The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-07
WHAT TTLDEN PA Us FOR VOTES.

II is the custom of Oriental monarchs
on their accession to the sovereignty to
distribute lavish gifts among their people.
This year the Republican officials es-
timated that the amount of money need
ed to carry on the Government for the
next year would be $2o3, o25.4S,
The Democratic House was inclined
10 allow for this purpose SI3S752 343.4a.
The Republican Senate demanded
SI5S 200, 59S63.
Believing that the sorely burdened tax
payer would prefer half loafto no bread
the Democratic House yielded so far as
to let the appropriations be SI47,7IS.
o74S5
For the year 1876 they had been SIS7.
663,327.7I,
This array Of figures has little signiG-
canoe to or interst for the average reader,
therefore the W0rM 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
ment, otincluding interest or re-
demption ofthe debt................S423
If Belknap, Chandler and Robson
had had their way, each person
would have been taxed to carry
on the Government in IS77......4.832
If the Democrats had had their way,
the cost per head would have been
reduced 10 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" 322
Belknap and Robeson's pals in the
Senate thereupon remarked: that's
letting off the people too light;
let's make each one pay..........3y7
And the House was compelled, un-
less it desired to be accused of
blocking the wheels of legislation,
finally to agree to levy tax per
capita ol..".".., ,.".",..."......"3,5I
Now if we take the average laborer,
who has family of five comprising him
self, his wife and three children, it is ap-
parent that if the Republican Admins
tration had had its way he would have
had to pay into the national Treasury
S2AI7!, which. assuming his wages to be
SI.5o day, represents about sixteen
days of hard labor.
Had the Democratic House been able
to command, as it will next year, the CO.
operation ofPresident Tilden and Dem
ocratc Senate, his share of the national
taxation would have been SI6.63i 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 $2II5 to SI7. .57!, or 3.574.
This amount may seem small, but it
represents the labor of twenty four work
ing hours. To a million families the ap-
parently trihing 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 for ALI
Let the laborer who, meanly clad and
poorly fed, digs in the sewers, or delves
in the coalmines, or works upon the rail
road tracks; the clerk who tolls for sixteen
hours day at a salary of So 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 wiring therefrom a 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; a 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 Co.. cents or I42 per cent.
Therefore, elect Hayes and thisi what
the Head of the family Of five will have
to pay for each year ofhis administration
The Republican expenditure for 1876
was S2II5.
For 1877 it was placed at s24,I7!
| With Hayes and Republican Con-