What Tilden Pays For Votes

It is the custom of Oriental monarch on their acoession to the sovereignty to distribute lnvish giftg among their people. This year the Republicnn officials estiinatcd tliat tbe amount of money needed to carry on the Government for the nex t year would be $203,099,098 48. The Democratie House was inclined to allow for this purpose $138,752,343.42. The Republican iSimuto demanded $158,260,598.63. Bolieving that the sorely burdened tax-payer would pretor half a loaf to no bread, the Democratie: House yiolded so far as to let the appropriatious be $147,719,)74.85. Por the year 1876 they had been $177,663,327.71. This array of figures has little significance to or interest for the average reader ; iherefore the World will present them in another shape. Taking tbe populatiou of the United States to be 42,000,000 souls, we iiud that In 1876 each person in the country had to pay to support the Government, not inuluding interest or redumption of the debt ... $4.23 If Buiknap, Chandler and Robeson had had their their way, each person would have been taxed to carry on the Government in 1877 - $4.83 1-2 lf the Demócrata had had their way, the cost per head would have been reduced to - - $3.32 3-4 Belknap and Robeson's pais in the Sonate thereupon remarked : That's letting off the people too light; Iets makt) each one pay - 3.77 And the House was compelled, unless itdesired to be accused of blocking the wbeels of legislation, finally to agree to levy a tax per capita of $3.51 1-2 Now, if we take the average laborer who has a faniily of five, oomprising hiinself, his wife and three children, it is apparent that if the Kepublican Administraticn had had its way he would have to pay into the national Treasury $54 17 1-2, which assuming his wages to be $1 50 a day, represenis about sixteen daya of hard labor. Had the Democratie House been able to command, as it will next year, the co-operation of President Tilden and a Democratie Senato, his slum; of the national taxation would have been $16 53 3-4, or eleven and a half days labor. Even with all the drawbacks we have enumerated the burden on the laborer's family has been aotually reduced this yuar froui $21.15 to $17.57 1 2, or $3.57 1-2. Tbis amount may seem small, but it represents the labor of twenty-four working hours. To a million families the apparuutly trifling sum of $3.50 in cash nieaus how much medioine for the sick, what shoes and olothing for the children, how much mout and potatoes for all 't Let the laborer who, meanly ciad and poorly fed, digs in the sewers, or delves in the coal mines, or works upon the railroad tracks ; the clerk who toils for sixteen hours a day at a salary of $9 a week ; the farmer who puts his life into tho stubborn soil and does not wring theretrom a living - let the people pondei this. A Democratie Administration means more inoney in the pocket ; warmer clothes for the back ; better food for the belly ; shoes for the baby ; a uew dress for the wife ; loss work for the husband. Had the Republicans bad their way, the taxation per head in 1877 wonld have been increased over that for 1876 by the sum of 60 1-2 cents, or 14 1-2 Der oent. Therefore, elect Hayes and this is what the head of the family of five wil havo to pay tor eacb year of his administra tion. The Kepublican expenditure for 1876 was $21.15. For 1877 it was plaoed at $24.17 1-2. With Hayos and a Kepublican Congress it will, therefore, be : For 1878, - - $27 68 For 1879, - - 31 69 1-4 For 1880, - - 36 28 3-4 For 1881, - - 41 54 3-4 Total, $137 20 3-4 ün the othor hand take the Democratie estímate for four years, eren if it is not further reduoed, and it fools up $6G 65. Let us hoar, then, the conclusión of the whole matter. Despite all laws and euaotmeut against bribery of voters, wo 8ay to every head of a family : Vote the Detnoeracy iuto power and we will pay you directly in four years $70 55 3 4. How many dy's work it) that'r' How many pairs of shoes? How many yards of calicó and flannöl Y How many pounds of meat aud loavea of bread ? Wo say nothing here of the indirect gaving which will accrue trom the triumph of the Democratie principie of Free Tiade. Theao resulta are nut so easily aeen, vustly greater though they are. We do not say, though we might, that a Democratio victory means that the si-iiinstrcss's spool of thread shall contaiu 400 yarda, and tho laborer's day come down to seven hours, and the furmer's bushei hold five pecks. This lie in an outer demesno. We say it will bo so, and adduce good reasons for saying so, but our antagonista deny it, and cousider their assertion as good as our demonstration. But about the figures we give to-day there will be no question. They show what the llepublicans wanted to do, what we would fain have done, what wo have done in the face of opposition. This is a -'campaign supplement" that tells. Lot Dmnocratio papers and speakers circuíate it ; give it to the laborer, the mechanic and the farmer, and when next November comen, Mr. Hayos, figuro-head of blather, bribery and bayonet-rule, will not have the odd 09 votes in the Electoral College.