The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-05-14
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Chicken Tax. Ia

The Ch8cAcm FAX. EF
The editor Of the democratic Guard al Nc
ConnellsvilIe, nterrogatcs his Wig cotempora-
ry of the "lndcpcndcnt" whether the new Ohio
Tax law does not tax eggs and chickens? Says
he has some notion Of entering into the raising
of fowls as speculation, only he fears to ad
vance in the enterprise till he knows whether
such property is taxed
OF course they are tdred! Naturalists do not
put down fo,rls among the classes of domestic
animals, and it is not therefore fair to conclude
that the illustriOus paternity Of the chieken-tax.
contemplated such an association The law
taxes agricultural products purchased to be in
creased in value by labor or manufacturing.
Egg, purchased Of the country women, and
Matched into chickens of course are increased
in their value, are they notG Then they must
pay tar.
There is farmer7s wife IN this county who
attends our market with poultry and eggs, and
fine business she makes of it. She keeps twen-
ty five hens that produce her each, on an average
40 eggs every year, besides raising about 25
chickens each. What will that old lady say 10
the assessor, now in few weeks, when he calls
upon her to account for the value Of her capital
in this trade 2--When the Storms" are put at her
and she discovers that she is obliged to stcear
what she owns and what she is worth, if she
dnesn't snrcdr in manner prescribed by law,
we'll venture that she will think "d-n if' nigh
i ty fast
This law taxes property of this character
where the value reaches 800. Well, this old
ady's 25 hens produce her each year according
to our market prices, in eggs 1923, and in chick
, ems $l3S-Oae hundred md siTty-one Dollars!
OF course, then, chickens ARE taxed. And we
say now that the Assessors will not be doing
their duty as officers crontroled by this law, if
J they do not in all cases spy out and pimp into
t the capital in trade thus employed
/, Now, reader, you who can call up TO recol-
lection the humbug cry of 1910 of "Chicken
Tax" to keep up the "standing Army of 200,-
900 men," which coonism every where shouted
in the ears of the people as one Of the unpar-
donable sins of Mr.. Van Buren,, what do you
think of this whig LdD in Ohio, which has not
its existence in the bewildcred Imagination, as
had the "Chcken Tax in lS40, but is actually
: at this time inscribed upon our statute books
e and already in operation among the people?
What do you think of it2 Is il not a small
, matter for grave discourse? Is il too triaing to
excite real animosity among the people2 Few
}, think so! TAXING chickens to create Banks! /!
a Was ever whiggery so desperately driven3 ID
= Ono CREDIT The people of Ohio are al
+ ready beginning 10 feel the effects ofwhg legis-
f nton ON the credit of their State. The Cincin-
. natl Enquirer says that the rapid decline which
is now taking place in the prices Of Ohio
Stocks, and the consequent depreciation in the
/ credit of the State, in the estimation Of distant
circles, will puzzle greatly the ingenuity of the
n reader TO find any cause for il other than the
now too generally notorious fact, that the hnan-
: cial management of The State is again in tho
= control of the same party and the same indivd-
9 uals, who, a few years since, by the bungling
V schemes and wretched policy, forced US upon the
e vorge of reputation, and only saved our credit
by tho most exiravagant prodigality ty-hawking
= our bonds about the streets like peders of old
.. clothes, and only escaping the epithet Of Ike
pudidtor," by gambling away about half mil
Ilion
The tax payers of Ohio should not suffer their
attentonto 10 be lured away from the condition OF
Q their State credit and the depreciation in the
l-prices of their stocks, by The exultations which
q come from Interested sources Of 'NcW BGnks''
!, and plenty Of paper money. There is an iHtl-
! mate connection between the declining Of State
credit and the rising ofnew banls,F PITS. Eosf'
J or No further importan. newsreceiyed from
! Mexico by last mail, Hn h'"