Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-02


ipalities. BY the provisions of the act
Of June 13. 1888, the expense of the
care and treatment of the insane poor
of the state was, in the future, to be
equally divided between the state and
the respective counties. The amount
paid by the state. since 1888. amounts
to more than $1,000, 900 and aggregates
more than half million of dollars
annually.
1t has been the constant trend of
our legislation to put more burdens on
the state, and to that extent the town
ships, cities and counties have been
aided, and overburdened real estate
has been assisted. 1t is self evident
that it takes just so much money to
sustain the local. municipal and state
governments. The more you add to the
state the less you collect from the
others. In the two items of INDECENT
insane and common schools the state
pays out of it's treasury six millions
of dollars year. To that extent every
farm and every village lot is corre-
spondingly benefited, and to that ex-
tent relieved of local taxation.
In accordance with the provisions
of the revenue act of June T. 1891,
tax is returned to the respective coun-
ties. The amount returned for the
year ending Nov. 80, 1895, was ST.
575,O19.70. The amount of personal
property tax returned to the several
counties for the year ending Nov. 30,
1896, was S2,03S, ,936.04. The act of
June 9, 1891. takes the entire retail
liquor licenses from the state and gives
A. &c.
is something never before done in. the
history of the state. They amount
to more than one million dollars an
nually. In addition to all these things,
the state pays the entire cost of the
judiciary, which amounts to a half
million of dollars.
According to the auditor generals
report for 1896, the amount of the four
mill tax on personal property amount
ed to safe, ,20794, which represented
an assessment, principally of moneys
at interest, of $679,O51, ,9S5. OF this tax
there was returned to the several
counties $2,038, ,936.04. The taxes on
the various kinds of corporations in
the state have been, by recent legisla-
ton, greatly increased. BY the act
of June s, 1891, the tax on the capital
stock of corporations was increased
from three to five mills, an increase
of &c per cent.
TAXING THE CORPORATIONS
AS showing the increase of taxation
imposed on the capital stock of COR
porations, | will cite the amount paid
during a few years of the recent years.
Tax on capital stock in 1878, 81, 1854, =
-.
$3,4S2, ,920.3S; in 1898, $5,651 ,96757
These figures are taken from the
official reports, and show that the capi-
tai stock tax of corporations has been
increased 400 per cent during the last
ten years.
AS the state officials began to receive
so large an amount of taxes from cor
porations and other sources the bal
ance in the state treasury was accord
ingly large, and on the 18th day of
June, 1897, an act was approved by a
Republican governor that had been
passed by Republican legislature re-
quiring the state treasurer to collect
from each bank, banking institution or
trust company in which funds of the
state are deposited, interest on the
amount of said deposit, at the rate of
2 per cent per annum. So that today
every dollar belonging to the treasury
of the state is bearing interest. And
yet the people everywhere are being
told that the Republican party has
been derelict in it's duty as the guard
ian of the public money.
NOT A DIME LOST.
No one charges, or dare charge, that
II, ,,Ia Il @f hA
has at any time been lost Every dol
lar ever paid into the treasury of the
state has been accounted for. The
charges made against the Republican
management rest upon rumors and not
upon any tangible facts.
In the face of the foregoing facts and
figures who will say that the Republi-
can party has not made long advance
in the way of aiding real estate in
bearing the burdens of local taxation =?
The revenue act of 1891 increased the
tax on mortgages and moneys owing
by solvent debtors from three mills
to four mills, 33 per cent. 1t also raised
the tax on capital stock of banks, rail-
roads and other corporations from
three to five mills on the dollar, or &C
per cent. l submit to an unprejudiced
public that the legislation directed by
the Republican party since it came into
control of this state has been directly
in the line of the equalization of pub
lie burdens. Since that time, as | have
already stated. all real estate, all
trades. occupations and professions,
and all horses and cattle have been
relieved from the contribution of Il
single penny to the expense of support
ing the state government.
1t is most respectfully submitted
that the Republican party of Pennsyl-
vanfa has record of which it's men,
bers have right to be proud and with
which it can confidently go before the
million of intelligent voters of the
commonwealth and ask and expect to
receive their continued confidence and
support.
Harrisburg, Oct. 31.-While the DEM
Dcratic orators have been going around
the state dealing in glittering general
tiles in criticism of the Republican
party, the management of the state