Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 October 1898 — Page 3

Democracy Has Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to the Taxpayers of Indiana.

ISunlccrfi, Corporations, Ruilroariff, Express Companies and tbo Wealthy Com-

polled to Bear Their Sliaro oi llio Stato's liurdcns Under the •—i-j' Democratic Tax Law.

The financial condition of Indiana prior to 1891 was a source of alarm to

Its thoughtful citizens, a condition resulting from the simple fact that the financial resources of the state were not utilized. Taxation was not only.unequal to expenses, but was grossly inequitable, not only because assessments were greatly below cash values, but in addition failed utterly to reach millions of property which contributed no revenue at all to the state. To remedy this evil and thereby secure ample revenue to pay the expenses of the state government, and reduce the foreign indebtedness of the state, was the prime object in view when the Democratic legislature passed the act concerning taxation, approved March 6, 1891,

It is not required that the numerous provisions of the law should be either mentioned or discussed in this connection more than to say that the revenue power of the law provided for the finding and the assessment of the property of the citizens of the state at its "true value"—and the provision of the law to enable the assessor to ascertain the closest approximation of "tine values" and ft the act went into effect "fvoni and after its passage." To show the immediate benefits accruing to the state by the enactment of the law by a Democratic legislature, the following r.lTioial figures are submitted, giving taxables in 1890 and in 1891, and showing that under the operation of the Democratic revenue legislation taxables increased $434,960,850 as follows: Increase from 1890 to 1891, $397.o8l,051 from 1891 to 1892, $12,182,027 from 1892 to 1893, $34,872,185, and from 1895 to 1S9G, $6,590,706 a total of $451,026,569.

For the years 1894 and"1395 the taxables on the duplicate decreased $16,259,-j 719, leaving u, net increase over 1890 ot taxes amounting to §434,906,850.

The abstract of taxables for 1397 and 1898 has not been published, hence any gain or loss that may have accrued is not included.

In 1890 the rates of taxation upon the I humMi* cinz n. three principal items of revenue wore as "Ihe ni \v mx law

follows: Geueral fund, 12 cents on the pr^is.Mi' ''on'' iViiY $100 state school, 16 benevolent insti-1 cents,

duction of rate was made, as follows: General fund, 10 state school, 13f^ bein it on 5 to a 2 8 a reduction, 5}Z cents 011 the $100. These rates prevailed for the years 1893 and 1894.

In 1895 the rates of taxation we re further reduced, as follows: General fund, cents on the $100 state school, 11 benevolent institutions, 5 total, 25. And these rates have prevailed for the years 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898.

The taxables for the year 1S90 amounted to $837,674,387, from which the revenue on the three items named amounted to $2,848,092.

In 1891 the taxables amounted to $1,255,256,038, the rate of taxation being the same as in 1890, but the revenue derived amounted to $4,267,870, a gain over 1890 of $1,419,778. in 1892 the taxables amounted to $1,267,438,065, the rates being the same as in 1890 and 1891. The amount of revenue derived amounted to $4,309,289, a gain over 1890 of $1,461,197.

In 1893 the taxables amounted to $1,802,310,250. In this year the rates of taxation had been reduced on the three items named to 28J^ cents on the $100, a reduction o| cents on the $100.

The revenue derived amounted to $3,711,584, an excess over 1890 of $863,492, notwithstanding the reduction of the rates.

In 1894 the taxables amounted to $1,295,106,415, the rate being the same as in 1893, and the revenue amounted to $8 ,591,053, exceeding the revenue of 1690 $742,461.

In 1895 the rate of taxation was still further reduced on the three items upon •which calculations are based to 25 cents on the $100, a total reduction since 1890 of 9 cents on the $100.

The total taxables of 1895 amounted

to $1,286,050,531, and the revenue de-

rived amounted to $3,215,126. an excess

over 1890 of $367,014. The taxables of 1896 amounted .to $1,292,641,237, rates of taxation being the same as in 1895. Jhe revenue amounted to $3,281,603, an increase over 1S90 of $378,511.

As haa been stated, there are 110 official duplicates for 1897 and 1898, but It is assumed that the amount of taxables

for these years is equal to 1896, hence the revenue derived by the state in 1897 Would show an excess over 1896 of $378,611, and for 1898, $378,511.

The figures thus show that the new revenue law passed by the Democratio party has added to the revenue of the state as follows:

1891

18°2

1803. 1894. 1805. 1890. 1807. 1808.

...... 81,419,778

1,461,197

863,492 742,461 867,014 378,511 878,511 878,511

Total addition to revenue.. 85,989,475 .§inkip.& fpnd .ljYvy. na&89d by 0

Democratic legislature levied a tax of 3 cents on tlio $100 and went into operation in 1893.

Assuming that the tax duplicate for 1897 and 1808 will be in amount equal to the duplicate of 1896, the revenue derived from the sinking fund tax will be as follows: 1893. S1.302,310,250. 8300,0!)3 1894. 1,29.%, 100,41". S8H.fi:}1 1,28(1,050,531. 185,815 1,292,041,237. 387,792 1,292,041,237. =387,792 1,292,041,237. 387,792

1895. 1890

AftRiimVI 1897. Aasuin'd 189H,

Total from Sinking Fund.. Total Increase of Kevenue..

*2,328,415 5,989,475

Grand total 88,317,890 In this is seen an increase of revenue almost equal to the foreign debt of the state in 1890.

In 1890 the foreign debt of the state amounted 10 $8,546,615.12. It now amounts to $3,216,615.12, showing a reduction of $3,330,000, every dollar of the reduction bearing irrefutable evidence of the wisdom of Democratic financial legislation.

Hon. J. O. Henderson, auditor of state, in his report of 1892, takes occasion, in giving the figures showing the immense benefits accruing to the st :te as a result of Democratic financial legislation, to say: "The first year's operation of the new revenue law has vindicated the wisdom of its passage a thousand fold, and the wholesome results attained proclaims it at once the most equitable and the soundest tax measure Indiana has ever known. For the first time in the history of the state the burthen of taxation is fairly and equitably borne. For the first time iff our history tax dodging is not only disreputable, but a losing business. Indei-il, an impossible business if the taxing .uirlmrities possess the ability, coinage and honesty to do their whol« liuty. Und'.'v the powerful search Iii.li of 1 he new 1 w, property seqnestrV'.tiou is both a dangerous and a (lilliealt thins:. "Never be re in rlie anna's of the state has povate we:''111 nee 11 compelled bear us j-ist sLure of the public burden. "Tti.iav the dolla.- of r.' rich man, of the bank, of Hgj'rei-ti'ef! .• pital, is compelled to conrri: ut« ri. public treasury eqna!!y with the dollar of the

founded on the full value apis ixed at 100 veiled in lands, factories or lux-

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tutions, 6 total, 34. These were the products, b:in! capital, rates for 1891 and 1^92. I11 1893 a re-!

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Undrr tho b":iit:n ministration of this nic.isni'e million^ upon millions of proper! hererniore sequestered has been placed 011 tb- tax dunlicat-e."

And this additional property, as the tax duplicate show, asjuregates $434,906,850. and thus the reveuue derived from it amounts to $".989,475.

It wns this measure that at once solved the financial problems which confronted the state. It emancipated tbe state from its financial trouble and anxiety and substituted confidence for doubt--'.

It was as Mr. Fairbanks said at Fort Waynp, a "Democratic measure" evincing that the Democratic party had clear conceptions of the supreme needs of the state and the ability to afford the relief required. This eminently vrise and judicious reveuue law which Auditor Henderson said in his report had "vindicated the wisdom of its passage a thousand fold" was vindictively opposed, from its incipiency, by the Republican party and this opposition has been maintained at every step since 1891 tu the present time with the partisan zeal as blind as bigotry and as relentless as corporation greed.

As an evidence of the implacable hostility to just and equitable assessments and taxation, it is only required to produpe the declaration of U. W. Fairbanks.

On June 28, 1892, one year subsequent to the time when the new Democratic revenue law went into operation, the Republican party held its state convention at Fort Wayne, and the Hon. O. W. Fairbanks, now United States sentor, presided over its deliberations, and upon accepting the honor of the position conferred upon him, made a speech in wkicL, he referred to the new revenue law passed by a Democratio legislature.

The present, in the light of all the faots, makes the reproduction of the remarks of Mr. Fairbanks strikingly op

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1 founded belief that his railroad investments and his large fees as a railroad attorney prompted his hostility to one of the wisest laws that ever found a place upon the statute books of the state.

In the oourse of his remarks, Mr. Fairbanks said: "The people of Indiana expect us to relieve them from the cruel and unjust burden imposed upon them by the Democratic tax law. •'They woll understand that whenever Democracy has been invested with power in the state, the debt has been increased until the burden has become unbearable. "They hare no confidence in Democratic financ'ering, and well founded is their distrust. "The creating of a debt in this rich and splendid state of upward of $9,000,000 is a flagrant abuse o'f power. "The people will always loyally support the state and pay the taxes necessary to defrry the expenses of the government honestly and economically incurred, and any party that recklessly increases obligation, should be repudiated at the polls. "The present odious tax law is a

Democratio measure passed to rescue' the financial credit of the state. "The state was running in debt at iho rate of nearly $500,000 per annum •'The eastern holders of the bonds demanded their interest when it was due. "Current expenses had to be met, and the Democratic legislature passed the present tax lnw as the best expression of its financial wisdom. "I misinterpret the signs of the times if the people lo not repudiate the law and the Democratic party at about one and the same time in November next. "No law ever rested more unequally upon those who should bear the burden, than does this. "The people already heavy laden with unjust taxes are compelled to submit to additional exactions." "Farmers have been compelled to pay on th(-ii» farms and improvements, an'i householders on their lots and houses beyond all reason and right, all of which you should remember is the enforced tribute of tbe Democratic party. "How long will the patient people endure these things? "How long will they elect Democratic members of the legislature who do not possess the discriminating ability tj place the financial affairs of the state on a broad and conservative basis and who will not more carefully legislate in the interest of the people?

Too much money Is wasted in profligate and expensive administration of this state. "The people are paying too dearly for the privileges they enjoy, but so long as the Democratic legislature is in authority they are powerless to escape. "There is one way to cure the tax law, and that is to radically revise it. "The inequalities can be effectually removed in that way. "And it should be so revised that it will effectually relieve the farmers and householders from the present grievous burdens so unjustly imposed."

Mr. Fairbanks manifestly drew his inspiration from his corporation association and hi* desire to render them service by dodging taxation.

Nor was the "convention, over which he presided, more fortunate in its declaration ^r, sought to secure the friendship of those who for years had sequestered the t:. sables, and declared: "We arraign the Democratic party of Indiana for enacting an unequal and unjust tax law."

The declaration of the Fort Wayne convention and the speech of Mr. Fairbanks constitute a remarkable blending of stupidity and cupidity, for which Republican platforms and Republican speakers have won a wide recognition.

Nor is the inipudenco'of tl]£ party less pronounced, for now they are claiming to have reduced the debt of the state, but in so far as it has been reduced, Democratic legislation has supplied the means by which the reduction has been accomplished.

This fact is clearly shown in the official figures already produced, but in view ot some of the declarations of Mr. Fairbanks, it seems expedient to add a few more official figures to still further demonstrate the wisdom of the "Democratic tax law."

This Democratic tax law, which Mr. Fairbanks denounced in his Fort Wayne speech, and which he declared had imposed "unjust burdens" upon the people, sought first, to find "the true cash value of property," and second, to find millions of property in the hands of corporations, which paid no tax at all, and place it upon the tax duplicate.

These laudable purposes were attained and no injustice was done any citizen of the state.

Mr. Fairbanks declared that the people *of Indiana "have no confidence in Democratic financiering" and this, he said, at a time when "Democratic financiering" had added to the tax duplicate, taxables amounting to $397,581,551.

His iuordinate partisanism so distorted his vision and perverted his judgment, s:o incapacitated him for stating facts regarding a measure relating to the welfare of the state, that to gratify his implacable hostility to the Democratic party, he became one of the most blatant enemies of Indiana, and this, too, not because the tax law worked any injustice to any citizen of Indiana, but because the Democratic tax law, by inaugural m:,' righteous proceedings, unearthed millions of property, the owners of which were sequestering.

This tax appears from the record. The tax law placed upon the duplicate at once railroad property of the state, amounting to $94,8:32,874, which previously had escaped taxation, and it is well understood that this act of justice to the people was the cause of Mr. Fairbanks' hostility to the "Democratic tax law."

Since 1890 the "Democratic tax law" has discovered and put upon the duplicate, bank property to the amount of $1,263,051. It has discovered corporation property amounting to $523,800 and telephone, telegraph and express property amounting to $5,242,092, a total of $7,029,5-13, and if to this sum is.added the railroad property that had escaped taxation, $94,832,874, a sum total of $101,862,417 is placed to the credit of the state and to the wisdom of the Democratic party in shaping financial legislation.

But now, when Mr. Fairbanks and the Republican party* flare not mention the "Democratic tax law" to oatch the votes of farmers or praotioe duplicity upon the rank and file of the people, when under the operation of the "Democratic tax law" and the sinking fund law, the debt of the state is disappearing, Fairbanks and the Republican party, with impudence as thiok as the armorplate of a battleship, are claiming that the Republican party is reducing the debt of the state, when if Fairbanks and the Republican party could have had their wayf the financial affairs of the state would be in a more deplorable condition than in 1890.

Republicans joyously refer to William Jennings Bryan as a "dead politician." but they will find him, A. D. 1900, the livest corpse they ever saw.

Mark Hanna, the boss corruptionist, still maintains his position of bosom friend and boon companion of Major McKinlejr.

Baseball Players' League Thero is a movement among certain players to organize a players' protective association. The recent action in tbe Holmes case has given the scheme a boom, and it is said that at least one player in overy team is at work to perfect the scbeuio. The players want to protect themselves, and all cases of oppression on the part of tbe owners and presidents will be fought out in tlio courts. It is intended to retain counsel by tho year. This is not the first time the players have tried to form an organization of tboir own. The Brotherhood league was also started by the players, who thought that they were not receiving a square deal, and its disbandment after one unsuccessful season convinced tho players of their folly, as it caused a general slump in baseball, which lasted for several years, and also caused a reduction in salaries. The presidents and owners will probably take a hand in this new scheme if it proves to menace the future of the game.—New York Times

Bird Shot as Bullets.

Shooters who go out into the woods where it might happen that a bear or a deer should come on the scene would do well to remember that a charge of bird shot can bo used as a bullet if the occasion demands it. Take a cartridge, and with a sharp knife cut the shell almost in two parts, just whore the big wads are above tho powder. Leave tbe upper half of tho cartridge attached to the lower half by two pieces of shell, one on each side of it. When the gun is fired, this upper half is torn away from tho lower half and leaves tho barrel like a bullet. The upper half of tho shell with the wad at its base makes the most complete form of "concentrator" imaginable, holding tho shot together iii a compact mass for quito a distance and making it a most killing load, for large game up to 35 or 40 yards, and occasionally nioro.

Cycling' and Insanity. .«

One of Scotland's insane experts, Dr. Havelock of the Montrose Royal Lunatic asylum, testifies in an official report to the .valuo of the bicycle as an aid in the cure of mental diseases.. In speaking of the pationts under his care Dr. Havelock used these words: "A few of the gentlemen, in suitable eases, had been allowed to cycle and had materially improved mentally and physically in consequence, it is believed that this form of exercise and recreation has v. beneficial olfi :t in th:* -arly stages oi some forms of mental disorder, and 1 have seen several eases where it has hastenc-d convalescence and established a sound recovery. Oy- ling seems to distract th. mind irom the morbid trains of thought and intense self absorption in such cases n.oi'o cii'ectually perhaps than any othc-v kind of rccreation avail able."

Bicyclist and Bull.

Rivierre, the French racer, while returning from a race meet recently on his motor hi yele, was charged by a bull, who api'..roniiy did not approve oi the new style of locomotion. The animal's bonis wounded Rivierre, and the beast prepare to charge again, but the veteran sprinted in his best style and escaped The injuries received necessitated a week's rest.

WARWHOOPS.

By the. time another month has gone by it will bo safe for tho bullet proof cloth man to offer hi5 wares to tho publio again. —Exchange.

Spain wants the United States to pay her for public property in Cuba and Porto Rico. But what Spain wants and what she will get do not of courso belong in the same column.—Cleveland Leader.

In Madrid they still beliove that "Germany will not allow great territorial changes without having something to say thereon." But Germany has already learned to keep out of the range of American guns.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.

The medical and commissary departments of tho army are discovered to bo of considerable importance to tho nation. It would pay hereafter to give them more thought in peace as well as war.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.?

'lhe fast train.s on the Vandalia have boen discontinued.

Morgan & Lee arc advertising per c?nt. money to loan.

Alexander Thomson is unite ill at his home on College Hill.

Remember Col. Hamilton's big stock sale on Tuesday, Oct. 7.

Covington is going to have a street fair on Oct. 12,13 and 14.

The stand pipe is being painted* a bright red color both inside and out. liev. Claude Travis has been the guest of his mother here this week.

A. B. Anderson and Ben Crane were in Covington on legal business Monday.

See Col. Hamilton's notice of public sale of slack in another column of this paper.

Monday being a fast d^y all of the Jewish establishments of fhe city were closed.

James Grimes has sold a half interest in his restaurant to Cart Soratt, ot Anderson.

Jere Casey, of Company M, is quite sick at the home of his father, north of the city.

Joe Carroll has gone to Doming, N. M., where he will keep books for a large hardware firm.

Louis McMains has been appointed guardian of the minor heirs of B.Frank Britton, deceased.

Rural free mail delivery will be established at Frankfort, one carrier covering twenty-one miles.

Supt. Walkup examined two applicants for teachers' license at the regular monthly examination la6t Saturday.

Mrs. M. W. Bruner and daughter, Miss Ella, have gone to Washington, D. C., where Miss Bruner will enter college.

Congressman Landis and Judge Baker, republican candidate for the Supreme court, were in the city last Saturday.

The Dieterich syndicato will establish an acetylene gas plant at Wabash, with which they will compete with the electric light.

Company C, of Frankfort, and Company L, of Kokomo, One-hundred-and fifty-eighth Indiana, will engage in a sham battle at Kokomo, Oct. 16.

About twenty Masons from here at t-nded the funeral of J. W. Tribbet, at Darlington, last Sunday. Several of the order from Linden and Thorntown were also in attendance.

James E. Quinley and Emma J. Browning, of Parkersburg, this county, were married the 25th inet. at the-resi-dence of the officiating minister, Rev. G. W. Stafford. Both bride and groom are held in high esteem by their many young friends, who wish them much joy in their happy union. .?'

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