Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-30
From the Ohio State Journal. {
HEAVY TAXATION.

\ 90 70 IHHE EHH Ct. MAeiIHHN ~ EssaH.AEa HaaaaAa ~
EDiroRs STATE J~ouRsAL;--0n who travelled
over the hills of Athens, Gala, jackson, sMeigs
and Washington Counties with Judges Pease,
Hitchcock andlSherman, when those men were
performing the duties of Judges of the Supreme
Court, at an expense of time and labor, vastly
more than is now spent in the performance oil
those duties land it is no disparagement 10 say
quite as well Gs now ' desires to state a few facts.
aud ask q few questions, for the hearing Of those
gentlemen who occasionally sit in the Capitol, pro-
Tossing to make laws for the bensft of the PEG pie.
Zen years ago there were in Ohio four Judges
Of the Supreme Court each ct Q salary of $l,Se0.
There we're nineteen Judges Of the Court of Conn
mon Pleas, and three of the Superior Courts of
Franklin, Hamilton and cayahoga ~eounties each
al salaries Ct 81 900. SO that the State then paid
.s21. 200 Cor Judicial salaries. Now tasre are Eve
Of the Supreme. Court at salarles Of So 600 each
forty seyen Common Pleas Of ~sa.aries slSl 500 each
-en9 OF Montgomery aud one. of Franklin coen-
ties, each. at salaries ofSls5Qo; making the amOpn,
paid for thesame purp pose that We ten years ago
paid SCI, 200, the moderate. sum Of SOC, 900; show.
ing q difference of SG8,00 besides eighty7eighl
Probate Judges, whose salaries probably average
! 81 800 each, perhaps moro. 4 as 81 I.
Now is il not q pertinent and proper inquiry to
ask Of each one Of our Legislators, if he can. sat
? isfy himself that this addition of near two hun,
: dred thousand dollars 10 the expense of the Judi
! cial system of the State, is compensated for BY
. having the business any better done. or more
\ speedily transacted than under the old plan, wher
the Judges were, as well satisfied with their sals
? ries as now Is not the sum paid enormous Z api
8 are no. a large number Of the Judges wholly use
J less? Agaip, do they no. know that the county
officers are, in almost every instance, paid to,
much ? Is there a county in the State, gher.
there are not a hundrei men in IL who could b.
hired to do the business of recording, for in
? stance, at one7half what is NOW paidl So Of. Ii,
= Auditor, Treasurer Probate Judge. Prosecuting
Attorney, etc, -
In these times, when the taxes are enormous
= amounting to a Tsntpl, surely there should be som,
9 means provided to reduce them, and not an aunua
g increase. Tbs tag payers are those who are op
y pressed 10 a degree almosi ~sufieien. 20 drive them
e p 8 par. Of ihep out Of The State. Indeed, al
e Iyhp can get away, will do so, None will come il
p urder such a burden Of taxation as is hsapsd up
Q on them, The taxes for schools and beneyolen
ihstitutions il is true are heavy. but no one seem
wiling to reduce them, In the matters here poin
o ted opt, a place is shopn Hhe.o reduction cal
: take place without harm to any .one. Tbs Law
toO, authorizing the paymeRt by the. counties o
$3.50 per year to agricultural societies, ought /,
be repealed. thereby making . saving Of near Nv,
hundred thousand dollars II the salaries Of ih,
4 judges aud county officers were reduced one half
!, 'here would be az much anxiety 81 the election /,
, get item, as nov, and as good men as new, woul,
y be elected, Let ps e~ndsaVor 70 return to The Of,
: times Of economy aud prudence 10 our as,irs
? The act lately pqvssd will ~ipereass The, salaries .
3 ~cepnty ofiesrs $4,000 in The State. when the,
= SHOULD be Isdsesd more Than thss
ohE OF ruE PEoELE.