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

county thoso plundercrs Of reputation
have made no demonstration. ! have
bcon sent time after time to represent
you IN the highest body in your State,
aud each time have run q vote
beyond the regular ticket This, !
think, ia sufficient endorsement, and
extirpales every doubt that might
arise in the mind of any one as to the
consideration of my having done my
duty.
"ln my remarks I'll Conhne myself
TO the State Legislation OF the past
three years. | might very appropri-
laiely pnss beyond tho cSniines Of our
State. Imight pay the National GOV.
ernment at Washington visit. !
might speak TO yon of the iniquitous
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 II few days since,
when gold went up from 1872 to l6G,
and fell again from l66 TO 1872, all IN
the short space Of forty-eight hours.
Yet, in that short time, men wcre
plunged into the mazes of poverty,
and others elevated to the heights u
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 home. ] will
tell you what have seen in that place
above all Others where honor and hon
esty should predominate, in the ma.
king Of good, wholesome laws to gov
ern our people.
"You, honest men of Clearfcld
county; you who are unskilled in the
faesse of State diplomacy; you whose
minds are free from the taint of cor.
ruption; you who consider it crime
OF the greatest magnitude to break
the trust reposcd in you By your fell
bowman; you, | say, honest men,
would blush 10 sec the corruption AZ
exhibited in Harrisburg. | could tell
you Of II single bill, to pass which
three thousand dollars was offered to
each Of six Senators could tell YOU
OF man shaking twenty thousand
dollars under the nose of Senator
and asking him to throw his influence
FOR the passage Of n certain act. /
have been in the minority ever since
| have represented you, and ! can tell
you II required all the frmncss we
could command TO keep q firm and
unbroken front to the foe,
"Now ! shall refer 70 the debt Of
our State and the way il has been
paid for, If we listen to the rantings
Of our Republican friends, they have
been performing wonders. Let US
see. They have collected some sixty
millions Of dollars. and collected il
from you, working men, Of this and
other counties OF our State. Now.
what have they done with the money!
They assumed control of the State
when ii owed a debt of some thirty
seven millions Of dollars. They have
been paying off that sum for nine
years, and have succeeded 10 reducing
the State debt to thiriy-three millions
Of dollars. That is, they have paid
about four millions. | name these
amounts in round numbers, but !
speak from the books, for II you have
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 twenty eight millions OF
this money, by II special act passed
~ 1893, aud unrepealed, should have
formed sinking fund, for the reduc.
ton of the State debt. lfthat money
had been appropriated to the purpose
for which It had been levied and col.
lcctcd, the State debt, instead OF being
thiriy-three millions of dollars, would
have been tho difference between thir.
ty-seven millions and twenty eight
millions, or nine millions Of dollars.
But 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
from the sixty millions collected in all.
they have used in some way fitv-six
millions Of your money, Thus you
see how they have been paying the
debt or mortgage upon your lands.
80 that you may economizc in your
families, you may curtail the Injuries
Of life. TO avoid the claims of the man
that holds your little homes in his
grasp, but You can never be successful
in removing this State mortgage upon
your homes till you give the manage
ment OF your finances to men who will
use them eco lomically, 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.
1t is contrary TO experience, in oppo.
siti0n 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 the State tax
from real estate; but changing tho
manner Of getting it docs not remove
the tax. For, ii you examine the
books of your Commissioners, you
will find a requisiiion 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 does
not use some article which is trans.
ported over the great thoroughiare
that traverses our state from east 10
west, one branch of which reaches
here. OF course this corporation, the