Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-10-06

up in the Penitentiary. - 81 F q
~-isre-3 ,,rs d From the steubensille Herald
Some of the Causes of Increased
/ 10. 81, -- Taxation. -F.---.--,
/ The people af Ohio are burthened with
taxation. Property will not after deduct
ling taxes yield four per centum. But few
farms, especially those improved and under
high state of cultivation, will yield three
per cent. In many instances it requires
one-balf of the rent of town property to
pay necessary repairs and taxes.
Such condition of affairs should not
exist in State possessing the wealth and
natural resources of Ohio. When such a
state of affairs does exist, it is very evident
there is something wrong in the admipis-
tration of the Goyernment-it is very ev-
ident that the ofice-holders are getting fat
salaries, while the people are growing lean
in purse, under oppressive taxation.
The cause of, this condition of affairs,
which renders labor and property unpro-
ductiye, and keeps away and drives capi-
tai ont of the State, is easily accounted for.
Within the last few years the expenses of
almest every department of State Govern
ment have been increased, through the.
legislation of Democratic partizans. For,
instance, in 1852 we had four Supreme
Judges, each at a salary of S13O0-ten
Common Pleas Judges, at salaries ofs10oO
one Superior Court at Cleveland, another
at Cincinnati, with salaries of $1,000 each,.
making in all s1s,2oo, as the sum total
for administering justice in Ohio, Il -,
This is evidently too low-but it will
be seen how the Democracy have gone to
the other extreme. The Democratic Leg
islature of 1878 created ten additic nal
Common Pleas Judges. The salaries of
the Supreme Judges were raised from ST.
800, to $4,000, which made further in
crease of Judiciary expenses of s2l,50O,
amounting in all to ss5,o00.,- ,-.. -
1t cannot be said that the judicial busi-
ness of the State increased in the same ra-
ito, or that justice is. administered better
or more promptly now, than II was seven
years ago. Yet the expenses of the above
department have been heaped upon the
shoulders of the tax xpayers-and that, too
through the acts of law makers elected to
office as Democrats under the pledge of re-
trenchment. .,s. ~, ..-.,.-s.. t.. t,.f
But the increased expense of the judi
ciary through Democratic legislation does
not stop here. The Judges ofthe Supe-
rior Courts, Dayton, Columbus, Cincinna-
Ii, are paid salaries Of $4,000 Aside from
these advanses and increase of Offices,
eighty-eight Probate offices have been cue
ated-and eighty-eight Probate Judges
are to be supported by the people. The
salaries of which, in the aggregate, amount
to, annually, about one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. - ~. - 49,.
Thus in seven years through the policy
of the leaders of the Democratic parly-in
this one department of the Government,
have expenses been increased from SIS, 200
per annum, to some tsco hundred and forty
thousand doNors.. -. -. -.
Nor is this the only departmentin which
the public moneys have been squanderel,
by the leaders of the much ,yaunted, Demo-
cratic party. In the face of the State Con-
stitution of their own forming, they have
called annual, instead Of. biennial sessions
of the Legislature, at an enormous cost, to
the tax payers of Ohio. -, ~ -.
The same Democratic Legislators have
raised the aggregate expenses for assessing
the property of the State, fifty thousand
dollars. They have advanced the salaries
of the Superintendents employed on the
public works Of the Slate collectors, bosses,
lock-tende!s, d., employed on the canals,
thousands! s.--.. -. -.
At the, extra session of lS5S-9, they
raised the fees of all the County Treasur-
ers in the State. Adding some three hua-
dred dollars to their, already liberal sala-
ries,, putting the people in for additional
annual expense, in collecting the State rev
enues, of about, thirty thousand dollars
These are a few of tile many expedi-
ents adopted by the Democratic spoilsmen
of Ohio, TO increase the lakes of the peo-
pie, and, consequently increase their facili-
ties for getting their hands,-arms up to
the elbows in the public treasures. To say
nothing about that ssother expedient,n by |
which Democratic Treasurer John g. Brcs-
lin and ,confederates5, relieved the tax pay
ers of Ohio of 100000, and was eompell-
ee TO eyade Q felon's doom, by, fleeing the
country. -, -.-s-.i - q "a - .ooaE
The leaders of the same party are again
asking the voters of Ohio for their sutfrages
to again install them in office-that
they may again plnnder the treasury-in-.
crease taxation, and reduce the people to
bankruptcy and beggary. s'1 ,h'al9, .aJ
Voters of Ohio! to continue this line of |
policy is to support Tie Democratic Tick
et-to put an end to this wild hunt for of
nee, created by exorbitant salaries, VoTE
THE REPUBLICAN TIcKErl For your own
private, pecuniary interest, as well as that
OF the State at large--tax payers in partic-
ular-do we appeal to you-adm onish you,
to VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICK
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