Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-09-27
Speech Delivered by FL. A. Taylor Before the State
Convention Of Republican Leagues in
Milwaukee, Sept. 10, 1894.
Presentation Of Facts and Figures Taken from the Official
Records that Prove Beyond Dispute the Extrava-
gance Of the Present State Administration.

( Every department OF the state govern.
ment. barring the secretary of states
Office, has expended more money under
three years of Democratic rule than was
ever expended by the same departments
under three years Of Republican rule.
All Of the state penal and charitable in.
situations, such as the hospital
for che insane, the schools fo1
! the deaf and blind, etc., have cost
more under Democratic than they ever
cost under Republican ruls. The mem
bers Of the board Of control and regents
of normal schools and other officers have
been allowed larger expense accounts
under Democratic than under Republi.
can rule. It has been the same story
everywhere, in every branch of the state
government. And expenses have con.
tinued to increase yearly. Each sue,
ceeding year since the pretended reform
ers have been in power, expenses for
like purposes have been increased.
Now, before I present to you the
official figures OF expenses incurred re-
spectively by the Republican and Demo
cratic administrations to substantiate
wish to call attention to the unfairness
61O NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ju66f0Ay OAApAVyO W w
the Democrats TO deceive the peOpls. In
the first place they compare the state
tax levy OF this year, when owing to q
great amount of money on hand, and SO
only small tax is req uired, with the
tax levy OF 1890. when there was no
money ON hand, and the usualt tax levy
was necessary. This lie simple trickery.
IL they were disposed to be honest they
would have compared the taxes Of the
four years of Democratic rule with the
last four years Of Republican rule.
This comparison they make is very
transparent fraud. But the most mon.
strous effrontery is the pretension that
the money in the treasury has accumu-
lated there az the result Of Democratic
economy. IT has come, not dollar OF
10, from reducing expenses, but from an
extraordinary income. The Democrats
have mot by exercising economy, paid
cut less money than did the Republic
cans, but from unusual sources they
have received more. This extra money
came from the ex-treasurers, $780,, 900. 90;
the refunding of the direct war tax,
$89, 1866 10; the interest on deposits,
SAC, ga. 70; and increased receipts from
the railroads and other corporations,
$57O, 900. The total of these unusual
amounts received In the last two years
is largely in excess Of the money now In
the treasury, 2,57O co. Had not these
extra amounts been received, the tax
levy for this year would have been fully
up 30 the average for the past three
years of Democratic control, and much
larger than the average under the last
years Of Republican rule.
The Democrats are not entitled 20 any
credit for this unusual income, except
for that received from the ex-treasurers.
But the receipt Of this extra money has
nothing TO do with the question OF econ
omy, which ID the matter in contro-
vsrsy.
Income has nothing 10 do with econ
omy. 10 is the expense account that
tells that story. Receipts may be large
or small, Il 10 the disbursements only
that economy affects. The Democrats,
instead OF showing how and where they
have reduced expenses, point to the
money ON hand as evidence that they
have done 90. On that theory man
who earns but $500 . year and 10 obliged
TO spend 10 all IL extravagant, because he
saves nothing, while the man who earns
"a. 600. and perhaps spends "a GOO OF 1t
IA economical, because he has something
left. The contention OF the Democrats
that because they have money on hand
they must have been economical, would
seem to be too absurd to deceive any
body, and yet their papers and speakers
are loudly ineisting that the money 10
the treasury ID conclusive evidence Of
their economy. The true and only test
a 60 which Of the parties has been the
most economical, is 10 compare tho ex,