The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-03-05
EXTRAYAGANCE.

Cambria county that they suffer dread
fully from local extravaganza 1t is to
us ''passing strange that the AHeghaaila
should live out its time without referring
TO this subject, and take it up in its last
breathing. We shall not, however, assaii
It's motives, after its own lips are closed
because that would be ungencrous We
shall, however, briefly notice the charge
We agree with the AHsgIaniaa that no
population is required to labor harder to
secure competence than the people of
Cambria county. They literally earn
their bread by ''the sweat of the brow. 8"
And we agree that there is no population
more GENEROUSLY taxed.
J.. There is the Radical National tav.
IL assaiIs US wherever we go-whatever
we do. 1t meets us in the morning when
we arise, accompanies US to the table,
follows US in the labors of the day nor
can we escape its horrors until our eyes
are closed in sleep. When we perform
our ablulions we find revenue stamp on
our toilet soap at our breakfast VIC have
the consolation of knowing that every
pouthlul we eat is taxed we get our
cigar only by destroying a revenue stamp
on our cigar box we light it by a match,
on every box of which revenue stamp
Is pasted and so on through the day. II
we wish to transfer our property we are
taxed for it; if we give note to pay an
honest debt, we are taxed for it if we
receive an honest debt we must pay tax
for receiving it if we put our money in
bank for safe-keeping we are taxed for it
if we draw it out, we are taxed for it. In
Democratic times we paid National tax
ON nOthing-in Radical times we pay it
on everything.
2. Our Radical State tax, though in
part necessary and pnid ungrudgingly,
adds previously to the burthens of our
people.
3. The Radical Bounty tax is another
source Of oppression, though only partial
in its operation. r...
i. The County tax, though sufficiently
hurthensome, is paid most willingly, be.
cause the people lay it on themselves for
their own benefit. Il is 10 the county
tax, 30 far as Cambria county iz concern
ed, that- the structures III thJ A&rg7aafaa
are intended to apply Two Of the agri-
cultura! counties are referred to as much
less extrayagant than Cambria, without
taking into consideration the local causes
erfecting the result. Indiana, a purely
agricultural county, is cited. Candor
night have induced the AAegIqaaa 10
have taken the adjoining county of Arm
strong, where the population is less than
that of Cambria county, and where the
expenses are much greater. Armstrong,
like Cambria, is great manufacturing
county. Armstrong has the Great Yves
tern Iron Works-Cam5ria has tue Cam
b,ia Iron Works.
Besides, it Is unfair to take RP a spc-
cihc year alone. The expenses Of the
Buser and Howser homicide entered into
the expenses of last year. Cambria coun-
p ty expended thousands in lbi8 prosecution
Of criminals from the radical county of
Allegheny.
The item Of council fees is about half
made up of services in proceedings insti,
tuted by the Cambria Iron Company re-
sisting payment of the ordinary taxes as
sessed against them, the agent of the
Company having asserted, as We are in
formed, that they had ''penty of counsel,
and wanted to give them something to
do"
IL is well known that in Blair county
the Poor House is erected on fine, fer
Tile farm, and might be made almost self
supporting. Here the Poor House is on
sterile farm, and the paupers must be
cared for mainly by taxation.
w "'O LINUS nho"lH9 Tue unIalFnesS OF
the charge contained in the AAeyFa,uan
we do not pretend TO say that the almost
t'afdas has been saved to the people of
Cambria county. Her officers have been
liberal IN bringing offenders to justice, and
IN exonerations where poverty required
and the law permitted it. But that wastes
tul eNtraYagance exists we emphatically
deny.
,. l.. A.-Ehe H'orid of a recent date
says that momentous circumstance hap
pened in Philadelphia the day previous.
The "irooly loif' hOisted flag. Ga the
folds thereof appeared the letters S. p. A. /