The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1846-04-01
TIRE view Tax Law!


The New Tax Law!
When hand is thrust into mans breeches
pocket and grasps all il finds there, and o'ole
is held up TO his face TO make him swear that he
has no more, it generally causes his blood to boil
This will be The case in regard TO the new
whig Tax Law, Like the one of last year, ltI
starts out with gpccions, sounding title, well
calculated to deceive, but which is as false and
deuslve as Lucifer.
According to its title il would be supposed
thai il taxed all things according TO their true va
hle, but any one who believes this must be en-
tirely unacquanted with the ways of whiggery.
By The law land is not taxed according to theI
value of its products, but as to the amount 'oF1
which it would sell in money. Now iarrn may
ibe situated on the borders Of town which will
produce no more than one equal in extent tcnI
miles distan,and yetit highly probable that the
one situated near town will be listed twenty-five
lper cent higher than the other--or have TO pay
one dollar aud twenty-five cents to the others
dollar rthere is a certain amount OF WOOD
Hand attached to farm, which produces and can
Iproduce nothing, and which it is essentially ne
cessary should not be cut down. The tax-gath
leror pays his annual visit, and the tax on this
lbas to be paid, although he may not have real.
lied the amount Of the tax from the land in ten
Years. This species of property, however, IS in
Ipossesson of the hard working farmer, the real
I"bone and sinew'' of The country, with whom the
Trainers of the law have no sympathy, and OF
course are to be taxed 10 the last cent.
Some persons r1ay have been in the habit OF
Reading the Declaration Of Independence, and
NAV have imbibed the ideas of equality there SET
down. Such persons, however, are away be-
hind the age. Our wbig friends have discovered
Ithat the Illstrous trainers of that instrument
we're led away by chimera, and that liberty and
equality existed only in their imagjnaIions.
\ BY the new law, all jeweiry under $40, and
I Bank stock in the State to tho amount Of $6,.
100000, in the hands Of the lcb are exempted
from taxation, whilethe pigs, chickens, ducks
Igeeso, lambs, SC, Of the poor are taxed TO the
lfull amount to make up the deficiency.
This is sufficient to condemn the law in the
ewes of every democrat in the state, were there
mo other reasons to be urged against it. Bu
:, there arc other reasons which will consign its
authors to the utter infamy they merit. AT !
F, time when our state debt amounts to the enor
: nous sum of $20,000,000, and the united ener
: gics of our people are put upon the rack to save
4 us from the dire disgrace of repudiation, we fin
THE same legislators passing law tnr the erec
n tion Of new State House, which will eventual
J. cost S2,000,000, raising the wages Of old Oft
IS GERS, and creating newpnes with exorbltant 81
laries to eat out the substance Of the people, thu
II the nsatiate desires Of federal political aspnan
+ may be satisfied.
u Upwards of $50 new officers are authorlse
D. Iby the new tax law, with compensate
Of about $l50,000, the principal object of whic
'e lis to form elecioneering tools to aid the viii!
J. in maintaining the power they have SO shanelu
of abused. Indeed ii would seem lhatthe sole o
TO iect Of the federalsts was to make the debts al
le taxes of the State to advance in parallel line
I'd until she is finally wrecked on the rocks Of rul
Of reputation and infamy.
" II is for the people tojudge in this matter, al
Ve when the iron hand of the tax-gatherer is thru
VS. into their pockets and wrenches away the Pr
Va ceeds of their Toll, they will fully awake to 4
" extent of the outrages perpdrated upon, them.