Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-05
Where the Taxes GO-DiHerence
Between Abolition and Demo
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Where the Taxes GO-DfHerenCe
Between Abolition and Demo
cratic Rule. - "a
From the annual report of the Auditor
Estate for 1856 and 1866 we CLEAN impor-
tant facts, of interest to every man in Ohio,
who, directly or indirectly, pays cent of
tax.
In January, 1856, when the Demo-
cratic, party gave the power of
the State over to the hands OF
their opponents, the amount of taxes
levied and collected for all purposes, in
Guiding delinquencies of the previous year,
was $s, 9545l1.
In 1866, after the present, so-called Re-
publican party, under the different names
it assumed, had been in power for eleven
years, the amount of taxes levied and col
lected, including delinquencies and forfeit
ures for. the previous year, amounted to
'$l6s 6s6s,437, being an INCREASE of sepen
millions nine hundred and thirteen thousand
nine hundred and taoenty sic dollars, in eleven
years of Abolition misrule, lacking only
S1405s5 of being doubled within that
time.
In 1856, under Democratic rule, when
the State debt was larger than at present,
and was being paid as it became due, and
indeed such of it as could be reached, paid
before the bonds matured, the amount levied
to pay the interest and to form fund for
the liquidation of the principal, was only
$S60,S77. -ie
In 1866, when less amount was needed
for the same purpose, because the State
debt is less than it was eleven years since,
and of course the amount of interest to be
paid is reduced in amount, the sum levied
was 81, ,325, ,439, being an increase of $464,-
562 in eleven years, when instead OF being
increased, it should be much reduced. If
to this large amount we add the $780,
600 filched. from the Soldiers Relief
Fund-S76,5S6 from the School Fund
$l13,414 from the General Revenue and
$4,000 from the Canal fund of the State,
it increases the amount raised by taxation
and by filching from the Sinking fund,
and swells it to $2,325, 439-being one mil
lion four hundred and sixty-four thou
sand, five hundred and sixty-two dol
lars, increased in eleven years, raised to
pay the annual interest, and to pro-
vide for gradually absorbing the principle
of the public debt of the State, which, had
the Democracy remained in office, and the
finances been administered with the same
scrupulous honesty that marked its career
under Auditor Morgan, and his associates
in the Fund Board, would now have been
nearly or quite paid, with less taxes than
is now annually raised and filehed from
the Treasury to pay the interest.
This immense increase of taxes, and
above all this more than doubling the
amount raised and stolen from other funds
to pay the interest on the State debt, when
it is claimed to be less than it was under
Democratic rule, is,we cannot refrain from
charging, the grossest, it not the most
criminal mismanagement of State finances,
by the party now in power. How else
could the taxes be so increased, and the
debt of the State remain, unpaid.
1t is no wonder that GIBSON, the default
ing Treasurer of State, who was arrested,
indicted, tried and by a jury OF his coun-
trymen, convicted of the crime of robbing
the Treasury, but who now, by the action
of Attorney General WEST, goes acquit of
crime, is on the stump to defend his position
no wonder that money is spent by tens
of thousands to keep Ohio Abolitionized,
In order that the Vaudals may not be driven
from the Capitol, the plunderers from the
Treasury. They can afford to spend the
peoples money for electioneering purposes,
and to turn the State House into an Aboli-
tion club room, where the Adjutant General
at large salary, drawn from the Treasury,
presides as chairman, and DR.. JAMES Will
LIAMs, Chief Clerk to the Auditor of State,
his salary also paid by the State, devotes
his time, and that of the State, to acting as
Secretary.
If the finances of Ohio are faithfully and
honestly administered-if there is nothing
rotten in the State House, in view of the
facts we have. stated
- Can such things be
And overcome us like summers cloud,
Without our special wonder 2"