Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-10-06

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have made no demonstration. i have
been sent time after time to represent
YOU in the highest body IN your State,
and each time have ! run q vote
beyond the regular ticket. This, !
think, IL sufficient endorsement, and
extirpates every doubt that might
arise in the mind Of any one MS to the
consideration of my having done my
duty.
ain my remarks I'll Confne myself
to the State Legislation OF the past
three years. | might very appropri-
ately pass beyond the csnfines OF our
State. lmight pay the National Gov
ernment at Washington a visit. j
might speak to you of the ubiquitous
proceedings that have been instituted
by those men who make your national
laws, to deprive you Of your rights
might, indeed, refer you TO the trans
actions in New York few days since,
when gold went up from l32 TO l6C,
and fell again from l66 TO 1872, all in
the short space Of forty eight hours
Yet, in that short time, men were
plunged into the mazes of poverty,
and others elevated TO the heights q
wealth. | might show you how the
secret dispositions of the resources Of
your country to the money gamblers
Of New York rules the money markets
Of the metropolis, and builds fortunes
or breaks them at the whims Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury will
pass from the consideration of these
matters TO things nearer homo ! will
tell you what have seen in that place
above all others where honor aud hon.
esiy should predominant, in the ma
king Of good, wholesome laws to gov
ern our people.
"You, honest men of Clcarfeld
county; you who are unskilled in the
taesse OF State d plomacy; you whose
minds are free from the taint of cor
ruptionj you who consider it crime
OF the greatest magnitude to break
the trust reposed in you by your iel.
low,man; you, ! say, honest men,
would blush 10 sec the corruption as
exhibited in Harrisburg. ! could tell
you Of n single bill, to pass which
three thousand dollars was offered 10
each OF six Senators / could tell YOU
of man shaking twenty thousand
dollars under the nose of Senator
and asking him 10 throw bis influence
for the passage Of a certain act. |
have been in the minority ever since
| have represented you, aud | can tell
you IL required all the firmncss we
could command to keep a firm and
unbroken front TO the foe.
"Now / shall refer u the debt Of
our State and the way it has been
paid Tor, If we listen to the rantines
Of our Republican friends, they have
been performing wonders. Let us
see They have collected some sixty
millions Of dollars and collected it
from you, working men, OF this aud
other counties Of our State. Now.
what have they done with the money!
They assumed control of the State
when il owed debt Of some thirty.
seven millions Of dollars. They have
been paying of that sum for nine
years, and have succeeded in reducing
the State debt to thirty-three millions
Of dollars. That is, they have paid
about four millions. | name these
amounts IN round numbers, but |
speak from the books, for il you have
a copy Of the Attorney Generals Re
port, and take the trouble, you will
find the amounts | have stated, and
will state, correct. stated that they
had collected some sixty millions of
dollars now twonty eight millions of
this money, by special act passed
IN 1898, and unrepeuled, should have
formed sinking fund, for the reduc.
tion Of the State debt lfthat money
had been appropriated to the purpose
for which it had been levied and col.
lec,cd, the State debt. instead Of being
thiriy-thrce millions of dollars, would
have been the difference between thir. |
ty-seven millions and twenty eight
millions, or nine millions Of dollars
Bat they have paid four millions Of.
the debt and have not accounted for
the remaining twenty four millions. /
Taking the four millions Of debt paid 1
from the sixty millions collected in all, |
they have used in some way fiity-six
millions of your money. Thus YOU
see how they have been paying the
debt or mortgage upon your lands. |
80 that you may cconomize in your
families, you may curtail the luxuries /
Of life. TO avoid the claims of the man
that holds your little homes Ia his
grasp, but you can never be successful
in removing this State mortgage upon
your homes till you give the manage. 1
ment OF your finances 10 men who will
use them economically, and endcavor
to relieve you of this liability. You |
must do this if you want success, for
the men who have rioted out OF yonr
savings will never introduce reform. |
IL is contrary to experience, in oppo- |
sition TO the candid facts OF history
that men who have committed out. /
RACES and wrongs, in state, have
reformed them. But they say the
working men pay no State tax; that
they are paying off the debt from the
proceeds Of tax on corporations. etc.
Let us examine this matter. They
have, il is true, taken tho State tax
from real estate; but changing the
manner Of getting it does not remove
the tax For, If you examine the
books Of your Commissioners, You
will find a reQuisition from the Off.
cials OF Harrisburg for money. Now,
who pays thaty DO You not pay IL
We will examine the tax they get
from corporations, that you DO not pay
There is not one among you that docs
not use some article which is trans
ported over the great thoroughiare
that traverses our state from east to
west, one branch of which reaches
here. OF course this corporation, the
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