Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-10-24
The 9epnblitan.
THE BEAM AND THE NOTE.


The following from the Indianapolis
Journal, except in few unimportant par
ticulars, is as applicable to Marshall as to
Pulaski County. Here, indeed, the De
mocracv have not been satisfied with the
petty schemes ofpubiic plumber of their less
ambitions Pulaski brethren. Under the
prctence OF collecting fund for the cree
ton Of public buildings, they have msrci-
lossly taxed the p,ople, and used the mo-
ney so obtainsd for purposes of individual
speculation. To cover up these transactions
and to shield an unfaithful public officer,
the Board of Commissioners negotiated a
lean with the late County Treasurer of an
amount sufficient TO cover the deficit IN his
accounts, taking for security a morigags
ON the very land he hsa purchased with
the peoples money. And besides the
building fund, there is a reported surplus
in the county treasury of several thousand
dollars, yet we paid last year, and proba-
bly, will this year, more than five hundred
dollars as interest on county orders, and
this is the kind Of currency with which the
current expenses of the county arc being
met
The rate OF taxation in Marshall County
is as high as that of any Of her neighbors
who took upon themselves great burdens
during the war in the payment Of bounties
10 soldiers and for the relief Of the families
of the absent patriots. But not onc dollar
did Marshall County eJpendin these ways,
except when compelled 10 do so by State
laws and yet our financial condition is no
better than that of Republican counties, all
of which gave literally:
The Winnemsc Dsm ocrdt comes to
us embcl,ished with the singularlY inap-
propriate cut OF "a cannon and the Union
flag al the head of its column of election
returns. Pulaski has elected the Demo
cratic ticket by majority nearly one hun
dred less than il gave year u %, and the
party organ is delighted.
"ln another column OF the same paper
we find an advertisement by the County
Treasurer, notifying the people of Pulaski
that the tax duplicate has been placed in
his hands far collection. and giving. also,
the rate per cent levied upon their property
by their Democratic County Commission
crS.
= His table of taxesis an instructive con-
trast between the careful economy of the
State administration. and the rrofigacy Of
the county government of Democratic
Pulaski.
For the ctotal expenses Of the State Gov
ernmcnt. incluling The support of the Asy
Iums for the Insane Blind, Deaf and Dumb,
the erection of public buildings. the Peni-
teniiar:cs. the House OF Refuge, the Sol
diers' Home, AMI interest on the State
debt, The tax Il but twenty cents on each
one hundred dollars of taxable property
bat the ordinary expenses of Pulsski County
are represented by levy of seventy cents,
just three and one half times az much a.
the levy for State purposes. In addition
tn this, there Is q special county tax OF five
cents on tho hundred dollars. and "A pauper
lax of The same amount, making eighty
cents on the hundred dollars for county
expenses proper jus, four times the rate for
State purposes besides which there is q
special road tax of ten cents. a road tax Of
two cents on each acre OF land. and town
ship and special school taxes, ranging from
five TO twenty five cents on each hundred
dollars.
Pulaski County liss been ruled from
the date of its organization by Democratic
officials The natural consequence Is
rate of local taxation commensurate with
the rapacity of the small fry politicians
who parcel out ths county offices TO each
other.
But the patient, stolid Taxpayers seem
contcn, with their lot. Indeed. they must
regard it as a privilege to be skinned for
the glory of the great party Of ''time hon
ored principles" and the summit OF human
felicity 10 contribute liberally to the sup
port of the champions of "a white mans
government" who graciously control the
politics of the county and carry the county
/ offices in their capacious pockets. The
rural population of Pulaski pay little or
nothing toward the expense of the Nation
al Government, but we have no doubt that
the cunning plunderers who fill the county
offices and fatien on the spoils thereof.
have " many time and oft stirred them
up to unvonted wrath by such exagger-
ated stories Of oppressive national taxation
as Democratic spouters know how to con-
coct, and by which they direct attention
from their schemes Of direct and msrciless
piliage.