Licking Valley courier., 1915-09-30


Take Maine, Republican for fifty years,
the home of Dingley, Feed, LlttlsHsia
ana Blaine. Let US compare the ecnal-
zion Of poor old Kentucky. thte' EepNo-
The real and personal property Of Ken
tucky is valued at SS46, ,454.02O. That prop
erty PAYS tax rate of SIS per thousand,
with no bonded indebtedness.
Maine has less than half tho amour
of taxable property of Kentucky, ]. C."
$3.50, OPS 462, and yet the tax rate reaches
the appalling sum of $3.50 on the thou
sand dollars, with a bonded debt OF
$659,000.
Connecticut, Republican almost COM
tinuously for the last half century has
practically the same amount OF taxable
property as Kentucky, SS4S, ,399,019 with
bonded debt of $7,064 100.
New Hampshire, with less than $780,.
100000 Of property, has tax rate of SIG
on the thousand and a bonded indebted
ness of $l,16f,000.
The roclS-ribbed Republican State Of
Pennsylvania has a bonded indebtedness
Of $125, ,614,702.
Little Rhode Island, the home of AID
rich, with 100000 less property than
Kentucky, has managed under the wise
economy of an unbroken Republican ad-
ministraton for generations to get along
with only $5,O41,572 of bonded indebted
ness,
Utah. with one fourth of the wealth of
Kentucky, under the beneficent control
of Reed Smoot and an iron-cla Repub-
lican organization, has only S1l,2lO,0OO
bonded Indebtedness,
Republican Mlsrule In the South.
1t may be said that | have mentioned
only Northern States and that for pur-
poses of comparison / should take South
ern commemorative having similar cit
izenship, alike in manner, customs and
laws. At one time Alabama, Arkansa1,
! Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia and
South Carolina all had chance at Mr..
/ Morrow's remedy for extravaganza in the
administration of the States affairs. At
the close Of the war they were compare
lively free from debt, their affairs had
been administered honestly and econom-
ically during generations of Democratic
control. Then the blight of Republican
mlsrulc fell upon that ill-fated land.
ruins, her blackened fields billowed with
the graves of three hundred thousand
slain, dismantlAd and discrowned, Repub-
licanism found her PROSTATE, and from
the lips of hunger, from want and naked
ness, it flched untold millions, and "re-
construction" is well remembered with
more horror than the carnage of battle
or the famine and pestilence that follow
in the wake of war
The annual cost of the States admin
istration in Louisiana under Democratic
control was $l,1G2624 in 1871, under a
Republican regime, it reach the appalling
sum of S,57S,14S. The average cost to
the State of each member of the Legs-
lature during the single session was
$ll350 per day. Ten years later, under
Democratic control expenses were inn
mediately reduced to $1,617,164 or one
Nth of the cost during the reconstruc-
tlon period. on December g. 1863, the
: public debt of Louisiana was $1l,1S2,377.
After three years of Republican control
1t was $22,JS9, G2S.
| Under Democratic control in 1866 the
90 ftNtn if,ff ant nj
Alabama was $6j5,2O5. In 1873, under a
3 Republican administration, 1t was s2,237,
200. -Four years later, with the return
! Of the Democrats to power 1t was im'
mediately reduced TO $S74,164.
{. Republican administration between
c 1868 and 1874 fastened on the State OF
: Arkansas bonded indebtedness OF sl7,'
2GO,36i,
affairs OF the State more than doubled
j. under n Republican administration.
e In 1866 Georgia, which until that time
S had never known Republican rule, hat
a bonded indebtedness of sS2S,S Aftel
G less than three years of Republican con
: tro its bonded Indebtedness was increas'
: ed to nearly $lS000,000.
= The State of Virginia, under Demo
cratic administration in 1860, carried, 6
e public debt Of S29, lo6,G59 In 1870 undel
t Republican rule, this debt jumped to thu
= appalling sum Of $40, 290,S99.
0 Mr.. Morrow has talked much about thu
:, extravaganza Of Democrats in purchasing
e Office furniture. The State Capitol a
e Columbia was refurnished during thi
:, period Quoting the testimony of Con
: gressiOnal committee, Honorable james
), NJ. Pike author Of THE Prostrate South,
d writes:
q when the Legislature met the las
:, time tho new furniture was all In; tn
3 House was furnished most superbly. !
!, great deal Ias said In the papers abou
:, the extravagance; a great deal OF tall
y was made about the carpets being 81
II fine and about the magnificent chan
{, deers and spittoons, and one thin
e and another for an impoverished peo
e pie. Even several Republicans said L
It me that ]: provoked them TO see s.
'r much extravaganza, when we were s.
: little able to afford it. : When tn
n bill came in 1t amounted to $4,000
= The highest prices were pat
II for this furniture. three or four or tv
y times Its value--for instance. $3.50 wa
Il paid for one mirror in the Speaker
II room; each official had a separate roor
= for himself, most gprgeOusly fitted VI
|, with toilet sets and all the parapher
j MALTA OF dwelling house; clocks a
ID $3.50 apiece; chandeliers at $500.
/. There were two hundred fine porcelai
l. spittoous, at s. apiece. Their
= were only one hundred and twenty-fou
- members"
at is" says the same author, 9Th
.e installation Of a huge system Of brig
% Lndage. They are the highway
n ken of thA State, they are professions
y legislative robbers, they are the me
VINO have studied and practced tn
N art OF legislative graft. The
"a pick your pockets by law, they rob III
r poor and the rich alike by law. rhe
l. confscate your estate by law. The
II do none Of these things even under III
l. tyrants plea Of the public good or pull
'e lie necessity. They do all simply to er
0i rich themselves personally. The so
l. base object is to gorge the indlvidu;
to with public plunder."
J. Even. II he intelligent citizenship {
J. Kentucky should credit the exaggerate
slotements OF the Honorable Edwin
l. Morrow, In view Of the huge burden
le debt with which Republicansm has sac
5 died commOnwealths In the North an
~ the utter devastation of It's reign in Il
South, the violence, terror and bloodsht
IL that have marked its wanton and rutl
less course In Kentucky, ] beg YOU bt
ware OF so desperate a remedy even {,
,, the Ills OF which he so loudly complain
= Railroad Fare Bill.
10 Mr.. Morrow COMPLAINS that the Dem,
50, cratic party, by Its law-maklng bod
~ passed Y 2h-cent railroad fare bill, br
In so doing Joined "the State House Fo
9S getter's Club" and forgot TO insert &
enacting clause In the bill thereby rel
"a dering 1t null and void. The record shoy
90 that the President of the "State Hou
u llcOn, the Honorable Il. d. Stone, of Il
o. County Of Crittenden, and that anoth
I'd Republican the then Superintendent
e. Public Printing, was Its Right Honorah
Secretary, Much Is to he forgiven al
IS Republican who attempts any kind
~ progressive legislation. since he mu
te blaze his legislative way alone, witho
,,- guide or precedent Some sweet di
as The Historian win record with n cor
: mseratlng smile that one lone Republc
m at one time did actually attempt TO wri
Isl 4 bill lowering railroad rates. He did
an bunglingly, Of course, but he deserves o
NO eternal gratitude for ever having altemp
x ed TO do II at all. He wrote n headle
he thing, II was introduced IN that amp
tated FORM and, taklug the usual cours
he was referred to Republican Superi
MI tenden, Of Public Printing. who prepnr
n q caption, n sort Of artificial head, q
S. tached It., sent the lil thus doctor
y back To tho House, so that no memt
he ~ that body which Mr.. Morrow CO
lie demns without reason or warrant eV
ed know the bunders made BY The Supe
nd intcndcnt Of Public Printing and the no
10 orable but incompetent representati
,al from the County Of Crittenden. The |
NO was passed In the closing hours of I
ON legislative session and then the orlglr