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The,lob department of the PRESS is complete, aud affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law Printing. No paper willbe discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option of the publisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. IPS-No advertisements will be accepted at less than the price for fifteen words. cents in 1896 and at 65 this year; hay for 35 a ton in 1896 and for 88.50 a ton this year. Chickens and egg: increased nearly 100 per cent, butter increased and so did beef and pork and mutton. The farmer under Republican rule has the advantage of an in creased foreign demand, and through manufacturing activity a greatly enlarged home-market. Even if he pays more for a few articles of consumption, he receives so much more for all his products that his purchasing power is much greater. For example, the farmer can buy reaper, mower, wagon, plow, corn cultivator, and wheat drill for $290, for which he would have paid $277 in 1896. But iu 1896 his equip ment of implements and machinery would have cost him 500 bushels of wheat, or 1,385 bushels of corn, or 2,308 bushels of oats, or 11 steers, or 45 hogs of average weight. In 1902 the same equipment costs 382 bushels of wheat, or 518 bushels of corn or 734 bushels of oats, or 8 steers, or 23 hogs. The same rule holds goods when the farmer comes to buy dry goods, clothing, or groceries. As he raises his own vegetables, fruits, meats, and chickens, and makes his own butter and cheese, prices for these do not concern him greatly. The farmer is not seeking Demo cratic sympathy or advice. I£e has a very vivid recollection of his ex periences under the last Democratic administration. DOLLARS AND CENTS TO™ VOTERS Every County Receives More Than It Pays Into the Treasury. RESULT OF REPUBLICAN RULE Figures From Official Sources Which Cannot Be Denied —The Corporation Taxes Help Every Township and Village In the State Under the Re publican System of Finances. Harrisburg, Oct. 14.—Here is a state ment that is at once startling and striking. It comes from official sources: "There is not a single county in Pennsylvania which floes not get di rectly back from the state treasury more money than the state collects from all its citizens, excepting so far as some of them may be indirectly taxed as stockholders in banks, rail roads and other corporations. The largest excess repaid to the counties goes to the less wealthy ones having the smallest proportion of property subject to state tax in relation to their population." SOME REPUBLICAN FACTS. This is a sample of what the Repub lican party has done and is doing for the people of Pennsylvania. It is only one reason why Judge Pennypacker should be elected and the Democrats defeated, because they left a state debt of $10,000,000 to be paid off by the other fellows. The following figures are taken from official records here in Harrisburg. They are given for the purpose of ex hibiting more clearly the fact that the people get back more than they pay into the state treasury. How Is it done? The corporations pay the taxes. What the Individual citizen pays Into the state treasury is for liquor license, mercantile tax, tax on money at in terest, etc. The first column In the following ta ble represents the total amount paid into the state treasury from each county from all sources, including per sonal property tax, tax on municipal loans, collateral inheritances, fees of public offices, writs, wills, deeds, etc., mercantile, liquor, biluard room, brok ers, peddlers and other kind of taxes. The second column includes the money returned to each county from the state in the shape of salary of judges, appro priations for hospitals and other insti tutions and for schools. The figures are for the year 1900. SOME IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. Adams $19,676.87 $86,130.30 Allegheny 1,027,209.30 1,331,641.29 Armstrong ... 23,660.35 117,598.53 Beaver 27,691.76 120,983.73 Berks 139,719.11 355,498.00 Blair 39,636.35 180,574.58 Bradford 29,846.57 164,732.32 Bucks 79,017.77 192,301.47 Butler 27,253.49 134,740.09 Cambria 42,801.31 169,121.61 Cameron 3,712.50 21,019.63 Carbon 19,450.01 102,443.19 Centre 12,201.96 107,991.19 Chester 77,330.74 249,993.95 Clarion 12,158.35 100,262.60 Clearfield 21,366.62 167,284.31 Clinton 15,743.49 69,342.25 Columbia 18,081.30 96,990.46 Crawford 33,422.23 182,102.40 Cumberland... 37,170.93 117,357.90 Dauphin 76,913.66 236,985.63 Delaware 90,158.95 175,911.73 Elk 10,694.28 66,569.10 Erie 73,833.41 225,631.87 Fayette 59,833.10 210,650.74 Forest 2.739.63 26,646.13 Franklin 32.450.75 117,795.33 Fulton 2,252.31 27,362.71 Greene 13,090.98 83,834.53 Huntingdon.... 12,000.45 88,100.52 Indiana 11,599.44 108,212.42 Jefferson 16,982.20 112,228.55 Juniata 5,323.40 38i938.80 Lackawanna .. 112,649.76 357,651.13 Lancaster 172,437.01 389,432.12 Lawrence 32,304.11 86,594.82 Lebanon 36,797.92 128.743.82 Lehigh 79,706.12 209,527.87 Luzerne 179,027.59 494,321.67 Lycoming 46,954.47 181,448.87 MeKean 31.760.36 114,880.33 Mercer 22,175.01 135,223.93 Mifflin 17,650.66 44,338,77 Monroe 11,696.06 50,969.72 Montgomery .. 162,266.74 314,449.92 Montour 7,666.67 38,419.44 Northampton .. 69,503.85 176,961.00 North'mberl'd . 56,503.85 176,961.00 Berry 8,083.25 66,111.50 Philadelphia ..3,220,760.04 3,289,430.61 Pike 3,518.06 26,876.09 Potter 6,565.68 76,829.87 Schuylkill 115,014.71 389,308.68 Snyder 4,986.63 44,869.39 Somerset 16,937.08 107,593.00 Sullivan 3,770.41 34,534.94 Susquehanna .. 17,586.65 115,973.34 Tioga 17,608.96 133,707.85 Union 10,639.48 49,159.46 Venango 25,277.20 122.321.80 Warren 15,001.57 101,310.52 Washington... 62,212.86 204,451.91 Wayne 14,872.58 83,486.39 Westmoreland . 72,244.83 263,230.75 Wyoming 9,417.96 47,196.2;) York 81,312.63 292.037.59 From this it appears that there is no county in Pennsylvania which pays in to the stato treasury as much in taxes as it i ' ivos back in taxes collected by the stale to be turned into the coun ty treasury for the purpose of redircing local taxation. In other words, under the state tax laws enacted by the Re publican party in Pennsylvania, the corporations pay the entire expense of carrying on the state government and pay into the stato treasury $7,481,484 besides, which is returned back to the counties. CAMERON COUNTY PRFSS. TH UK SPAY, OCTOBER 16, 1902. «(iriMONS PAY 11 TAXIS Under Republican Rule the Burden Is Placed On Them. CITIZENS PAY NO STATE TAX Republicans Have Paid Off Over $40,- 000,000 of State Debt Left By the 4 Democrats, and Now Pennsylvania Is Free From Debt—Some Figures For Democratic Shouters to Study. Every home owner in Pennsylvania has a vital interest in the approach ing election. It is not only a question of Democrat or Republican, of Patti son or Pennypacker, but it is a matter of dollars and cents to every owner of a foot of land in the commonwealth. It was the Democratic party that plunged the state into a debt of $40,- 000,000 that has required forty years of Republican rule to lift. Republi cans should not forget this. And yet in spite of this fact tlxe Re publican system of state finances has been the subject of the most persis tent attacks from its enemies. Demo cratic leaders when they assail the Re publican financial system in Pennsyl vania know that they are deliberately misrepresenting the facts. Unfortu nately the public at large does not seem to have a very clear idea of the meth od by which state taxes are assessed and collected. Under the wise and beneficent legis lation of the Republican party in the past thirty-five years, the burdens of state taxation have been lifted from the shoulders of the individual and placed upon the corporations of the state. CITIZENS PAY NO STATE TAX. An impression prevails among the people that they are taxed for all the appropriations made to the public schools, charitable institutions, the ju diciary, legislative expenses, the new eapitol, etc.. etc. As a matter of fact, our citizens pay no state tax except a liquor license tax, and one mill on the dollar where they own personal securi ties, such as bonds, mortgages, etc., the tax on the same being four mills, three of which are returned to the respective counties. Money for all expenses of the state comes from the corporations. In direct contrast to this has been the attitude of the Democratic party and its legislation. Before the Republican party came into power all real estate, occupations over $200.00 per annum, cattle, etc., were taxed by the Demo cratic party in time of peace; and even with this enormous tax burden it left a debt of over $40,000,000 in 1860, to be provided for and lifted by the Re publican party. And the Republican party has redeemed the credit of the state; it stands to-day before the world free from debt. MISLEADING TAX RECEIPTS. The manner in which the various collectors of taxes of the common wealth have their bills and receipts printed is largely responsible for the misapprehension mat exists in the minds of the people upon this question of state taxation. In almost every in stance instead of having a separate item for state taxes to be used where the person has money at interest sub ject to taxation, and not otherwise, almost all bills that are sent out by the tax collectors have one item entitled "State and County Tax." Opposite this head is placed the amount of the county tax, and the person receiving the bill is naturally under the impres sion that the amount charged repre sents a combination of state and county taxes, and if questioned upon this point the answer is always the production of a tax receipt showing the payment of a certain sum of money under the head of"State and County Tax." The taxes paid to the various local collectors, under the designation "State and County Tax," go directly into the coun ty treasury for the exclusive use of the county authorities. The constant aim of Republican leg islation has been to relieve the indi vidual taxpayer. Prior to 1883 the in digent insane in the asylums of the state were wholly supported by the various local municipalities. This was a burden upon the individual taxpayer. As the state debt was reduced under the judicious management, it was be lieved that the commonwealth could afford to assist the counties in the sup port and maintainance of their unfor tunate poor. By the Act of June 13th, 1883, the expense of the care and treat ment of the insane poor of the state was equally divided between the state and the several counties. Tne amount paid by the state since 1885 under this act amounts to $10,525,000, more than $650,000 annually. HELPING THE TOWNSHIPS: Just as the burden of taxation has been liften to the-shouhlers of the state to that extent have the townships, cit ies and counties been aided and over burdened real estate owners assisted. In the two items of indigent insane and public schools, the state pays out of its treasury nearly $8,000,000 a year. To that extent every home-owner in the commonwealth is correspondingly | benefitted. By the Revenue Act of June Bth. i 1891, three-fourth of the p'*r:;onal prop- ' erty tax iu returned ;.o t':i- respeiiiv' counties. The amount returned for t ! i year ending November 30th. 1895, at i the close of the Democratic adminis- I tration was $1.575,01:>.70. The amount of personal » x ! •;:•••'. ;! io the several counties for the year ending Novem* bet- 30tli, 1501, w\ $2.57'...675.00. Under the act of June :,i.h, 1891, the' liquor licenses wore taken from the qtate and given to the different local ities. This was an additional benefit to the taxpayer because prior to that all liquor licenses has been paid into the state treasury. They amount to about $2,000,000 annually. In addition to all these things the state pays the entire cost of the Judi ciary which amounts to upwards of half a million annually. INTERESTING FIGURES. The following is a partial list of the amount paid out of the treasury of the state for the benefit of the different localities and municipalities: Amount paid annually since 1883, for the indigent in sane $058,000 Amount paid annually for common schools 7,015,720 Amount of personal tax re turned 2,572,675 Liquor licenses diverted from the state to the local treasuries 2,000,000 Amount paid to support the judiciary, annually C52.6G2 The amount paid annually by the state for local pur poses $12,809,057 Annual saving on account of the exemption from taxa tion of real estate, horses and cattle, and trades, occupations and profes sions 7,000,000 1 Total annual saving to the respective localities, an nually. since the Repub licans assumed the con trol of the state affairs. .$19,899,057 Prior to the passage of the Act of 1885 the whole amount of moneyed capital returned for the purpose of state taxation was but $145,000,000. In that year, even under the imperfect working of the act, the amount re turned for taxation was $395,000,000, an increase of $250,000,000. According to the auditor general's report of 1901 the amount of the four mill tax on per sonal property amounted to $2,563,375.- 02. and of this tax there was returned to the several counties $2,572,675.42. These facts and figures speak for themselves. They are more impres sive than any words could possibly be in demonstrating what the Republican porty has done in the way of lifting the burden of state taxation from the shoulders of the small home owner and farmer. WHAT CORPORATIONS PAY. The total revenue of the state dur ing the year ending December Ist, 1901, was $17,727,432. Of this amount $lO,- 307,433 was derived directly from the corporations by the various forms of taxation imposed upon these artificial bodies. The only direct taxation affecting the individual was that upon money at in terest, from which the state collected $2,503,375, as stated above. This in reality is not. a state but a local tax, collected by the state and returned to the various municipalities. The aggra gate revenue of the commonwealth for 1901 after deducting the personal tax refunded, was $15,154,757, of which amount the corporations paid $10,307,- 433; $2,452,201 was derived from licen ses: $1,232,082 from the tax on collat eral inheritance. These three items amounted to $13,991,716, leaving the sum of $1,163,041 received from a va riety of sources none of them affecting the individual citizen. It will be seen therefore, that out of the entire revenue of the common wealth the only portion that could be contorted into a direct tax upon the citizen was that part of the money at interest not returned to the municipal ities amounting to one-fourth of the to tal collected from that source and amounting to the insignificant sum of about 10 cents per annum for each per son." BROWN'S LABOR RECORD He Has Always Defended the Rights of the Workingman. Hon. W. M. Brown, candidate for lieutenant governor, has always been the friend of labor. He is a self-made man himself, having been a sheep herder on the plains when he was 15 years of age. 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