The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-16

much more money was spent now for
teachers and how many more schools
there we're in operation and more schoF
ara attending school than there were N
1870, but be did not tell rs that in 1870
the State was Just erecting school houses
all over the State and as . matter o.
course, until these were provided teachers
could not be employed nor children at
tend school. He expatiated on TAX
alton ana said that in 1870 the
school lax was IS cents on the SlO0
valuation while now Il Was but 4S cents,
but he failed to state that In 1870 We were
having largely for the school houses then
being erected, and it was necessary that
tbese demands should be met by increased
taxation. He stated that under Repuhli.
can administration the State tax was .
cents on the 800, but now under Demo
cratic regime il Is but 20 cents. But he
failed to state that under this Democracy
81, 900, 900 had been added 70 the taxa-
bic property Of the State BY the revalpa'
ton ofiand, in fact largely increasing our
tax, and this at q time when the heavy
drafts ON the Treasury for the Insane Asy:
lum and the PenitentiAry had been met.
BE stated that the County Court was
cheaper than the old supervisory system,
and defended itas good thing, and was
loudly applauded BY his Democratic
hearers as though they endorsed IL.
While everybody knows, and these noisy
Democrats know and feel that the County
Court l. an expensive and fossiiiEed in
stitution and an intolerable nuisance TO
everybody except lawyers and Justices oil
He tIied TO bolster up the policy Of the
party a regarded the Penitentiary, and
Ethonght himself very witty ip saying thai
| Il wSs necessary ii should be large in
order 70 hold the many Republicans who
were likely TO need Its shslteEing protec.
ton. > .. sEEns1 y.
These were the strong points OF his
argument, but most assuredly any man
| Democrat or Republican, with any intel
Higence or knowledge Of facts, would say
there vas no sound or logical reasoning
| In this harapgue from beginning 70 end
Il was lame effor. at speech-makine
throughout. .ru,al , s,r;a :
Mr.. Hereford next appeared to do 81
the financial part. He started ont viii
the idea Of repudiation-paying the M
tional deb. in greenbscks. He drew
very gloomy picture OF our present trou.
bles and depression in business, ant
charged the Republican party witt
the responsibility Of it all, ant
said that what, The country wantet
in order to realize the Utopial
| dreams OF good times. was change II
administration, but he failed 10 stat
I that the Democrats were now in powe
in Congress and had been for 'tw'
long years, and yet had failed 70 maxi
things any better. Does he mean TO So.
that what is needed Is change there
where these financial projects for relic
must originated
He presented some figures TO show hoN
much money had been expended for car
rying on the government in the 20 year
before the war aud compared 1t with th
amount expended for the same purpos
for 10 years following the war, leavin
out war items such as interest," pensions
&C., but showing the expenses to hay
been some greater for the 10 years ate
the war than for the 10 years preceding
but he failed to state that..within the !
years after the war or from 1865 TO lS1
three times more mOneywas collected tina
for the 70years preceding or from 1870
. 1860, and The amount collected durip
the i've years Of the war is included, an
) it was collected under Republican admin
istration, then in the fifteen years Of thi
+, administration Eve times more none
was collected than during the seysnt
1 years preceding; and yet, according 70 u
g gentleman's own figuring, the total e.
pense Of collecting this large excess VI
little more than the expense Of collectir
J tie smaller sum under Democratic &c
n ministration. So that the arguments
e the increased expenditures Of the Co
a eminent for collecting the revenue und'
Republican rule falls 10 the ground undo
the light OF comparison.
After the speech OF Hereford and Il
subsidence Of few yells, Senator Day
appeared to state that he would not hsy
time at present TO dilate on the emo
nous extravaganza and corruption Of Il
4 Republican party, but would promi'
: them that they should hear from him ;
1 no distant day. Doubtless his argumen
: when siited out will be quite as chaffy
= Us those Of his predecessors. Nogenuir
i enthusiasm prevailed, and altogether
! was not field day for Democracy. E.