Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 October 1908 — Page 8

5 § . ¥ > ~ TAXES AND OFrICIAL EXTRAYAGANCE - KITED UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE * The following comparison shows the anmual cost of the offices and depart ments mentioned for the year 1907 ugder the administration of Governor Hanly, Republican, and the year 1894, under the administration of Governor Matthews, a Democrat:

Republican. -~ g (See Acts 1907 p. 671.) Governor’s 0ffice.............$ 58,550 Auditor’s 0ffice......c.c0.... 64,620 Becretary of 5tate............ 15,390 Attorney General (Regular).. 20,050 Attorney General (Special)... 20,000 Treasurer of 5tate............ 12,880 Supreme Court .............. 4,200 Appellate Cougt .............. 43,040 Reporter Supreme C0urt...... 10,350 Bupt. Public Instruction...... 10,420 Circult Judges ............... 218,700 Superior Judges ............. 52,400 Prosecuting Attorneys ....... 30,500 Bureau of Statistics .......... 15,160 Adjutant General’s Dept...... 85,250 Bureau of Printing ........... 87,650 Otate Library ... ......... 152980 Department of Geology, etc... 21,040 Fish Commissioner .......... 9,500 Deputies and Expenses ......, 20,710 Beard of Health ... ..... 28500 Board of Tax Commissioner.. 12,000 Care of State H0u5e.......... 27,340

WOl L. iso RS ATO TOAI -.o .vvos esnsy es NNI.OOO Cost under Republican administration.......q..ccvcveencencenas... $925470 Cost under Democratic administration........c.ovoeeeeeeeeeneacasss. 431,900 Increase under Repub1ican5.......................;.............5493,570 Beigg an increase of more than 100 per cent under Republican administration. e o A comparison of the receipts and disbursements and -taxes levied for the years 1907 and 1894 shows the following result, all figures being official: g Total taxable property in Indiana in 1894......................51,295,106,415 Total taxable property in Indiana in 1907.............. ....... 1,767,815,487 Total state and local taxes in 1894......00vvieeuennennnasenaa.s 18,891,581 Total state and local taxes in 1907......ccuiienreinenninennnnns 36,050,275 Tot_a'.l state tax in 1894 (including sinkigg fund) .. Saveen i den 4,463,899 Total state tax in 1907 (no sinking fund).......oiveeevrrnrnnnns 6,174,413 State generai fund disbursements 1894 (including $647,088 on ac- — : - eount of SAle WEbL) . .i..... 4. .ovunsn vuniinge e s nnenefy | SNERT,AUT State general fund disbursements 1906 (no payment on state debt) 5,093,255 The stafe auditor’s report for 1905 sets out the total receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year ending Ogtober 31, 1905, as follows: BBEMIDIS ..o iia i it vek e essh e s s RN ST OF BIDRIOIIENIE oy oiiecranoncienhosars sNS PRt or st Fevinas ey MENTRELEN The report of the state treasurer for the fischl vear ending October 31, 1906, sets out the total receipts and disbursements as follows: : > ‘ IBOOIPAS: . . covinmoiiot vasiTinciaoionpraimatoeriinsshrvssipitPßANSEGT 16 Bishursementl o .oioon il ol vseiivass eti e savasest DIOPIRT 202 (The disbursements included nothing on the state debt.) ‘ The report of the treasurer for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1907 | (only eleven months, due to a change in the law as to the ending of the-fiscal year), shows the following as to total receipts and disbursements: g BECEIDIE ... ovcoveiivnsicinnsescsepasonsnnnasineesisosovsveds sl 0RD.03 DlBBRrßements . ..o il iAT el s ais ees s et RO T OOR T _ (The disbursements inch;ded nothing-on the state debt.) i It will be remembered that the heavy receipts and disbursements for the month of October are not included_ in thﬁ 1907 statement because of ihe shortening of the fiscal year. No full comparison, therefore, can be made of 1907 with other years. - ; oa In marked contrast with: the above reports of Republican management is the report of the fiscal year ending October 31, 1894, the last year the state offices were occupied by Democrats. The fimancial statement for the year 1894 is as follows: ; ; ' : PEOBIPIR .. . oiiicii b oviarseveiiine is et seds s e bi s ens BN BEEUGY RE Disbursements (including $647,088 on-account of state debt)...... 6,468,456.36 Excess of disbursements 1905 over 1894....c..ciiieriivneneeseess 2,669,412.00 Excess of disbursements 1906 over 1894..........000vvevnivne... 2,640,755.96 This enormous increase in annual expenditures is out of all proportion to the real increase in the cost of administering the state’s affairs. The multipli- l cation of needless offices, boards and commissions, the increase in- official salaries and reckless approqriations of money in all directions are some of the reasons fothe growing burdens that have been put upon the taxpayers. Under the last Democratic administration of the state the tax levy for all state purposes was 32 cents on the $lOO. This included 3 cents levied for the state debt sinking fund, which left the levy for all other purpo'seﬁ~ at 29 cents.b The levy made by the last Republican legislature is 33.35 cents on the $lOO, “This includes nothing for the state debt sinking fund until 1908, and representa -an increase of 4.35 cents on the $lOO for general state expenses. The assessment of property for'taxatio'n has been enormously inc’;'eased. The 4.35 cents increase in rate and the increase in assessed value will show the taipayer where some of the extra tax burden comes from. It is merely his cohtribution to the Republican variety of “business administration” in state affairs. : : NATIONAL EXTRAVAGANCE. A comparison of the cost-of the national government under the last Democratic admjnistmtion and the present Republican administration, as shown by the Congressional Record, Vol. 42, No. 38, pp. 7613-19: Total expenditures for four years ending 1897...........000.....51,758,902,462 AVErage Per YEAT ....cecesescrscscncercncsnracanccssccnnanaans 439,725,615 Total expenditures for four years ending 1909.... i reees 3,428.809.371 BYOEAEE DOE YEAY (1 . . ocinccnein iNI s i eds. DR R 02.94% The appropriations made by the last session of congress for one : PROR BIONG WO 5. .. io iyt en oo oy s esine LSRRG RS : Total expenditures for army and navy, 1892-1897................ 484,299,699 Total expenditures for army and navy, 1903-1908................ 1,328,679,524 An increase for these two purposes in the last six-year period ° OWer ThE BIBLOE vit s ocvs v savoussiosisi-vidanoes - SN 900 RSE Number of new offices created in the six-year period, 1893-1898... 10,279 “ast of these BOW aIIOBE .. ... .s 0 i suviinaic. oo ¥ BN Number of new offices created in the six-year perigd, 1903-1908... { 99,319 €ost of these new offices ..............cocenunnve.,na.liniisa.B 69,543,506 Total expenditures for last four years Roosevelt administration.. 3,428,809,371 Total expenditures Civil War, years 1862-1865.................. 8,394,830,931 Excess of Roosevelt expenditures over Civil War peri0d.....5... 33,978,440 - e RUNNING WILD. P Speaking of thé enornfous expenditures of the Republican party, the Indimapolis News (Republican) at the close of the late session of congress, refbrrlng' to the appropriation of more than a Billion dollars for one yéar,, said: “No congress which appropriates more than $1,000,000,000 for a ;h’filé year can hope to escape crificism on the score of extravagance. It has not been long since a billion-dollar _congress was considered remarkable. Now we have " & billion-dollar session, or a two billion-dollar congress. Surely it is time to display the damger signal. <, " SRaaan e . “With expenditures far outrunning receipts, with these monstrous appr) priations, with the cruelly high cost of living, with extravagant local govern‘ments and with a regime of generally high taxes, it seems to us that an economical public policy ought to be popular. The business depression Is still with us and there are many men out of employment. Yet the tax-gather-er is busier than ever. Local governments are heavily in debt and local tax _rates are increasing, and the borrowing capacity of many of our counties and municipaiiti-s is exhausted. On top of it all we have this $1,000,000,000 appro_priation foi ‘the emsuing year. This disposition to run wild ought to be

When the Ohio éngineers of Taft's steam roller heard that Governor Hanly had called a special session of the Indiana {egislature they surely remembered that Hanly, when he had been ‘insulted in the national convention, said: *“I can make you burn for this in Indians, and I am going to do it” ~ they both belong—is going to have a ‘hard time figuring it out how Haaly

- ~.~ Democratic. (See Acts 1893 p. 361.) Governor’s Office ............$ 12,020 Auditor’s 0ffice...........c.. 12500 Secretary of State ........... 8,250 Atterney General ............ 4,800 Treasurer of State ........... 5,520 Supreme Court .............. 26,900 Appellate Court .............. 20470 Reporter Supreme Court..... 5,700 Supt. Public Instruction ...... 6,600 Circuit Judges ............... 145,000 Superior Judges ............. 7,000 Prosecuting Attorneys ....... - 28,000 Bureau of Statistics ......... 9,000 Adjutant General’s Dept ..... 39,520 Bureau of Printing ... ....... 55,200 State Library ......ii i s 8120 Department of Geology, etc... 9,100 Fish Commissioner .......... 800 Board of Health ...........:s- 5000 Board of Tax Commissioners.. 6,000 Care of State House ......... 18,500

Governor Hanly says that the appropriations made by the last regular 'léuion for some of the staté's institutions were not big enough and that he has used his contingent fund to help them out. Perhaps if fewer costly carriages and such like had been bought there would have been more money left for the real needs:of the institutions. On the face of things it looks | as if there was more than enough ap- |

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$70,000,000 WAS GRAFTED Representative Lloyd Shows How the Congress Gave Railroads That _ “Sum Improperly. Representative James T. Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman of the Démocratia national congressional committee, 6n March 10, 1508, exposed the flagrant theft of the people’s money through the unfair weighing of mails when official tests were made to delermine what compensation the, ' railroads should réeeive. Hg said:. ! “Mr. Chairman, ih- delivering my address a few days since on postal conditions, in discussing the iuterpreti'l; tion of t&;law as to the weighing of the mail’™ failed to sta‘e the law on the subject, and I wish to do so now: “ ‘The average weight to be asecertained, in every ecase, by the actual weighing of the mails for such a number of successive working days, not less ‘than- thirty, at such times after June 30, 1873, and not less frequently than once in every fout years.” “Later the time was changed. to ninety days. Otherwise the law hay not been changed to this date. ; “Until Mareh 2, 1907, the department required the mail to be weighed for ninety days. Sunday w3s not considered, so that the weighing covered. a period of one hundred and five days Instead of ninety successive days. - In other words, working days were construed to mean week days. Postmaster General Cortelyou changed this interpretation which had been accepted as correct for over thirty years and issued the following order as his construction of ‘the law: | ““That when the weight of mail ig taken on railroad routes, the whole number of days the mails are weighed shall be used as a divisor for obtaining the average weight per day.’ “This' required in effect, that, ine stead of dividing the number of working or !week days in the weighing jperiod, the devisor should be the number of days on which mail was actually carried during the period. If it was weighed one hundred and five days, the divisor to obtain the daily weight was one hundred and five. If the mail was not cdPried on Sunday, the divisor would be ninety. This, as You can readily see, would: give less compensation for ecarrying the full week than for six days, for the accumulated mail would be practically the sam'e whether carried in six days or in seven. 2 5 “The present postmaster' general, secing this predicament, issued another order of construction, known as ‘order 412 which is as follows: , “*That"when the weight of mail is taken on railroad routes thLe “whole number of days includad in the weighing period shall be used as a divisor for obtaining the average weight per qay.’ . Ny T . “If the comstruction up to last year was right, then theré has been withheld from the railroads this year over $1,700,000 that is theirs under tli@g\w..; If the present construction is the proper one, the rallroads have received ‘over $70,000,000 since 1880 that belongs to the people; so that whichever view is sustained money has been wrongfully withheld through the postoffice departmeut.” Coisel “WHERE DID YOU GET ITP “Uncle Joe” Invites Démand That : ‘He Show Whel-eﬂeGot g _ Bpeaker Cannon intimated that im Bryan had become a millionaire, The speaker _was spéffking -in Wis home town, Danyille, oiL. - The followirss day Mr. Bryan, speakthat he is worth approximately $l5O, R “"& Sl f ﬂwwwg% g ;(ri o.m 3 3&13“ " ";"ﬁf‘:‘“"’ﬁ .3‘::':“‘; %@*}v@mw AN ey et T %»“ lERE - UK & ‘s,‘ Ve ~».~-'., i

great industry in upbuilding a competency for his old age. 5 i Salary, Lectures and Books. . ’ “It was from what I saved from my ]congressionar saliary, and gained from { lectures and books and the profifs of ‘The .Commoner’ that I got ‘what {money and property I have,” Mr. Bryan answered, in substance. ‘“Wwill Mr. Cannon now tell the people how he amassed his wealth? He has been hampered more or less by official duties during his term of service in the congress, yet in spite of that obstacle, he is commeonly presumed to posse* considerable of this world's goods.’ . .~

! Now “Uncle Joe’s’” Turn. | None will deny that it is now Uncle Joe’s turn to take the people into his confidence. Down in Danville, it is _true that Mr. Cannon and his brother ' a 8 bankers are thought each to have ‘amassed much more than $1,000,000. Certainly, his credit in the financial i world rests on the general belief that approximately that sum represents his earthly possessions. . .. ; If that be true, it is to be hoped | that the speaker will give details as l to how he got it. If it be untrue, then { let him tell exactly how much he Is worth, and 93 what his wealth consists, and follow Mr. Bryan’s example in taking the people into his “confidence. . : ! Mr:” €Cannon cannot gracefully prefuse to do this. For he himself imvited the demand now made on him, _ f® MARSHALL AND WATSON. During the:special session of the legislature last week- James E. Watson, Republican candidate for governor, stayed about the state house lobbying for partisan measures—working hand in glove with the Republican state machine, ON THE OTHER HAND, Thomas R. Marshall, the Democratic candidate for governor, continued his campaign in the state and remained away from Indianapolis. He had advised the Democratic members to vote as the party platform and their consciences dictated. Beyond that he did not go. And the Marshall way is better than the Watson way. - : = ia TAFT ON WAGES : Of Men, Widows and/Orphan‘s. While Mr. Taft was ma?king a speech to the Republican clubs in Cincinanti last week a man in the gallery asked him wßat he was “going to do with the unemployed.” In answer Mr. Taft said: ; i “I'll tell you what T would do with the unemployed. I would have them vote the Republican ticket this fall, and they will jet employment.” ~ This is mere :assertion. The Repub-, lican party is in power, and yet for a year millions of men have been put of employment. If the Republican party . : , can give employment to men who “vote the Republican ticket_tlis fall,” why did it take employment away from them. ; T But let us look below. Here is a dispateh dealing with employment and wages subject to Republican control, which we reproduce, headlines and all, from the Indianapolis News of Septembe‘r;lfnh:“a e . _WIDOW'S WAGES ARE CUT Uncle Sam’s Pay for Their Needlework ~ New York, Sept. 16—Thelr small ‘wages already cut in half by the competition of labor-saving machinery, the needlewomen “in_the clothing [factory in the Brooklyn navy yard have learn- : “"*ﬁ“*‘%& sl il € g et i g i St it T o 8 & huSactive. B s s e We e~ T T | %wﬁ:‘&tf&@%:v?

administration, sewing stars . and stripes on the uniforms of Uncle Sam’s seamen. Roosevelt’s . administration, of which Taft was so recently a part, made one cut in the small wages of these women and threatens to make another. If the Republican party-does such a thing to these women, how can men depend upon {it? >

'DEMOCRATS, BE ON YOUR GUARD. \ l —_— 4 : [F,r()xﬁ the Marion Leader.] ! On last Monday evening the Chronicle of this city printed alleged interviews wifh about fifty saloon keepers of Marion and Grant county, in which it made these said liquor dealers say in substance that they were all opposed to the election of “Jim” Watson for governor, as it would mean the ruination of their business. They were also made to say§hat they favored the election of Tom Marshall for governor, as it meant the salvation of their business. , ; On Tuesday the Leader called upon these saloon keepers and in every instance the interviews in the Chronicle were pronounced as forgeries. Not one liquor dealer in Marion could be found who had uttered one word. to that paper or any other paper on the subject of state politics. - ) The object of the Chronicle in printing these bogus . interviews with liquor dealers is very plain. It is expected that temperance Democrats of ‘the state can be reached by such deception. < : Seventy-five per cent of the saloon keepers misquoted are Republicans and are loud in their denunciation of such dirty politics. s n On Tuesday of this week this sanie Chronicle had printed 25,000 copies of ‘their issue of last Mon&%r containing the bogus interviews. These were. shipped to the Republican state headquarters at Indianapolis for distribution over the state of Indiana. Not satisfied by trying to betray their own party workers in ‘Grant county, the Chronicle, with the assistance of the state Republican organization, now desires to fool the people of Indiana. 7 Democrats everywhere in the state should be on their guard. Watch for thgl Marion Chronicle of last Monday with the bogus interviews from saloon keepers. ¥ Crush this deception wherever it shows itself. : N

Mr. Taft said that he would not kick a man when he was down—meaning Foraker. He just stepped to one side and let Roosevelt do the job. *

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“On the other hand,” says Mr. Watson in his Fort Wayne kéynote speech, ‘“4he Republican party early declared in favor of local option, so that its platform this year is in perfect harmohy with its previous announcement of brlncipiés on thig question.” Yes, to be sure. The Republican party as far back as 1874—a trifle of thirtyfour. years ago—said it was in favor of local®option. Since that time it hashad control of the legislature during. many sessions—and continuously for the last twelve years—but has never thought of passing & local option law of any kind, and its declaration on that subject now is insincere and fraudulent. Its “principles” on the question have not bothered it serlous: Iy.. And even now.Mr.*Watson’s threecolumn demand {or county 1608.1 ops tion, which he says is his “paramount issue,” is for campaign purpofes only. It has not convinced the Hanly Repub-: licans, and it certainly can make no impression on Democrats. ~ M 'gg’ Tk "Tﬂ“;&_‘. F; i Lo “ mﬂ'w golng to start has been going ou for some time. They are

SHERMAN ACCEPTS BLAMB Republican Vice Presidential Candie date Drawn Out by Congress- : man De Armond. " On the word of James Schoolcraft Sherman, Republican vice presidential candidate, full responsibility for con‘gress’ failure to enact many needed laws must be assumed by the Republican party. : April 8, 1908, in the house, as printed in the Congressional Record, Representative David A. De Armond, of Missouri, said: . - ; _“When the question is asked anywlere in tlie country—and it will be askéd—wlly was not this measure considered, why was not that measure passed, why was not the other measure brought up? there is one answer, and only one: Because the Republican majorify in this house willed that it should not be considered, should not be brought up, should not Le passed. We can stand upon that record. Tt is well known that there is pressure in the country, and very great pressure, for. the consideration and passage of a number of limportant measures. It is well Known' that a large majority of the voting strength of the couniry is insistent upon the consideration and the passage of important measures. Do not go to them again, as you have done so often andso successfully, and endeavor: to delude them into. the belief fhat ‘somehow you could not get consideration £or the measure and somehow yon could not pass it. You can have con.sideration, because you have the power to enforce it; and, so far as meritorious measvres are concerned, as has been demonstrated here more than once and will be demonstrated again, and abundantly demonstrated, you have only to express the will, you have only to give the opportunity, and if you lack the votes upon that side, as you do not, there will be an abundant addition here.” , - Sherman Admits It. = The same day, replying, Mr. Sherman said: “The gentleman from Missouri intimates that the Republican side of tje house desires to do away with the roll calls because of some fear of making a record upon some question before the house. Mr. Speaker, the Republican party in the house, the Republican party in this nation, is prepared today to accept fuil responsibility, not only for everything that-is dene, *but for that which is not done in the way of legislation and administration. [Applause on the Republican side.] We recognize the fact, sir, that this government today is Rgpublican in all its branches. We recognize the fact that we have a Republican president, brave, wise, and courageous. We recognizethat we have a Republican majority in the senate, that we have a Republican majority in this house that is ready to resort to every legal, every proper constitutional right to enact such legislation as it deems for the best interest for the greatest number of our people, and which js willing and readyto accept full responsibility for alli those measures which. are introduced here and which are enacted into law.” ‘

MR. SHAW ON SOUP HOUSES. Points Out Workless Laborers and Engineless Cars — Former i Secreuiry Talks. - Former Secretary of the Treasury Shaw,; in Michigan last spring, made interesting comment on- panics as follows: - : “Over 300,000 freight cars standing empty on the tracks; 8,000 locomotives out of commission; one-quarter of the population of several large cities idle, and, for the first time in a Republican administration, free soup houses.” Hide Must Go With the Hair. In Secretary Shaw’s case, the “hida must go with the hair; that is, his comment on economic conditions must be taken “en semble,” as the theatrical critics say. His soundness on bank guarantee must accompany equally sound opinion on other mooted questions. * Now that Mr. Taft, against whom Mr. Shaw labored, has been nominated, Mr. Shaw might obtain | leave to “extend his remazks in the record,” and embellish his terse statement relative to soup houses. He will easily overcome Democratic objection, and perhaps can get unanimous consent, under the rules. ;

\ B | e | FEDERAL USURPATION---SHAW. ; Republican Financier-Cabinet Member Denounces Deal With Steel - | : Trust Last October. . When the Trust Company of America, New York, was in trouble last October, a representative of the, steel trust went to Washington and obtained consent of the administration for the trust to take over its chief competitor, the Tennessee Iron and Coal company,-as the price of diding the Trust Company of America. It was a- combination in restraint of trade, a violation of the Sherman antitrust law. — ! sl = Peculiar Proceeding. Mr. Shaw. thought this a peculiar proceeding, as shown by his speech before the National Eleétric Light assoeiation, May 23, 1908, when ke said: “I have no hesitancy in saying that this Is the only first-class country «in the world where permission could have been obtained from the executive department of the government. Anywhere élse such a request would have been answered, ‘Go consult your lawR e - Why did Gpvex:nqr Hanly, as soon as he got into ofiice, ask the legislature to put in his hands “contingent” and “emiergency” funds amounting to $40,000, when other governors—Matthows, Democrat, for instance—gdt along with 43,000 and had Something left? How 1y s found s many opportunities to Sl ege e B SURIL R S T

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A PROTECTION TO , | - HONEST BANKERS. gt The National Bank- of Commerce of : Kansas City was the largest bank in the Missouri Valley. It was so large and so prosperous that it excited the jealousy of all its rivals. It had about $25,000,000 of deposits when the Republican “flurry” came in the fall of 1907. The Standard Oil company, jealous of its growth, started false reports,'and caused depositors to withs draw their money. On the second of Decémber., when the government’ report was called for, it was shown that these false reports had caused a reduction of $16,000,000 in deposits. The bank officials did not dare to reopen on the following Monday for fear o'f'ré run and the sacrifice of secm}ties»at half values. So they “liquidated” and ' the stockholders and ‘officers lost largely. g . Had the ‘bank been guaranteéii the tongue of slander would have been harmless. No withdrawals would have been caused by false reports.. The premium of one 20th of one per cent for guaranty of deposits would have been cheap to the bank’s stockholders. i After the presiden@ial election, when i all men can think without bias, 90 per i cent of the honest bankers outside ‘!: New York will demand the compulsory | guaranty of bank deposits for the pro- - tection of both themselves and of their - customers. ; A

BRYAN ON LABORERS. In a speech on Labor Day, W. R. Hearst, who is doing what he can for Taft, said that Mr. Bryan while a member of congress, spoke of workingmen as “public beggars.” Hearst afterward had his speech containing this lie printed as an advertisement in ' many papers. As additional evidence of the unprincipled character of iHearst, what Mr. Bryan really said ‘about laborers is set out below, It will be found in a speech delivered by ‘Mr. Bryan in congfess on Jan. 13, 1894, ‘and is-as follows: . . e ; ~_ “The laboring men of the country do ‘not ask for benevolence. They have ‘been paraded “tefore you as people ‘who live’'by the consent of somebody ‘else; they have been set before you o °‘sWmmﬂm ‘and assistarce.. | protest against/this slander on the brawn and muscle, ‘the brafh and sipew of this country. | fars. the peuetey Uit attituils of Jnge demand Justice”

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