The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-09-16

| LnAJ the lowest Ja& payers are now
paying upon the basis of revenue
about $500, ,OOO,0 600 per annum, While
not more than half that sum finds its
way into the Treasury. Statistics Of
the manufactures and productions of
the country will prove that if the tax
to which they are subject was fairly
collected and the same rule applied to
customs duties the income of the rev.
enue would amount to about the sum
named above"
There are some facts within our own
knowledge which bear upon this
point and go to corroborate Mr.. Wells
and Mr.. Clarke. The tax upon whis-
ky or highwines, as you know, has
been 81 gallon. Now, it is estima-
ted there. were 10000, 900 gallons Of
whisky made in 1866 or 1867 in the
United States. OF course, the govern
ment ought to have received $18O, ,OOO,-
600, but it never did receive an
amount to exceed $50, 900, GOO from
that source, leaving a margin of$15O,-
100000. We do not realize such large
amounts of money. We have been
talking about hundreds of millions
and We do not realize it. Your
county is only assessed at $4,000, 900,
so that twenty counties like this have
been swallowed up and appropriated,
not for the government, but for pri-
vate purpOses-have been stolen by
officials and others on one single arti-
Gle, which the people have paid every
year, and this has been done every
year for the last three years. This,
therefore, goes to corroborate these
gentlemen's statements, that double
the amount of money has been as
sessed and collected from the people
than has ever found its way into the
Treasury.
WILL THR .PROPLK TOLERATE TIT
Do you not realize it now, fellow
citizens, that all your toll, all your Ia
bor, all your skill, and the labor,
skill, toll and sweat of the whole
American people of the United States
have been taken and absorbed by this
government? Is there any other peo-
pie on the face of Gods earth who
could tolerate this for a single mo-
ment ? Will the American people
tolerate it? ICries of mo, no." and
cheers Will the hard working
man-the farmer, the mechanic, the
labOrer-will any Republican tolerate
it and sustain and approve men who
have fastened these odious measures
upon us and committed these outra-
ges upon the people? "A voice
Yes, they will,"l No, I do not
think they will. [Cheers.l Some of
them may. Men who want Office and
politicians may do it, but tell you
there are hundreds Of thousands OF
honest Republicans who will not.
TAXES HEAVIER THAN NECESSARY.
Now, as to the money which they
have received into the Treasury, I say
it is much larger sum than is neces-
sary for that purpose. Our fathers es-
tHblished the government not only for
free, but for an economical govern
ment. They made it cheap govern
ment. They intended that the gov
ernment should not rob people of
their labor. That was the foundation
stone, and one of the principles they
meant to inaugurate was that the
fruits OF labor should be enjoyed by
those who earned them. ...
How do the expenses OF govern
mont hnfO-o H.
war? The average expenses for ten
years before the war-from 1851 to
1861-were $57, 10000 Now, for four
years since the war has been oyer and
during a time of peace they have been
$3.50, ,OOO, ,OO0- eight times as much
The Republican party has expended
in eight years-sinee they have had
charge of this government-more than
the whole Of its expenses for eighty
years down to the war. During Mr..
Polk's administration we had war
with Mexico and we had to transport
armies and munitions of war to that
country. Now, the whole expenses
Of the War Department during these
four years were only $50, ,OOO, 900, while
during the present year and the three
or four years past the expenses of the
War Department have been about
S120, 100000. So that it costs $50. .O0O.-
900 more for these Radical Puritans to
run the Department single year in
the time Of peace than for four years
during foreign war under a Demo-
cratic administration. -
MORE THAN THE TAXES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
The government of Great Britain,
as you know, is one of the first, if not
the foremost government upon the
face of the earth. Its colonies encircle
the entire globe. 1t is an aristocratic
government, with Its titled nobility,
its royal children and innumerable
grandchildren to support and set up,
with excessively high salaries to all
| its officers, many retiring with
amounts larger than the pay of the
President Of the United States, and
how does she compare with the ex-
penses of the United States under
Radical rule? Their property is val
ued at double ours, their debt is dou-
BILE ours, yet how do our expenses
compare with theirs? They expend
for all purposes $685.. .OOO, 900, including
the interest upon their debt, and we
expend $4OO, ,OOO. 900. Our government,
in time of peace, under Radical rule
one formed with a view to economy
and cheapness-exponds about $780,
100000 more yearly than the expen-
sive aristocrntic government of Great
Britain. Their army OF 200, 900 men,
which is tour times larger than ours,
costs less money than ours.
And yet you are asked, my fellow
republicans, to go on and support
those men in this extravaganza. You
are asked to approve their conduct
and their measures and to perpetuate
their power.