The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1846-07-25
The New Tax Law.

The New Tax Law.
Judging from things as they are de-
veloping themselves from day to day,
there can no longer remain doubt but
that the new tax law is real advan-
tage to the people; in the light, at least,
in which the leaders Of the Wing party
consider an advantage--that ofincreas-
ing the public expenditures and the
public burdens. Only think Of the ad-
vantage it is to man when, through
toll and frugality, he has saved a sum Of
money, to relieve his mind of all care
and anxiety as to the best mode of in
vesting it, by coolly telling him that it
is wanted and he must pay it into the
public treasury, to pay the salaries of
useless officers, and tho interest on
bank capital, on which the banker pays
no taxes. Who is there that is not
enamoured with such law? And
who will not, after attaining such
knowledge, vote for the gallant William
Bebb, the advocate and defender of the
justice and necessity of such a law!
But the great bank law is also Pc
culiar favorite of the gallant William
Bebb and the Wing leaders. The tax
law flches from the pockets of the peo-
pie their hard earnings, to pay increas-
ed salaries to Wing office holders. high
salaries on new and useless offices, the
cost of building new and expensive
State House, and the interest on the
bankers capital stock, (Which stock is
exempt from taxation,) and the bank
law makes these things necessary to
keep the banks from bursting, and to
put largo profits into the pockets Of
those kind and benevolent men, who
are authorized by law to receive inter-
est on their debts, which they circu-
late among the people as money. Is
not all this sufficient to make the peo.
pie happy and prosperous? Certainly,
the Wing presses and stumpers tell US
so, and sure they know what is good
Tor the people; better than the people
know what is good for themselves.
But if that is not sufficient, there is no
one SO selfish as to deny that the banks
have furnished the people with a safe,
soluent and abundant currency--have
raised the price ofevery thing far above
what it will fetch any where else; and
have blessed the people with every
temporal blessing; filled their stomachs,
clothed their persons, cleared their
fields, built their houses and barns,
ploughed sowed and reapt their crops;
all this without subjecting any body to
toll and labor in the scorching rays OF
1.-THE sum-, Have they not, indeed, freed
the people from the effects of what had
been regarded as the irrevocable decree
of God, .sIn the sweat Of thy face shalt
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground" Have they not been an over
match for Omnipotence, and changed
the laws of nature? Such was their
effect, foretold by their friends; and to
convince people that such is the fact
has the gallant William Bebb started on
a pilgrimage over the State, while those
who obey the laws Of God by tilling the
earth, are reaping the fruits Of their toll
He came not 20 talk to them, but to the
idle--to those who live by their wits
instead of their labor--to the drones in
the hive; the consumers and not the
producers. Surely, then, the people
must be blessed by the operations o.
those two laws which are nursed with
such tenderness, and defended with
such zeal by the organs and oraclss o
Whiggery.
/ Whiggery is also progressive in bes
sing the people by increasing thel'
burdens. To prove this. it is necessa
nv to refer but 10 few facts and pro
\ duce a few figures. In 1914, when the
people vet lived under Democratic
i tax law it cost, in Stark county tor as
SCISSORS fees for making assessments Q
personal property $3.50; in Morgan
county for the same purpose $l56 40
lin Franklin $1si 81; and in Columbl
4 anna $l8o. Remember this was be
fore whiggery had begun 10 benefit tn
people by increased expenses, on th'
progressive principle. In l845, afte
| the wings had commenced their oPeri