The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

disappearance and the whole raging tempest
subsidized.
DEMoCRATIc RULE IN South CARROLL
NA.-The Ne,cs and Courier of the 18th
instant contains a long and able article, pre-
scntiug some interesting facts and figures,
under the heading, "The Practical Benefits
Of Democratic Rule in South Carolina"
from which We copy the following para
graphs:
"Ien and q quarter million dollars were
wrung from the people in eight years of
Radical rule. an average of 81 ,2S0, ,22S.-
During the three years of Democratic rule
the amount of State taxes actually collec
ted is 81 $40, ZIG, an average of $5l5, ,572.
The direct saving in State taxes alone is,
therefore, 1854 ,656, which is equal to 81
293, ,96S in three years More than t,oo and
a quarter million dollars have been saved
BY the reduction Of expenses consequent
upon the election of the Democratic candi-
dates in 1876. And the money which has
been collected for taxes has been honestly
spent. The people have had their moneys
worth. While the Radicals were in power,
on the contrary, the greater part of the rev.
enue was wasted or stolen, and each year
III.
"'The people of the State have every rea-
son to be satisfied with what has been done.
There is an average reduction of "a per
cent. in the assessed value of property for
taxing purposes, and the average State tax
has been reduced from an average Of 8 mills
to an average of mills. The amount of
State taxes collected in each year is reduced,
on an average, 1854 ,S56, making so .293,>
9G8 in three years and the amount colec-
ted on account Of the State tax for each
year is reduced, on an average, S79S,671,
making, in three years, 81 ,39G,O13. There
is also reduction in the county tax, out
side of the special taxes, which taxes, as
before mentioned, arc to meet expenditures
incurred by the people of the counties them.
selves, or to lquidate debts contracted prior
to 1877, the larger part Of which debts, We
presume, was due to the people of the re.
spective counties themselves. Judged,
! therefore, by the combined cfficieucv auI
economy ofthc State Government, the Dem.
cratic party have fulfilled every pledge
they made before the election. The eople
as a whole arc more than compensated, even
as matter of morey, for tho labors and
sacrifices of the political canvass in 1876.
, III shS VI SauiS law hO uOuUt
allow the governmental expenses to be re-
duced still further, but, Notwithstanding the
costly complexity Of the governmental sys-
tcm established by the Constitution of 1868.
no political party, in any State, can better
afford to be known by lbs works than the
dominant party in South Carolina Final
ly, the taxes in the State would Je insignif-
icant, if the people we're less liberal in pro-
vidng for free education, or were less pune.
tlious in carrying out the decision of the
Supreme Court establishing the amount of
the valid and binding State debt. The State
tax for the year lS79-S0 is expected to
produce about S675 900 land the Phosphate
royalty about $4,000 For the interest on
the public debt the appropriation is s5O4,.
900, and the public schools receive the pro-
ceeds of school tax of two mills included
in the State tax. 100000 The entire
revenue from current taxation and the
Phosphate royalty being S772,00O, no less
than S704,0OO Of this amount 90 to the
public creditors and the public schools"
Mr.. BERGH ON C.HTs.-Mr. Bergh is
getting hard hearted. That he, the Presi-
dent of the New York Society for the Pre-.
vcntion of Cruelty TO Animals, should de-
clare that measures must be taken to sup
| I'll thoth