The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-25

Or for each year, 1,159, 232, O4
Or less by sl79 923.79, for each of these
years, as compared with the best cypherng
the Committee can do for 1874. And now,
my dear Doctor, do you call it fair and
square for your Committee to endeavor to
impose on the people with this garbled
statement? Is it fair, if even the expenses
of these years had been as much or a little
more than 1874, to compare two years of
war and consequent high prices, with two
years of perfect peace? Why, the single
item of premium on gold to pay the inter
est on the sterling debt in London, of
which | have taken no account in the
above statement, was nearly one hundred
thousand dollars a year more than was
called for in 1874.
Again, in regard to the statement of the
public debt of the State, why is comparison
instituted between 1869 and 1878. If the
Central Committee cannot look at this
question from anything but a mere party
stand point why not keep down to that,
when the State debt was 11,095, 019 49
And 1866, when it was 1921, 500 80
Showing an increase in time
of profound peace of 5000, 217.17
~ Hdhc lOl lOIt utuuC-
ton is made for what is called interest
paying investments (among them Bohemia
Bridge stock) held by the State, which, it
is claimed, will reduce the actual debt to
$685., 1868.
These assets include 50, 500, 900 of mort.
gage of Northern Central Railroad, and
Susquehanna and Tide Water Canal. Had
MIR. Jump added these items to his assets
in 1866 the debt statement would have been
reduced to about five millions of dollars,
and Mr.. Jumps statement would have been
just as reliable in every particular as the
one now made by Mr.. Woolford. But all
this the Central Committee, willfully and
Of malice aforethought, withholds from the
public.
What l ask you, as an honest man, can
you think of the statement in the Commit
tees address that the Democratic Legis-
lature of 1872 repealed the direct tax,
when the fact is that in 1874 the amount
levied as direct taxes was $780, $50. 46,
against $3.50, 592.51 levied in 1866, which
was, if l am not mistaken, the largest
direct tax ever levied in Maryland prior to
that time and included school tax of tif-
teen cents on the hundred dollars. And
why, except for purposes of deception,
should the Committee bawl out in italics
"that no direct tar has been imposed on The
people for the support Of the State gouern-
ment," when every intelligent gentleman
in Maryland knows that direct taxes were
imposed about 1871, when the State was
on the brink of reputation, and have since
been continued for the sole purpose of pay
ing the State debt, and neoer for the ordi-
nary expenses of the government.
That corrupt and shameless Ring will
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misstate facts to conceal its own misdeeds
your character will endorse such things
when you fully understand them | will not
now believe.
Much boasting is INDUCED in regard to
the vastly Increased revenues derived out
side of direct taxation, and l have already
shown that the amount from this latter
source is nearly one hundred thousand dol
lars per year greater than in 1866, but
when, in the face Of these facts, the Treas
urer is required to issue new loan to the
amount of $261, 900 in single year TO
proride for the payment Of interest on the
public debt" what shall we say of men who
boldly proclaim that "the management of
the financial operations of the State is
irreproachable."
OF what avail is it to say, the State Is
credit is good, of course it is good. With
an extra hundred thousand a year, ground
out of the taxpayers in direct taxes, and
the revenues from other sources greatly ill.,
creased, and in some instances doubled, "
why should it not be good but, my dear
Doctor, l reckon it would take 4 great
while to make you say, that because the
bonds of the U. S. are twenty per cent
above par, that, therefore, the government
at Washington is "irreproachable in its
management of the financial operations "
of the country.
But, my dear Doctor, the trouble with
You is that you distort my structures on
Ring frauds into an attack on the Demo-
Gratis, and think you are bound to defend
your party, when in fact you will see, if
you examine my remarks, that never said
one word against Democrats. l assaulted
the Ring, which had grown to such mon
ster proportions that it stretched out,
Briareus like, its hundred hands over the
whole State, throttling the majority of the
party, stamping you down in the very dust
at its feet and forcing Carroll and Woolford
on you in spite of all your struggles. Had
this Ring been defeated at Baltimore, and
Mr.. Hamilton nominated, l give you my
most sacred word of honor that nothing
would have induced me to depart from the
quiet work of my profession. l should
have felt that the power of this crowd of
Frauds was broken, and the good name of
the State in fair way to be retrieved.
If in what have written l have confined
myself to comparisons between 1866 with
Republican officers and 1884 with Demo-
Gratis in power, it is because have followed
the road marked out by your Committee.
Let US get out of the rut into which the
Committee has put us, and institute COM
parison between the years 1867, 6S, So, 20,
II, 70, 70, "A, and 1857, 50, SO, 60, 81, Sc,
60, Ga:
Total direct tax collected