Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-02-20


wh.,ua. RcpubIicnnism Done for Iowa.
What have the Republicans done for
Iowag How have they fulfilled their
hedges to the people Have they cut
down the hills and filled Up the valleys
and made the administration Of our State
affairs plain straight road Have they
conducted the State government IN an
economical manner or lightened our
taxes! In fine, what have they effected
towards relieving the people from the
burdens that aliict them F!
They have furnl,hed the State with q
great many noisy loud-mouthed fellows,
who continually bawl into the ears Of
the people professions Of their inlcnse
devotion to s'thc cause Of Freedom"
and their terrible determination to resis.
to the death "the aggressions Of the
slavc power" and who have to be fed at
the public expense. They have devised
great works, public institutions, an
charitable asylums. 'Hley have spent d
great deal Of money, and never finished
them. In the meanwhile, Republican
contractors, Republican officials, and
their most distant relatives have grown
rich, waxed fat. and kicked up then
heels at the people.
At the last session Of the Legislature,
they made appropriations for divers OBJ
lccts, as well AS for the ordinary expcn-
scs Of the government, to the amount
Of more than 100000, and borrowed
from eastern capitalists 100000 The
Democratic party in the last campaign
charged it on them, when we were as
sured by their orators and press "that
the taxes would decrease in the same
ratio that they had increased, and tina
the State of lowa--slavcryhating, free
dom-loving lowa--would in few years
emerge from her financial calamity,
amply endowed with public and Chart
able Institutions"
The Des MONIES Jo,unal on this sub
lcct pertincntly remarks, in connection
with the further Appropriation asked Of
the present Legislature
Let us see how true were the statements
then IN de
For the Insane Asylum there is asked 100000
Tor the Pententiary " 1000
For the Blind Asylum 90 4" 10000
For the University " a. 1900
Making total of. ............. S3i7 ,o01
BY the law authorizing the erection OF an
Insane Asyum, its cost was limited TO $4,000
When this appropriation shall DO passed, it
will have exceeded that amount by the com
Portable sum Of Three Hundred and hight
Thousand Doiiars
The law creating the Blind Asy lum, limits
its cost. in any event, to $1,000. The appro
priatIon asked will increase it to FTtiy sir
Thousand Dollars
The state University, a. Iowa City. was re
stricted to $4,000. Its representative now
asks for FIFTEEN thousand more and admits
that OF less than 7uentytuo or I,oenty Tires
thousand will completeit.
But the State Penitent airy, with fully as
much consistency demand the enormous sum
of Trio Handr.d thousand Dollars for its com
peiion.'
And thus they so on, asking appro-
priation after appropriation, and squan-
dering it when obtained.
Now it is time that our citizens
should look at these matters fairly and
squarely, and see how the Republican
party have redeemed their pledges made
during the last campaign Let those
men, who arc SO enthusiastic about pre-
venting the aggressons of the South,
look at the expressions ut home, and
devise some means Of preventing them.
As for the Democracy, whenever in the
present Legislature they have proposed
measures of rctrenchment and reform.
whenever they have tried to check use
less expenditures, they have been met
with scotfs and jecrs, and voted down
10y the Republican majority. And so
the State goes on, the ball of debt accu-
muating, and never diminishing under
Republican rule.