The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-05
1878.
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In these six items alone there is a difference
of S654,0 900, and no one of them can you object
to. The increase for deaf mutes and paupers
merely show the increase of mutes and insane
paupers. This leaves only 1871, 900 unaccounted
for. In 1878 we raised sinking fund of $780,
600; industrial school forgirlss 5000; Maine
General Hospital $4,000; Statue Of Gov. King
$4,000; two new courts $1,000; Normal school
at Gorham 81, 800 in all 100000, which ac-
counts for $4,000 more than is charged to
Republican extravaganza. There is no ground
for the cry against the Republican party and
the people are fast finding it out.
Again it is charged that there will be de-
ficiency or debt at the end of the present year
of between $200,0 and $300,0 900. give you
the figures that you may judge for yourselves.
Had the treasurer of 1878 made no temper
airy loan, nor used any money coming from the
taxes of 1878, he would have had as the whole
resources of the state (pages and 81 81 ,159 OOO
The entire expenditures were 81 ,273,00O. This
would have left debt of $115 ,OOO-to be met
this year. (This came about by not assessing
a 81 mile tax in 1877, instead of 3 mill tax.)
The treasurer of 1879 will have without using
any of the tax assessed this year, the four mill
tax of 1878, $S9S,000, and from other sources
$34S, 900, in all 1,246,0O0. The estimated ex-
penditure page 10, ReporD is 81 ,191 900. TAX
ing the saving of last year, estimated at $780,
600, and the expenditure will not exceed 81
101 900. This leaves uneXpended at the end
of this year $145, 600, which will pay the bal
ance carried over and leave So0,OO0 IN the
treasury. And this without touching dollar
of the tax of 1879, which virtually belongs to
the treasurer of 1880. No method of reason
ing can do away with this fact. You are told
that the number of mortgages placed on rec
ord is greater than ever before; that the peo-
pie are getting involved. An examination OF
records in the western registry of this county
shows that from Jan. LIST, 1856, to Sept. I'd,
ESQ., the number of mortgages recorded was
104, and for the time from Jan. /, to Sept. 2,
1878, but 90, less by twelve than in 1856.
Take your own tax in 1856. Your tax in
Fryeburg was 81 mills; this year ID 2.10, Off
ference of 40 mills. You pay 37.10 mills
to meet your railroad Indebtedness, and one
mill for schools, making 4 7-10-eXactly the
excess of the tax over 1856. In BRIEF your
taxes this year would be precisely now as in
1856 were it not for your railroad and school
mill tax. This is the case all over the state,
and all the increase of taxation can be ac-
counted for in some such way.
1t is with pride that | point you to these
facts which show conclusively that the Repub-
lican party is the friend of the laboring man.
And in all these years of individual and cor
porate extravaganza the interests of the peo-
pie in town and state affairs have been care
fully guarded. Thus could go on until every
claim against us could be explained and for
ever set at rest.
Hon. Henry B. Cleaves followed in an hours
effective speech on national affairs, showing
the falIacy of the Greenback doctrine,