Republican News Item
CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor.
THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1899.
"FIRST OF_ALL— THE NEWS."
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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
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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.
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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.
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H helps the tcatn. Saves wear and K
■ expense. Sold every whore.
STANDARD OIL CO.
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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 (<i,l Ic per 11>.
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.
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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 <s#.
We keep in stock at our mills a
complete line of dressed lumber
in hemlock and hardwood.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Gang Sawed and Trimmed Lumber.
LQPF-Z. PA.
SPECIALTIES
Hemlock Novelty or German Siding,
Hemlock Ceiling 7-8 or j-8 stick,
Hemlock Flooring any width desired,
Hemlock Lath both 3 and 4 feet long,
Hardwood Flooring both Beech, Birch or Maple,
The same woods in 3-8 ceiling.
CORRESPONDENCY SOLICITED.
IP3 Pretty
J' Pick,e
' s t ' l<l woman who must entertain
'•! J ffifcgSr unexpected company— unless she
, i« well supplied with canned and
bottled groceries. If her pantry
\P shelves are nicely lined with our
(anion brands of pickles, soups,
1, 1 WF HI I vegetables, canned meats and fish
and crackers she is completely
readyjfor any emergency. What shall we send you to-day?
ON DRY GOODS WE ARE IN THE LEAD
WHY ? Because we carry the Largest and Best line in the county
" Because we have only new and attractive patterns to show
Because you will lind 110 old goods on our shelves,
We have just, opened anew line of Ginghams, Shirtings, muslins etc.,
or the spring trade, which we would he pleased to have you inspect.
JE Mntr.
E. G. Sylvara DUSHORE.AP.
Removed!
to my new store in the GAREY BLOK
where 1 will be pleased to meet all of my old pat
rons and many new ones. We lit the young and
old of all nationalities and color with
Boots, Shoes,
Rubbers,
Fine Assortment at Popular Prices.
CALL OlsT TTS
Remember GABEY'S BLOCZ!,
the Place, DUSHORE. DUSHORE.
J. S. HARRINGTON.