Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-04-04
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v.rv sensitive fellow, He hates 10
hear of State debls, accumulated by
Black Republican legislation, OF super
ceding the constitutions! limit of in
deb,cduess and of general Republican
extrayac.ncc, as a mad dog hates the
sight of water. The truth which was
contained in o little article Of ours ic"
days since, brings forth bali column OF
fro.hy matter. in which he denies every
thing, and would make it appear that
our State taxes are nothing-that the
people pay them with that degree Of
cheerfuness that cur l,ttlc friend would
pay for three cent cigar. The facts
do not 60 to prove any such thing. The
last. annual report Of the Aul Of
State goes to show that instead OF the
people paying their State tax promptly,
there .cmains delinquent for the year
1859 the sum Of 1898, 122.1O. The to-
tai funded debt of the State, according
to the Auditors statement. is 1922, 295.-
IS, and then add to this the app opria-
tons asked for, which is stated by Sen
ator Angle,to be not less than three hun
ared and .forty-tmo Mousand dollars,
most Of which have been granted, and
we find that instead of the State mot
owing s25O,OOO" it does really owe
nearly three times that sum, and that the
debt is steadily increasing.
Such state Of affairs was never known
in Iowa until the Republican party took
the reins ofgovernment. That party es-
tablshed constitutional limit to State
indebtedness. 1t was broken over at
the very next meeting of the Legislature
and the State unnecessarily plunged into
debt. And not only has the State debt
become burdensome under Republican
rule, but the same may be said Of that OF
the different counties. The same spirit of
extravaganza and reckless expenditure,
and favoriteism which has characterized
State matters has also pervaded county
affairs, and under the new county laws
we believe the matter will be still worse
The Gazette claims that If tho people
would promptly pay sulh taxes as arc
imposed upon them the State would be
out of debt. 1t is possible But the
people, if the Auditors statement be
true, either cannot or will not pay the
light tax spoken of, and we believe they
cannot. We claim that the State ca mot
pay its debts only by borrowing, which
is no payment or no liquidation ae all.
Our neighbor remarks that if he be-
lieved the State to be bankrupt, he
would not, under any circumstances, adj
wise anybody to come here couldn't
have the face TO do.t. This is all gam
mon, as any one knows. We shall con-
time to call the attention of the people
to come, debts or no debts, bankruptcy
or not, in hopes of getting ont of the fix
which the State is now in, some time,
Ii the position of extreme delicacy tax
en- by the Gazette be honest, why do they
invite and encourage immigration to this
city, which is bankrupt to-day?
We yet live in hopes that the State OF
Iowa will rid itself of the political iucu-
bus under which it is now grooming;
that the political leeches which have
been and are smoking away the hearts
blood of the people will be driven forth
from public positions which they oc-
cupy and that the State will again shake
OIL its burthen Of debt and become the
free and solvent institution she was
under the rule Of the good old Demo
cratic party.