The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-09-14

Taxes.
t0ther Revenues -aags -.s s.f
There was deficit in this year of $40 2s2 9si .
compare total debt on July I, 1868, and July ,
1892 as shown in FinAneial Report Of lsss, p.
LAiA-, and 1863, p. xxx. But this deficit was
orldged over, and disappeared in the accounts OF
succeeding years.
1t IS with no.merely literary object that
We have been to the trouble of procuring
this elaborate exposition of the Federal
revenues. 1t has been the boast of the
present Administration ever siAee it came
into power that it had LOWERED THE TAX
Es. 1t has, over and over again, in its
official reports, and IN its bacK-door dis
patches through the Associated Press at
Washington, claimed that, by certain acts
of Congress, to which 1t perpetually refers
with the most cruel minuteness Of date,
chapter, section and paragraph. the taxes
had been lowered Is ttis he facts
When the Grant administration went
into Office the total annual revenues of the
| Federal Government exceeded $466, ,000.-
600 per annum. Fnghtfuliy large as this
sun was they have continuedso to tight
en- the screws as to augment II to over
| $500. .00O0 900. Is Lhis kOlOe7ing the tazes ?
The customs duties in the last year OF
JOhnson's administration amounted to
| $l64, 900 600 per annum. They are now
over $I94 100000. The internal revenues
were then $l9l 100000 a year. They
amounted last year TO 185, 100000 or but
little less. 1t 1868, the Secretary of War
under President johnson sold war materi-
al to the amount of $45, 100000; in 1870,
President Grants Secretaries obtained
revenues to the amount t-of 500, 600, 900
from the same questionable source. But
our exhibit of the revenue does not ex-
haust its value with the mailing of this
Radical lie and false boast concerning the
taxes. First of all observe the workings
of the protective system, which these sta
| tistics reveal. In 1880 the custom house
imposed but $4,000, 900 Of taxes upon
the people2 IN 1850, but $53D00,0 \; in
1870 they screwed out over $l94, 600 900 !
In 1850 we had no internal revenue taxes
to pay in 1860, none; even IN ls64-in
the middle of the war-!he revenues from
this source amounted to but sos, 600, 600.
Now, five years after the close of the war,
they sum up $ls5, 900, 200 III. -,-...
But perhaps the most remarkable fea-
ture of the exhibit is that relating to the
sales of war material -Thedetnls of these
secret sales of public property have never
been given to, the public, but enough. has
| transpired to fx on them strong suspi-
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least one instance upon which TO ground
the presumption that immense stores of
public property have, been sold at q great
sacrifice, purchased by members of the
notoriJns and corrupt military ring, and
resold TO the GoVeTnmentiata prodigions
profit. And there can be but little doubt
that the entire Lotto public property thus
sold by the War and Navy Departments
for some two hundred and fifty and odd
millions, and which probably cost, in the
shape of Rar bonds misunderstanding and
unpaid, over one thousand, millions, was
sold corruptly in order to be corruptly
purchased again by the same dishonest
officers Of the Government Else why at
tempt 10 conceal the sales from the pub
lie under the unmeaping title of "Fepay-
1sents," and keep them out of the Secre-
tary's report, which everybody reads, only
to covertly introduce them into the Treas
urer's report, winch nobody reads?
- With regard to the postal revenues, it
would seem thatin spite of the fact that
where ten years ago but nine millions were
aand&ly received from postage now mne-
teen millions are received, the ,POstofhee
Department cannot be made to pay for
itself. The expenditures in 1870 Were