Synopsis
Thus it will be seen that Ohio has a eomplete system of income and expenditure without the agency of the people or tneir General A ssembly. Our sMORM ous expenditures are authorized in conclave by a handful of men without actual or effective, practical responsibility. The deliberations of the Venitian council of ten were known by their effects, the deliberations of our council of ten, are known by nothii else!!! But the Venitian council of ten was a more numerous and more independent, and of course a less assulable, and le8 corruptible body than our taskmasters!!! One thing is rendered certain by this sfurvey of our financial system. Wiatever interest may hare been consulted in rearing the fabric, the interest of the tax-payer was forgotten, the interest of the toiling myriads, whose labor creates our wealth, was neglected. The very essence, the genius of the institution is to afford facilities to the assailants of the treasury, to smooth their path nd remove obatacles. No stormy debates of a popular aasembly, no inconvenient investigation, no unwelcome discussion, no Senatorial (position to render their approach to the treasury inse. cure. Such a system is not the result of accident. It has harmony of parts and synmietry as a whole. But its symmetry is th of an iron despotism over the rights apd property of the citizen. We have given this s Letch in order that our fellow-citizens may understand the system as it iiulj is. We have endeavored in naught to extenuate nor aught set down in malice. A captious or uncandid esiemy of them iarchy wouki use other laiage and and would dip his pencil in other and darker colors. But it is not captious or unoandid to remind the reader that our annual expenditures are approaching three millions of dollars, while the actual expenses of the govemxu BiA prjper are some less than one hundred and twenty thousand. Sudi is the cos
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