The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-06-02

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State for 1852 has been fixed as follows
To pay interest on State debt, in
Guiding 100000 for sinking
fund 2 mills.
For general State purposes mill.
For school purpose ! do.
Total 81 mills.
This is less than the State levy last year,
notwithstanding the croakings OF the wings
about ex'ravagant expenditures Of the last
Legislature, and the levy would be much
less still We're il not for the hostile attitude
Of banks and other corporation wEo still refuse
to pay the taxes assessed to them under the
laws Of 81 and '52 returning their assets
under ths old law which taxed them only on
their profit. Here are millions of priv legged
capital claiming the protection Of the law
which refuses to be taxed as other property
is taxed, and is at way with the executive
officers of the State whose duty it is to secure
this just revenue to the people. The delay
which this combined opposition orconspiracy
Of these corporation occasions, renders it
necessary to put the levy far above what it
otherwise would be, could they he compelled
to pay instanter, as the unincorporated are.
When the pricipal ofeQuality shall be carried
out by the execu i've Departments AS contem-
plated by the New Constitution and this New
Tax law, when capital as well as labor shall
bear It's just bur.hen Of taxa ion, the people.
the workers the toiling millions will find the
toll upon their toll largely diminished, and
the exactlon upon their industry materially
lessened. The fact is they have been in the
habit ofpaying tiChes to these corporations,
sowing two acres Of wheat for themselves and
one forthe banks, dropping two Ike neIsofcorn
f)r home consumption and one for the charter
mongers, tolIlng TWO days for self and one
for the privileged orders. The question is
now to be deoilei whether the people or
chartered monopolies shall rule in this great
State, and wheather three hundred mil ions
of capitl hitherto locked up by special exemp-
tions Of law, shall be now brought on to the
grand duplicate and made to bear its inst
proportion of the State The Ohio Life and
Trust company with a capita oftuo millions
and a landed and rustinterest of many mii-
ons, paa not one cent Of tao in l348! And why?
Because her charter allowed her the privilege
of using this vast capital to fleece the worEd il
she could, and by monopoly grind the face Of
the poor; but las she did in 4Ol and on a
single sea son IS BUSINESS made no money, SHE
paid no tar, because under the old Constitution
and the old law, all banking corporations
were taxed only on their profits. The State
the people, were no doubt taxed. to protect
this Institution in all her extended and pryi-
legged interests. thousands Of dollars that very
same gear; for belt known with land in almost
every county Of the State, bonds and mortga-
ges in every cours ofreco d loans and discount
10 every conceivable shape, she :axes the
government more for her protection than any
other institution now 10 being, save the Bank
of England. And yet in '48 she paid not a
single cent of taxi! And this is the way
farmers, mechanics, merchants and all labor.
ing men have been paying tthes to these
institutions, and which they would ever had