North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-10
Before and After Election. How Prom.
Uses are Fulfilled.

Uses are Fulfilled.
Before election, people were told by
radical papers all over the State that the
State was out Of debt, with money enough
in the Treasury to pay all the expenses Of
the State government for the coming year,
without levying one cent Of State tax, and
tho Republican party gave currency and
endorsement to this deceptive humbugge-
ry by the following resolutions:
Resolred, That we unite upon contin-
uance of strict and close economy in all
departments of our State Government, in
order to the maintenance Of tho happy
financial condition to which our State has
attained under Republican rule,
Resolved, That the means now in the
State Treasury, and which may become
available, ought to he used for the purpose
of defraying the necessary expenditures
of the State government economically
administered, and for no other purpose !;
and no State taxes, or only the minimum
absolutely required, should be levied or
collected until such means are exhausted,
to the end that the burden of taxation may
be made as light as possible.
The people who have been deceived into
voting the radical ticket by such promises
J will readily see how false and deceptive
they are, when they come to pay their
taxes for 1869. They will find that in
stead of being reduced, as promised, they
are higher than ever-the total tax for the
State and County purposes being IL mills
on the dollar, and school tax from 10 to %
mills, or an average of something over 10
mills throughout the County, making the
aggregate tax from % to 50 mills, or an
average of q mills on the dollar, or 1910
on every 500 valuation. When we add
to this the enormous tax that we are pay
ing for the support of the general govern
ment, and that all this is to be paid in
wheat at SO cents bushel. it is q specta-
Gle too dismal to contemplate is it to
be wondered at that radical leaders should
deem it necessary to resort to such false
and deceptive statements before election,
in order to induce the people to trust them
again? 1t will be remembered that at
the time these false and deceptive state
ments were being put forth, we apprised
the authors thereof that they would have
abundant use for the usual State tax of 2
mills; and whether they had any State
debt now or not, they would find, when
they came to figure up at the end of the
year the funds were all used up, and a
debt of over 100000 would remain un-
paid. And it appears that when they
come to levy tax, instead Of levying no
State tar they found the MINIMUM ABso-
LuTELY REQUIRED to be just the amount
we had suggested and all this humbug-
gerry about the State being out of debt
and no State tax being required, has van
ished in thin air. Yet in the face and
eyes of all these facts and figures, one can
hardly take up radical paper but that
contains an article giving credit to this
old, exploded falsehood and one need
not 60 further back than the last number
of the Gazette, to find specimen Of that
kind of articles. What we want is for
the people to remember, when they come
to pay their taxes, who has humbugged
them, and not forget it when they next
come to vote.