Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-04-20
Majority for Mason,
For tie House of Delegates.
TAXES! TAXES! TAXES!

rights, III WhlCn the cunning OIL D0idtaitc
and the folly of Madison, involved this
nation in the ever to be remembered year of
1919, is ended-bat not paid for. The
war feasts and war dances are over--but
the bill get remaisas unsettled. For a
three qears' war, in which not single
point contended for has been obtained, we
have an hundred gears tecation. We
have burthened ourselves for life, and
our postcrity to the third and fourth gene
ration. We now have our collectors and
assessors, with their respective deputies,
constantly around us. Turn which way
we will, and we are met by some puppet
of the administration, with a commission
to pick our pockets. We can eat nothing,
we can drink nothing, we can wear no.
thing, and we can use nothing, without
paying an exorbitant tax upon it.
Agreeably to the act of Congress, en-
titled & An act to provide additional
revenues for defraying the expences of
government and maintaining the public
credit, b. laying duties on various goods,
wares aud merchandise, manufactured
within the United States passed ia
nuary l8, 1915, every person who shall,
after the 18th day Of April, 1915, mama
factnre within the United States, any OF
the hereinafter enumerated articles for
sale, is required to give bond and pay the
duty as specified in this act, and to per-
form other duties, under penalties therein
prescribed, viz
Ga pig iron, per ton, one dollar;
On castings Of iron per ton, che dollar
and fifty cents;
On bar iron, per ton, one dollar;
On rolled or slit iron, Per ton, one del
lar;
On nails, brads, and sprigs, other than
those usually denomiGated wroug ht, per
pound, one cent;
On Candles OF white wax, or IN part Of
white and other wax, per pound, five
cents;
On mould candles css tallow, CT Of wax,
other than white, or iii part OF each. per
pound, three cents;
On hats and caps, in whole orin Part of
leather, wool Oh fur, il above two dollars
IN value, eight per centun al valorem:
On hats Of chip or. wood, covered with
silk or other materials or not covered, II
above two dollars In value, 8 per centum
ad yalorem;
On umbrellas and parasolls, if above
the value of two dollars, 8 per centuln
al vaiorem.
On paper, three per centum ad valo-
lem.
On playing aud visiting cards, fifty
per centUm al valorem.
On saddles and brides, six per CEN
tum ad valorem
On boots and bootees, exceeding five
dollars per pair in value, FIVE per centam
al valorem;
On beer, ale and porter, six per CEN
tum ad yaIorem;
On Tobacco, manufactured segars and
snuff, twenty per centum al valorum
Ca leather, including therein all hides
and skins, whether tanned, tawed,
dressed or otherwise made, on the origi-
nal manufacture thereof, i've per centam
al valore,n.
There, reader, you hare fine list of
taxes indeed. The tax upon the article
of iron alone, in the various ways in which
it is taxed, amounts to taoenty four dol
lars and fifty cents per ton. But these
taxes are not all. They are in fact but a
a small part. There is the land tax-the
stamp taN-the tax on distilled spirits
the carriage tax-tax on all gold and sill
yer ware, paste-work and jewellery-tax
on gold and silver watches-ffty per
cent. on postage-one hundred per cent.
on sales at auction, in addition to former
duties, SC. &c. So, whether we till
our land, read by candle light, wear hat,
ride in carriage, on saddle, or walk on
foot, drive nail, drink glass of beer,
or take game CT whist to wear off the
dull hours that even our watches tell us
are taxed, we must be haunted and tor
tured by the thoughts Of the collector
No; there is nothing that we can do, and
nothing that we can see, but what brings
to our minds these odous taxes.--And
while thinking of these taxes, which must
ofcomse employ the most of ourtime. let us
not forget to remember the accused war
which i.as made these taxes necessary,
and the men that made the war.
If the people will but think of the war,
Its authors, and the, innumerable train of
evils that attended it, with the immense
sacrifices incident to it, every time that
thew AFRO reminded of fhe tayes thav m,,st