The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-31
WHAT riLDEN PAYS FOR VOTES.

II is the custom of Oriental monarchs
on their accession to the sovereignty to
distribute lavish gifts among their peo-
pie.
This year the Republican officials est.
mated that the amount of money needed
to carry on the Government for the next
year would be $2O3, e99, 025.48.
The Democratic House was inclined to
allow tor this purpose $138, 752, 34S.42.
The Republican Senate demanded
sl5S, 26O59S So.
Believing that the sorely burdened tax
payer would prefer half losfto no bread,
the Democratic House yielded SO far as to
let the appropriations be SAT, 7l9O74 IS
For the year 1876 they had been $l77,-
663,327.n.
This array of figures has little signif-
canoe to or interest for the average
reader; therefore we will present them
in another shape,
Taking the population of the UNITED
STATES to be 100000 souls, we find
that
In 1876 each person in the country
had TO pay to support the Govern
dempt on of the debt.....-.;,............ Si,Z5
II Belknap, Chandler and Robson
had had their way, each person
on the government in ls76......... 4.SSH
Ifthe Democrats had had their way,
reduced S.s2s4
Belknap and Robeson's pals in the
Senate thereupon remarked:
That's letting of the people too
light; let's make each one pay. 3.T1
And the House was compelled, un-
less IL desired 10 be accused OF
blocking the wheels Otlegislation,
nually tc agree to levy tax per
capita o.oiZ2
Now, if we take the average laborer,
who has fam lily Of five, comprising him.
self, his wife and three children, it is APP
parent that if the Republican Admins
trstion had had its way he would have
had to pay into the national Treasury
s24.l7I, which, assuming his wages to be
$3.50 day, represents about sixteen days
of hard labor.
Had the Democratic House been able
to command, as it will next year, the CO.
operation OF President TILDEN and n
Democratic Senate, his share of the na-
tional taxation would have been SIG G33,
or eleven and half days labor.
Even with all the drawbacks we have
enumerated, the burden on the laborer's
family has been actually reduced this
year from $21l5 to $l7574, or $3.573.
This amount may seem small, but it
represents the labor of twenty-four work
ing hours. To a million families the az
psrently trifiing sum of $3.50 in cash
means how much medicine for the sick,
what shoes and clothing for the children,
how much meat and potatoes Tor all?
Let the laborer who, meanIy clad and
poorly fed, digs in the sewers, or delvs
in the coal-mines, or works upon the rail-
road-tracks the clerk who tolls for six
teen hours day at salary of 50 a week;
the artisan who finds no employment for
eight months in the year; the farmer who
puts his life into the stubborn soil and
does not bring therefrom living-let
the people ponder this.
A Democratic Administration means
more money in the pocket; warmer
clothes for the back; better food for the
belly; shoes for the baby; new dress for
the wife; less work for the husband.
Had the Republicans had their way,
the taxation per head in 1877 would have
been increased over that for 1876 by the
sum of G0I cents, or l44 per cent.
Therefore. elect HAYES and this Is
what the head OF the family OF five Will
have to pay for each year of his admins
tration:
The Republican expenditure for 1876
was 81 10.