Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-10-30

Wonderful Work For the First Year
Of Republican Laws-All Democrats
Opposed to Putting Excise Taxes On
Corporations, Relieving Every One
Else From Outlay.
To the Taxpayers of Ohio:
Over 100000 saved to the general
taxpayers of the state in single year
and all of it paid by corporations, Is
the official record of results of the tax
reduction legislation enacted by the
last legislature in its first year of op-
Grafton. The Republican party can
claim absolutely the entire credit for
this legislation. 1t was passed through
the senate and house by the solid Re-
publican vote in each body, as against
the solid Democratic vote in opposi-
tion in each house. The Democrats
were led in this opposition by Tom L.
Johnson personally, as he spent weeks
in Columbus marshalling his hosts to
defeat any tax Legislation that the Re-
publicans might present. He got every
Democrat in the senate and house to
vote as he dictated, but fortunately
the majority in both houses was Re-
publican, resulting in the splendid saw
ing to the people herewith shown.
This reduction is upon the real and
personal taxes of every citizen in the
state by reason of the reduction in
the rate for taxation purposes from
2 mills and SO hundredths on the dol
lar of assessed value to-, l mill and SO
hundredths on the dollar. This re-
duction is the direct result and is oniy
made possible by reason of the laws
for excise taxation upon corporations
enacted by the Republicans. For some
years past the Republican legislatures
have been framing excise taxation
laws which afforded considerable re-
lief to the taxpayers of the state, and
these having stood the test in the
courts, the 18th general assembly, un-
der the leadership of Governor Nash
and his administration, proceeded with
more comprehensive enactments along
the same lines The chief measures Of
this kind were the Cole law, which
provides for an excise tax Of l per
cent Of their gross receipts in Ohio
Of all public service corporations, both
local and general; the Willis law,
which provides for an annual payment
of one-tenth of one per cent upon the
issued and outstanding stock of all do
mestic corporations, and Of that pro-
portion of the capital stock of for
eign corporations which is used in
Ohio; and the Johnston law, taxing
outside insurance companies "a per
cent upon their gross receipts in Ohio.
AS the direct result of this legisla-
taxes upon every dollar of real and
personal property returned by the peo-
pie OF the state at large. The smallest
sum saved for any single county is
$5,359.28, in Vinton county, where the
entire tax duplicate is only $3,4S0,054;
the largest amount saved in any single
county Is 1888. .39469, in Hamilton
county. In Tom Johnson's own coun-
ty of Cuyahoga, the state has saved
TO its taxpayers $354,349.S7 this year
II the taxpayers OF Cleveland have not
received their share of the benefits OF
this great saving given them by the
Republican legislature of the state, II
is due to the fact that the johnson
tax-eaters have squandered the money
in ways OF their own.
Since the grand duplicate of the
state OF Ohio, the gross amount of al
its real and personal property as as
sessed for taxation, is 1880. 1856, 1888
this reduction in the rate of taxation
for state purposes from 2.S9 mills tc
1875 mills, over SO per cent, amounts
to the enormous aggregate of S3,065,
s6350 actually saved in taxes in sin,
gle year by the three Republican law.
named. This, too, is in addition to al
that has been saved this year and al
the preceding years by similar laws
first enacted by Republicans in spit'
of Democratic opposition. 1t should
not be overlooked that all OF thes,
savings to the general taxpayers of tn,
state come from the corporations of al
kinds. 1t is legislation of the mos
practical character, all of it Repub
lican and enacted in the face of soliC
Democratic resistance. 1t is the frs
constructive, systematic Legislation
along these lines for the benefit of tn
taxpayers in general that has eve
been undertaken in Ohio.
The following figures, showing tn
actual saving in each county to it
own taxpayers upon the total gram
duplicate in each county of all it
property. both real and personal,
from the official record in the Office Q
the auditor OF state:
Amount @
Taxes Saved l.
Counties. Present Tax Yea