Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-12-28
Tile Republican Party and the Taxes.

HE Republican Party and the Taxes.
For the fiscal year ended June so.
1850. the Federal revenues from all
sources amounted to about S33S, 500, 600.
For the tisEal4earSepded June so, 1881,
ssSo ooo 1 1872 sHs4 o ns%fs ss a to
nounced in his annual report that the
reyenues for the. fiscal year ended June
30 1855. = mount ed to 5 400, 900, 600, aud
sseSeeededby 81. 0o6. 600 even the,swollen
estimatessfcr tide year. For the current
yeaG 1925, the Secretary admits that
If the existing Tax and Tariff laws are
left undisturbed the revenues are likely
to run teyond this colossal figure, See
what table this rnakes:~F > -
1870 SrsS8 10000
49, %goo y -
This steafv increase in the exactions of
s the Soverrlhien in time of profound
speaec is startling. If we go back to
~s167S we shall find that it amounts to an
advance. Of more than fifty per cent. in
6yeyears, as the following figures show:
1873. :. 257,'63O0o
The enormous aggregate of these
sums has been paid into the Fed
eral Treasury by the people and the
industries of the United States, taken
from their earnings and withdrawn
Z from pro stable ttse by them. During the
fiscal year 1SS1-S2. the vast sum of
more than four hundred millions Of dol
lars has been, according to Secretary
Foiger. pumped out of the possession
of the people by taxation and poured
into the Treasury, thereby creating q
surplus which has for long periods lain
+, useless and unproductiye in the Federal
vaults, where not less than two hun
dred and seventy millions are now ly
ing No country in the world could
move steadily and prosperously under.
such q huge burden. as four hundred
millions of yearly taxation unless the
burdea was adjusted with extSme skill
and Judgment. : 1t exceeds the i'm
perial taxation Of Great Britain and
ireland. levied to 'earryA on-a costly
monarchical Government, with q pow
erfui army. with the finest nayS in. the
world. and with "a liberal SC Gule OF
compensation and pensions for its off
GERS. 1t. IS simply silly to SHUT our eyes
do sni a d ' sha N Tne aPs Cannot
much nsrer be blcd at ms tremen-
dous rate through our present clumsy,
- bune ling and monstroas- fiscal system
! made up of tariff levied in the inter
est OF classes and individuals and ofyan
internal revenue tax imposed under the.
presare Of a great war When We.
kturn TO eype ndittlres the outlook isNeyen
worse The Federal Government eN-
pended more thanka thousand millions
of dollars IN the four Years between
1878 and 1872. as follows:
1872 81 .s256 96t so
I IS :,::.: -; ::: IS Ss;s St ss55
For the fiscal year ended on June 80,
1882, Secretary Eolger admits that the
expenditures and payments of-all kinds
amounted to three hundred and eighteen
millions of dollars, and herpredicts for
the scurrentS fiscal year an outflow of
three hundred and seventv-eight mill
ienS Including forty,six millions for the
Sinking Fund.
surely it is time to call a halt!
Thanks to q corrupt and scandaious
Republican Congress, Secretary Eolger
is forced to admit that the National
finances are not in as good a condition
as they were in year ago <. Keller,
Robson and his Republican colleagues
have increased the public expenditures
bH about sixty millions, including the
Czairears, OF pensions. Legislation And
Secretary Roger will be obliged to
admit that the Pension Office. which is
under,thee control not o. Congress but
of the President, has lem paying out
the public mone< more wildly even than
Keifers Congress authorized it to do.
The responsibility for presenting to
Congress scheme to reduce this in
ternal revenue tax rests with the Re-
publican patty. The Executive Depart
Inent is Republican and so are both
saGanches Of tFEress and SO are the
, financial Committees in both houses.
VIII the withdrawal OF Secretary Fol
ger after sending in his report release
the Republican party from its RESPONSE
-bili,y? Does that party mean 10 confess
its Inability to deal rs party with the
living National problems of taxation
and expenditure? The Democratic
House OF Representatives-elect cannot
exercise any power (Hnless an extra
session is to be ca We'd by President Ar
thur) be ore Deeehber. 1888. No tax
sbill could vel beSna sured by it until
July or August, 1884. A Democratic
President will probably be elected in
November, 1884. Blft3lfc }cannot-be in
augurated until March 4 1885, and n
new House-wiu Lee chosen in Novem-
Der, 1884. 1t is $bhrtl, therefore, to
tall rs ifthe sDemdepntic party had any
responsibility now for the finances
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