The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-09-14
SHERMAN REPLIED TO.
Gen. G.. w. Morgan at the CleVe-
land Convention, Sept. 9th.
Ventilates Sherman's Light Talk ofS400,-
100000 Of Taxes, and DisseCts
the Late Hayes Secretary.


tor Sherman, delivered ten days ago.
We are told by biographers that their
heroes, when young, took certain char
aeters as models upon which to form
themselves; and it would appear that a
distinguished and adrOit Senator chose
as his model the god Janus, with two
faces; the one of Bacchus, and the other
of Mars. When the Romans were diVi-
ded into factions, Janus seemed to favor
each, and encOuragingly smiled first on
one and then ON the other. The doors
of his temple were only closed in time OF
peace, and during the entire history of
that Republic, they were shut but once.
So, too, our Janus, as the presiding
deity of the public treasury as its Sec
retary, or as chairman of the Finance
Committee, has kept its doors wide open
to all corners, both in war and in peace;
and the taxes eXtorted from the people
under one preteXt and another have
been squandered by hundreds of mil
lions.
In this speech the Senator says, "FOr-
tunate it is for our country to have no
burdensOme taxes" But he fOrgets to
tell us how heavy the load of taxation
must be, before it becomes burden.
In tones of pride he tells us that
"Our revenues yielded last year over
four hundred million dollars" How
much over that amount he fails to say,
but as the amount of taxes daily receiv-
ed at the treasury is quoted at one and
half millions, the amount collected for
the current year will be about four nun
dred and seventy millions.
But what does that sum meanp How
shall we measure its Valuep Were to
tell you that it is more than the value
of all the real estate in your beautiful
city of Cleveland, you would scarcely
realize the fact. What then will you
think when tell you that this trihe of
more than four hundred millions,
concerning which the Senator speaks so
lightly, is far greater than the value or
all the real estate embraced within the
limits of the grand cities of Cincinnati
and Cleveland together. Greater, did
say? Why, fellow-citizens, that more
than four hundred Millions" wrung
from the toll and substance of the peO-
pie, in a single year, by those who hold
and by false pretenses seek TO retain con,
troll of the treasury, and OF Its mutllated
records, is, according to the grand du-
plicate of Ohio for 1880, greater than
the total value of all the real estate in
all the cities, towns and villages in our
grand and glorious commonwealth of
Ohio; greater than the value of all the
chattel property in the State, and nearly
value of all the landed property in
Ohio. And yet Mr.. Sherman regards the
squandering of this enormous amount
of money as a good joke. Is the Sena-
tor aware that according to the grand
duplicate of Ohio, for the year already
named, that if Mansfield, the beautiful
city of his residence, and all the towns
and villages within the good county OF
Richland, were to be sold at their asses
ed value, the proceeds of the sale would
only amount to about the one hundredth
part of the almost fabulous sum of
taxes which he generously helped to
expend in single year? And what has
become of this stupendOus sum of
money taken from the comforts of ten
million homes? Withdrawn from the
active business of the country and con-
sumed.
Senator Sherman will answer for him
self. Our taxes, he says, yields such
vast sums "that the chief controversy is
how shall we spend the money!" "0ur
debates in Congress" he says, "are as to
what eXpeIdi.u 8 we shall make"
Poor fellOwsl How worthy of sympa-
thy, in their embarrassment as how to
suuander and fool away the money of
other people. Good sense and common
honesty would dictate that less money
be squandered in shameless schemes of
pIunder, and more in payment of the
public debt.
These Republican statesmen have no
controversies aDOuG
THE CONSTITUTION;
for that old-time instrument limits and
defines the powers of Congress; and it
is much easier to walk into the treasury
and make a divide" than discuss the
embarrassing question of their right to
do 80. Right Who among them all
stop to think about right, when millions
are to divide, and patriots are ready to
receive themp
Senator Sherman seems to regard this
canvass as
ROARING FARCE,
and to be ambitious of appearing as the
leading actor. He loosely says: eve
are living in the piping times of peace" "
We are searching for an ISSUE" Ac-
cording to the Senator, the temperance
that it has to be hunted down in order
to find it, or its supporters. And having
relieved himself of this caustic piece of
wit, he wades into his oratiOn, clipping
wink to the liquor dealers from his
gIeeful face, and with an air of lofty
dignity on the other, which he turns
toward the champions of temperance.
1t is difficult to tell what Sherman is,
or what he means, for
SHERMAN is A wINKER.
He boasts that Republicans have had
control of Ohio for quarter of cen
tury. Now, if that be true, and if dur
ing that long period of time the laws
have been unequal, oppressive and un-
wise, the Republicans alone are respOn-
sible.
Casting a glance of grave intelli-
gence from his abstemiOus face towards
the temperance men he says, "The
liquor traffic is a proper source of taxa
tion. 1t could Che don't say it wilD be
made to yield in Ohio more than one
million dollars" The temperance men
delightedly applaud) Then lest the
liquor traffic should take alarm, he turns
towards them his jocOse face, and, with
wink, says, Pond tried that, and gave
birth to an abortion" (The liquor
dealers now laugh and cheer.) And
then he turns toward the temperance
men, and in freezing tones says, "The
liquor dealers capital in trade may be q
den: ora cellar, and q barrel of whisky,
and the profit Of the dealer averages 100