Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-02-06

some plain facts staring every citizen in
the face. The tax collector i. around
our taxes are not only larger than they
were before, but are evidently increasir &
yearly-rcal estate has gone down-cm-
ploymcnt is not easily obtained, and II
obtained paid but scantily and badly
Every class feels the pressure, yet the
tax collector with his long bill must he
paid or ont we 60, body and baggage, i'm
TO the street. The laborcr's tools by
which he gets his living, the teamster's
only means Of support, the very bed on
which man reposes after the labors q
the day, are to be taken to satisfy oncr.
Gus and burdensome taxes for which ID
received no real or apparent benefit -
The farming community probably feel
these burdens as severely rs any other
class. The loss of their crops for two
years, 81 and SO, and the comparative
ly small one harvested last year, the
enormous rates Of interest they have
been paying, have brought them in this
county to the very verge Of destruction,
and hundreds Of these hard sons of tod
are ruined men. Yet the taxes this
year are enormous and must be paid, or
the State will seize upon what little you
have left, and drive you sheltcrless aud
pcnnilcss upon the world.
Now, these are facts, plain facts, that
we know to be true and which there is
no gainsay,ng. Aud how is it that this
state of things exist? Iowa has for the
last six years been enjoying the blessings
of Republican rule. Republican Off
Gals have swarmed through the land like
the flies in Egypt in the days OF Pha-
roah. Republican legislators, with the
wisdom Of doves and the harmlessness
of scrpents, have enacted volumes OF
laws, which have been approved by Re.
publican Governors, and upon which
Republican Judges have rendered vol
ames of curious and erudite decisions y
sometimes one way and sometimes an
other. And yet the evils we complain
Of, heavy and increasing taxation, grow
apace. Every year during this Repub-
Tat
ses increased beyond all precedent, until
the State Of Iowa has actually become
indebted beyond the constitutional re-
striction. "Therc is something rotten
in Denmark" and we ask every sepsi
BILE thinking man in the community to
draw his own deductions and fasten the
odium and responsibility of the present
state of affairs in Iowa where it be-
longs.
During the late State campaign the
Democracy in vain laid the facts before
the people and produced the figures Ia
ken from tho rec I'd to demonstrate
them. But the subject Of negro-slavcry
the affairs Of otter States, the proven.
ton of the spread Of slavery, "bleeding
Kansas" etc., seem to be dearer to the
people of Iowa and more interesting
than the present condition Of the sohite
race at home. The sutjoined article
from the DesMoines Journal is but one
single piece Of evidence Of the truth OF
our statements made last summer, an d
which tho Republican journals and ora
tors sneered at:
Every person in the Stats-whose opinion
10 worthy of NOTICES in favor Of an asylum
for the insane. The objections raised are to its
unnecessary expense. a correct estimate OF
which has never been placed before the public.
During the last State canvass, in reply to
the statements of the Democracy that over a
hundred thousand dollars would be needed to
complete that institution. the Republican lead
ers aud fuglers insisted that twenty or twenty.
five thousand would meet all requirements aud
fnish The building.
Ons hundred thousand is now asked Of the
Legislature by the commissioners, and $50, 900
more will be asked at the session Of 1861
Where is Winsow-the dem ocrat," who
certified that So. 900 was all that was wanted?
And where are the protestatons of tho Re.
publicans, made during the campaign?
AGES OF ENGLIsH SrATRsMEN.-Eng-
land has quite number of legslato
venerable from age. The Earl of Gull
lord aud Lord Lyndhurst are entitled, in
point of years, to claim precedence over
their brother peers. They have both
reached the ripe age Of 81 Following
close are Y scount Combcrmcre and the
Earl OF Charlemont, who arc respective
ly aged IS and "a. The hoir Of the
latter is in his S0th year. Sixteen peer.
of parliament have cached the age OF
80, or have passed it. Lord Brougham
is among the Nestore of the State. being
in his slst year. The Oldest member O.
the House of Commons is Sir Charles NJ
BurreII, the member for New Shoreham
who is in his S5th year. Lord Palmers
ton is rs; Lord John Russell, 81; Mr.
DlsraeIi, "a Mr.. Golden, As and Mr.
Bright 4s. Lord Campbell is the old
est judge upon the English bench; he il
IS years of age. Sir James Willes il
the youngest, being A. The Irish bench
il graced by the presence Of the oldest
and the youngest Judge in the United
Kingdom-the Right Hon. Thomas lie
frov Chief Justino ~ %ho nuoocsu po,oL