Year: 1875

To-DAY's NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.


With money worth remarkably high
high rates of interest many of the tax
payers of the District have been will
ing to incur the penalties Of not paying
their taxes promptly and even of allowing
their real estate to be sold after advertise
uept for uon-payment of taxes, relying
upon the euuities~of title TO redeem it be-
fore the expiration of the legal limit of two
wears, by the payment of the required
additional fifteen per cent. per annum
In other words it appears to have been
advantageous to some of our citizens to
use their ready money during the past
six months in available business transac-
tions rather than for the payment of taxes
We allude to these facts in explanation of
the large list of delinquent taxes adver-
tised in the supplements and appendices
which accompany to days issue OF The
NATIONAL. REPUBLICAN. There are other
reasons. however. why the list is so large,
nCt .be least of which is that it includes
every item Of unpaid taxes for ten years
mast. Under thel aw Of Congress author
iZing the publication of the list the Collec-
for was REQUIRED 10 include all back, un-
Maid. or overdue taxes, and it consequently
embraces a clean balance sheet, 50 to speak,
of the accounts of the old corporation, the
Territorial government and the govern
nept by the Commissioners, with the citi
zens of the District. Congress was to some
extent induced to pass the law providing
for this publication for the simple purpose
of effecting this definite and comprehensive
balance of a series of accounts which have
never been completely settled, and the fur
ther delay in the settlement OF which
would not only be demoralizing but serve
to complicate realty titles.


While the sale ofproperty will bear hard
upon many of the delinquents, it must be
remembered that in no other way can gov
ernments be supported, and that the pay
neut of taxes is one of the onerous duties
which accompanies the many privileges of
citizenship. 1t is also due to those who
have promptly paid that the delinquents
should be no longer accommodated.


An inference from this that the District
is in any way crippled as regards its finan-
cial resources would be unjust The truth
is, the treasury was never in better condl-
ton than it is now, and under the discreet
management of the present Commissioners
. there is every reason to believe that this
condition will continue.


The utmost leniency has been conceded
to tax payers in the preparation Of the list,
it having been kept open fully five days
after the law permitted it to be closed, and
even after the copy had reached this Office
payments were received by the Collector,
who made corresponding corrections by
erasing the names of those who were able
to take advantage Of the generous opportu-
nity afforded them to redeem their property
from the revised proof slips. In number
of instances names and descriptions of prop
erty were chiseled out OF the stereotyped
plates after the fOlios on whicR they ap-
reared had be- prepared for the press.


The amount of manual labor required.to
present this extraordinary work as we pre-
sent il to our readers this morning will be
appreciated when it is understood that
large corps of clerks n the Collectors Office
was engaged in preparing the copy for
weeks before it was sent to the printers.
As will be seen, it fills more than fifty-tWo
pages of our paper. In putting this large
amount of matter in type, nety-eight com
pcsiiors-thirty-t two in our NOTICE, four
teen in the BUsnjnJ Star office and fifty
two in the Government printing office
were employed. on the average, eighteen
hours out of each twenty -four for five days.
In addition to our regular force of stereo-
typers, a relay from the force of the Balti-
more Sun Office was required. Our
mammoth presses, including one of the
largest, if rot the largest, four-cyl,
;nder Hoe in the world, was kept con
stantly at work for four days and nights
and until a late hour this morning. An
extra force of folders, supplemented by an
additional folding machine and a CORE
spending number of packers, mailing boys
feeders. and reliefs for the engineers ant
stokers, were also at work for the SAINT
length Of time.


Our city edition will be distributed thiI
morning by means Of wagons and othel
vehicles. This is absolutely Recessa
nv, as the carrier-boys are unable tt
carry it. For example, boy who serve
a route Of one hundred subscribers will b.
supplied with our regular edition, supple
ments and appendices, which in the blani
paper would make more than three reams
weighing about fifty pounds to the ream.


1t is not without feeling Of pride tha
we call attention to these facts, and Will
we acknowledge the friendly offices of ou
peighbors who have aided US, we think
careful examination Of all the circum
stances connected with this great entcrpris
will show that the mechanical facilitle
and the general appointments of The Ma
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN printing establish
ment are equal to any ordinary emergency
and are unequaled by those Of any simila
establishment outside of the city of Ne'
York. Added to this, we rejoice in havin
a corps of employees composed of superio
artists and workmen, whose loyalty an
devotion to the interests of the business q
the Office has enabled us to give our reader
tie largest issue of single copy of an
newspaper ever printed in the Unite
States, with single exception, and to
it in the most perfect and acceptabl
manner.


NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CURRENCY


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