$1,764,416,958, all of which is expected to pay ten per cent., out of the people's purse. I notice by the statistics of some sixty roads, before me, that the dividends have been from two to twenty-five per cent.-those containing the most water, securing the greatest dividends, generally.

Suppose we put the interest at five per cent. on the whole
amount, and then we have a sum to add to our budget of
taxes, amounting annually to.....

Excess paid for insurance over premiums paid, say.
Ten per cent. on $45,000,000 telegraph and express stock, in-
cluding copious showers of water

Profits on three branches of business
Add total taxation, heretofore stated

And we have an annual taxation of

The Secretary of State reports the excess of premiums over
losses paid by insurance in Wisconsin at......
Which is a tax to that amount on productive industry.
There are 1,926 miles of railroads in this state, which at
$40,000 per mile equals a total cost of $77,040,000, five per
cent. on which amounts to $880,528 (two of the roads hav-
ing declared dividends in 1872, amounting to $2,232,254.77,
or near ten per cent. of the whole cost), so that without
deducting the amount paid the state including taxes, I
will add....

Add for telegraph and express companies, say pro rata....
And the sum of our voluntary taxes for those purposes is ..

$288, 220, 847 90

40, 000, 000 00

4,500,000 00

$332,720,847 90 652,528 713 00

$985,249,560 90

$988,040 00

880,528 00 500, 000 00

$2,368,568 00

Which, added to the sum of involuntary taxes, makes the annual levy on the people of Wisconsin for all the above purposes, $18,076,680; yet, with all this vast sum of taxes, if all the property in the state was divided by the Agrarian law of equality, it would show that each person in the state possessed $758, which is more by $622 than they severally possessed by the same supposed leveling process under the census of 1850. Thus, notwithstanding a devastating war of four years duration, and subsequent government expenses more than five times the amount ever incurred before the war for a like period, we actually increased our wealth near sixteen-fold in twenty years, when public and private debts are deducted.

Stupendous as have been our burdens--great as have been our excesses, and onerous as have been our taxes, we are, in spite of all these inflictions, to-day "able and amply able" to construct a dozen such improvements, without abating a jot from our round

of luxurious living, though with proper economy in the public expenditures, we might have been many dollars better off to each individual, still we are by no means poor. Though our involuntary taxes are $14.80 to each person per capita, and in England but about $8.00, still we live months while that sleepy nation lives but days. Though older in luxurious riotings, we are younger in nerve and muscle, and can turn a penny into twopence-ba'-penny, while John Bull is striking up his dicker for a round of beefsteak. We have nothing to fear, but everything to encourage us to go ahead-brush away all obstacles as we would cobwebs that stretch across our path, remembering that individual greatness is but a segregated portion of national greatness, and that national greatness consists in the means of being powerful and great.

NOTE. It would be strange, indeed, if in the voluminous statistics called to my aid in the foregoing tabulated and mathematical statements, some errors do not occur. I have studiously endeavored, however, to avoid errors, and am satisfied that in the main the general mathematical statements are substantially correct.-S. D. C.

Comparative Statement of Taxation in state, etc., in U. S.; also total amount of property, population, per capita tax, value to population, etc.

STATES.

Impost rev. pro State, county, Total taxation.
town, munic. 10 pr ct. added
taxation,1872 up to 1873.

7,869, 695 40
6,393, 918 60
2,374, 412 40
4,570,778 80

9,294,993 00

North Carolina

Ohio.

Oregon...

1,408,321 72
14,851,309 42
73.544 48

Pennsylvania..

Rhode Island.

West Virginia

Wisconsin

District of Columbia..

133,424 58

664,162 20
229,451 40
1,718,820 00
4,892, 918 40
23,666,846 60
5,785,349 40
14,892,404 00
490,980 20
19,078,535 40
1,173,701 20
3,811,892 40
6,896,008 00
4,420,326 60
1,784,975 40
6,615,886 20
2,386,875 60
5,675, 618 00
700,580 00

7,416,724

7,817, 115
6,064,843
418, 092
496, 166
2,621,029
21,825, 108
10,891, 121
9,655, 614
2,693, 992
5,930, 118
7,060, 722
5,348,645

6,632,812
24,922,900

5, 412,957
2,648, 372
3, 736, 432
13,908,498
1,027,327
820, 308
3,225.793

48,550,308
2,352,809
23,526, 548

580,956
24,531,397
2,170, 152
2,767,675

Totals

$106,255,637 50 $202,715, 421 40

$587, 275, 842 *$652,528,713 00 $26, 802, 676,621 $16.00

$301

$595

3.3 38,690,071 $999, 385, 982

* Average, $17,171,809.