The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-28
Governor Fairchild and Sen.
ator Howe at Kenosha.


meeting in this city. The Governor gave
an account of his stewardship in a very
able and lucid address and the Senator
compared the expenditures of this State
with the expenditures of other states and
showed conclusively from statistics that
Wisconsin has the cheapest govirnment to
be found in any State in the Union.
Not being reporter and the address
made here being substantially the same
as that made in Beloit and reported by a
verbatim reported for the Milwaukee
Sentinel we make extracts from that pa
per. On the subjects of taxation and ex.
penditures he said;
For the purposes OF this comparison have
estimated the difference between the gold
basis and the greenback basis at one third.
This is q very fair basis for the Democratic
party-an almost too fair an estimate, when
we compare our last years administration by
Is. find in 1852, when bank bills were
worth as much as gold, We levied a state
Of tsa co. s IN o 1922 $ssS s7 1850
1859, s239, $40, in 1850 S242 03l. in 1861, $40,
49a. Now in 1862, and from that time On TO
| 1889. / have deducted from the state taxs lev
led the interest upon our war debt, which
must not be put into these figures, and
! have reduced our state tax in hose years to
gold basis by reducing it one third. Every
| Democrat In the country will agree with me
| thas this is q fair reduction, when comparing
| the expenses of the state administration for
he last seven years with those OF the seven
proceeding the war. In 1862, upon 6
| 20 basis, we levied 1856 500 81, in 1868 1885,
5J7S o. in 1864 SAL 0S3 60 in 1865 $54C, 500 49,
in 1866 $40 ,914 %, in 1867 $500, $50 o. in 1868
S24S, 322 81.
For the seven years preceding the war,
Including 1851, upon god basis wo levied
tax of 81, 2O2. 51I.
| For the same years after 1861 we levied a
tax OF l, l90, 776 90 difference in favor of the
Republican party during the last seven years
OF 2l,734.7l.
! These figures show that upon q gold basis
and excluding the interest upon the state
war debt which was creature OF the war,
and not to be charged to the administration
as ordinary expenditures at all, we have re-
duced the state taxation for those seven years
S2l. 7347l, and yet the Democratic party. as
said before are his year and last year and the
year before. and will be for the next fifty years
ii they fail to get into power before that time
land really believe they WHY, continually
reiterating this charge against the Republican
party, CT the immense and excessive taxation
| imposed upon the people. Ii you will go
back still further with the calculation which
/ | have not time 10 do to night-go clear back
Into the old Democratic administrations OF this
state, and take into account the difference
between greenbacks and gold and the differ
/ ence between the population in the state then
and now, the figures will prove to you that
the Republican party has given to the state
of Wisconsin q much cheaper administration
per wear than ever did the Democratic party
/ when it had possession Of the state. Ia the
| wear 1852, and prior, the population Of this
/ 80 ut M hAO he
rage, of what 1t was between the years 1862
| and 1868, and yet upon lair gold basis, we
have levied from the people less tax during
the seven years after the commencement OF.
/ the war than duriug the seven years prior.
AS said before, with the increase of popula.
| ton in state comes the Increase OF expendi
turcs-with the increase or population comes
the increase Of insane, the increase Of deaf
| and dumb, the increase OF blind, the Increase
of prisoners in our state prison, the increase
Of prisoners in our reform school and within
the last three years we have had another state
ins utition that calls for futher expenditure
the Soldiers Orphan Home at Madison.
! would be willing, my friends, to give these
| Figures to any men or set OF men, and | care
not TO what party they belong, and they can
not be gainsaid or contradcted.
| We have given the people OF this state du.
| ring the last seven years cheaper administra-
ton than was ever given to this state before
/ since its organization.
Some Democrat may say, "You may have
levied less taxes, yet you have expended large
sums of money" That is true. We have ex-
pended during the last seven years large ms
i OF money, and the Republlcsn party has ex-
hlbited financial skill which is worthy OF all
praise. They hive gathered no more taxes
from the people than was absolutely necces-
Isryv They have collected large sums from
our great corporations For instance, last
year We gathered from the railroad compan,a
/ les $225 784.SI. from plankroad companies
4l19 ~, from telegraph companies 1851 rs,
from insurance companies taxes and license
fees $65 1877 .63, from national banks 1913. 10.
/ from hswkers' and peddlers' licenses 81, ITO 81
from state bonds due from banks S. 435,
and from miscellaneous sources $9,2Y4 OF
/ Thus you see the republican party has assessed
| . very large tax upon the great moneyed cor.
| porations Of the state, and in that way Is has
relieved the peoplc from good deal Of taxa
/ ton. @e&
For the purpose Of showing you a cor1oar
alive expenditure under the Republican ad-
rniuistration Of the last few years, will make
| . mparson OF the expenditures of 1868 with
those of the administrations before the war
and will take 1855, 1855 and 1887, when our
population was Just about one-half Of what
it is to day or was last year Iput the differ
emit sums on o q eenback basis. In three wears
we expended 81, Ill, 179 90. That gave onlv
an average OF $493. 857 63. There was expen,
ded last year from the general fund without
! counting the interest on the war debt SITS.
793.79. Of that sum All, 360. go was expend-
ed upon pnblic institutions including tho ad
ditions made last year to our state capitol.
leaving but $3.50, 94l.26 From this sun,
should be deducted ~ an extraordinary expen.
diture SIC, $50. 90 bounty on wolves and a.
51SS3 for appropriations tor special purpos =.
leaving bur &209, 1877 SO properly char9eabie q,
ordinary expenditure OF the state, against
$493, 857 .03 the average expenditure for three
years, 1855, 1855 and 1857 The Democrats
are slaimiag constantly that we are paving
nearly a million dollars tor ordinary expen
diture from the State Treasury during each
year. In 1887 remember well they put forth
the charge through an address of their Cen.