Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-07
DELAWARE, OHIO, OCTOBER 2, 1869.
Some of the Causes of Increased Tax
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Il The people of Ohio are burthened with taz
alton Property viii rot, after deducting taz
es, yielf four per centu1n. But few farms, es
pecially those improved and under high stat
of cultivation, will yield three per cent. L
many instances it requires one-half of the. rem
of town property to pay necessary repairs ant
taxes.
Such condition of affairs should not exis
in State possessing the wealth and natura
resources of Ohio. When such state of al
fairs does exist, it is very evident there ssone
thing wrong in the administration Of the Gov
ernment-it is very evident that the officehold
ers are getting fat salaries, while the people are
| growing lean in purse, under oppressive taxa
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The cause Of this condition of affairs, which
| renders labor and property unproductive, and
keeps away and drives capital out of the Ssate
is easily accounted for. Within the last few
years the expenses of almost every department
| of State Government have been increased
through the legislation of Democratic parti-
zans. For instance, 1852 we had four Su-
prenle Judges, each at salary of 81 ,300-1en
/ Common Pleas Judges, at salaries Of 81 ,G0o-
one Superior Court j udge at Cleveland, another
at Cincinnati with salaries of 81 900 each, MAX
ing in all 81 zoo, as the sum total for admin
istering justice in Ohio. 81
This evidently was too low-but it viii be
seen how the Democracy have gone to the
other extreme. The Democratic Legislature
of 1873 ere ted ten additional Common
Pleas Judges. The salaries of the Supreme
Judges were raised from l ZOO to 5000, which
made a further increase of judiciary expenses
of S2l 500, amounting in all to s65,500.
1t cannot be said that the judicial business
of the State increased in the same ratio, or
that justice is administered better or more
promptly, noB-, than it was seven years ago.
Yet the expenses of the above department have
been heaped upon the shoulders Of the tax-pay-
ers-and that, too, through the acts of law
makers elected to Office as Democrats under
the pledge of retrenchment.
But the increased expenses of the Judiciary
through Democratic legislation does not stop
here. The judges of the Superior Courts.
Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, are paid salav
ries of $4,000. Aside from these advances and
increase Of officers, eighty-eight Probate offices
have been created--and eighty-eight Probase
Judges are to be supported by the people. ~
The salaries Of which in the aggregate amount
to- annually, about one hundred and fItg thoiaas
sqad dollars
Thus is seven years through the policy Of
the leaders of the Democratic party-in this
one department of the Government, have ex-
penscs been increased from SIS. .206 per annum,
to some t1oo hundred and forty thousand dollars
Nor is this the only department in whicaa
the public moneys have been squandcred by the
leaders of the much vaunted Democratic party.
In face Of & State Constitution of their own
forming. they have called annual, instead of
biennial sessions Of the Legislature, at al enor-
nous cost to the taxpayers of Ohio.
The same Democratic Legislators have raised
the aggregated expenses for assessing the prop
erty OF the State, fifty thousand dollars. They
have advanced the salaries of the Superinten- /.
dents employed on the public works Of the !
5tate-coIlectors, bosses, lock-tenders, &c, en-
ployed on the canals thousands Of dollars.
at the extra session of 1859, they raised
he fees of ell the County Treasurers in the
State. Adding some three Iuidred dollars to
their, already liberal salaries putting the peo-
pic i'll for additional annual expense in collect
ng the State revenues, Of about, thirty thou
'a,sd eiotiars.
These are a few Of the many expedients a.
lopted by the Democratic spoilsmen Of Ohio
to increase the taxes of the people, and, conse-
4uenty increase their facilities for getting their
1ands,--arnls up to the elbows in the public
reasaries, To say nothing about that "other
by which Democratic Treasurer
ohm q. Breslin. and confederates, relieved the
taxpayers of Ohio, of 100000, and was COM
oelled to evaie feIon's doom, by fleeing the
country.
The leaders Of the same party are again ask
ng the voters of Ohio for their sufrages-to
again install them in ofice-that they may a.
gain plunde tie treasury-inerease taxation,
md reduce the people to bankruptcy and beg
gary.
Voters of Ohio to continue this line ofpol- !
cy is to support the Democratic Tickt-to put
IN end to this wild hunt for Office, created by
axorbitant salaries. VorE THE REPUBLICAN
TICKET For your own private, pecuniary in
terest as well as that of the State at large
taxpayers in particular-do we appeal to you
-admonish you, to VOTE THE REP JILL
CAN TICKET !!!!-StettbenDM Herald.