The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-04
From the Lowell Ndass) Advertiser
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Great Britain.
The New York Sun claims that taxation crushing
taxation is the OF the poverty and misery Of the
masses OF Great Britain and the rest Of Europe. asks
who can be surprised that the masses q Great Britain
in state OF restitution and misery With popula-
ton OF 27Q00000 in England Ireland and Scotland, Great
Britain paid in 647 600, or S2s0.0o0 900 taxes
d 1s and
f' soo Of he ra William ii he N%s .~ ~sa
ton is generally called robber but 10 hs period Of SIX
centuries. from his conquest 1000, English taxes
rose IN single year above 300opoo George the First
raised them 10 $4,000 600 George the Third the odious
yrant who sought sange our liberty. raised them to
900 0oO George The Fourth, 1920, raised them 10
S21o'ooopoo; while in ls47 they increased 10
Britain, ls yio 80 70 every man, woman, and child.
Everything Briton eats, drinks or wears il in some
washes himself and the light Of Heaven which streams
through his windows The pound OF tea costing twenty
i've cents in China, pays duty OF IS cents, which,
cents brings TO the consumer al the price OF one dollar
The tax upon sugar to sweeen The tea so per cent OF
Its value and the tax upon coffee 40 per The
man must pay stamp Of IS in binding his son as an
apprentice. The servant girl must pay ga cents duty
for her advertisement IN the newspaper Tor place;
though the nobenan advertising estate pays
"AmoDg the items that calls for this vast and odious
taxation are The expenses OF the royal family, over
$3ooo,ooo; army and ordnance, nearly $5ooooOOO;
ilary and naval $40 100000, than the actual cx-
pendures Of the whole United States the civil service.
NAL government, consular. &C., nearly 10 600 pen
sion list, $780, 900, with host OF incidentals too
many and too outrageous to be much longer
endured. Added to these items is the interest Of
tional debt Of $3, 100000 The whole national debt
Of Europe is estimated 900, of which Great
Britain is debtor for nearly ehalf Only think OF I'LL
The interest Of the national debt OF Europe with the cost
Of collecting IL and the annual expenses OF government
machinery, amounts 20 w 225 100000 The population
Of Europe rs about 0oo Of these, not more than
$4,000 900 are men Of mature age. OF their number n
least are dles, paupers, crmnals that
400oo,0o0 Of industrious men left TO support their
families. and pay an annual tax Of from $59 e 700 each
Cling or Infatuated by a load Of oo thousand t,Oo hun.
dred and Twenty-Five niLoas Of dollars annual taxes.
pei them 10 bear ii Such Is the financial picture Of Eu-
rope And how haggard stands Britain in the fore
ground And what has this Britain expended 10 ingor
GUS wars in less than l75 years. Mark the sum $is.
900 900 enough to pay all the debts Of
tons and individuals, and make the earth garden And
the slain in those wars Of Britons alone, amounts to
$50 900. But why continue such picturel We have
only introduced a few facts TO explain why the British
people groan under their bondage"
Add to. the foregoing the immense sums drawn from
the laborng TO support the luxury and extrava-
gance of the astocracy and nobility OF Great Britain and
the rest Of Europe. (Which 10 the people amounts TO the
thing as government taxaton,) and would seem
thai we need not seek further to find sufficient cause or
their poverty and wretchedness.
But this is superficial view Of the subject What
Double their burdens double their national debts their
armies, their navIes their government priesthood, their
arstocracy, their nobility their pension lists the expenses
of their crowns and coursgive them double protection
by double GIafionax their soap six cents instead OF
three their sugar 100 cent instead Of so, their coffee
so instead OF 40, their tea 900 instead of i50ake the
poor pay stamp tax Of $40 instead Of IS for bind
ing his to apprenticeship &c.-and the masses
will be raised to aflnent and happy position! II any
one doubts the efficacy OF this policy will refer him
for further proofs to the American the
Clays the Lawrences. the Greeleys, the Stewards. and
finally the whole wing party