The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-08


New York Times the following brief
statement. which we beg the reader
10 examine:
We gain on the six months of 1866, compared
with the last six months OF ls6S:
ON spiFitS-. ................sl SIS 2S6 OOC
On toDacco-...-.-..-- 4,062,Up
On f-Tmented .liquors-..................... 1896
On gross Al 90
ON lt9.Os
On lhc3lie---.---.------..-.-.-- lS,i,Nt
pt Drinks lls,Wt
We lose on special taxes s2G50Oa, on legacie>
sl7s, ,oG1, and on SUGGESTIONS slll.C09. We gain
on passports SS,oOJ, ON tax upon gas Sl3j,00O on
stamps sS5G00O-nearly million ofdollars on
the single article of the stamps on legal in.
struments; and We lose on the salaries of Off
Gers SIP 01a This last loss Mr.. nelanO happily
officers, now, drawing salaries and that is one
of the things General Grant intends to do
while he collects the tax he intends also IL
reduce the expenses OF the Government"
In 1865 Johnsons administration
with 81 per gallon duty, might, Mr.
Delano thinks, have collected $780,
100000 on whiskey, and did collect
about tenth part of it. Why not
Why an increase now on a duty of &c
cents per gallon2 Simply the differ
ence between an honest and disaon
est administration That is the whole
of it The Democratic speakers ask
whether the prosperity of the country
lis due to Republican administration:
This is fair question, and shall be
fairly answered.
We suppose that health and good
crops are blessings derived from the
bounty of God. But mind, my read
er, that is part OF historical teaching
that even the blessings of God mag
be nullilied by wicked administra-
ton of government. Suppose the
Democratic party had been in power,
and had done exactly what their prin
cipleS lead to, where would have been
much of our prosperity? Awar with
Spain about Cuba; increasing debts
and taxes; a restoration of ebels,
with Ku Klux Klans disturbing the
peace and industry of the South; a
repeal of the Reconstruction laws, and
consequently new civil controversy
Do you think that good crops would
have counted much with a universal
disturbance at home and abroad p
That is exactly the dish they would
have treated us to, unless all they have
said in speeches are barefaced lies
These are precisely the things they
would have done, if we may rely OF
their speeches. We don't rely or
them, but these are the results O
these principles.
Now, let us see what hss beer
done:
l. The Republican Congress passed
the laws by which the taxes were re
duced.
.. The administration has collected
ttce,aty-one millions more in six months
with reduced taxes, than were collect
ed in the same time, in 1868, although
the taxes were reduced. How wa.
that done? Simply by honestly ana
Uigila'atly enforcing the Laars In 1869
and previously, not only did the
whiskey tax fall to one tenth, but tht
newspapers were full of whiskey
frauds in every direction, and i
seemed impossible to get honest Off
GERS, or collect the revenue. Thi.
was the Johnson administration, O
which Cary was one Of the principa
supporters, and, as a natural conse
quence, Cary is now helping tn,
Democrats. But under the Gran
administration the whiskey tax il
collected, the income tax is increas
ed, the stamp tax is increased, anG
We gain 81, 100000 on tobacco! Tht
administration is doing what it prom
ised-giving us honest officers, s
strict collection of the revenue, and
as far as possible, reduction of the
taxes.
3 What follows from an honest
collection of the revenue? Why
immediately surplus in the Treas
ury. What is done with it? An
immediate reduction of the debt, SO
that on the 3rd Of September fifty
millions had been paid of. Is this a
reasonable ground for lamentation {
Is it the part of patriot to lament
over the prosperity of his country
We fear that Mr.. Pendleton and his
friends are like Haman, who could
not rejoice while Mordecai, the Jew,
sat at the Kings gate.
But Mr. Cary is the champion OF
workingmen, and, it is said, is en-
deavoring to inspire them with Dem.
ocraSic doctrine. Mr.. Gary was not
always the friend of Copperheads
but he has a right to lie down in any
sly, and choose any company. He
ought to be joined by Colonel Camp
bell, OF Butler county, who is equally
ouslified to be a leader of working
men, and who, one would think, must
be equally dear to the affections of
Copperheads. But let Cary ask the
workingmen, and report the answer,
whether they are worse off for hav
ing bread cheaper2 whether they
are worse of for paying no income
tax? or whether they will be better
off for taking the tariff from foreign
goods and laying it on the lands of
the farmer 4? or whether they will be
better off for taxing the tools of the
mechanic or the wages of the labor
er? We should think the working
men bad by this time got enough of
such advocates. The workingmen of
England got enough of it, and move
ments are actually making to repeal
the humbug of British free trade
The Renuhlicans have enaetel the