The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-09-15

: Again, take the collection Of reYC
, uue in the same years. The take
] and the rates OF them were precisel
the same; but from March /, 1868,
March Ist, 1859, the receipts wer
iSI56. .I3s, ,I68, and from March ], 1856
! to March ], 1870, the receipts wei
sl75. .467, IA, showing an increase b
tine honest collection of taxes Of SIS, ,32t
Z 973. and mostly in the luxuries {
whisky and tobacco. This increase
r still going on, so that IN the mrs
. eighteen months Of Grants admins
tration, we are able to increase TN
, yield OF internal taxes alone, owe
, thirty millions, without increasing
! single tax.
, Again-Take the reduction Of th
mIbIic debt. In-the last year of John
/ sons administration, the public deb
was reduced j,9j9,7l In the firs
year Of Grants administration 1t wa
! reduced SS7, ,I34, 7S2-Or difference j
one year over S81 5000 In eigh
teen months of Grant 4iministrl
ton, without the increase of one dol
lar in the rate Of taxation, the deb
has been reduced over one hundres
and sixty millions of dollars and i
now less than s., ,360, 0, ,OO0, 900, including
4 greenbacks, fractional notes, and ev-
cry form Of debt.
| Again-LOok at the national taxes
! Since the war we have gradually anC
cautiously reduced our internal taxes
but under Grants administration
we were able, under the present care
, ful management of our finances, To
reduce taxes by wholesale. At the
last session we repealed the mass oi
these Xes-amOunting, according tO
an official statement | have just re-
eeivesI, to $5j, ,2l2, 600 internal taxes,
and S26. 900, 900 tariff duties, or over
Ssl. OOO, 900 in ali. After this year
there will be no internal taxes levied
by the United States, except on Whis-
ky, tobacco, stamps and income and
the income and stamp tax is largely
reduced. Now is not this doing well?
How does Gen. Morgan meet these
plain and simple facts, known to him
very well, and shown in these official
papers? We will see after n while.
But one point in passing. He as
sumes, with a lofty indifference of
parties and of Presidents, that he is
| not responsible for President Johnson.
| He did not vote for him, and, as l will
show, he actually charges him with
! an impeaehable Offense. But il Nor
gan is not responsible for Johnson,
what shall we say of our friend Hub
/ bell? He is the Democratic candidate
/ in our district. He not only voted
| for Johnson, but followed him into
| the Democratic party, and left his
old friends of the Republican party,
who had been true, and kind, and par
| tial to him, in order to emphasize his
devotion to johnson.
But let US 90 back. What were the
leading questions of the last session
of Congress? What were the objects
you wished acco omplished? One was
the reduction of the interest of the
public debt, so as to lessen its burden;
another was to give to the West its
fair share Of the paper money of the
country; another was the reduction of
taxation; another was rigid economy
in public expenditures. Did General
Morgan enlighten you on any of those
questions? Did he tell you how the
Democratic party resisted the Fund
ing bill, in order that the very weight
of the debt might lead you to justify
measures tending to impair the pub
lie credit? Did he ever discuss the
question as to how or when the pub
lie debt should be paid? I see moth
ing of this i'm his speech, though it
was one on which there was much de-
bate and anxious consideration. So
with the Currency bill. When, under
the existing law, the East got great
advantage over the West and South
in the organization of National Banks,
the Democratic party made the great
est clamor over it. 1t was the chief
point of Governor SeymOur's speechs I
in 1865. when he took the stump for
himself as President. Though all this |
arose out of an error of construction |
Of Secretary McCulloch and Comp |
trOller Clark, yet when an OppOrtu- |
nifty to correct it was offered, Gen. |
Morgan and his political associates
were found voting against the bill. |
So with the reduction of taxes. We |
We're ready TO, and did, As / have
shown, throw off eighty-one millions |
of dollars of taxes. There was much
debate and controversy as to what |
taxes should be repealed-as to how |
the tariff was to be altered. Here was
a place where General Morgan could
have told YOU whether he was for free
trade or a revenue tariff, or whether
there is any difference or his qUes
ton between Beatty and Hubbell.
But upon this point he was as silent
as an oyster. And so am EOund 10
say, on all these questions of pTacti-
cal politics now in issue, upon which
the people engaged in every day pur-
suits naturally want and are seeking
General Morgan did not
present the questions involved in this
but only gave you dry husks,
or scattered and immaterial state
ments easily collected and put to-
gether as to any administration by
one far less able to engage in political
debate than he is.
Let us see. He tells you, but not
for the first time, how good and Vir-
tuOus you, the people, are or ought to
that you alone, of all the
world, have free institutions; and that
the good of your country is of more
than the success of any
party. Admitted. He tells you the
DeODse demand reform, and the high
est evidence of it is, that the Demo-
cratic party had nominated James II.
lifelong Wing and Repub-
Iican. If to secure reform, they must
take a Republican, why not take a
good one? Well, 1 suppose they nomi-
mated Hubbell in the hope that he
would get few Republican votes here
in Delaware.
The next great truth he tells US is
that the Republican party lives only
in name. IfsO, where does the Demo-
cratic party live? 1t is in the graves
Of Pierce and Buchanan, and dis
honest record.
Differences exist among Republi-
cans, he saws. True, and l trust in
dependent opinion will always exist
In our party. We can not be voted
from a tally list like New York city.
And then he tells us what the Demo-
Gratis will do when restored to power.
His promises are not very definite,
but they are enough. Political prOmi-
ses are very cheap by minorities. We
Judge tree by its fruits-a party by
its acts.
When the devn was sick,
The Devil monk would be,
When the devil got well,
The devil monk was he.
He then undertakes to tell us what
becomes Of the money of the people
and the highest and only evidence of
the awful atrocity of the Republican
party was the fact quoted with much
detail from the report of the Auditor
Of Ohio, that in 1889 our State taxes
to the enormous sum of
-, ,232, ,677, while in 1860 they only
to $40, 81, ,676, an increase
Of S11, ,415, ,201. Is itnot strange, fellow
that he forgot to tell that in
1850 we had a Republican Legislature,
and that every dollar Of the S22, 232,-
S77, collected in 1859, was voted by a
Democratic Legislature in both Hous-
es-the same Legislature that elected
my colleague, Judge Thurman, to
the Senate Of the United States This,
certainly, is a striking illustration of
what viii become of the taxes paid by
the people, if you are ever so unwise
as to elect a. Democratic Legislature
again.