The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-09-06
What Tnden Pays for, Votes.
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among their people,
This year the Republican officials
estimated that the amount Of money
needed to carry on the Government
for the next year would be $685.
099 ,025. As.
The Democratic House was in
eiined to allow for this purpose $685.
752, ,343.42.
The Republican Senate demanded
$158. .260. 598. .6s.
Believing that the soresy burden
ed tax payerTwould prefer half a loaf
to no bread, the Democratic House
yielded so far as to let the. .appropri-
ations be $f47. 719. .074.85.
For the year 1876 they had been
$177, 1853, ,327.7.
This array of figures has little sig
nifcance to or interest to the aver
age reader; therefore the WorEd will
present them in another shape.
Taking the population Of the
United States to be $4,000. 600 souls,
we find that
In 1876 each person in the country had
to pay to support the Government, -
not including interest or redemption
If BeIknap Chandler and Robeson. had
had their way, each person would
ernment in 1877 $4.ss1z
the cost per head would have been
BeIknap and Robeson's pa Is in the Sem
ate thereupon remarked: That's let
ting off the people too light; let's
Ta1n lac oh ana
And the House sew was as compelled, unless
it desired to be accused of blocking
the wheels of legislation, finally to
agree to levy tax per capita OF :. $3.51 -
Now if we take the average laborer,
who has family of five, comprising
himself, his wife and three children, it
is apparent that if the Republican Ad-
ministration had had its way he would
have had to pay into the national Treas
ury $24, 174, which, assuming his wages
to be $3.50 day, represents about six
teen days of hard labor.
Had the Democratic House been able
toseommand, as it will next year, the CO.
operation of President Tilden and a
Democratic Senate, his share of the ma
tional taxation would have been SIG. 63a,
or eleven and a 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 $21. 10 to $17.574.
This amount may seem small, but it
represents the labor of twenty four
working hours. TO million families
the apparently trifing 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 all?
Let the laborer Who meanly clad and
poorly fed, digs in the sewers, or delves
in the coal-lnines, or works upon the
railroad-tracks; the clerk who tolls fol
sixteen hours day at salary of SO q
week; the artisan who finds no employ
ment for eight months in the year; the
farmer who puts his life into the stub
born soil and does not wiring therefrop
living the people ponder this.
8 A Democratic ADMINISTRATION means
more money in the pocket; Warmel
clothes for the back; better food for tn,
belly; shoes for the baby; new dres
for the wife; less work for the husband
Had the Republicans had their way
the taxation per head in 1877 would hav,
been increased over that for 1876 by tn,
sum of COZ cents, ers1 144 per cent -s3
Therefore, elect Hayes and this is wha
the head of the family of five will hav'
to pay for each year of his administra
tion: go Rsg s
s The Republican expenditure for 1871
was $21. .15.sl z
For 1877 it was placed at $24 ia.
With Hayes and Republican Con
gress it viii, therefore, be-.
For 1873. $27 .68
For 1880 ......--........ $685.
For 1851 41sS42
On the other hand take the Democrat
ic estimate for four years; even if it
not further reduced, and it foots u
$66.65.
Let us hear, then, the conclusion o
the whole matter. Despite all laws AM
enactments against bribery of voters, W
say to every head Of . family: Vote tn
Democracy into power and we will pa
| you directly sn four years $7o 55s, Hol
many days work is that? How man
I pairs of shoes? How many yards of ca
leo and flannel ? How many pounds 9
meat and loavesso of bread? S~as
We say nothing here of the indiree
saving which will accrue from the tr
umph of the Democratic principle I
Free Trade. These results are not S
easily seen, vastly greater though they b
We do not say though we might-thi
| a Democratic victory means that tn
seamstress's spool of thread shall contai
400 yards, and the laboreT's day con-
down. to seven hours, and the farmer
busllel hold five peclss. This lies in a
outer demcnse. We say it win be s.
and adduce good reasons for saying $
but our antagonists deny it, and consid'
their assertion as good as our demonstr
/ ton. .ss.,'.-....
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But about the figures we give to-da
there can be no question. They sho
what the Republicans wanted to d
what we would fain have done. what v
have done in the face Of oppositiol
This is Campaign supplement Ga
tells Let Democratic papers al
+ speak erz circulate III give if TO the
bores the. mechanic and the farme
and when next November comes, M
Hayes figure-head of blatlier 'bribel
and bayonetrule, will not have the %
SO votes in the Electoral College.
2 Read and Reflect.
i The man who cheats the printer
Out of a single cent
Will never reach the happy land
Where old Elijah vent
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