Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-09-27
Supplement- to Review.

publicans expended In the same time
IA for the same purposes, the proosRious
sum OF $22S 800 "a.
Were there TO be added to this the in-
crease IN the other items which I have
omitted, the total would be more than
$500 900, or nearly az much AS has been
thus far received from the ex state
treasurers. So il appears that after all
the biuster ABOUT the treasury suits, that
the tax payers have received little bene.
Hs from them, as the Democrats have
sQuandered In other directions nearly as
much as they have recovered from the
treasurers. This 10 precisely what the
figures show.
While the figures that have given,
being the exact expenditures, item by
item, show conclusively that the Demo-
Gratis have been much less economical
than the Republicans, there is still
another way to show with equal correct
ness md force the same unmistaka ble
fact. It is by the tax levy. In
1890, the last year Of Repub.
lican rule, the state tax levy amounted
to 1891, $4,000. The average levy for the
years 1923. under Democratic rule,
was 81 ,008 .775 38. an average yearly i'm
crease Of SIT, 115 38. or total increase
for the three years Of $751;, 346.14. So
you see the accounts balance, and one
statement proves the other. Take the
total OF the increased tax levy by the
Democrats, as compared with the last
Republican year, or take the figures az
| given In the expense accounts and the
| result 10 the same. There is no escaping
these figures. Their correctness is I'M
deniable. They are taken from Demo-
cratic reports as well as Republican. No
honest man will question their accuracy.
The comparisons made are absolutely
fsir.
There is no chance given for confusion
or error. There has been no selecting
Of items here and there, but all the lead
ing ones are given in the order in which
they appear in the secretary of states
reports. Nor have single years been
selected, but the entire three years of
Democratic rule for which the records
are made up, compared with the last
three Republican years.
In the face of these figures, official
and indisputable, every intelligent man
must know that the claim that this ad.
ministration has been an economical
one, is ludicrous and fraudulent. The
people want no more of this sort of econ.
omy. It is wasting their substance and
increasing their burdens. The extraor-
binary revenues available this year will
never be received again. At the rate
the Democrats have increased expenses
heretofore, and with no unusual income
and there is none to be derived here
after,-if they should be continued in
power another term, the state taxes
would become enormous and oppressive.
The facts and figures which I have
laid before you present the strongest
possible arguments i'm favcy az a 5peedy
return to Republican rule
1t is Important that they hsve she
widest possible circulation. 1t is
your duty, gentlemen, az MEM
bers of this league, organized
for the discussion Of public questions
and the dissemination Ct political infor.
nation, to see that the people are made
to know the truth and that to this end
the facts as to the management OF pub.
lie affairs are pasted on every door post
and proclaimed from every hOueetop
throughout all the state.
The Democrats in the state as in the
nation have forfeited all claims upon
the confidence and support Of the peo-
pie. In the nation we were promised pros
perity and plenty and have been given
adversely and want. In the state we
were promised fidelity and economy
and we have had recklessness and
extravaganza instead. For years the
Democrats were unceasiDg and vocifer-
GUS in their denunciations of what they
declared was inexcusable extravaganza
in the management of our state institu.
tions, and in the expenses for clerk hire,
labor and incidentals about the capitol.
They promised that if they were en-
trusted with the power that they would
reduce these expenses. Instead t-ey
hay Increased them by several hundred
T. ss OF dollars.
49, persistent and suspect sonne-
tirlsaxga obnoxious stickler for economy
insERe conduct of public affairs. have
been told that was crank upon
that subject, and perhaps I am.
able to understand why public
business should not be conducted as
carefully and economically as private
business. believe that the people have
right and that it is their duty to insist
that public officers bring to the dis
charge Of their duties the same fitness.
fidelity and scrutinizing care that it is
demanded of employees in the manage
ment of private affairs. The burdens OF
taxation are grievous enough at best,
and officials who add to their weight by
carelessness or incompetency should be
censured and repudiated. The indiffer-
ence, extravaganza and incompetency
that is seen in public life 10 something
appalling. It is in all parties and under
ali administrations. For many years
the expenses about the capitol at Msdi-
SON have been unnecessarily and out.
rsgeously excessive. Republican ed.
ministrations have been at fault in this
respect, but the so-called s'reformers"
now in power have broken all records.
The capitol swarms with clerks drawing
annual salaries from 81, 500 to $1,000
who could never get $500 in any private
employment. They work, or pretend to
do go, six hours . day, and get 80 ex-
hausted by the end Of the week that
they are given q holiday every Saturday
afternoon for rest and recuperation.
The messengers, janitors, policemen
and other employees about the building
are like Pharaoh's host, without num-
Der, But where ssreform" gets in its most
perfect work is In the employment OF
ro0nIar and transient lRborers about the