Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-05-24
Facts fer tho People.


Facts fer The People.
We commenced the following article
from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to the
consideration Of our readers; and especial
ly to the wings who croak so loudly about
the enormous expenditures Of the Govern
msnt with the Constitution in the hands
Of its friends Here, it will be seen that in
the very first year of the operations of the
Lew Constitution, when it was expected by
every one that the expenditures of the State
government weuld be increased, and the
taxes correspondingly augmented, instead
of diminished, the rate per cent, Of tax lev>
led for State pusposes has been reduced be.
low that of last year. Let the panic.ma-
kers continue their work. The people will
in due time learn how to appreciate the
wcrth of tEeir disinterestsd services:
The New Tax LaW-The Grand Levy
For 1852
By a circular from Auditor Moro we
learn that the grand levy Of taxation in this
State fer 1862 has been fxsd as follows:
| To pay interest on State debt, ncluting 100000
for sirking inud... .................'... mills.
For general State purposes. mil.
For school purpose. ..............s......A DO
Total. 81 mills
This is less than the State levy Of last
year, notwithstanding the. croakings Of the
wings about extravsgant expenditures of
the last Legislature, aud the levy would be
much less still were it not for the hostile
attitude Of banks and other corporations
who still refuse to pay the taxes assessed
TO them under the laws oil '5l and '52, re-
turning their assets under the old law
which taxed them only on their profits.
Here are millions Of privileged capital
claiming the protection OF the law which
refuses TO be taxed as other property is tax
ed, and is at war the executive officers of
the State whose duty it is to secure this
Just revenue to the people. The delay
which this com binsd opposition or conspira-
cy Of these corporations occasions, renders
it necessary to put the levy far above what
il otherwise would be, could they be COM
PEELED to pay ius,antsr, as the unincorpora-
ted are.
When the principle Of equality shall be
carried out by the executive departments,
as contemplated by the New Constitution
and this New Tax Law, when capital as
woIl as labor shall bear its just bur,hen Of
taxation, the people, the workies, the toll.
ing millions will find the toll upon their
toll largely diminished, and the exactions
upon their industry materially lsssened.-
The fact is they have been in the habit Of
paying tiihes TO these corporations, sowing
two acres Of wheat for themselves and one
for the banks, dropping two kernels Of corn
for home consumption and one forthe char
Ter mongers, .oiling two days for self and
one for the privileged orders. The ques.
ton is now to be decided whether the peo,
pie or chartered monopolies shall rule in
this grea, State, and whether three hundred
millions Of capital hitherto locked up by
special exemptions Of law, shall now be
brough, on to the grand duplicate and made
to bear its jus, proportion Of the burthens
of the State. The Ohio Life md Trust
Company with a capital Of too millions
aud landed 6nd Trust interest ffsury
millions, paid not one cent Of tax in ls48'
And whyl Because her charter allowed
her the privilege Of using this vast capital
10 fleece the suorld il she could, and by
monopoly grind the faee Of the poor; bu.
if she failed in her extended spsculations
Gas she did in '4s) aud on single seasons
business made,no money, she paid no tax,
because under the old Constitution and the
old law, all banking corporations were
taxed only on the profits. The State,
the people, were no doubt taxed to protect
this institution in all her extended and priv
ileged interests, thousands Of dollars that
very same year; for be it known with land
in almost every county OF the State, bonds
and mortgages in every court Of record,
loans and discounts in every conceivable
shape, she taxes the government more for
her protection than any other institution
now in being, save the Bank Of England.
And yet in AS she paid no! single cent
Of taxi
And this is the way farmers, mechanics,
merchants and all laboring men have been
paying tithes TO these institutions, and
which they would ever had TO do had not
the people in their power overthrown the
tables Of the money changers and placed
the government in Democratic hands. The
days Of the charter mongers are over. The
people will never again surrender their in.
lerests into the hands Of "Board of Con-
troll" nor will they ever acknowledge the
claims Of the Script Nobility to special ex>
enptions.
With the grand levy reduced this year,
and thus privileged capital nude to pay its
share Of taxes, another year will develop
The full fruits Of Democratic Adminislra.
lion Of our State affairs. With our State
expenses less, and our resources for revenue
(by taxing all property equal, several
millions more, the bur,hen which has here.
tofore fallen heavily and almos; exclusively
on our working population. will be greatly
essened.
TThe following communication was
intended for our last weeks pnper but was