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REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Governor,
S. W. PENNYPACKER, Philadelphia.
For LieutenantJGovernor,
WILLIAM M. BROWN, Lawrence.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
ISAAC B. BROWN, Erie.
For Congress,
S. R. DRESSER, McKean.
For Representative in the General Assembly,
HENRY H. MULLIN.
For Sheriff,
HARRY nEMPIIILL.
For County Commissioners,
M. BLODGET,
JOHN W. LEWIS.
For County Auditors,
CHARLES L. BUTLER,
GORDON H. HOWLET.
EDITORIAL nENTION.
The Democrats are fishing for the
farmer vote with their trust-price
bait, representing that prices of
manufactured products are higher
now than they were in 1N96. The
American farmer is as a rule, able
to see the advantage or disadvan
tage of his position one year with
another and needs no help from the
politician. There has been an in
crease in prices since 1896 but this
increase his been to the advantage
of the farmer more than anyone
else. Comparing the prices of 1896
with those of 1902, farm products
show an advance of 49.30 per cent,
so that for every SIOO received
from the sale of farm products in
1896 the farmer in 1901 received
8149. .'3O for the same quantity and
quality. The same qualiy of farm
products would purchase in 1901,
18.15 per cent, more food than in
1896. It would also produce 04.97
percent, more clothing; 30.31 per
cent, more fuel and lighting; 25 per
cent, more of farm implements; 20
per cent, more drugs; and 25 per
cent, more house furnishing goods.
Farm prices are higher in 1902
than they were last year and the ad
vantage of the farmer in the market
it greater now than then. Reapers,
mowers, plows and cultivators are
quoted by the manufacturers at sub
stantially the same pricesas in 1896,
farm wagonsand drills show a slight
increase. General hardware is the
same as in 1896. Dry goods are a
shade higher, boots and shoes are
lower, and so is clothing. But
wheat sold for -45 cents a bushel in
1896 and for 84 cents in 1902; corn
for lit> 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.
On March 11 1897 (while a member
of the senate), on the discussion of
the resolution to investigate the indus
trial conditions in the bituminous coal
region, Senator Brown offered the fol
lowing amendment:
"That a committee of three of the
house and two of the senate be ap
pointed to investigate the anthracite
coal regions under me resolution, and
a committee or three of the house and
two of the senate be appointed to in-
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vestigate the bituminous coal region,
with the recommendation that mem
bers of both houses be selected from
the standing committees of both houses
on mines and mining."
Later, in the discussion on the same
resolution, Mr. Blown said: "Air. Presi
dent. I stated yesterday, when this
resolution was referred to the commit
tee on mines and mining, that I was in
favor of the resolution. I was in favor
of the investigation. I meant what i
said then. I mean it now. If these
people want investigation, I am per
fectly willing to give it to them in a
business way. I desire to disclaim any
factional idea as controlling this im
portant question. This affects the
homes and interests of labor classes in
this comonwealth. I do not wish to
pose as a demagogue, bnt if anything
can be done in any way to alleviate
any suffering, or correct any evils that
may arise, I believe that it should be
done."
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