Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-12
Republican Rule. /,

The first documentary gun of the cam
paign was fred by Senator Morton on
Monday night last at Terre Haute, Ind.
1t bristles with. striking points, but its
chief strength is in the exhibit it gives OF
the finan cial success of the Administration
and the reduction in both the taxes and
the pubic debt. under Republican rule.
The last Congress left record which
will doubtless secure another Republican
national legislature. 1t is fact, however
amazing it may appear, that Congress re-
duced taxation eighty millions of dollars,
fifty seven millions of internal taxes and
twenty-three millions of tariff. This was
done in full view of the fact that we must
have an annual yield of one hundred and
sixty millions of revenue, and in the ex-
pectation that this sum could be mainly
collected from Injuries. The tax was,
therefore, taken off or reduced wherever
it was possible. The internal tax remains
only upon whisky and tobacco and upon
the sale of these. The annoyance OF
stamping receipts was removed by abol-
ishing stamps on receipts, and notes under
800 no longer require to be stamped.
The reduction of twenty.three millions
in the tariff was made mainly upon those
three articles which touch the purse of
the laboring man and the man of moder
ate circumstances, viz: coffee, tea and
sugar. {
The enormous deduction should satisfy
even our Democratic friends Those who
have been compelled to go ill-clad and
ill-fed, and to deny their children the lux
uries of their richer neighbors because of
the great burden of taxation which has
rested upon the country, may now invest
their proportion of the Fights millions in
such comforts and luxuries as they have
long suffered for. At the same time, the
Administration will conspire with Con-
gress to better their condition another
year, for it is largely due to faithful col
lection of the revenue and economy in
administering the Government, that Con-
gress has been able to make the reduction
mentioned Up to this time, the Admins
one hundred and forty six millions of dol
lars. During the first sixteen months, up
to the first of July, the decrease was over
one hundred and thirty-nine millions, as
shown by Mr.. Boutwelps statement. If
our Democratic friends had had the power
they would scarcely have done better
than this, for, during the last sixteen
months of their johnson Administration.
the amount Of the public debt paid off
was somewhat less than nine millions.
Then, in collection of the revenue, the
present Administration has also the adj
vantage over the Johnson Democrat
ic Administration. Comparing the
last sixteen months of Johnson's term
with the first sixteen of Grants,
we find q difference in favor of
the latter Of over fifty-one millions, over
thirty-two millions of internal revenue
and over nineteen millions of customs du-
ties. 1t is this difference which is so
rapidly reducing the burdens which rest
upon the people, especially upon the
Democratic back, for, as an unwilling
heart doubles the burden, the Democracy
carry much the heaviest load. A calcu-
lation will show that Grant has paid more
per month than Johnson did per year,
and it is not unfair, therefore, to infer
that Democratic rule would require as
many years to remove the public debt as
Republican rule would months.
Some other facts are worthy of note in
this connection. Besides reducing the
taxes eighty millions, Congress, in the ap-
preparations, reduced the amount $31 600
600 below the estimates. Another fact is,
that while the Democracy complain so
much of the tax burdens, none of the
Democratic members voted for the tax
bill making the reduction of eighty mil
lions on its final passage.--10lsdo Blade.