Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-12

dates communication to the Je6ersenian .
Buchanan township, signs it .'old Democrat,
and asks the following question:
"Now, desire the editor of the Ledger
inform every man, woman and child in tn
State who raised the tax 80 high that it wa
reduced 800, 900 in ono year, and what wa
the cause of the State tax running up so hicI
under the administration of the Republicans
and who were the authors of the causes, an
what was the necessity of them p
With the greatest pleasure imaginable, W
answer as follows N- ~s#
! l. That all parties that have ever had tn
control of the State government have contrib
uted towards the increase of the aggregat,
amount of the State tax-the Democratic Al
we'll as others. vs.,.. s-... 4
2. That no other party in the State has eve
levied so high tax as the Democratic party
did while iii power-the rate in one instancs
running as high as three mills on the dollar
3. That the Democratic party levied anc
collected the highest tax per capita that has
ever been levied and collected in tho State.
4. That the immediate cause of the increase
of the aggregate amount of State tax collected
after the Democrats were turned out of power
by the people was the deplorable condition in
which the Democratic party left everything
connected with the State government =
especially the charitable institutions, the State
University, State Prison, &c. ... afs t#
5. That, although it was necessary to raise
a greater aggregate of State tax to repair this
mischief which the Democracy had imposed
on the interests of the State, yet the rate per
capita has never been so great since the
Democratic party was deprived of power as it
was BEFORE owing to the increase of our pop
ulation and the general prosperity Of our State
| 6. That the Democracy were the authors of
causes which led to the increase in the aggre-
gate amount of State tax collected in '55 and
SO, and the Republicans, having remedied
those causes, can now rapidly reduce the
aggregate amount of taxes, as is shown by the
reduction of 100000 last year and $40, 600
| this year, making an aggregate reduction of
$l4O, 900 in two years.
We have now, doubtless, furnished "old
Democrat with the information he DESIRES
and we can assure him that the only way by
which the gradual reduction of the State tax
can be continued is by keeping the Repub-
licans in power.
Having answered as requested, we now
have a few questions to ask:
l. Can any Democrat point to a State in
the Union under Democratic control, Of equal
population with Iowa, wherein the State
government is carried on for as small an
amount of money as it is in this State?
Q. Can any Democrat point to single
State in the Union, under Democratic control,
where the aggregate amount of State tax is
is being reduced?
8. Can any Democrat explain why the
average of the State tax levied while his party
controlled the affairs of this State amounted to
over two mills on the dollar, while the average
since that time has been emily about one and
one half mills on the dollar9
4. Can any Democrat explain why his party
in 1851 levied tax Of three mills on the dol
lar, while the Republicans, with all the charges
of extravaganza which have been brought
against them, never found 1t necessary to levy
q greater tax than two mills on the dollar?
5. Can any Democrat tell why the highest
rate of tax per capita under Republican rule
has been 35 cents, while the highest Demo-
cratic rate has been 65 cents
6. Can any Democrat tell why the National
Administration, under Democratic control,
expends such an unheard- of amount of money
to carry on the government, if his party is
really in favor of an economical expenditure
of the public money? -
When these questions shall have been
disposed Of we shall furnish few more for
Democratic digestion. Fairfield Ledger.
SNEERs AT FARMERS The Democratic
journals of Iowa, in sneering manner, call
the Republican ticket in that State 'the
Plow Handle ticket" the candidates being
farmers. The Democracy are running two
veteran office-holders, who have lived most of
their lives on Government pay. The farmers
will duly appreciate this dersion upon their
honest and honorable calling, as that class of
people did, under similar circumstances. in
the great political campaign of 1910. The
Republicans very submissively accept the
designation thus bestowed on their excellent
ticket Cincinnati Gazette.
The Democratic papers indignantly exclaim,
"that's !' to the above. But this is not
to be wondered at, when we recollect that
"that's lie" was the sum and substance of
Dodge's speech at Oskaloosa, in reply to Mr.
Kirkwood. "THAT's LIE |" will now be
echoed and re-echoed throughout the State
it's The great Democratic argument.
.ts-... ->S .s.
GT Somebody in Vermont must have a
vivid imagination. AT the 4th of July cele-
bration at Montpelier, the following was one
of the toasts:
"7he National Administration-May it
never be worse"
The man who conceived the possibility of
anything worse than the present Administra-
ton deserves medal.
AAA-
"THE PLow- HANDLE TIcKET."- Dem
ocratic friends are already getting sick of the
name by which they sneeringly dubbed the
Republican State Ticket, because it is headed
by two farmers. One cotemporary fairly
boils over with the idea that the Republican
press should attempt to make capital out of
this. These chaps evidently thought it a
very good thing at one time, when it was
hoped to make little Democratic capital by
sneering at ''the Plow- Handle ticket" but
now that "the Plow- Handle ticket is becom-
ing politically known and politically popular
under that name, they are getting somewhat
frightened, and would no doubt be well
pleased never to hear the expression "Plow-
Handle ticket" again used. They can't be
accommodated. They have named our ticket,
and we accept the appellation. ''The Plow-
Handle ticket, it is. and as such it will be
elected. Hurrah for 1.-THE Plow- Handle ticket"
Davenport Gazette.
w By-the-way, who the dickens is Kirk
wood, any how? Can any body tell? Where
did he come from; and where is he gwine?-
War Eagle.
He is the man who CLEANED out" his
Excellency, General Augustus Caesar Dodge,
at Oskaloosa, Eddyviile and Ottumwa, last
week. He come from his farm in johnson
county, and is "gwine" to be elected Governor
with a Ruach. Burlington HaDkeys.
KossUrH.-A lester n the Birmingham
lEng.l Journal states that Immediately on