Republican News Item CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1899. "FIRST OF_ALL— THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPORTE, PA. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.25 per annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies tree. All communications should be ad dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Entered at the Tost Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. TAXES EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. The Democratic party while in power had taxed almost every conceivable kind of property for state purposes. It may be well to call your attention to the fact that on the 15th day of April. 1534, an act was passed imposing a state tax on all real estate and on horses and cattle over 4 years of age. Also on all offices of profit, profes sions, trades and occupations. On the 20th day of April, 1844, another act was passed extending the state tax to " all mortgages, moneys and interest, owing by solvent debtors." All these taxes went into the state treasury. None were loft to aid in bearing local burdens. Upon all kinds of real and personal property a state tax of three mills on the dollar was levied. In those days of peace and general pros perity the real estate in town and i ountry was subjected to a state tax. to help pay the ordinary burdens of the state government. According to a careful estimate the value of the taxable real estate in the (ownships, cities and boroughs of the commonwealth is $2,103,784,203. A three mill tux in pursuance of the act of 1834, on that sum, would amount to more than six millions of dollars an nually. During the last 33 years, that is, since 1866, this one item of Repub lican legislation has saved to the Penn sylvania farmer and other real estate owners more than one hundred and fifty millions of dollars. If there be any who think that the Republicans of Pennsylvania have not measured up to their idea of relieving our real estate from Its local burdens, I hope that he will bear in mind that as soon as peaco came every acre of land in the whole commonwealth, all of her more than ten thousand hillsides and valleys were released from the payment of a single dollar towards the payment of the state debt or defraying the current expenses of the government. WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE. The state revenues from all sources are about $12,000,000 annually. So that if our real estate was now taxed as it was in 1860 the taxes raised from it for state purposes would equal one half of the state's entire income. On the 2d day of June, 1871, a Re publican legislature passed an act re pealing the act of 1834. which had im posed a tax of 1 per cent for state pur poses on professions, trades and oc cupations, over $200,000. The act of 1871 has saved to the taxpayers many millions of dollars, and to that extent has assisted in bearing their local bur dens. Again, by an act approved March 23, 1873, the act of assembly imposing taxes for state purposes on horses and Kattle were repealed. I hope the Dem ocratic orators will remember that since these years all town and country real estate, all trades, occupations and professions and all horses and cattle have been relieved from the payment of taxes to the state. The public records will show that the state officials have faithfully ap plied the state's revenues not necessary to meet current expenses to the pay ment of the state debt, which on the first day of December, 1896. amounted only to the sum of $6,815,305.47. This is a large reduction since 1860. This fact alone is sufficient to com mend the Republican party to the voters of the state. Notwithstanding that so many local burdens have been removed from the shoulders of the people, amounting during the last 30 years to more than $175,000,000, we have reduced the state debt that we inherited in 1860 of forty millions to less than seven millions. The Republican party believes In and has done much in the cause of educa tion. It holds that It is better to build school houses than jails and peniten tiaries. It has ever used all honor able means to strengthen the cause of common school education. It follows as a matter of course that as the state appropriations have been increased for common school purposes the local taxes for that purpose have been cor respondingly lessened. During the three years immediately preceding the election of Governor' Curtin; In 1860, the legislature appropriated for com mon schools as follows: MILLIONS FOR THE SCHOOLS. In 1858, in 1859 and in 1860 the sum of $280,000 annually. I ask our Demo cratic opponents to look at the com mon school appropriations made by Republican legislatures. There was appropriated in 1885 and 1886 each year $1,000,000; iti 1887 and 18S8. each year, $1,500,000; in 1889 and 1890, each year, $2,000,000; in 1891 and 1892, each year, $5,000,000; in 1893 and 1894, each year, $5,500,000; in 1895 and 1896, each year, $5,500,000; in 1899 and 1900, each year, $5,000,000. These figures speak for themselves. They show an increase of nearly five millions a year, and to this extent has real estate been assisted in bearing it3 local burdens. Prior to 1883 the indigent insane in the asylums of the state were whollv "LEST WE FORGET." | REPUBLICANS, REMEM- | BER ELECTION DAY, | NEXT TUESDAY, NOV. 7. POLLS OPEN FROM 7 A. M. UNTIL 7 P. M. supported by the various local munic ipalities. By the provisions of the act pf June 13, 1883. the expense of tin car? anil treatment of the insane poor of the state was, in the future, to be equally divided between the state and the respective counties. The amount paid by the state, since 1883, amounts to more than $7,000,000 and aggregates more than half a million of dollars annually. It has been the constant trend of our legislation to put more burdens on the state, and to that extent the town ships, cities and counties have been aided, and overburdened real estate has been assisted. It is self evident that it takes just so much money to sustain the local, municipal and state governments. The more you add to the state the less you collect from the others. In the two items of indigent insane and common schools the state pays out of its treasury six millions of dollars a year. To that extent every farm and every village lot is corre spondingly benefited, and to that ex tent relieved of local taxation. In accordance with the provisions of the revenue act of June 7, 1891, three-fourths of the personal property tax is returned to the respective coun ties. The amount returned for th» year ending Nov. 30, 1895, was sl,- 575,019.70. The amount of personal property tax returned to the several counties for the year ending Nov. 30, 1896, was $2,038,936.04. The act of June 9, 1891, takes the entire retail liquor licenses from the state and gives them to the different localities. This is something never before done in the history of the state. They amount to more than one million dollars an nually. In addition to all these things, the state pays the entire cost of the judiciary, which amounts to a half million of dollars. According to the auditor general's report for 1896, the amount of the four mill tax on personal property amount ed to $2,716,207.94, which represented an assessment, principally of moneys at interest, of $679,051,985. Of this tax there was returned to the several counties $2,038,936.04. The taxes on the various kinds of corporations in the state have been, by recent legisla tion, greatly increased. By the act of June 8, 1891, the tax on the capital stock of corporations was increased from three to live mills, an increase of 66 per cent. TAXING THE CORPORATIONS. As showing the increase of taxation imposed on the capital stock of cor porations. 1 will cite the amount paid during a few years of the recent years. Tax on capital stock in 1878, $1,364,- 256.83; in ISB3, $2,089,032.03; in 1896 $3,482,920.38; in 1898, $5,651,967.57. These figures are taken from the official reports, and show that the capi tal stock tax of corporations has been increased 400 per cent during the last ten years. As the state olllcials began to receive so large an amount of taxes from cor porations and other sources the bal ance in the state treasury was accord ingly large, and on the 15th day of June, 1897, an act was approved by a Republican governor that had been passed by a Republican legislature re quiring the state treasurer to collect from each bank, banking institution or trust company in which funds of the state are deposited, interest on the amount of said deposit, at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. So that today every dollar belonging to the treasury of the state is bearing interest. And yet the people everywhere are being told that the Republican party has been derelict in its duty as the guard ian of the public money. NOT A DIME LOST. No one charges, or dare charge, that a single dime of the public money has at any time been lost. Every dol lar ever paid into the treasury of the state has been accounted for. The charges made against the Republican management rest upon rumors and not upon any tangible facts. In the face of the foregoing facts and figures who will say that the Republi can party has not made a long advance in the way of aiding real estate in bearing the burdens of local taxation? The revenue act of 1891 increased the tax on mortgages and moneys owing by solvent debtors from three mills to four mills, 33 per cent. It also raised the tax on capital stock of banks, rail roads and other corporations from three to five mills on the dollar, or 66 per cent. I submit to an unprejudiced public that the legislation directed by the Republican party since it came into control of this state has been directly in the line of the equalization of pub lic burdens. Since that time, as I have already stated, all real estate, all trades, occupations and professions, and ali horses and cattle have been relieved from the contribution of a single penny to the expense of support ing the state government. It is most respectfully submitted that the Republican party of Pennsyl vania has a record of which its mem bers have a right to be proud and with which it can confidently go before the million of intelligent voters of the commonwealth and ask and expect to receive their continued confidence and support. Harrisburg, Oct. 31. —While the Dem ocratic orators have been going around the state dealing in glittering general ities in criticism of the Republican party, the management of the state treasury and the character of legisla tion enaeted under Republican leader ship, the people have been enlighten ed by the facts from the records of the legislature and the accounting officers of the commonwealth. General Jerome B. Niles, of Tioga county, former audi tor general of the state and a close stu dent of finance and questions of taxa tion, is one of the most respected and honored citizens of Pennsylvania. His writings on the subject ot equalization of taxes have commanded favorable —j REPUBLICAN VICTORY MEANS PROTECTION. UN- | CHANGED MONEY, TRADE | EXPANSION AND FULL | DINNER PAILS. VOTE THE WHOLE REPUBLICAN | TICKET NEXT TUESDAY, | NOV. 7. POLLS OPEN FROM | 7 A. M. TO 7 P. M. I ~i r NEW GOODS are HERE, i Ln.-t week we roccivcil a co»«ijrnnn!iit <>l tin- tin est House litr nitihinjfs ever Ijroiijjrlit. to I inshore. In I'act yon will timl none I>etter any ' where. <•nr prices are very reasonable anil yon will liml l>y iiivestij'Ql in<» llmt we sell a better i|nnlily ol'!?ornl.< al ilic "nine price iliat most dealers ask lor inferior jrooils. S< I Ml'. OF Tin: XKW 1111 N( is AHK WHITE ENAMELED BEDSTEADS With Brass Trimmings, Springs and Mattresses to fit. RUHR Many different textures in handsome patterns. _ , from the cheapest to the finest. Fi IDMITI IRC The bargain seeker slionhl reinember thai vvc have the rUrilil lUfl L. most complete line ol'l'nrnii tire in this county. < inr stock all'orils abundant opportunity lor n veried selection, anil we .-ell just as cheap ns they do in AVilliainspori or 'l'.iwanda. I IWNITDT Al/ S i\i <>ur facilities for conducting liiihtiils arc ini- UINULn IMiVImvI equaled. ('all attended lo at all hours. Telephone call, Hotel Obert. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, DUSHORE, PA. 1 [MICA -1 I AXLE 11 [CREASE <«<• I H helps the tcatn. Saves wear and K ■ expense. Sold every whore. STANDARD OIL CO. 9V V ? • • e ■ AI lj answered at VERNON STORE, HILLSGROVE j New Stock of DRY Goods. Vernon Hull, Hillsgrove. Pa. comment from students ot pomn-u | economy of both great parties. In a letter to General Frank Reecler, chair man of tho Republican state commit tee, General Niles reviews the present political situation in Pennsylvania, and among other things says: We are within a few days of election. This is what is sometimes called an oft year in politics, but it is not. It is true there are but state officers to be elect ed, but the result will be of national significance. A Democratic victory or even a reduced Republican majority will be hailed by our Democratic oppo nents from the Atlantic to the Pacific as a repudiation of the national admin istration and its conduct of our foreign policy. Upon the questions and the legisla tion involving state issues for the last CO years Republicans ought to be more than willing to meet the Democratic party. In their effort to forget the past in this great state our Democratic friends fail "to point with pride" to a single measure orignated by them, hav ing for its object the good of the people. They have been upon the wrong side of everything in the state for a genera tion. Hence they content themselves in this campaign in abusing the Re publican party, in stately periods-,. They are very far from the exact truth. A commendable thing done by the Republican party is the care it has taken of the children of its dead heroes and of those who are living and yet by adverse fortune are in indigent circum stances. Pennsylvania stands almost alone in the work of making ample pro vision by which every child of a dead soldier has been fed, clothed and edu cated at the public expense. The Re publican party, being the majority par tv. is responsible for the legislation on this ' - " - • COLONEL HARNETT, RE- | PUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR STATE TREASURER FOI'GHT FOR HIS COI N TRY'S FLAG IN THE PAR ' OFF PHILIPPINES. A VOTE i FOR HIAI IS A PATRIOTIC ' AMERICAN'S TRIBUTE TO A GALLANT SOLDIER VOTE THE WHOLE RE- j PUBLICAN TICKET NEXT ' TUESDAY. | A. T. ARMSTRONG, SONESTOWN, PA. DKA LI-jU IX Flour fell ami Groceries Ipounds of pure Lard for SI.OO Baking molasses, 25 to 50c. •S pounds Rolled < 'ats lor 25c. 7 pounils of Corn Starch lor 25c. 7 pounds ol'Laundry Starch tor 25c. i 2 pounds of Kio Coll'ce for 25c, I 1 j S liars oi Lenox Soap lor 25c. ; Xo. I mackerel per pound Sc. Best Sugar Coaled Hams (. Buckwheat Flour 25 pound sack 15c. Buckwheat Flour 101) pounds, $l.B '. Yellow Corn per 100 pounds 90c. Corn Meal or Cracked Corn ( .)oe. Corn, Oats and Barley Chop 90c. Wheal Bran 200 pounds $1.50. Flour middlings, 140 pound sack $1.40. Fine middlings 200 pounds $1.(10. Flour per sack SI.OO. ! Winter Holler per sack sl,Oll. j Good Flour 90c. | Rye Flour 25 pounds, 50c. | Graham Flour I2A pounds ,'!oc. j Common Fine Salt per barrel $1.20. ! J. W. Buck open- a new lot of | lumbermen's glim shoes this week, , also a line of men and women's over j shoes. New buck wheal Hour at .1. \V. j Bucks. The Best Place in ; Sullivan County to Buy Your HARDWARE is at James ; JACKS* >N BLOCK, DUSHORE. PA. I keep the best line ot Hardware in the County at prices to suit you. i give you better goods lor your money than you can buy elsewhere. I can lurnish handmade tinware none better made in the 1". S, at prices that will picas you. Three grades, cheap, medium anil the best al ways in stock from which to make your choice. Give me a trial on these goods. A Car Load of Barb Wire and nails just received and will be sold at prices lower than can be bought nt the factory. If yon arc going to paint your house o. , barn write me for prices on paint. A In 11 line of garden tools and seeds on hand. Wc can repair your tinware,pump > etc, put up vour eave trough and spout ing, put on your tin and iron roofing, in stall for yon Hot Air, Hot Water and Steam Heaters. Will give you estimates on the cost ol same If you think of buy ing a range call and look my stock over, I have some ol the finest ranges made. A complete stock of Building Hardware and iron work lor wagons and buggies also on hand. My stock of pumps con sists ol every thing from 1.25 up. Double and single acting, lift and force pumps lor doep or shallow wells. For the butter makers 1 have batter ladles and bowls all sizes and six different kinds ot churns. Chicken wire 2 feet to t> feet at CUNNINGHAM'S HARDWARE STORE, DUSHORE, ib | THE PATRIOTIC REPI B- [ I LI CAN VOTERS OF PENN- , | SYLVANIA ARE CALLED I TO THE POLLS FOR THE I I 1 ELECTION, ON TUESDAY | | NEXT, NOV. 7, TO RALLY l I TO THE SUPPORT OF | PRESIDENT M'KINLEY I AND HIS SPLENDID AD- | MINISTRATION. EVERY | PATRIOT SHOULD VOTE I THE REPUBLICAN TICKET I AND SEND WORD TO THE j WORLD THAT THE PEO- | PLE ARE BEHIND THE I PRESIDENT. | _____ ( Cbursday Bargain Day; AT HOFFMAN'S Muncy Valley. The last Thursday Bargain Day was everything that could be expected. The day was perfect and a goodly number of strange faces were seen in our Store taking advantage of the low prices, on the following bar gains that will be offered each Thursday: , POTTERS OIL CLOTH, 12c SUGAR, sc. COFFEE, ioc. FLOUR, Bsc. COTTON, Bc. WASHING GAS, sc. BAKING POWDER, with tumblers or water pitchers. 10 CAKES SOAP, These are only a few of the many bargains offered each Thursday. Everybody welcomed: our store is cool in warm weather, and warm in cold weather: you will always be made comfortable at Hoffman's Store* JENNINGS BROS. ,L