Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-08

fast and everlasting. The Republican
party will survive. full of useful life
! and undminished visor, for many a
! year after Mr.. Wanamaker and l and
! all of us are numbered among the men
who. are forgotten. With its heroic his
! tory and its promising future it stands
! for great principles and policies much
more important than the ambitions and
disappontmeuts Of any individuals in
it, however eminent. This Is the lesson
o. history No one did more dis
] t}agulshed service in the building of it
than Horace Greeley, yet when that
great man was deluded into casting
his lot with its enemies, the Republican
party lived ON and Horace Greeley died
of a broken heart No Pennsylvania
was more highly and deservedly hon
ored in his party than our great war
governor, Andrew G. Curtin, but when
he raised his voice in opposition to it,,
his public career closed, and the party
continued to add victory to Victory and
strength to strength. The Republican
party survived eight years of Cleveland
and eight years of Pattison. l have no
doubt It will survive even Mr.. Wana-
makers secession with unbroken heart
and vigor unimpaired.
n WORD AtJOtiI IAN Els.
zone of the complaints made by Mr..
Wanamaker is that the taxpayers of
the state are overburdened by reason
of the expenses of the state admins
tration and the cost of supporting our
penal, eleemosynary and charitable in
stitutions. The charge is in keeping
with others made by hint is lack
ing in every essential element of truth.
The fact is that the great mass of tax
payers OF the state do not contribute a
farthing i'm the shape of state taxation.
The state revenues are raised mainly
by the taxation of corporations, colat-
eral and direct inheritances, license
fees, fees of office and bonuses on
charters. Real estate has not paid state
taxes since 1866. In passing judgment
on this question it might not be amiss
to recall the fact that Mr. Wanamaker
pays less tax in proportion To the
amount of money invested and the vol
ume of business transacted than any
other citizen within the confines of this
broad commonwealth. Our taxpayers
may not know, but it is currently re-
ported and generally believed, that he
transacts Il business each year o from
$12, 100000 to $15,000,00 that he has in
vested in goods, wares and merchan-
disc in which he traflics from $4,000, 600
TO s., 900. on the great volume of
business transacted by him and on the
large investment he has in merchan-
disc in which he tTafficks from $4,000, 900
state government the mere pittance OF
LOCO annually. on these goods, wares
and merchandise he pays no municipal,
local or state tax, except the $1,000
above mentioned. 1t is true he pays
local taxes upon his real estate, but
that is entirely outside of the invest
ment in his business proper. If Mr..
Wanamaker had the $5.000,000 which he
is now supposed to have invested in
his stores invested in farms and other
real estate he would pay annually from
$75, 600 to $4,000 in local taxes more
than he does at present
THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT 1T.
Under the financial system which
has Ieen inaugurated and built UP dur
ing the past 20 years, and for which the
Republican party is responsible, sc of
the 67 counties of the state receive more
money from the state than is paid in
by them. r. has been the policy of the
Republican party to provide a system
of state taxation that places the bur-
dens Of the state upon the corporations
and other wealthy and favored inst-
tutions. In this way a fund is raised
that is distributed to the counties in
the shape of appropriate to the COM
mon schools and in payment of the
Saltlies Of judges. county superintend-
ents and for other like purposes. In
this way the burdens of local taxation
are euualized and lessened 1t is an
interesting lesson to take up the re-
ports of the state officials, which show
how much money is received by the
state from each county and how much
larger sum is returned by the state
to the county. For instance take the
following counties: