Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-29
The Republican PARTY and the Taxes.

For the fiscal year ended June 80;
1880 the Federal revenues from all
-o1rces amounted to about 1888, 500. 900.
For the fiscal wear ended June 80, 1901
thew amounted in round NUMBERS 10
$3.50. OOO.O 900. Secretary Folger has an
o nounced IN his annual report that the
revenues for the fiscal year ended June
$50. 1882, amounted to $404,OOOOO ana
exceeded BY $1,000. 900 even the swollen
estimates for the year. For the cur ent
year, 1S82-S3. the Secretary admits that
7 Iif the existing Tax and Tarin laws are
left undisturbed the revenues are likely
60 run Ieyond this colossal figure. See
what table this makes:
1870. -. ~ T,
ISsl........-,..... ...'-.''..''.'''. 11otSSS n a
1872 ......... .............--....... fOf'VVO'V'o
This steady increase in the exactions OIL
the Government in time of profound
peace is startling. If we go back to
1878 we shall find that IL amounts to an
advance of more than fifty per cent in
five years, as the following figures show;
1s79 fo9S
...... -O'''o''oSO
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from their earnings and withdrawn
from profitable use by them. During the
fiscal year 1882. the vast sum OF
more than four hundred millions of dol
lars has been, according to Secretary
Folger, pumped out of the possession
of the people by taxation and poured
into the Treasury, thereby creating a
surplus which has for long periods lain
useless and unproductive in the Federal
vaults, where not less than two hum
dred and seventy millions are now ly-
ing. No country in the world could
move steadily and prosperously under
such huge burden as four hundred
millions of yearly taxation unless the
burden was adjusted with extreme skill
and judgment. 1t exceeds the i'm
perial TAXATION of Great Britain and
Ireland. levied TO carry on a costly
monarchical Government. with q pow
erful army. with the finest navy in the
world. and with liberal schedule of
compensation and pensions for its off,
GERS. IL is simply silly TO shut our eyes
TO the fact that the people and the in
dustries of the United States cannot
much longer be bled at this tremen-
dous rate through our present clumsy,
bungling and monstrous fiscal system
made up of tariff levied in the inter
est Of classes and individuals and of an
internal revenue tax imposed under the
pressure Of great war. When we
turn TO expenditures the outlook is even
worse. The Federal Government ex-
pended more than thousand millions
of dollars in the four years between
1878 and 1872. as follows:
1915 ...... ................... ...fZB96l, 326
,s S '''''''''''' ''''''..''............ sOO01009
lng ..s.... 2l.6459oI
1871 .ssss.s....s....... SoO.OO,OOO
For the fiscal year ended on June 80,
1882, Secretary Folger admits that the
expenditures and payments of all kinds
amounted TO three hundred and eighteen
millions OF dollars, and he predicts for
the current fiscal year an outflow of
three hundr d and seventv-eight mill
Ions, including fOrty-six millions for the
Sinking Frnd.
Surely II is time to call halt
Thanks TO n corrupt and ,candalous
Republican Congress, Secretary folger
is forced To- admit that the National
finances are not in rs good n condition
as they were in year ago. Keller.
Robson and his Republican colleagues
have increased the public expend lures
by about sixty millions. including the
arrears of pensions legislation. And
Secretary Io'ger will be obliged to
admit that the Pension Office, which is
under the control not o. Congress but
of the President, has been paying out
the public money more wildly even than
Keiter's Congress authorized it to do.
The responsibility for presenting to
Congress n scheme to reduce this in
ternal revenue tax rests with the Re-
publican party. The Executive Depart
ment is Republican and so are both
branches of Congress and so are the
financial commit 'es in both houses.
Will the withdrawal of Secretary Fol
ger after sending in his report release
the Republican party from its RESPONSE
bility? Does that party mean 10 comics:
its inability to deal as party with the
living National problems of taxation
and expend .ture? The Democratic
House OF Represontatives-clect canno
exercise any power (unless an extrs
session is TO be called by President Ar
thur be ore December, 1888. No tn,
bill could wei be matured by it unit
July or August, 1884. A Democrat,
President will probably be elected il
November. 1884. But no clnnot be in
augura,cd until March 1885, and
new House VII lie chosen in Novem
Der. 1884. Ii Is absurd, therefore, I,
talk as IL the Democratic party had an,
responsibility now for the finances. =
W T. World.