the certain losses which would be sure TO re-.
suit from it. re.estublishment, are of the
most serious character. The wonderful in.
crease in our taxes in this State, is legiti.
mate result from keeping the State mo new
IN deposit in the vaults OF Banks. The
arger the assessments and collection of tax.
es' the greater the amount of public funds
'ut into the vaults of the pet corporations,
md hence the men interested i'm them, were
usy in agitating and urging the introduction
u every new improvement that prohigacy
md extravaganza could invent, and by their
influence many Of those that otherwise would
eVer have been embarked in, were com.
nenced and completed and now when we
ook around us, either to the investments
1ade by the State, or the various counties.
tiles and towns, objects of useless and prof
gate expenditures are seen on eyerv side
nd admitted by every person, not one of
hlch would have ever been commenced if
he system of depositing the public revenue
corporations had never been adopted
lready, therefore, we have entaiIed on us ,
nd our children, vast debts, for worthless '
I'd useless objects, that will for ages stand .
monuments of the folly if not the fraud of
e times in which they were designed.- s
hese are all the legitimate fruits of the s
stem of depositng the public funds in \
nnks. !
Now the people cannot but see that re-
rn to this system, which the Republicans a
committed to, must bring about the state !
things that formerly existed under it. The :"
Ses will again be increased, corruption and n
'ud viii! find their way into the Treasury, n
d another Bliss Gibson Defalca- h
n viii! take place. II the people are wise
consult their own interests, they will -
ng to the SEMI .nnual tax and sub treas. J,
laws, under which there is no doubt in
the taxes will be gradually decreased 81
the public funds will be safe in the Gus. .. o.
y OF the public agents elected to take d.
charge of them. All who are willing J,
their taxes to be increased and the whole il
cunt of them collected at the beginning u e.
The year and deposited in the banks for 6e
" upOAS Will Vi course SuDs OF
the Republican party and vote the Re. tn
'iican ticket, but all who are in favor II
gradual reduction of taxes, and their nv ny
ments semi annually, to be kept and dis otI
sed by the officers elected for that pur. mt
g. Will support the Democratic party -,
vote the Democratic ticket. The issue vi
plain and simple one. easy of compre. co, U
sion, and about which there can be no tai
understanding. Let the tax payers man. SUI
take their side-those taxpayers who lie
no interest in bonds and stocks and n ho
ks-and defend it with vigor. Let no w,
ner prejudices which may have existed in
Veen them, deter them now from acting
old and compact force. They have but 10
interest and that is against this new de. 5bu, bu
Id of corporations. An
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ldiEIg Drowned Persons nv ;nn !n.
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